X-Files: I 'wanted' to believe...

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Ok, this movie was disappointing on about every level conceivable except one. I'll get to that one at the end. As for the rest... if nothing else I wanted to hear the creepy theme music on the big screen. You didn't even get but 5 seconds of that. You hear dunnedy dunnedy dun... done.

The movie basically went like this:

First 3/4ths - Boring
Last 1/8th - Weird (and not an interesting weird)/minor ick
Ending - Boring

I kept waiting for it to pick up and except for maybe 5 minutes it never did. Then it unpicked up.

There was NOTHING that even approached a single one of the episodes. I rather have watched a rerun and I never even got into the show that much.

There also was absolutely no aliens, monsters, ghosts, or spooks. The supernatural, or supposed supernatural, in this movie was your standard psychic catholic priest which is so overdone in spook movies you no longer assume that they are ever anything BUT psychic.

At least this one was a pedophile. Oh, wait, that's not exactly unheard of either. Ok, this movie had NO redeeming qualities


Ok, but what was not disappointing you say? Well, out of the two dozen or more theatre rooms, the one that was chosen to play the movie was one of the rooms famous for being haunted by those that work there. We thought that rather fitting. So... even most of you won't get that.

[kpenguin]

Gee, VT, can't you start a thread about a movie you like?

[WalkingTarget]

I swear I've seen him start one, I just can't remember when or which movie...:smalltongue:

[Whoracle]

Heh. At least you aren't one of us poor german bastards who had to endure Duchovny's new synchronization voice... *shudder* They made him sound like some 19 year old.


Also, I have seen all the seasons up to 7 and was like "WTF?!?" when scully and mulder talk about their son and are all kissing each other and stuff. I mean, seriously, WTF?


Redeeming scene:
The bush photo scene in FBI HQ. That was hilarious.

[The Vorpal Tribble]

Gee, VT, can't you start a thread about a movie you like?

*casts Foot In Mouth*

Cloverfield (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69858)
Get Smart (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4476977#post4476977)
Harry Potter (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4282855#post4282855)
Kungfu Panda (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4480585#post4480585)
The Village (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4293929#post4293929)
Wanted (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4502728)



Redeeming scene:
The bush photo scene in FBI HQ. That was hilarious.
I didn't catch the significance of that, what was it?

[Fri]

Every X-Files thread make me winces. But not for THAT reason.

Because it makes me remember the Lone Gunmen.

Oh god why did they have to die. They're my favourite wedges (as in wedge antilles) ever.

[kpenguin]

*casts Foot In Mouth*

Cloverfield (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69858)
Get Smart (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4476977#post4476977)
Harry Potter (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4282855#post4282855)
Kungfu Panda (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4480585#post4480585)
The Village (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4293929#post4293929)
Wanted (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4502728)


You only started the threads for Cloverfield and Wanted. Furthermore, you seem to be more descriptive about movies you dislike than movies you like. Its as if you like ranting about bad movies.

[kamikasei]

Its as if you like ranting about bad movies.

If a movie is bad, you're happy to rant about its badness. If a movie is good, you don't want to blather about how awesome it was, you want others to go see it for themselves without having it spoiled by you.

[Whoracle]

I didn't catch the significance of that, what was it?


*spoilered for the laughs*
Remember: They walk through FBI HQ for the first time in what must be 5 years or so, they stop next to a familiar door, Look at the Photo besides it.
Closeup of Geroge W. Bush' Standard Promotion Pic.
<cue X-Files Theme>
Cut back to Mulder & Scully looking at each other with some kind of knowing-but-not-really-believing look.

Translation (as I got it, at least): Bush is everything the X-Files antagonized: Government Conspiracies, Aliens (clearly :D), and might well be a scinetific project gone wrong. Need I explain more?

It's just the combination of Photo + X-Files Theme + Look that got me in stitches :D

[Jibar]

Ok, but what was not disappointing you say? Well, out of the two dozen or more theatre rooms, the one that was chosen to play the movie was one of the rooms famous for being haunted by those that work there. We thought that rather fitting. So... even most of you won't get that.

What!?
Who decided that?
I've read pretty much every story about that theatre you've put on this forum, I know fully well what it's like.
Who the hell decided to put the X Files in the haunted theatre!? That's madness!

[EvilElitest]

You only started the threads for Cloverfield and Wanted. Furthermore, you seem to be more descriptive about movies you dislike than movies you like. Its as if you like ranting about bad movies.

well he tends to do a good job
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[JadedDM]

I liked the movie. It's nice to have a summer film that doesn't involve massive explosions, care chases, and women in bikinis.

Anyway, they said from the very beginning this movie was not going to contain any mythology at all and basically be a two-hour episode of the show. Those were the expectations I went in with, and they were satisfied.

[Innis Cabal]

I liked the movie. It's nice to have a summer film that doesn't involve massive explosions, care chases, and women in bikinis.

Anyway, they said from the very beginning this movie was not going to contain any mythology at all and basically be a two-hour episode of the show. Those were the expectations I went in with, and they were satisfied.

i've never seen a half hour show that i felt could pull of a two hour long episode. At all. That being said, all those things listed for summer movies...thats what summer is about

[chiasaur11]

What!?
Who decided that?
I've read pretty much every story about that theatre you've put on this forum, I know fully well what it's like.
Who the hell decided to put the X Files in the haunted theatre!? That's madness!

They wanted to give the ghosts new ideas for promotional purposes.

[JadedDM]

i've never seen a half hour show that i felt could pull of a two hour long episode. At all. That being said, all those things listed for summer movies...thats what summer is about

The X-Files wasn't a half-hour show, it was an hour long. So basically, a two-parter.

[Innis Cabal]

The X-Files wasn't a half-hour show, it was an hour long. So basically, a two-parter.

The point remains valid.

[Kneenibble]

I found the movie interesting because it's probably going to be the last installment in the X-files franchise. It played with the ideas of incertainty, good and evil, faith, and belief, which ran subvert and obvert through the whole run of the show, right along with the flashy horror stuff: and the downplayed treatment of it makes an interesting cap to the whole business. It was like the thinking episodes of the show written for contemplation rather than spectacle, and no, I'm not trying to draw a privilege there - it's just, both were a big part of the series for me, I liked both kinds.

Also, how is David Duchovny still hot? Rawr.

[Raistlin1040]

Never saw the show, or the first movie, so maybe that had something to do with it, but I liked this movie. I mean, I didn't LOVE it like I did Iron Man and The Dark Knight, but it sure was better than The Incredible Hulk.

[Vaire]

Never saw the show, or the first movie, so maybe that had something to do with it, but I liked this movie. I mean, I didn't LOVE it like I did Iron Man and The Dark Knight, but it sure was better than The Incredible Hulk.

This is not a movie that will inspire LOVE like Iron Man and The Dark Knight. It's not that kind of movie, and I don't think the X-files was ever meant to be that kind of show. I liked the way that it was contemplative. I like the mystery of it. It reminded me of those single shot episodes that I wanted more of in the series. It wasn't as well written as some of those (Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, e.g.) but it did well. I was entertained, and I got to see Scully and Mulder again. Which is always a plus.

BTW, I agree about the Lone Gunman. They never should have died. And I want to see them again. I miss Frohicke, *sniff*