I just saw Serenity

Well, I saw that new scifi movie by the script writer of Alien
Resurrection, called Serenity and I was almost dying to get out of the
cinema auditorium because of the extreme experience of boredom that I
was experiencing that was somewhat painful, to say the least.

I knew that I would not enjoy it because i find myself utterly bored by
the idea of anything created by Joss Whedon, and I could see how bored
I would be just from looking at the book of the making of the movie. I
understand that many people were giving this Serenity movie full marks
and saying many good things about it, such as that it was a landmark in
cinema, but to me it felt like watching an stretched out one of those
scifi TV programs that I was doing what I could to avoid because their
actors did not interest me, their faces bored me, the ship designs
bored me, nearly everything bored me. Joss Whedon's face bores me in a
very intense way.

It might be like one of those aversions that people have to directors
like Oliver Stone and they have to rant about it incessently, but
Whedon's creativity makes me feel as if I have eaten ten bags of candy
floss at once at got my teeth stuck in a toffee apple.

I am not trying to imagine what it would have been like if Joss had
managed to direct an Alien movie, or what it would have been like if
Jeunet had been faithful to Whedon's script in a way that Whedon would
have enjoyed

I hope that all Whedon fans enjoy Serenity


Dom