Jim Schembri review.

[hope]

Here's the review from Jim Schembri, my arch nemesis of taste-in-films and movie reviewer for The Age, that I was bitching about on Saturday.


Serenity
1.5 stars
Totally forgettable, throwaway exercise by director Joss Whedon (Buffy creator) who appears to have stapled together two episodes of his failed sci-fi TV show Firefly. A group of space pirates get involved in one of those civilisation-saving space adventures that involve a lot of poorly delivered jokes and crummy digital effects of spaceships that look like cereal boxes.


... Like I said before. Read Orson Scott Card's review.


In other news, in Friday's Australian Financial Review Magazine, the photographer used a Supersampler to take portraits of Australia's most powerful figures. Surprisingly enough, seeing all those weasley, power-bloated men via a lomographic lens has served to make me want to use my supersampler again, instead of being utterly scared off.


Does anyone have Australian box office figures for this weekend? I don't know where to look.

ETA: Ouch. but i don't get it. It came #2 but is still flopping??

Comments

[irradiatedsoup.livejournal.com]

Schembri is a dickhead.

I think the Serenity Oz board said they would post weekend figures on tuesday. The US ones are already out, and not fabulous, but everyone is trying for second week I think.

[newredshoes]

Er, not fabulous? This place says it's at #2 with a thousand fewer theaters showing it than the #1; so do the others I've seen on a quick Google search. That's not too shabby.

[hope]

if you see the eta link in my post, it lists it as #2 too, but calls it a flop nonetheless? i'm not entirely sure how all that works either.

[irradiatedsoup.livejournal.com]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=1910&p=.htm

[newredshoes]

Rarr. That's all I have to say. I don't know what kind of messed up industry it is when 88% of polled audiences say it's "very good to excellent" and that's modest.