That Operative was such a smug, arrogant bastard. That's why it was so sweet seeing his reaction when the reavers emerged from the cloud. Second place goes to when he discovers Mal's old war wound at the end. You've got to love his "where did it all go wrong?" look.
My favorite thing about the Operative is that Joss Whedon didn't kill him. I thought that was great. The enemy isn't defeated by being killed or merely stopped. He's converted to the heroes side when the undeniable truth is put right in front of him. Best part of that character, and honestly I am perfectly happy where the Firefly saga has ended at.
DaveRaptor Found the comics rather shitty with too much fan catering And Book's origin story made no fucking sense at all. He should have been a servant of the Alliance, making the battle at Serenity Valley a victory for the Alliance later ending up with regrets. That would even make sense why he couldn't stay on Serenity, instead... Instead we got this shit by him being booted out of the Alliance for incompetence yet he still receives special class VIP treatment when wounded, no the comics can go fuck themselves.
i love tis scene just because of that agent guys reaction, throughout the entire movie, he has this "no emotion" attitude, nothing surprises him, and then the reavers come pop out here and he aint so calm no more, lol
necro you'd be angry too if you had a fleet of smoothbrains under your command that need an express invitation to shoot a massive fleet of reavers coming their way in brawl range on low orbit xD
Playologygames Haven't read the comic books, have you? The worst you could say about the comic book series: They are the EQUAL of the TV show. 11/10, in my opinion.
I feel like so much care was put into this scene, from the music, the sound effects (the sound of those alliance weapons!), the visuals... I find myself watching this scene over and over years after seeing the movie. Sometimes I still slow the frames down so I can see all the things that are going on, because they're easy to miss.
I hope in Star Citizen you will be able to run from the UEE space fleet as a pirate and run right into a Vanduul fleet which is exactly a reenactment of this scene lol.
Pause at 0:49 Does something look familiar? None of the special features or audio commentary mention it but if you look down & to the left of Serenity, that's the Reaver ship that chased down the crew in the original pilot episode!
***** That's not too likely, look at the ship's port & starboard wings, it's missing an engine on the tip of the same wing as the one in the pilot episode.
Eric Kinney Fear? Reavers feel no fear, they feel rage. That's it. Rage and the need to inflict that rage (and the hate that comes with it) on anyone and everything. The thought of loss of life means nothing to them, not even their own lives.
I find it amusing that grappling hooks are used extensively by both the Alliance and Reavers and strong enough to fling spaceships around like they're nothing.
Love this scene. Also, did you notice the Defender from Battlestar Galactica taking part in the battle masquerading as a reaver ship? Joss Whedon, you clever bastard. Also, does the Reaver galleon, that long skinny ship with a lot of smokestacks, look a little bit familiar? The hull shape should give it away. Does it not look similar to the Olympic Carrier Star Liner. The only differences being that the tail section is missing and replaced with bits of two oher Iconic ships, the Astral Queen, and Rising Star. The Reaver ship has 5 engines, 4 of them in the exact same configuration as the Rising Star's engines, the Astral Queen's bridge section was used on the front of the galleon to make it look like it once had a structure of some sort on the front. The only difference was that the bridge was crushed and pushed up to make it look like a dome. As for the smoke stacks, probably bits of debris gathered from other ships trapped in Reaver Space. The really big Reaver ship is no doubt a redress of one of the "Earth-that-was" ships from the intro. It looks as though the Reavers found it adrift in space and decided to fuse other ships to it to make it flyable again. Remember in the Intro there were 5 ships that left. 2 freighters, two Longbow class ships (civilian variant), and one what appeared to be a colony ship or refueling ship. At any rate, the last ship I mentioned was the ship the Reavers reused. It is comprised of part of the old colony ship, the top portion of one of the freighters with some extra stuff added on to make it more like a floating city as well as the engine configurations of both ships, and then they slapped on a pair of gigantic thrust vector engines, probably taken from some unfortunate civilian craft that strayed too close to it. At any rate, the front end of the ship looks like a modified and heavily damaged version of the front end of one of the ships of Battlestar Galactica's class. Just my views on the matter, you can make up your own conclusions as to what those two were made from. The rest are either remodeled Longbow class ships, Trans-U's, Pursuit craft and the like. There are also two, what look to be, refueling ships in their fleet, the ones that look like a cross between an AT-AT and and X-wing. Don't know what they were doing there, but oh well.... That's reavers for ya... "Stark, raving, totally blinking daft" (John Silver - Treasure planet) and insanely violent men and women (yes likely there had to have been a few of them, otherwise they'd have gone extinct through cannibalism by the time Mal and the Serenity found Miranda) who were out there to kill and kill and kill and kill and so on.
Bastard's not even changing course (I got this)! XD x smile x O__O (oh shit)........Uh....sir....? TARGET THE REAVERS! TARGET THE REAVERS! SOMEBODY FIRE!!
You can get used to a lot of things in a movie after seeing it many times, but no matter how many times I see this scene, when the reapers burst through, I still get chills and goosebumps. Its a good mix of F Yeah adrenaline, and Oh Shit fear.
+scharaboosh That is a good question. They actually aren't in space. the cloud that Mal and his crew enter is that planets atmosphere. I guess it was a smart way to have a space looking battle with sound and still have it be accurate.
Actually, that was the "Ion Cloud" as mentioned by Mr.Universe- that was why they didn't "see this coming ". In some of the TV episodes (such as at the end of "Bushwacked" when the Alliance cruiser destroys the settlers' ship) they showed action in space with no sound. Other times they allow sound. It's TV&Hollywood. They are flying through space but don't have money for food? Hmmm....
I never noticed it before, but I love how Jayne runs into the cockpit with Vera, like he's going to personally shoot down either a Reaver or an Alliance ship with her. LOL. That's classic Jayne.
Reapers are ancient bio-machine hybrids that wipe out advanced civilisations to maintain "order". Revers are mutilated psychos that murder rape and eat people (order in which they do that may vary) How exactly is that the "same idea" apart from it being in space?
people are always complaining about how there's no sound in space lol do you know how boring and different the movies would be if most things were done scientifically or how they'd happen in real life? besides the fact that there would be no awesome battle in space, since the scene is created on a computer, there would be no sound effects to listen to during the battle, no awesome music to watch it to, they'd be thrown around and killed inside the ship if they weren't strapped into a chair, if their necks weren't snapped by the whiplash, and the explosions and damaged ships would probably simply implode because of the vacuum and the Reavers wouldn't be able to pilot ships, because they're completely and utterly insane beast-humans fueled by rage and hate and the need to destroy. they'd probably turn on each other instead of hunting for others and spending the time and energy piloting ships that likely wouldn't be able to make it through the atmosphere, since the Reavers are completely unafraid of dying, rage-suicidal and not concerned with using the ships in a manner suited to their survival so I just say sit back and enjoy the awesomeness XD
Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, and then wash your swine brain with a shotgun loaded with slugs. How can you be so uncultured, idiotic and still breathe air?
deektedrgg how can you call me uncultured and idiotic while telling me to shoot myself in the head? it's a movie, created for entertainment, so people need to get the fuck over the fact that the people who created it used their artistic and perhaps dramatic license to overlook some details of how the world works. after all, they're really only doing it for one reason...to get people interested in watching the movie and getting drawn into the action. do you really think that people would get more excited watching a car start to burn after an accident, or a big explosion? and really...that movie looks interesting, but I doubt that it's as exciting to watch as the three minutes of this video. never seen it though, might get around to watching it, if I don't get bored. but Serenity isn't some science fiction fantasy/drama created to take us through the writer's and producer's imagined version of how humanity evolved and made it into the future. it isn't meant to be like reality, and people need to suck it up
solarphoenix999 So you really are a dumb uncultured piog. Because you really don't understand what I'm talking about, do you? Stick to the popcorn and pepsi movies braaaaahhhhhh, that's more on your intellectual level. Somewhere at the Earth's core.
they actually set this battle in an upper atmosphere specifically so they could have sound, because in every other scene, both the series and the movie refrained from having sound in space. look at the movie's opening scene where the sound comes in suddenly when the ship hits atmo. or just before this, when mal fires on the reavers and all we hear is what he'd hear vibrating through his spacesuit
:18 That's got to be the most spartan command bridge I've seen. i know Whedon didn't have much money to make this movie but c'mon! Get a bunch of Firefly fans together to donate time and supplies for a decent looking control panel!
The Ion cloud around the planet extends to the point where Serenity punches through. So between the planet and the outer lining of the cloud are many charged molecules. Also, Hollywood.
+Colton Casados-Medve I wouldn't worry about it that much. I have several compilations on my channel of movie scenes and I haven't gotten a copyright strike once.
+PocketDrummer Most people I see that put up videos of scenes just put in the description that they didn't make any of the material and give credit to the real producers or series where it came from. Just a thought. I don't know for sure but that seems to be enough for most people. They don't have to alter it usually.
Colton Casados-Medve Lol, I'll take your word for it. I've never made a video so I wouldn't know. It just seems like it's not a major problem because of all the videos there are with borrowed music.
this wasn t in space, first there was sound, second, they were using the atmospheric thrusters, not their graviton accelerator engine in the back. but too bad there was no landing.
...and now, Nathan Fillion is making statements to the effect that we should just let Firefly go, that we had a great run with the one series and the movie. I disagree somewhat. There are a lot of story points that didn't get explained between the end of 'Objects in Space', and the movie Serenity. I can understand the idea of Serenity being the end of the line, but if someone could see their way clear to even producing just one series to wrap up the outstanding plot ideas, (Shepard's standing with the Alliance, or the story of Inara's health causing her to leave, among others)...I'd be plenty happy, because the story arc beginning with the episodes 'Serenity' and 'The Train Job' could finally be completed. Ah well, like the Stones said, "You can't always get what you want."
In the scene prior to this, there was no sound in space when Mal blew up a reaver ship. And in this scene, lasers and even harpoons are clearly audible. Odd.
lol apparently on firefly when you're in a giant space battle no one needs to wear a seatbelt, no matter what the ship does you can just pretty much stand there and be just fine lmfao
***** lol i can tell by your name alone you're the biggest sci fi nerd on the planet so there is no point in arguing this with you but i still say you are completely full of shit, those "systems" don't exist in any other sci fi how do these guys have it? makes no sense, people would be bouncing off the walls like pinballs
***** lol as we all learned from the legendary spaceballs... when they go to ludicrous speed you best buckle up, lord helmet didn't listen, lmao and you saw the disastrous yet comical results of him not obeying the seatbelt law
I think he did it just to fuck with us, since the show had already been canceled, and was not coming back, he was trying to make us think they were ALL going to die there and then. It raised the stakes quite a bit!
is it in space though? I thought it was within part of an outer atmosphere of the planet, the clearly have enough weird atmosphere above that (where they couldn't detect ships)
No, it's the first, at the beginning of the movie, when the primary buffer panel fell off Serenity, the dinos toppled over when it got rough during re-entry.
Not quite right. What Walsh is actually saying is"I'm a leaf on the wind watch how I soar. I can see how easily you could make that mistake. no harm no foul...
That's part of the reaver *strategy*. There ships are a bit like the firefly. It ain't shiny or pretty or perfect. But it's goddam effective and built to last. The reavers fight as dirty as you can get. They use tow cables to rip ships apart. If you look in the background, the alliance is barely holding up, because they have never fought a enemy as ruthless, belligerent, mad, and careless for life as a reaver. Half the reaver ships were practically suicide charging the alliance ships just to cause mass damage. There's a reason the alliance never got close to reaver space
The Alliance vs the Reavers, this was a confusing fight for me, generally when I saw two evir armies fight, i always support the lesser of the two evils, but here i disliked both equally.
"Spoilers" still if you think about it the alliance created the revers and did nothing about them its really there own fault they were more concerned with protecting there image than there own people and this is what they get for it i mean at the very least they should have done something about the reavers but nope cover up there existence and do nothing about them till they become a massive threat ya like thats better.
Mauricio Merida Well I don't think all the servicemen in the fleet deserved to pay for their government's fuck ups. They were probably clueless about everything that went on in the movie.
"Two years older" would imply that it came out before Mass Effect. You don't claim that your sibling that was born a year before you is younger then you.
IIRC, they were supposed to be the old generational ships that were used to get from Earth to this system. Hence the immense size of some of them. They were no longer of use and were commandeered by the Reavers.
The Reavers had enough intelligence for setting up elaborate bomb traps on disabled vessels so they would have been able to cobble a few ships together from old freight containers and scrap metal
Honestly, what annoys me most about Serenity is the lighting...look at the ships from Serenity's PoV, like 1:37. That's ridiculous blue shading to force the blue/orange lighting that the film uses ALL THE FRIGGING TIME, and it's really annoying.
That Operative was such a smug, arrogant bastard. That's why it was so sweet seeing his reaction when the reavers emerged from the cloud.
Second place goes to when he discovers Mal's old war wound at the end. You've got to love his "where did it all go wrong?" look.
My favorite thing about the Operative is that Joss Whedon didn't kill him. I thought that was great. The enemy isn't defeated by being killed or merely stopped. He's converted to the heroes side when the undeniable truth is put right in front of him. Best part of that character, and honestly I am perfectly happy where the Firefly saga has ended at.
OpenMawProductions it is still ongoing friend :) pick up the comics they are great!
OpenMawProductions Wash died. That's not a happy ending =(
But Inara and Mal finally get together, new browncoats.... Zoe has a child! and that's not even scratching the surface!
DaveRaptor Found the comics rather shitty with too much fan catering
And Book's origin story made no fucking sense at all. He should have been a servant of the Alliance, making the battle at Serenity Valley a victory for the Alliance later ending up with regrets. That would even make sense why he couldn't stay on Serenity, instead... Instead we got this shit by him being booted out of the Alliance for incompetence yet he still receives special class VIP treatment when wounded, no the comics can go fuck themselves.
Alliance get to fight their own creations was simply poetic justice.
indeed.
Alliance bastards.
I love the Operative's reaction here - "Target the Reavers. Target the Reavers! Target everyone- SOMEBODY FIRE!" XD.
i love tis scene just because of that agent guys reaction, throughout the entire movie, he has this "no emotion" attitude, nothing surprises him, and then the reavers come pop out here and he aint so calm no more, lol
necro
you'd be angry too if you had a fleet of smoothbrains under your command that need an express invitation to shoot a massive fleet of reavers coming their way in brawl range on low orbit xD
May our condolences be with the brave (and clueless) members of Battle Group Red Shirt.
Is it just me, or is this the best sequence in any movie ever?
Its not just you, this is amazing.
No, I think so too. They really shouldn't have cancelled this show.
Shadowkey392 although i wish there was more of it to watch, the series was so good and ended well. it may have been for the best that it was cancelled
Playologygames Haven't read the comic books, have you?
The worst you could say about the comic book series: They are the EQUAL of the TV show. 11/10, in my opinion.
Justin Hoffer i read the first two comics, they were fantastic im just saying that if the show kept going it might have fallen off at the end
This scene was so amazing that when I saw it the first time, I had to go back and watch it again. Love it, especially the music.
I feel like so much care was put into this scene, from the music, the sound effects (the sound of those alliance weapons!), the visuals... I find myself watching this scene over and over years after seeing the movie. Sometimes I still slow the frames down so I can see all the things that are going on, because they're easy to miss.
And at 0:48, not a single pair of Alliance pants were un-shat that day.
And this kind of sets Wash as the greatest space pilot ever, just in case his inertial approach to Nishka's station was too subtle. :)
"TARGET EVERYONE! SOMEBODY FIRE!!"
How I feel when vs Zerg...
Or Tyranids in 40K.
True...
Fun fact: Blizzard wanted to use Warhammer 40k for their game but Games Workshop refused. So Starcraft was invented instead.
Paddy Hugill Interesting.
Paddy Hugill This isn't fact, this is just a stupid rumor.
One of top ten movies scenes ever.
Very impressive what they were able to do on a shoe string budget...
I hope in Star Citizen you will be able to run from the UEE space fleet as a pirate and run right into a Vanduul fleet which is exactly a reenactment of this scene lol.
God I love this. SOMEBODY FIRE!!
***** lol i was about to write it too ^^ , the space battle was too short i wish if it was longer so we can see some good fighting
I believe he said "somebody fiaah!!"
"It's OK! I'm a leaf on the wind!"
"What dose that mean?!"
Lol my favorite part
Pause at 0:49 Does something look familiar?
None of the special features or audio commentary mention it but if you look down & to the left of Serenity, that's the Reaver ship that chased down the crew in the original pilot episode!
***** That's not too likely, look at the ship's port & starboard wings, it's missing an engine on the tip of the same wing as the one in the pilot episode.
The ship that started it all and it came for payback too
Batou3
i can just imagine the reevers on board saying "oh shit is dose niggas!"
other reever "let's go get dem motherfuckas!"
O_O TARGET THE REAVERS! SOMEBODY! FIRE!
Then those ships that lasso each other are so epic... A necessary addition to every space battle! :3
The look on his face as the Reavers appear is just like "Mother of god..." haha
i imagine the reaver's were equally terrified...
Eric Kinney Nah the Reavers were like "Oh look it's full buffet"
And the epic space shit storm commences.
Indeed lol
Eric Kinney Fear? Reavers feel no fear, they feel rage. That's it. Rage and the need to inflict that rage (and the hate that comes with it) on anyone and everything. The thought of loss of life means nothing to them, not even their own lives.
Love that beam weapon on the Reaver ship chasing them at the end.
I find it amusing that grappling hooks are used extensively by both the Alliance and Reavers and strong enough to fling spaceships around like they're nothing.
But they are in space, it doesnt take any force at all to swing such a big ship since everything is weightless
NOVAKMovies Being weightless does not mean having no mass.
yep only by reavers, and my god i love how messed up yet effective that is.
I love how his smuggness instantly switches to fear :D
can't wait for season 2
*****
hey they did it with pan am and charlies angels
It just amazes me that this movie was made on fifty million dollars.
+blockmasterscott: And it's probably the last one to be made like that, too.
+Neville6000 Deadpool was made with 60 million and has made about 700 million.
Thank you. This seemed so hard to find out.
Love this scene. Also, did you notice the Defender from Battlestar Galactica taking part in the battle masquerading as a reaver ship? Joss Whedon, you clever bastard. Also, does the Reaver galleon, that long skinny ship with a lot of smokestacks, look a little bit familiar? The hull shape should give it away. Does it not look similar to the Olympic Carrier Star Liner. The only differences being that the tail section is missing and replaced with bits of two oher Iconic ships, the Astral Queen, and Rising Star. The Reaver ship has 5 engines, 4 of them in the exact same configuration as the Rising Star's engines, the Astral Queen's bridge section was used on the front of the galleon to make it look like it once had a structure of some sort on the front. The only difference was that the bridge was crushed and pushed up to make it look like a dome. As for the smoke stacks, probably bits of debris gathered from other ships trapped in Reaver Space. The really big Reaver ship is no doubt a redress of one of the "Earth-that-was" ships from the intro. It looks as though the Reavers found it adrift in space and decided to fuse other ships to it to make it flyable again. Remember in the Intro there were 5 ships that left. 2 freighters, two Longbow class ships (civilian variant), and one what appeared to be a colony ship or refueling ship. At any rate, the last ship I mentioned was the ship the Reavers reused. It is comprised of part of the old colony ship, the top portion of one of the freighters with some extra stuff added on to make it more like a floating city as well as the engine configurations of both ships, and then they slapped on a pair of gigantic thrust vector engines, probably taken from some unfortunate civilian craft that strayed too close to it. At any rate, the front end of the ship looks like a modified and heavily damaged version of the front end of one of the ships of Battlestar Galactica's class. Just my views on the matter, you can make up your own conclusions as to what those two were made from. The rest are either remodeled Longbow class ships, Trans-U's, Pursuit craft and the like. There are also two, what look to be, refueling ships in their fleet, the ones that look like a cross between an AT-AT and and X-wing. Don't know what they were doing there, but oh well.... That's reavers for ya... "Stark, raving, totally blinking daft" (John Silver - Treasure planet) and insanely violent men and women (yes likely there had to have been a few of them, otherwise they'd have gone extinct through cannibalism by the time Mal and the Serenity found Miranda) who were out there to kill and kill and kill and kill and so on.
Bastard's not even changing course (I got this)! XD x smile x
O__O (oh shit)........Uh....sir....? TARGET THE REAVERS! TARGET THE REAVERS! SOMEBODY FIRE!!
+Henry Wang TOP TEN LINES IN SCIFI
+pulsar94605 Oh yea!!
You can get used to a lot of things in a movie after seeing it many times, but no matter how many times I see this scene, when the reapers burst through, I still get chills and goosebumps. Its a good mix of F Yeah adrenaline, and Oh Shit fear.
One thing I do like about this scene is the way they wait for the fire command. every other space fleet in scifi would have been firing aready
+pulsar94605 they panicing
+Batou3 maybe maybe not most people start shooting when they panick
+pulsar94605 they were too busy sheeting themselves
Thats bad disipline you open fire when the commander orders you too
"It's ok, I'm a leaf on the wind."
+Warren Wintrode what does that mean
Good question.
+pulsar94605 No control... at all. Lol, hope for the best.
I love how he's been this calm guy who's never shown any sign of his emotions overcoming him but when he's sees the Reaver's he just loses his shit
Still waiting for the next season....any time now.
+scharaboosh That is a good question. They actually aren't in space. the cloud that Mal and his crew enter is that planets atmosphere. I guess it was a smart way to have a space looking battle with sound and still have it be accurate.
Actually, that was the "Ion Cloud" as mentioned by Mr.Universe-
that was why they didn't "see this coming ".
In some of the TV episodes
(such as at the end of "Bushwacked"
when the Alliance cruiser destroys the settlers' ship)
they showed action in space with no sound.
Other times they allow sound.
It's TV&Hollywood.
They are flying through space but don't have money for food?
Hmmm....
I never noticed it before, but I love how Jayne runs into the cockpit with Vera, like he's going to personally shoot down either a Reaver or an Alliance ship with her. LOL. That's classic Jayne.
One of the best space battles ever. "Bastards not even changing course"
Thank you for pointing out his idiocy.
Reapers are ancient bio-machine hybrids that wipe out advanced civilisations to maintain "order". Revers are mutilated psychos that murder rape and eat people (order in which they do that may vary)
How exactly is that the "same idea" apart from it being in space?
Probably the only space series that actually have ships tethering other ships as a way to attack
They were in a cloud. While not exactly an atmosphere, it's capable of carrying sound waves.
Best scene of the movie. Hands down.
This is the best scene in all of sci fi!
Well if this doesn't make Serenity and her crew legends, I don't know what will.
"Uh... Don't worry I'm a leaf on the wind!"
"What does that mean!?"
at 1:18 my high school senior quote, IN THE YEAR BOOK !!!!!!!!
The look of "Oh Fuck" on The Operative's face is priceless when the reavers appear.
people are always complaining about how there's no sound in space lol do you know how boring and different the movies would be if most things were done scientifically or how they'd happen in real life? besides the fact that there would be no awesome battle in space, since the scene is created on a computer, there would be no sound effects to listen to during the battle, no awesome music to watch it to, they'd be thrown around and killed inside the ship if they weren't strapped into a chair, if their necks weren't snapped by the whiplash, and the explosions and damaged ships would probably simply implode because of the vacuum
and the Reavers wouldn't be able to pilot ships, because they're completely and utterly insane beast-humans fueled by rage and hate and the need to destroy. they'd probably turn on each other instead of hunting for others and spending the time and energy piloting ships that likely wouldn't be able to make it through the atmosphere, since the Reavers are completely unafraid of dying, rage-suicidal and not concerned with using the ships in a manner suited to their survival
so I just say sit back and enjoy the awesomeness XD
Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, and then wash your swine brain with a shotgun loaded with slugs. How can you be so uncultured, idiotic and still breathe air?
deektedrgg how can you call me uncultured and idiotic while telling me to shoot myself in the head? it's a movie, created for entertainment, so people need to get the fuck over the fact that the people who created it used their artistic and perhaps dramatic license to overlook some details of how the world works. after all, they're really only doing it for one reason...to get people interested in watching the movie and getting drawn into the action. do you really think that people would get more excited watching a car start to burn after an accident, or a big explosion?
and really...that movie looks interesting, but I doubt that it's as exciting to watch as the three minutes of this video. never seen it though, might get around to watching it, if I don't get bored. but Serenity isn't some science fiction fantasy/drama created to take us through the writer's and producer's imagined version of how humanity evolved and made it into the future. it isn't meant to be like reality, and people need to suck it up
solarphoenix999
So you really are a dumb uncultured piog. Because you really don't understand what I'm talking about, do you? Stick to the popcorn and pepsi movies braaaaahhhhhh, that's more on your intellectual level. Somewhere at the Earth's core.
deektedrgg I'm sorry 'braaaahhhhh', did you have something important to say, or are you just throwing insults around?
they actually set this battle in an upper atmosphere specifically so they could have sound, because in every other scene, both the series and the movie refrained from having sound in space. look at the movie's opening scene where the sound comes in suddenly when the ship hits atmo. or just before this, when mal fires on the reavers and all we hear is what he'd hear vibrating through his spacesuit
I've seen this movie, uh, I dunno A TRILLION TIMES and it's still so f****ng hard to watch Wash pilot that damn craft and know... aw gee.
:18 That's got to be the most spartan command bridge I've seen. i know Whedon didn't have much money to make this movie but c'mon! Get a bunch of Firefly fans together to donate time and supplies for a decent looking control panel!
Best space battle ever
how do reavers clean their spears? they put them through the wash.
SOUND IN SPACE?????? AAAARRGGHH
The Ion cloud around the planet extends to the point where Serenity punches through. So between the planet and the outer lining of the cloud are many charged molecules. Also, Hollywood.
Devin Tariel And forest animals dont spontaneously break out into song whenever a princess walks by either. This sci fi. Not a documentary.
It's called "acceptable breaks from reality".
Devin Tariel Reason being it sounds fricking awesome. Pew pew.
I heard that the director said that they were technically in the planets atmosphere
HEY ALLIANCE, DENY THE EXISTENCE OF REAVERS NOW, BITCH.
best Movie space fight ever
0:55 Now that is how to lose your shit like a gentleman.
great movie
Long Live the Alliance!
Reavers 4 lyfe
***** BROWNCOATS RULE
Might've been the losing side, still ain't convinced it was the wrong side.
We will rise again.
Long Live the Horde! :D
Levi Ackerman
If at first you don't SECEDE,
Try,try again!
They never really say, but it is implied to have been a Pyrrhic victory for the Alliance.
I hope fights in Star Citizen will be like this.
They won't.
EVE Online have bigger fights then this
too bad you cut it off, no landing. And the aspect ratio was messed up,
+Colton Casados-Medve I wouldn't worry about it that much. I have several compilations on my channel of movie scenes and I haven't gotten a copyright strike once.
+PocketDrummer Most people I see that put up videos of scenes just put in the description that they didn't make any of the material and give credit to the real producers or series where it came from.
Just a thought. I don't know for sure but that seems to be enough for most people. They don't have to alter it usually.
Colton Casados-Medve
Lol, I'll take your word for it. I've never made a video so I wouldn't know. It just seems like it's not a major problem because of all the videos there are with borrowed music.
Badass scene.
this wasn t in space, first there was sound, second, they were using the atmospheric thrusters, not their graviton accelerator engine in the back. but too bad there was no landing.
Joss Whedon never fails to deliver!
...and now, Nathan Fillion is making statements to the effect that we should just let Firefly go, that we had a great run with the one series and the movie.
I disagree somewhat.
There are a lot of story points that didn't get explained between the end of 'Objects in Space', and the movie Serenity. I can understand the idea of Serenity being the end of the line, but if someone could see their way clear to even producing just one series to wrap up the outstanding plot ideas, (Shepard's standing with the Alliance, or the story of Inara's health causing her to leave, among others)...I'd be plenty happy, because the story arc beginning with the episodes 'Serenity' and 'The Train Job' could finally be completed.
Ah well, like the Stones said, "You can't always get what you want."
Peeka fucking boo Alliance!
In the scene prior to this, there was no sound in space when Mal blew up a reaver ship.
And in this scene, lasers and even harpoons are clearly audible.
Odd.
What were the anime?
well yeah other than that one. Very few shows are that crazy to do those moves after all. unless they are using drones of course
lol apparently on firefly when you're in a giant space battle no one needs to wear a seatbelt, no matter what the ship does you can just pretty much stand there and be just fine lmfao
***** lol you just made that shit up there is no way they could fly through a dog fight in zero G w/o seatbelts idiot good luck
***** lol i can tell by your name alone you're the biggest sci fi nerd on the planet so there is no point in arguing this with you but i still say you are completely full of shit, those "systems" don't exist in any other sci fi how do these guys have it? makes no sense, people would be bouncing off the walls like pinballs
***** no i said you need to wear seat belts dumbshit
***** lol as we all learned from the legendary spaceballs... when they go to ludicrous speed you best buckle up, lord helmet didn't listen, lmao and you saw the disastrous yet comical results of him not obeying the seatbelt law
Celtic Dave Star Trek and Star Wars both have those. very few scifi settings DON'T have anti-gravity systems/artificial gravity on the ship.
is this the only sequence in firefly that uses sound in space?
I would of liked this movie a lot more if they simply hadn't killed off Wash at the end.
Weddons trademark
I think he did it just to fuck with us, since the show had already been canceled, and was not coming back, he was trying to make us think they were ALL going to die there and then. It raised the stakes quite a bit!
That was excellent storytelling. It really hurt.
thanks for the spoiler fuck tard
Considering almost everyone lived and they were able to repair Serenity on the ground I would say the Alliance won once they got their act together.
is it in space though? I thought it was within part of an outer atmosphere of the planet, the clearly have enough weird atmosphere above that (where they couldn't detect ships)
Anyone else notice that Wash's dinosaur figures seemed to stay on the desk throughout the battle full of twists, turns and impacts?
Momentum Dampeners.google it later its a registered theory
or it's just superglue...
No, it's the first, at the beginning of the movie, when the primary buffer panel fell off Serenity, the dinos toppled over when it got rough during re-entry.
0:51 face is PRICELESS!!!
They will make a remake that I'm sure of it will not be good but still we love u serenity
Wash is fucking awesome man
Come on. This is the best way to start a space battle
Nah an unpaid sovereignty bill
Anyone else thinks Reavers are cool, I've been having this dreams every since they made me watch.
*I believe I'm the wind.
Watch how I soar*
Okay........
"I'm a leaf on the wind." :/
Get Clem OH. well sorry I couldn't hear him right
Not quite right. What Walsh is actually saying is"I'm a leaf on the wind watch how I soar. I can see how easily you could make that mistake. no harm no foul...
I'm a leaf on the wind.....watch how I soar.
Probably did it for cinematic effect. Who would enjoy a scene where its just silence?
did the reavers actually do any series damage it look like they were geeing blown up left and right
That's part of the reaver *strategy*. There ships are a bit like the firefly. It ain't shiny or pretty or perfect. But it's goddam effective and built to last. The reavers fight as dirty as you can get. They use tow cables to rip ships apart. If you look in the background, the alliance is barely holding up, because they have never fought a enemy as ruthless, belligerent, mad, and careless for life as a reaver. Half the reaver ships were practically suicide charging the alliance ships just to cause mass damage. There's a reason the alliance never got close to reaver space
The Alliance vs the Reavers, this was a confusing fight for me, generally when I saw two evir armies fight, i always support the lesser of the two evils, but here i disliked both equally.
"Spoilers"
still if you think about it the alliance created the revers and did nothing about them its really there own fault they were more concerned with protecting there image than there own people and this is what they get for it i mean at the very least they should have done something about the reavers but nope cover up there existence and do nothing about them till they become a massive threat ya like thats better.
Mauricio Merida Well I don't think all the servicemen in the fleet deserved to pay for their government's fuck ups. They were probably clueless about everything that went on in the movie.
Mauricio Merida Should had been good for you then. Both armies got seriously fucked up. it's a win for everyone else in the galaxy.
+Mauricio Merida: That was the whole point.
two years younger, ME came out in 2007, this is 2005
"Two years older" would imply that it came out before Mass Effect. You don't claim that your sibling that was born a year before you is younger then you.
Ssssound in space! What for? There were no sounds in vacuum in original "Firefly" series!
Come on now, you can't just throw a claim like that out there without backing it up. What were the animes and what exactly did he supposedly steal?
Somebody fire!!!
lol since i have never seen this before it sounded like mass effect the captain even sounds like the captain from mass effect
How did the Reavers build highly sophisticated spaceships?
They stole them / boarded opponents ships
IIRC, they were supposed to be the old generational ships that were used to get from Earth to this system. Hence the immense size of some of them. They were no longer of use and were commandeered by the Reavers.
The Reavers had enough intelligence for setting up elaborate bomb traps on disabled vessels so they would have been able to cobble a few ships together from old freight containers and scrap metal
1:19 gives me goosebumps
Reavers come out O.o
Holy shit not the Dark Eldars :D
"Reavers did it!"
If the musical score was good enough, with stings when there's an explosion or something... maybe... dunno.
I think it was more done for dramatic effect. I doubt a climactic battle in silence would have been very exciting.
Not really, There's probably an atmosphere that expands between the planet and the cloud.
Honestly, what annoys me most about Serenity is the lighting...look at the ships from Serenity's PoV, like 1:37. That's ridiculous blue shading to force the blue/orange lighting that the film uses ALL THE FRIGGING TIME, and it's really annoying.
0:49 HI!!
star citizen sent me