{"id":38251,"date":"2013-07-13T23:02:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/13\/movie-review-serenity-2005.html"},"modified":"2013-07-16T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:22:49","slug":"movie-review-serenity-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/13\/movie-review-serenity-2005.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Serenity" (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Finally watched this with the daughter this week. \u00a0Both my fanboyish gushing enthusiasm and fanboyish complaints have mellowed some, but I still enjoyed myself.<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Serenity (2005)<\/a>
\n I watched all of the Firefly series with my now 13-year-old daughter a few years back, but I held off watching Serenity with her until this week because … well … death and dying and all that. This is an odd movie in many ways. It collapses space and time in weird ways — but given that it is itself a collapse \/ Readers Digest version of many hours of multiple seasons of a TV series that never was, that’s perhaps not surprising. It’s far too d…\n <\/p>\n

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Finally watched this with the daughter this week. \u00a0Both my fanboyish gushing enthusiasm and fanboyish complaints have mellowed some, but I still enjoyed myself. A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Serenity (2005) I watched all of the Firefly series with my now 13-year-old daughter a few years back, but I held off watching Serenity with her until … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Serenity" (2005)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,361,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49585,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/father-daughter-movie-week-in-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":38251,"position":0},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Feb-15 3:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"+Margie Kleerup was off on mostly-business last week, so +Kay Hill and I got to watch a lot of movie -- though not as many as I wanted, as it was a fairly busy week in other ways. 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