Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Seriously, NO SPOILERS WHATSOEVER, but I just got back from seeing "Serenity" on a really big screen at the local multiplex, and I would gladly have stayed there all night and watched it again and again.

I was seriously in awe and totally hooked by this film. I can't remember when I've been more involved in and more entertained (when I wasn't being scared out of my wits or hanging on by my fingernails in tension) by a movie. I hate to say it, 'cause I know this will really tick off some people, but I liked it much better than "Revenge of the Sith" (which I had thought was pretty darned good and affecting), and I found it more profoundly moving and riveting than that very worthy entry in the Star Wars saga.

And I say this, as one who never cared that much for the series "Firefly" (although my opinion of it did markedly improve when I got the DVDs and could finally watch it in the order intended, so I could appreciate the character growth and little things like the plot and back-story, etc.).

But having seen "Serenity", I have to say that NOW I finally GET it. I get what "Firefly" was supposed to be and what it was supposed to do and be about and make me feel, and -- I have to tell ya -- do I ever feel it now!

See this film at your earliest opportunity, even if you never saw "Firefly" (the film fills in all the backstory you'll need, without repeating anything we've already seen in the series) or never thought it was as great as Joss Whedon seemed to think it was. You'll LOVE it!

That is all.

(Well, except to say that I'm darned well going to go back and see it again this weekend, if I get half a chance! And I'm not talking about sneaking in after seeing some other flick, you know: I'm talking about PAYING again to see it, just as I paid to see it this afternoon! I can't give it higher praise than that, now can I?)