Serenity

 

The movie was extremely intense. I was exhausted afterwards. Still feel like I haven’t been able to process everything that happened. There’s just so much happening in this film that it takes a while to sort through it all.

The movie clocks in at about two hours, but it didn’t feel that long at all. In all honesty I felt it was too short, I wanted more. To me some pieces felt a bit fragmented, but I think that might be because the scene before was just sinking in before the next one began. It’s a roller coaster of a film, and I was on the edge of my seat most of the time, had I been alone I would have been talking to the screen, cheering and screaming.

There were however some things that bugged me. This is glossier than the show ever was. While ‘Firefly’ had kind of a brownish tint, the film is more metallic and blue. It’s a little thing, but it also makes kind of a weird transition. It maybe didn’t help that I just finished my ‘Firefly’ marathon a few hours before I saw the movie. So If anybody else is planning to watch the show first, do it the week before you see the film, to get a little distance between the two.

In short, I really loved the movie, but can understand the people that don’t like it. There’s a moment towards the end that caught me completely off guard, and it took me a long while to get over it. However that might be something that non-browncoats won’t react to, and other browncoats saw coming

I loved the cast of this movie, Joss Whedon knows what he’s doing when he chooses his casts, they all work really well together, and I just adore every single member of the Serenity crew.

Crash

I don’t really know what to think about this film. I had looked forward to seeing it, and it handles a subject I feel very strongly about, but I didn’t really feel anything watching this, well, almost. I felt for the lock-changing guy with the daughter, but that was about it.

Maybe it was because there were so many people to get to know, but I felt that we didn’t really get to know any of them, despite the movie running over the 2-hour mark.
I had expected more.

Green Street Hooligans

I was kind of expecting to hate the movie and/or be bored out of my mind. I don’t like football, and therefore I don’t really get the hooligan thing.

The movie begins with a fight, which looked pretty damn bad, in a ‘ouch, that has to hurt like hell’ way. Jumping right into the worst part of hooligans

In the end I really liked the film. I’m not going all gaga over it, but it’s definitely ending up in my DVD collection. I think what I loved the most about it was the fact that a woman made this film. She took a serious subject and brought it to a media that would make the public have a think about it.

It’s raw and that just helps it along, there’s a lot of use of the hand-held camera, which might annoy some people, but I think it really worked. It gave the film kind of a documentary feel, and made it look more ‘real’.

It’s a brutal film, and it shows some pretty disturbing human behaviour. I did however kind of ‘get’ the hooligan thing after I saw it though. It’s about being part of something, a group, knowing that they’ll watch your back. I still wouldn’t recommend anybody to join up though.

I do however recommend that you go see the film!

I think Elijah Wood did a great job as the outsider who’s welcomed in to this ‘new world’. There were also some good moments between him and Charlie Hunnam in the beginning where Charlie points out some English slang words and such, was a nice scene. Anyways, Elijah fit in, I never really thought much about it, and even though head-butting people isn’t what he usually does in his movies, he didn’t seem at all awkward during the fighting scenes. In fact, the moment when he decides to hit back is great! Just the look in his eye told me the other guy was going to be sorry.

Charlie Hunnam did a good job as well, I haven’t seen him in much, but this is the first hard ass I’ve seen him play. He’s torn between loyalty to his family and the hooligan gang, though he is first and foremost a hooligan.

All in all a good film.