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Old 05-13-2012, 08:14 PM   #156
Oling_Roachinen
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda View Post
name something outside of Buffy though that Whedon has done that's been a commercial success. he has a sizable cult following, but until now he's never been up there with the elite Hollywood directors for success
He had Toy Story, at least in part. But I think everyone's on the same page and just arguing semantics. Whedon is a great director and writer, but until now I don't think many of the higher ups thought he would be able to translate to the mainstream audience. I wouldn't call him underrated prior to this though.

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I always wonder how much success a second Serenity movie would do... I think the audience has only grown since the first one, most people I know are like myself, found it after the series and the movie. I think it would probably have a huge opening weekend. Maybe if Arrested Development works out for Netflix I'd honestly think starting back up Firefly would be better than a movie, but that would require Castle to fail to get Fillion.

Also... I've never watched Buffy... all the seasons are on Netflix, I wonder if I should. Maybe wait for winter to hit.
I'm one of the people who got into Serenity several months if not years after it came out and I know there's a couple of us out there but there's likely just as many casual fans who had their fill of it and with the last movie I think it more or less was "tied up." Although, even with his Avenger success, I think he'd be hard press to convince a big studio to make a sequel to a 10 year old movie that lost money.

I'd give Buffy a go, but be warned the first couple episodes really really suck. The last couple seasons also not the best.

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