Just got back from Serenity
Oct. 1st, 2005 01:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kafzielOK, as a long-time watcher of Buffy and Angel, there's something I've learned about Joss Whedon. It's something that is important to keep in mind. You see, Joss Whedon is the devil. His trademark is to tie you down and kick you square in the groin, over and over and over and over and over, until you cry. You cry until there's nothing wet left in you, so he can feast on the sweet milk of your tears. For it is tears, my friends, that give Joss his great power.
I mean, good fucking lord. HE MADE YOU LAUGH BEFORE HE DID IT. "I am a leaf on the wind", and the entire theater cracked up. "Watch how I >thunk<" ... and silence. Book, that was forseeable, and wasn't a massive event. Wash? Starting right then and there, I half-expected the entire crew to end up dead. I expected them to get the message out one way or another, but as the fighting started, and especially once Kaylee got hit, I seriously expected the last shot of the movie to be a slow pan down that hallway over the corpses of all what were there. And that's good. I honestly can't recall the last time I saw a movie where, during the climax, I not only didn't expect all the heroes to make it out alive, but in fact I actively expected that everyone would die. That is some phenomenal skill on Joss's part, and damn him that he uses it to hurt us.
That said, "Been more'n a year since I had anything twixt my nethers didn't run on batteries!" is the best line ever written by anyone ever.
(note: you just read a spoiler)
I mean, good fucking lord. HE MADE YOU LAUGH BEFORE HE DID IT. "I am a leaf on the wind", and the entire theater cracked up. "Watch how I >thunk<" ... and silence. Book, that was forseeable, and wasn't a massive event. Wash? Starting right then and there, I half-expected the entire crew to end up dead. I expected them to get the message out one way or another, but as the fighting started, and especially once Kaylee got hit, I seriously expected the last shot of the movie to be a slow pan down that hallway over the corpses of all what were there. And that's good. I honestly can't recall the last time I saw a movie where, during the climax, I not only didn't expect all the heroes to make it out alive, but in fact I actively expected that everyone would die. That is some phenomenal skill on Joss's part, and damn him that he uses it to hurt us.
That said, "Been more'n a year since I had anything twixt my nethers didn't run on batteries!" is the best line ever written by anyone ever.
(note: you just read a spoiler)