Firefly over Starwars?

[MrOsterman]

so Slashdot is reporting that the BBC is reporting (yeah yeah) that Serenity beats out Star Wars as the best Sci Fi of all time.  edit can someone link the story?  I only have it through my blog reader due to the firewall here.

I like Serenity as much as the next guy but I can't imagine how it's that much more "establishing" then the StarWars: ANH.  I mean, Wedon admits that the whole initial premise of Firefly was his own take on what if Han had gone into a different bar.

I loved Firefly and wish it had been given a decent chance (dang you all that ruined it!) but I gotta disagree that it should be the "best Sci Fi" of all time.

Thoughts?

Mr. O

[Rico]

Here's the story link:  http://www.24dash.com/showbiz_slapdash/18729.htm

These list things are always pretty silly.  "Star Wars" had a huge impact on modern movie making.  I enjoyed "Serenity" a lot as well, but Star Wars had a much bigger impact.  But I still like "The Empire Strikes Back" best of the SW films.  Plus - no TREK on that list at all.  :(

[Geekyfanboy]

It's only 3000 people in England that were polled.. not very scientific. I'm a huge fan of Firefly and Serenity and i know it was a huge hit in England (Serenity). I think it might be the best of recent sci fi movies but of all time Star Wars will always be best. It changed sci fi movies forever.

[Dan M]

Interesting, but ridiculous. 

Serenity/Firefly is one of the best pieces of entertainment I've ever seen, but no way is it in the same league as Star Wars.

[Rico]

I have decided that lists made on the Internet are just made to stir things up.

[Kirk-Fu]

I agree only that Serenity/Firefly is better than the most recent 3 Star Wars installments. But, no way better than the first 3. That being said i am a huge fan of the Firefly Universe.

Overall, the list was a good collection of great stuff, I would just change the order. Good to see Planet of the Apes on there, one of my all time favorite movies. Im still in love with Nova :-)

[Darth Gaos]

I loved Firefly/Serenity but there is no way that it was a better Sci-Fi movie than Star Wars for a couple of reasons:  1) As has already been mentioned Star Wars had an unbelievable impact on everything pop-culture in America and really around the world.  Serenity...while great had nowhere near the impact.
2) I have never really considered Firefly to be Sci-Fi.  I always thought of it as a western set in the future.  I mean some sci-fi can also be put into that category (some might even make the argument that Star Wars could go into that category), but where Star Wars always struck a "science-fiction" chord with me, Firefly never did....don't get me wrong...again, that is not a bad thing by any means...I will just always view Joss Whedon's universe as a western.

Does that make sense?  Or is my wife right and I have just completely gone off the deep end.

[Kirk-Fu]

Darth Gaos,
I can definately relate to what you are saying. Even though I do generally classify Firefly as Sci-Fi, it was a show that you could watch for an hour and not be hit in the face with the spaceships/lasers/tech. The episode where they did a kind of take on the Magnificent Seven, the 'Protect the brothel' episode......that could of been an episode of Deadwood....with less colorful language though.

[Darkmolerman]

Star Wars is a great movie and as Scott says that he thinks that Firefly is a western Star wars...STAR WARS "4" EVAH!