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This movie was great!! It showed the American spirit for what it actually is. Create a mess, and lie and cover it up with everything that you have. This is the real nitty gritty American persona, especially that of the government and the wealthy in this country! We see it everyday, and people still say "no, they wouldn't do that". But, YES, they would, and they're doing it daily to the average man in the street, us. I especially loved the part when the Mom tries to tell her little boy there are no monsters in the closet, and the parasite is already eating him on his bed, because, in most movies, even horror movies, they never want to kill children, yet, children die everyday, and in horrible ways, example WARS. Governments lie, heads of companies lie. People who make profit from other peoples deaths lie, and lots of times they make you pay for them killing you. This had to do with trying to make beef better, bigger, and therefore more profitable, but instead they got a killer parasite out of it, (hint, mad cow disease? From feeding livestock it's own dead, diseased not excluded), why attack a movie who's whole point is just trying to show the reality of these practices? Boy, do some people miss the point of some movies. Disregard the acting, and listen to what is being said. Of course, nothing is ever done, in real life, against corporations who gouge, and kill it's consumers, so why should an ignorant person who watches a movie that tells him/her they're taking it up the a-- even stop to think about what they're seeing??

Here I am in 2007 replying to a post from the past, but whoever posted that first post was off! This movie was so true to life, it was scary to me, a Black-American, that it gave me chills. A friend has this movie in his "Black-Only" collection, along with other obscure movies I had never even heard of (such as "Up against the Wall" with Smokey Jackson)?? I ended up crying, wondering why any person of mixed heritage would go to such lengths to be accepted by another culture, especially one that is usually so adverse to the mixing of their blood with so called "inferiors", such as they called Black and other minority races! Love must surely be able to overcome many obstacles to flourish, but this is even too much heartache to have to live through, even for love! A very interesting and true to life story. The acting was wonderful, even if Julie London was only a singer, she seemed to convey the fact that she, as the character, loved above all else and John D. is just as good. His mother, played by Agnes Moorehead was a proper witch, and I wished someone would have looked into her background before we got to far into the movie, because of the saying "I think the lady doth protest too much". She may have had a touch of African blood in her lineage as well. I give this movie high marks for entertainment, and content.

I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT!!!!!!!! I have seen this movie three times, and that was on the opening week-end of the movie in my city. My son drove down from where he lives just so that he could take his sister and me (and two of their cousins who are Joss Whedon fans as well), to the movies so that we could enjoy the film together. We're not children, we're all in our late twenties to late fifties!! We've thought that Joss Whedon was a genius forever. Now we KNOW that he is one. I wouldn't dare talk about the movie "Serenity". All must make up their own minds, I am only here to say that it has changed my way of thinking about SciFi and Outer Space movies. They can be beautiful and wonderful, and engaging, and exciting without alien creatures in them. Of course, some of the characters in "Serenity" were a bit "strange", but not one alien creature.

Once was just not enough. Neither was three times!! I am sure that all three of my adult children and I, will see this movie over and over again. Then we'll buy the DVD when it is available. My daughter has the "Firefly" DVDs, and the "Serenity" script book, (also all of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" DVDs). The comics, all of it.

We don't play when it comes to Joss Whedon!! These cast members, the "Firefly" regulars are so perfect as the stars of this movie, we waited on pins and needles until the movie opened, we're "Browncoats", we're "Fillionaires", but most of all we're "Whedonites"!! We hope that everybody in their right mind goes to see this movie. There just has to be a second and a third movie to thrill and chill us. Don't think that I am addle pated or anything, I enjoyed lots of other movies, and I really have enjoyed these actors in other things.

Including Gina Torres in Alias, Cleopatra 2525, Xena, and Matrix, (and even in Angel)!! I loved Ron Glass in Barney Miller!! Adam Baldwin has always been one of my favorites, and I always knew he wasn't one of "the brothers" too. Nathan Fillion first caught my eye in "Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place", but I forgave him for that, now. (Smile).

We've even watched some movies that were out earlier that we probably never would have watched, just to get other views of Alan Tudyk!! And Alan, you ARE Wash, dude. We want to see so much more of you!! In anything, but especially in space. Please Mr. Whedon, fight, fight fight for more "Serenity" movies. People go and see why we're so passionate about this movie, these people, that ship, and the t.v. show too, (Still).

*Oh, and buy the "Serenity" comics, too, all three of them!! They are great reading, and they bridge the t.v. show with the Movie. (p.s. I love those Vampire Slayer "Fray" comics so very much! All of Joss' comics are visual masterpieces!! Just please allow yourself to find out how terrific Joss Whedon's mind is)!