Subj : Re: "Serenity" dropping off in the Box Office take... To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Sun Oct 16 2005 00:46:29 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3rddvsFj03q1U3 @individual.net: > weirdwolf wrote: >> Tyler Trafford wrote in >> news:3rddigFj03q1U2@individual.net: >> >>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>> Tyler Trafford wrote in >>>> news:3rdcivFj03q1U1@individual.net: >>>> >>>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote in >>>>>> news:3rdam6Fimdm7U1 @individual.net: >>>>>> >>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>>>>>> Tyler Trafford wrote: >>>>>>>>> Ken McElhaney wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Films that get great word-of-mouth tend to bring in more >>>>>>>>>> "casual" fans, even if it's not their favorite genre. So far, >>>>>>>>>> "Serenity" has gotten generally good reviews, so I'm kinda >>>>>>>>>> surprised that it isn't doing better. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I'm reminded of Arrested Development, which has won lots of >>>>>>>>> awards and is a favorite of many critics, but still had their >>>>>>>>> second season cut short and almost had the third cancelled. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Only Firefly is good, arrested development is bad, so very very >>>>>>>> baaad. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You, as catherine would say, are clearly insane. >>>>>> >>>>>> I just don't find it amusing, there is nothing there to make me >>>>>> laugh or even smile wryly, from the hook handed mummies boy to the >>>>>> mistaken identity twins the humour could have been lifted straight >>>>>> from the seventies and it, like me has not aged well. >>>>> >>>>> Mistaken identity twins? >>>> >>>> I do hope we are talking about the same programme, I'm sorry but I >>>> am a >>>> little hard of thinking today. The father and uncle that is really >>>> his father that got sent to prison instead of his father.. confused >>>> you will be.. Oops sorry that was soap it's so hard to tell them >>>> apart. The chap from the Larry Sanders show? >>> >>> Oh, George and Oscar. When yousaid twins I was thinking of Micheal >>> and Lindsay. >> >> Well it would be kind of difficult to mix that pair up > > Yeah, but for some reason they were the only twins that popped into my > mind. I made a horrible mistake. Yes yes you did,if only for missing the blatant pun about Portia DeRossi's boobs. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .