Shut the fuck up about ‘Serenity’

I'm tired of hearing about it.  I'm tired of the overwhelmingly senseless garble that has inundated the blogosphere.  I'm tired of so many proclaiming the virtues of this movie in utterly childlike voices.  I'm tired of the ranting and raving.  I'm tired of primitive movie reviews and incomprehensible gibberish from the mindless masses.  I'm tired of feeble attempts to declare the virtues of this movie.  I'm tired of it — period.

The series flopped and was subsequently cancelled.  The movie is Joss Whedon's attempt to maintain his inroads in the entertainment industry after all of his television series were taken off the air (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly — the basis for this movie).

While Whedon is quite adept at producing television programs with auteur charm, let's take a moment to revisit his previous movie experience: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie, not the series), an utter and complete flop and one terribly hellacious viewing experience; Alien Resurrection, a sorrowfully disappointing end to the Alien franchise that should never have been made.  I'll agree that one might blame both of those unpleasant atrocities on bad direction, but still..  He was involved in other movies which were certainly not as bad (Titan A.E. and Toy Story for instance), but he was not the creative force behind those films.

Whedon ultimately demonstrates a preternatural feel for TV-making, but his movie-making (or movie-involvement) skills seem to be appallingly inadequate and detrimental.  From those who were not blinded by the mere existence of Serenity and who have seen it, the reviews are conclusive: whatever.  It is simply a science fiction film, not the big-screen revelation of the secrets of the universe.

I'm just asking that bloggers shut the fuck up about it already.  Go watch it.  Proclaim its imaginary merits to your friends via e-mail, cell phone, face-to-face chats, or any other medium available to you.  Just get the shit off the intarweb already and stop inundating the rest of the blogosphere with your mindless, meaningless, mock-worthy and otherwise absent-minded gobbledygook.

Sadly, due to your witless behavior and desire to inundate the web with this crap, you've turned a lot of people off from even considering the movie.  Shameful, but not surprising for a bunch of senseless automatons who have to parrot the mindless chatter of others.

Who expected this little movie would become one of the biggest fad annoyances of the year?

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