• BluesF@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Snappy, witty, but ultimately shallow. Good lines, not necessarily great stories.

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          9 months ago

          IMO that one works because of how little character each actual character has by design. Dumb jock is dumb and jocky, stoner is stoned, virgin is timid. It’s a play on the lack of real character that mid to low budget horror movies often have.

          It’s a great movie but I do find when Wheadon tries to do anything else, it just simmers down to kitchy one-liners that elicit a mild chuckle and nothing else, and that gets old very quickly.

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        9 months ago

        There’s no pretending, they’re all middling trash.

        Firefly gets by solely on the setting.

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          9 months ago

          Firefly gets by solely on the setting.

          So Space shows are popular just because they are in space? Andromeda would like a word…