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and it's getting on my nerves...Besides I didn't want to go to that wedding to begin with !

There's a link over at whedonesque about tv shows that became movies. Serenity made the top 25 list but is only 20th. I think it should be much higher.

Actually I have seen a few film adaptions from tv shows and they were rarely good.

The Untouchables and The Fugitive are definitely good ones, but the others...usually crappy.

Aren't there any original scenarios over there that Hollywood needs to adapt successful tv shows (we can notice the same tendancy in French movies btw, with "Belphégor",  "Les Chevaliers du Ciel", "Les Brigades du Tigre") besides doing re-makes of old/foreign films? 

Or is it just laziness? Beware of the easy way !

Serenity is different because it's Joss' baby just like Firefly was. 

Maybe I'm an odd duck, but without some good writing, I don't think you can make a good movie whatever the proven formula you may use, the terrific actors you may cast, the huge amount of money you may spend in special effects...

ETA: Joss won Nebula Award for Serenity script !

I felt better enough to see The Libertine starring Johnny Depp and John Malkovich (yes I went see it because of the cast...), a movie I didn't like. I found the film boring and pretty pointless. Where was the scenario? I hope the play was better...

Some films, nowadays, seem to be made only to give actors a certain position.

The other day, I watched a programm about Hollywood saying that tv has become better than movies because the good writers were on tv, where they were also producers, which meant they had more freedom and power, while movies were mostly ruled by famous actors, majors and directors. Tv would provide quality, daring and originality while movies would provide formulaic entertainment without real writing but with loads of special effects. I'd tend to agree.

So yes  Serenity (this link leads to an old entry of mine, reviewing the film) was an anomaly because its director was a good writer and writing was essential in it. 

Speaking of the devil, I thought of Joss' film when I read Paul McAuley White Devils lately. It is a techno-thriller taking place in a near-future and in the black continent, a ruined Africa that unfortunately sounds so likely. I'm too lazy to summarize it but if you want to know the plot,  I found that review...Even though I don't think it's such a great novel, and that McAuley indulged in a few easy ways, it raises interesting points about the world and humanity not being black & white, it does have good moments and works on several levels (geopolitical, scientifical, philosophical), with an abyssal writing of metaphors within metaphors. And it seems to share a few things with Joss Whedon' scenario.

( great minds think alike )

Also watched the end of Battlestar Galactica season 1 and then found out that I've got Sci-Fi on the cable now, and they've just started showing season 2, 2 episodes on every sunday evening, so I won't have to download it anymore!

I'm almost respectable again...

Take a look at sister_luck 's entry about the film and its connection to a famous poem.

 

I'm still not feeling well but I've planned to watch the film again on Monday with a friend, hopefully I'll be better then.

Here's stuff I forgot to say in my previous entry or that came to me while discussing Serenity on the C&S.

( in the ship again )