Serenity

Fuck it i love this. This was actually super fun and anne hathaway was hot and i think the plot twist was super fun

This was a really great movie about a young boy's grief and the effect of domestic abuse on children. It was a little confusing at times, but it came together in the end. A little sad when you realise how psychology damaged the boy is and how he created the game in order to cope with reality

Are you the type of viewer who listens to what the "experts" think, or are you comfortable enough with yourself to see something through to the end, and make up your own mind? What do philosophy, chaos theory, quantum entanglement, the multiverse, and "The Matrix" have to do with what the best type of lure is to catch an elusive monster tuna called "Justice"? Well, the writers and cast of "Serenity" have made a bold attempt to answer those questions. I think they have made a pretty good job of it.

Matthew McConaughey is brilliant as a veteran, possibly suffering from PTSD, who has escaped to an idyllic island, where everyone knows your name, and your business. He has become consumed with catching the proverbial "big one", and trying to find his former life. Spectral memories from his past haunt him. The supporting cast does a stellar job of doing just that, that is, being there for the character Baker Dill to interact with and unwittingly guide him on his journey. I can't say much more without giving away the twist(s), but, suffice it to say that if like non-superficial movies that "make you go Hmmmmm", and you stick with this one through it's slow simmer, then I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the reveal.

The "happy ending" feels a bit tacked on for those who may have needed things spelled out for them, or a reaction to screening audiences needing more finite "closure", but all in all I found it to be an enjoyable movie.

It's a great movie, with a high degree of symbolism, metaphors and good acting. Don't expect a comedy and ignore all the bad reviews. You need to have a fucked up childhood or compassion to appreciate this movie.

Ok I loved this movie despite the bad reviews.... and well Matthew is not hard to look at. The story has a lot of twists and turns that still somewhat confuse me but the movie was good. Past and present, reality or game.... this has it all! Will watch again I loved it so much!

I don't know why this is rated so bad.

The description is a bit missleading, but the story and the acting is actually pretty good. Which is more than I can say about most movies these days.

P.S.: The ending was near perfect, but i guess most ppl didn't get it because they were too busy being fucked up about the fact, that this wasn't about a totalitarian island full of imortals like the description suggested...

>PLS don't let the bad reviews influence you. These honks ultimately didn't understand the movie °!° believe...

If the movie triggers a personal feeling in you or makes you think, then it has achieved exactly what it set out to do!
interesting cast, genius plot and all good acting... ==Anne== is generally a bombshell and ==Diane== acted a lot of great movies... `[8/10]`

This movie starts as the tale of a perpetually unlucky fisherman who is obsessed about catching 'the big one'. To this stable setup arrives his ex-wife who offers to pay him a lot of money if only he kills her current husband because of the abuse she and the fisherman's son suffer at the hands of her new husband. But then the movie changes. It no longer is a story about a fisherman tempted to evil. It becomes an allegory about the mindset of a troubled child who is planning to murder his abusive stepfather, with the story of the fisherman taking place completely within a computer game his mind created as a wish-fulfillment fantasy, in which the restraints against the murder are slowly being fought against, and are ultimately overcome.

I generally do not like movies that end up being little more than vapor --- dreams, wishful hallucinations, alternative realities, etc. I find them manipulative. And the significance of the events that happen in the screen end up being reduced to meaninglessness: for whatever the consequences, the lessons, the gains and the losses depicted, they are made to be naught, even within the universe of the movie. What is the point of saving the princess in an alternate reality if the real princess in the original reality still got thorn to pieces? Of what value is a hope that never was?

Nonetheless, I was actually moved by this movie. It brought up feelings of sadness, compassion, and sympathy for the boy who created the game --- for the boy whose very real emotional pain has made him seek out a refuge within his own mind where he can trap himself within imagined happy endings. I think this is what makes this story be more than vapor: because it is not about the sailor at all, but about the mindset of the criminal child who just shot his abusive stepdad.

One more thing: the movie does fail in one respect. The story of the fisherman and his island --- where no one ever dies --- is supposed to be the moral fight happening in the mind of the boy for and against murdering his stepdad. But it is no fight at all. The ego, as portrayed by the fisherman, wants it to happen, and the roadblocks he encounters are portrayed as entirely ineffectual: mostly calls to distraction. The argument for murder is the abuse by the stepdad; the arguments against it is the allure to keep playing games, and "the rules" --- which are portrayed as artificial, capable of being changed at will, and therefore disconnected from any kind of positive substantive morality. No wonder that the moral fight is no contest. The ego is fighting unopposed. Did the movie creators purposefully made the fight unfair, so as to illuminate the lack of a positive moral compass in the minds of the psychological troubled children who commit the crimes in the evening news? Or, as is more likely, did the movie creators could not possibly make the fight fair because they themselves cannot imagine any possible intellectual defense of traditional morality other than "the rules"?

Great cast, intriguing story. Watch out though, it's definitely not a crime or action flick, not recommended after a tiring day. It's a tense drama about obsession and abuse, mental issues and the purpose of our lives. It requires some effort, but it's worth a shot if you like a movie which gives you something to think about. [spoiler] I really liked the analogy between the repetitive nature of everyday tasks vs. videogame quests, also obsessive tendencies vs. failing in a game but still trying again and again.[/spoiler]

Another waste of Djimon Hounsou. When is Hollywood gonna do you right, Brother?
Oh, and this movie is trash, don't bother.