Serenity is my new favorite movie. Good lord, it's EXCELLENT. It was like reading a good book - you really got into it, and actually cared for the characters, unlike MANY *cough* excuse me, nearly ALL of today's movies. The CG was also very good, but it wasn't a primary factor in the movie, like many other 'space' movies - it focused more on what was going on inside the ship rather than the battle raging outside, or the hectic landing, or whatever was going on. It was clearly lower budget than Star Wars, but hey - Star Wars had Hayden Christensen in it, so it evens out - perhaps more than even...

Hehe. "I'm a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."

This movie had a very...Irish influence (I think - I'm lousy at picking Irish and Scottish apart from each other.. >_> ) which was cool. The dialogue was continuously really good, and WASN'T ridden with cliché lines (AT LAST!). Story was great, and was believable. It wasn't "OMG the trade federation is attacking!" once again, and it wasn't bland - it seems that many movies put themselves under the genre of 'Sci-fi', but many of those are simply 'gun fights in the future', not true Sci-Fi. This was actually Sci-Fi, and I loved it. For those of you who HAVEN'T seen this great movie yet, go see it!

Here's a few links to trailers:
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Also, the first 9 minutes of Serenity is available online as a promo. You can watch that from here:
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Other than that, school is eating me alive. I'll make it through okay, but it's still rough. Thank goodness that we got this friday off - I spent the whole day slacking off and working on graphics for a game called Vendetta Online [link] which I may be getting some of my art into in the near future. We'll see...