Frownland

I wasn't too excited until I saw the trailer for it where the girl has the sealed mouth and that really made me interested. Thanks for the rec, I'll go find a torrent sometime soon.

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Yac

Great movie for a fanboy, or a fan of Firefly. I saw it like 4 times and enjoyed it a lot.

Having said that, try watching it with someone who doesn't know the tv show - they will be confused as f*ck. seriously, if you know the context it all works, if you don't - it's gibberish. Makes me sad as I know several people that saw it and it only reinforced their "sf is stupid and confusing" view..

grindy

I've never seen the show but liked the movie. Nothing confusing about it either.

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Chula Vista

Same here. When I first saw the movie I didn't even know there had been a TV show. Couldn't get tired last night so re-watched a couple of flicks.

The Perfect Host - Messed up black comedy with David Hyde Pierce from Frazer fame playing a really dark and screwed up character. Brilliant but completely off his rocker.

Equilibrium - Kind of cliched dystopian tale that has just enough originality to keep it interesting. Christian Bale is more of a bad ass in this than American Psycho and all of the Batman movies combined.

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The Batlord

I saw the movie about a day after a friend showed me only a few episodes. Obviously that helped, but I was still largely introduced to the show through the movie... unless he showed me like five or six episodes, which would be about half the series, but I don't really remember. But at least I got to see it in theaters.

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Aloysius

Same here - the plot was pretty clear without any prior knowledge. Having seen tons of sci-fi in general may have helped.

Yac

That's actually refreshing. I had multiple people that I recommended the movie to complain they found it confusing. They never saw the tv series. Good to know these people are morons

Chula Vista

Maybe it's just that MB is loaded with brilliance???

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Yac

I'm sure that's not it.

Paedantic Basterd

I literally returned to the forum because I just recently saw the Darjeeling Limited and suddenly Wes Anderson made complete sense, but I don't have anybody to talk to about his films.

Someone please indulge me.