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Firefly: Serenity (2002)
What A Show.................
........and an extremely bad one at that!!! How long did this train-wreck last?? 14 episodes or something?? I can see why now.
I bought the "Serenity" episode from Amazon Unboxed. It was my first purchase, so was free. That is the ONLY good thing about the experience (incident??)
I won't comment really on the acting, since these were, I guess, fairly new people who hadn't really gotten the job down just right yet. At least I've never seen them before in any type of major show, theater or TV. If I did, then I have easily forgotten them.
But the special effects were absolutely horrendous. True, this isn't exactly a multi-million $$ project, but the original Star Trek did better than this & that was THIRTY-FIVE YEARS ago. I especially got a laugh out of the bad guys (reapers or something like that) ship as it chased the hilarious looking Firefly, with smoke coming out of the engines looking something like a gigantic model rocket. I fully expected to eventually see the Wiley Coyote riding on top, while chasing after the Roadrunner. MODERN jet/rocket engines don't even do it that bad.
And that wasn't even the worst of it. The wild-west type shoot-outs had me wondering if I was actually watching a sci-fi film or a Gene Autry one.
Regardless of the hype, don't waste your time...I did...all 80-something minutes of the disaster called "Firefly".
An American Haunting (2005)
Lame, Lame, LAME!!
I did give it a 4, for the simple reason that I do tend to like horror stories based somewhat on factual evidence. I guess American Haunting fits that bill, since there WAS a Bell Witch, whether she was actually a witch or not. And the story DOES have something to do with her.
But that's about all the good I could find in it. The acting is fine...the filming is at sometimes horrible, even blurry. Instead of staying on the path of a horror show, that should have scared me out of my wits (that's what I EXPECT a horror show to do), it turns into some type of psychological drama, or something...best that I can explain it.
I just wouldn't recommend it, unless you find a REAL cheap theater & are just bored silly. If you pay full price to see it, you'll be mad that you wasted your money.
On a positive side, this story DOES have potential for a remake. Give more history on the legend & less speculation. But as far as THIS movie, don't start to watch it with "Exorcist" on your mind, but rather "Blair Witch Project", & you may actually enjoy it.
But, like I said, I was WANTING to be scared, and wasn't. Saddly, the film went from horror movie to fairy tale rather quickly.