Serenity Trounces Star Wars

DogBotherer writes "The BBC is reporting that the film Serenity has been voted the number-one Sci Fi film of all time. Serenity is a followup to the series Firefly. The 2005 film beat out Star Wars better than two-to-one for the top honors. This result came in a poll of 3000 readers of SFX magazine.

Let the Flamewars begin....

[Socguy]

Me and my mod points are going to maintain a distance of no less than 3 articles from this inevitable flame-fest.

Obvious unfair advantage.

[bobdotorg]

Let's see of the results hold after Serenity makes a sequel with Jar Jar Binks.

I thought so.

Awesome sampling, really

[svunt]

3,00 readers of one SF magazine...yeah, that's definitive. I can think of a handful of SF films better than either. I'm a huge Firefly fan, loved Star Wars, but this "trouncing" is only slightly more relevant than me and my homies declaring 'Jabba the Slut' best SF-porn of all time on our MySpace page.

In other news...

[denzacar]

As we head into the new millenium, we'd like to applaud the winner of our voter's choice awaed for the greatest movie of the entire millenium:"POKEMON: THE FIRST MOVIE".
There is still time to vote for the most influential person of the millenium.
The contenders are: Britney Spears, Nostradamus, Will Smith, Michaelangelo (The turtle), and Pikachu!
We now present you the ultimate rock anthem which has stood the test of time, Kid Rock's "Bawitadaba!".

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Re:I hate Star Wars

[slarrg]

Does that make Apple the Star Trek of the analogy?

Re:Serenity was good...

[Anonymous Coward]

You sound like a modern day multi-tasking moron with the attention span of a frog. It's a good thing you didn't read the book Blade Runner was based on. Your brains would have leaked out your nose and mixed with the drool flowing from the corner of your mouth as you struggled to cope with needing to think about plot lines, rather than have them spelled out for you from a standard format Hollywood movie.

Re:All Hail Terry Gilliam

[Secret Rabbit]

When you get older, you'll understand.

Re:I hate Star Wars

[Bastard of Subhumani]

Look at it like this: if the Star Wars franchise is the Roman Catholic church, then who is Jar Jar Binks? The antichrist? Or just Martin Luther?

Re:puh-lease

[meringuoid]

Forbidden Planet for me, every time. Thank God no-one has remade it.

Saw this play once, actually. Live-action, actors there in person on stage, you know the type. Had this Renaissance-era wizard and his daughter on this island with a monster and fairies and stuff, and a shipload of guys who end up there with them. Took me a while to realise it, but - total rip-off of Forbidden Planet! Amazed they got away with it really.

Re:I hate Star Wars

[Anonymous Coward]

if the Star Wars franchise is the Roman Catholic church, then who is Jar Jar Binks?

One of those child-molesting priests?

Sorry... :-O

Re:I hate Star Wars

[carpe_noctem]

Longtime, loyal, somewhat-crazy fans, first marketplace claims, static marketshare... I'd say the only thing your analogy is missing is "good taste in design". Never cared for those hideous jumpsuits and pager-pins myself..

my pet LoTR peeve

[Hognoxious]

Remember the bit during the siege where the elf uses a sheild as a surfboard? I reckon there was a shark under those stairs.

Shiny!

[cain]

Shiny!

You are all avoiding the real question

[saboola]

The honest and hard hitting question is.. Who would win in a fight, Firefly or Millenium Falcon On a serious note, my first time getting onto the net in the early 90s, the first usenet post I came across that had a massive depth count was a thread on The Enterprise vs The Death Star. Sometimes I miss those days.

Re:Serenity/Firefly: overhyped?

[KoldKompress]

What I remind best is, that once I gathered it was an SF, I thought how unbelievably stupid it was that the man entering was dressed exactly as a contemporary yuppie/businesman of today and he was wearing a *tie*. A tie, for gods' sake! Only a T-shirt with 'nike' on it could have been more ludicrous. They're living thousands of lightyears away, have superiour technology, have not had any contect with earth for thousands of years, and he's wearing a goddamn tie? And every other prop is exactly like what you get at walmart?

I know what you're saying. Everyone in the future wears aluminium foil and silver jump suits. Duh.

Re:You are all avoiding the real question

[Randolpho]

>Who would win in a fight, Firefly or Millenium Falcon

That's like asking who would win in a fight: the Millenium Falcon, or Star Trek?

Re:I hate Star Wars

[C0rinthian]

"...but if your hand touches metal I swear on my pretty floral bonnet I will end you."

Re:You are all avoiding the real question

[Daoenti]

I think what you're looking for is a YT-1300 vs. a Firefly. I think I'm a little ashamed that I know that.

Re:I hate Star Wars

[Anonymous Coward]

the Firefly franchise already has an extensive and very very loyal following, and I don't see this fading so quickly.

Flares man, Buy them up, they'll never go out of fashion. And they go great with your mullet.

Disco is here to stay!

That Kevin Costner is one of the world's greatest actors. I wonder what he'll do next?

This Pokemon game is the best thing since the Rubik's cube!

Re:You are all avoiding the real question

[sconeu]

But wait! The name of the space ship is the USS Ditka!

Re:Star Wars is Sci-fi

[p3d0]

No. Science fiction is a means of exploring the human condition. Star Wars is a space opera, nothing more.

Opera doesn't explore the human condition?

Nonsense!

[Goldarn]

The Falcon would win in a fight...the Serenity isn't even armed. 8)

Nonsense! On board Serenity is none other than Jayne Cobb, the Hero of Canton! He is science fiction's answer to Chuck Norris!

Jayne doesn't just shoot first, he shoots *before* first!

Re:You are all avoiding the real question

[AeroIllini]

Damn yokels can't even tell a transport freighter ain't got no guns on it.

Re:"best" versus "favorite"

[geekoid]

The demo of the magazine is Serenity's demo.

Nice to see silent running on your list. Thinking Sci-fi is rare.

I also like , what I call, the 'Charlton Heston' 3 pack:

Soylent Green "Tastes Different from person to person!"
Planet of the Apes "From Chimpan A to Chimpan Z!"
Omega Man "1 million zombies on the, shoot some down, 1 Million zombies on the wall."

Re:Browncoats

[Miseph]

"last year's Donnie Darko one which, while it looked great, tried to burn my house to the ground."

Before or after you carved it?

Re:I hate Star Wars

[Cpt_Kirks]

I am kind of a Trek fanatic (couldn't have guessed that, right?), but STTMP (the first Trek movie) kind of blew. Hell, I FELL ASLEEP during the approximately 3 hours it took the Enterprise to fly through the V'ger cloud.

Now, the other Trek movies were MUCH better. "Wrath" is so good, I watch it constantly.