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The X-Files Movie and Television Show Thread
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X-Files: I Want to Believe came out yesterday, and was greeted by poor reviews and, at least on my part, steadily dwindling hopes for an entertaining return to a television series that worked so well for several seasons only to end on a sour note. Still, in spite of of the poor reception, I want to believe that, beneath the woeful miscasting of fucking Xzibit, a perfect mixture of somewhat interesting writing and the default apologetic nature of a nostalgic fanboy could eke out at least $10 worth of entertainment from this greatly belated fiasco.
And hey, if the film does suck, at least it's a chance to discuss our favorite episodes and talk about how hot David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson used to be.
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For people who want to know what its about (spoilers for real)
And instead of a guy making a woman suit for himself, its a gay couple where one of them is dying, so the other guy is kidnapping women with AB- blood type and with the help of Russian doctors they are slowly making the dying man into a woman by switching bodys parts from the women they kidnapped.
It actually doesn't sound that great when reading it but it played out a bit better I guess.
Oh also Mulder and Scully totally get it on in the bed.
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I've been hating TV lately - I don't watch anything but Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, and Comedy Central stuff. So I asked my girlfriend for the huge box set... all 9 seasons, bonus stuff, and the first movie. We watched the entirety of the show over the past two months... skipping all but the mythology episodes in Season 9 right before the movie was released. We're going to watch the rest of season 9 - the criticisms leveled against it seem wrong. I love Dogget, Reyes is weaker but not terrible.
This was and is still the best television show ever produced. Each episode is miniature movie - the same budget, too. Fully scored, great characters, and laid the groundwork for every show since.
We enjoyed the movie, and it leaves hope that they make more - two more, according to Chris Carter that will tie up the loose ends regarding the Alien Conspiracy arc in the series.
Xzibit wasn't bad at all, and it was well cast and acted. No one has done that story arc before in the movie... it's wholly original.
I enjoyed it, and I'm pretty depressed the series is over.
We are all big X Files fans too, we watched the first movie this morning in anticipation of the new one and were pretty excited. Instead of a fun movie we got two hours of garbage, horrible "emotional" scenes, and a bunch of other garbage and in it all about 45 seconds of actual X Files style stuff. The chemistry did not exist between the leads and there were too many long talks about stuff no one cares about.
Bah.
Things enjoyed more than this movie: Doom: The movie, The American pilot of Life on Mars, and Mexico.
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The movie was ok . It was basically a long X-File, which is fine. To those that aren't as immersed in X-Files lore as some, I can see them thinking of it as a mediocre sci-fi flick.
I didn't watch the end of the series, but this seems to be a bit of a stretch to me. He's been in hiding for six years and all is forgiven if you come help on this one case. Yeah . . . The audience can figure out that Mulder and Scully have been living together, and there is some shippiness, but not a ton. I personally would've liked more romance, but I'm a sucker for that stuff. They are definitely together throughout the movie, and "break up" during it, but it doesn't seem like much of a break-up to me, and it gets fixed by the end of the movie, although I'm hard-pressed to see how or why. Scully gets upset with Mulder focusing on the X-File and the paranormal aspect of it when it's clear there's a logical explanation. Then, out of nowhere, she accuses him of chasing after his sister - who's hardly come up during the course of the movie and wasn't really on my mind at all. The plot point seemed pretty forced.
Also, during Scully's plotline, she wants to do a radical new treatment on her young patient that might have a chance of helping him. It's a form of stem cell treatment, that is painful for the patient and they have no idea if it'll work. To get her information on it, Scully googles and then uses that information to develop a treatment plan. I'm sorry, but she googled it? Can the writers have had her going through medical text or something in a hospital record? You know, something I can't maybe do at home?
All that said, I did enjoy the flick, and there's an extra scene during the credits. Nothing major, but it's sweet and warms the heart a bit if you're a shipper.
And me? I don't think the guy was psychic. Color me a skeptic.
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Even that was trash, it was like they were trying to wave everyone off at the end of a fun movie instead of everyone sitting pissed in the theater at how bad it was. So many groans were heard of people leaving. Sadness all around for this thing.
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I was in the same position last night, and we went with Step Brothers because this had been getting such awful reviews, even from fans (which my wife and I both were before the last few seasons). Honestly, Step Brothers was retarded, but my face hurt from laughing by the time it was over, so I feel like I made the right choice.
With that said this movie was absolute shit. This was not the xfiles this was just crap. Chris carter could have taken this anywhere and this is what he decided was worthy to bring the xfiles back?
The fan service was done in such a blatant way that it was cheesey and in no way endearing.
The dialogue was not only pointless but just completely random as someone already pointed out about fox and his "intentions." also the discourse between scully and mulder was so repetitive that it hurt. It's like hi we get the point how dumb do you think the audience is.
Christ, RT has a better average score for Hancock than this?!? When its out here next week I'll still definitely check it out, but I'm suddenly not expecting much.
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I don't know, I just wasn't entertained really. It didn't even strike me as a particular X-Filesy type of movie. It just didn't seem that outlandish (well, for X-Files that is). I found myself wondering when it was going to get out, which is never a good sign. I'd have enjoyed a 3rd viewing of The Dark Knight more I think (saw it for a second time on Thursday, so I've seen it recently).
It almost just seemed like a generic crime thriller to me, nothing that had it stand out really.
but it certainly wasn't a good one. The script was just terrible.
If they can get decent writers then I could see an X-Files 3. But the fact that my theater was packed with tDK views (5 screens, lines to get the best seats) and there was 10 people there for the XF tonight doesn't indicate that its likely.
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I'm staying optimistic, and I know she'll love it
She's a huge X-Files geek, and is actually the one who got me to start watching the show
I figured out pretty quickly that I much prefer the Monster of the Week episodes to the conspiracy ones
One is a cool mystery with a very "What the fuck" vibe
The other is confusing as fuck
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Sounds like they tried to make it too mainstream "monster of the week," and in doing so dumbed it down entirely.
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That said -
See it at a matinee. I saw it opening night with my sweetheart because I'm a dork that way, but since that opportunity is past, I would recommend that others not spend prime-time $$'s if they are inclined to see it.
Actually the central mystery is part of what made it crap to me.
-Why would the FBI agent be swimming regularly at some random pool in West Virginia? Assuming she was stationed there, the FBI doesn't have a pool?
-Why would you wear a medical alert bracelet because your blood type was AB-?
-Why did he choose two women instead of males?
-Why were they performing this highly risky/experimental surgery in what amounted to a pound, with no clean room precautions?
-Why were there dozens of limbs? Had they been doing this for years and they just never got around to mentioning this?
-Scully comes home, but its never explicit that she is sharing it with Mulder... they're just suddenly in bed. So... they've been together the whole time right?
-Amanda Peet's character dies and is never mentioned again - the FBI just goes on without batting and eye and no one even pretends to mourn. I thought the whole point of the operation was trying to save a single FBI agent and then when one gets impaled its just brushed off.
-How did the FBI manage to so incompetently seal off the building so the organ transporter can just saunter out? For that matter, why did the organ transporter have a head(the FBI agents?) with him?
-If the other limbs found in the ice were surgically removed, why was the transporter using a hatchet on the dead agent and planning on using it on Mulder?
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I'm so glad you took the time to bullet point every thing that bothered me! Now I don't have to.
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But then I often find that I am out of sync with others here. I think perhaps although I am a gamer, I am not a geek, for what it's worth.
I came to the movie having not seen an episode in years. The people I was with had watched the previous movie that morning (although I was present, I wasn't paying attention) I just thought that so much didn't make sense.
That said, I enjoyed this movie a good bit
I implore you to see it in theaters, it needs the box office money if they're going to make a 3rd movie based on the 2012 Alien Invasion stuff.
If they don't do that I'm going to cry.
Saw the movie. Adding to the concensus: Pretty tame, but nice to see Mulder and Scully again. Still waiting for that full frontal. Don't care which.
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It came in 4th at < 10 million first weekend. Behind Mama Mia. Even with tDK holding down #1 that's not a good showing.
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