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Title: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: TVC15 on July 24, 2008, 10:18:09 PM
http://www.avclub.com/content/cinema/the_x_files_i_want_to_believe

 :'(  the dream is dead

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The last time a geek favorite delivered such an anticlimactic follow-up to a cherished science-fiction institution, a rascally, malapropism-spouting Rastafarian frogman named Jar-Jar Binks was prominently involved.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Positive Touch on July 24, 2008, 10:21:14 PM
noooooo



at least i can save myself eight bucks
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Sysgen on July 24, 2008, 10:24:44 PM
I was just going to make the same thread.  Shame it sucks.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Eric P on July 24, 2008, 10:27:26 PM
i myself am shocked SHOCKED at this revelation

Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Solo on July 24, 2008, 10:28:18 PM
Californication S2 plz
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: cool breeze on July 24, 2008, 10:33:49 PM
I never saw anything X-Files and I already knew this movie would suck.  Only real thing I know is that the red head on the show is a fan of Top Gear.  That and the Simpson parody of it.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 24, 2008, 11:38:28 PM
noooooooooooooooooooooooo :'( :'( :'(

time to break out the pinot noir and the tears
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on July 24, 2008, 11:42:47 PM
29% on RT. To put that in perspective, Space Chimps has 38%.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Flannel Boy on July 24, 2008, 11:45:42 PM
(http://home.comcast.net/~erickson.doug/catdance.gif) Believe (http://home.comcast.net/~erickson.doug/catdance.gif)
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Flannel Boy on July 24, 2008, 11:47:29 PM
Can any of you actually sit through the original television series now?
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Mandark on July 24, 2008, 11:51:31 PM
They should force Darin Morgan to write them a movie script.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 25, 2008, 12:04:23 AM
Can any of you actually sit through the original television series now?

i can get through seasons 1-4 just fine, and the non-arc eps of 8-9.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 25, 2008, 12:04:42 AM
Can any of you actually sit through the original television series now?

Some episodes aren't that good in retrospect, but it's still a pretty good show.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 25, 2008, 01:24:04 AM
I didn't think it would be great, but I was hoping it would at least be decent.  :-\
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: bachikarn on July 25, 2008, 09:20:20 AM
So I guess they'll never resolve the whole alien invasion thing since there is no way they are going to continue the series after this.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: muckhole on July 25, 2008, 09:28:50 AM
It's been a pretty good summer for movies so far, so a trainwreck like this was due. Still, I'd hoped there would be something redeeming about it.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 25, 2008, 09:30:13 AM
It's been a pretty good summer for movies so far, so a trainwreck like this was due. Still, I'd hoped there would be something redeeming about it.

like anderson nude? i used to jack off to a (probably shopped) pick of her sucking dick. That was so long ago  :lol
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: muckhole on July 25, 2008, 09:31:17 AM
It's been a pretty good summer for movies so far, so a trainwreck like this was due. Still, I'd hoped there would be something redeeming about it.

like anderson nude? i used to jack off to a (probably shopped) pick of her sucking dick. That was so long ago  :lol

 :lol Well, yeah, that likely would have helped the sting a bit.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on July 25, 2008, 11:18:49 PM
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They should force Darin Morgan to write them a movie script.

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... whatever happened to him anyway?
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Vyer on July 25, 2008, 11:26:37 PM
nobody cares anymore.  Not that I ever did.

This movie might bomb hard.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Mandark on July 26, 2008, 12:58:36 AM
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They should force Darin Morgan to write them a movie script.

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... whatever happened to him anyway?


He was involved in the new Night Stalker series and wrote a script for it that was never filmed.  Hasn't done much of anything else, apparently because he's just lazy.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: thekavorka on July 26, 2008, 01:00:45 AM
:(

i'll watch my season 2 set in remembrance
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: VALIS on July 26, 2008, 11:25:08 AM
Ebert likes it a lot, and I'll take Roger's opinion (in print, on TV he's kind of a hack) over some punk from the Onion who seems bummed that there aren't enough explosions: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/REVIEWS/1651704/1001r

In fact, reading a bunch of reviews this morning, the movie really seems to have drawn a dividing line between people who can appreciate a movie where nothing blows up and those who can't. "OMG they just talk all the time how awful!!"

Sounds very good. I'm seeing it this week.

Fucking depressing that this movie is gonna bomb because shit doesn't blow up and there's too much talking.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: border on July 26, 2008, 02:14:45 PM
Critics regularly praise explosion-free movies.  I think the problem is that X-Files is boring and the plot does not interest or enthrall.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Bloodwake on July 26, 2008, 04:54:15 PM
I'm still going to go watch it.

Maybe.


DAMMIT WHY COULDN'T IT BE GOOD?
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: Bloodwake on July 28, 2008, 12:23:16 AM
Can any of you actually sit through the original television series now?

i can get through seasons 1-4 just fine, and the non-arc eps of 8-9.

Yeah, I'm actually most of the way through season 2 right now, and I've only outright hated one episode: "3", which was between the episodes where Scully gets abducted for the first time and when Scully is returned. It's paced and written differently than any other episode of the X-Files, and it's very, very shitty.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on July 28, 2008, 12:28:46 AM
Holy shit this flopped hard at the box office.
Title: Re: The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck
Post by: etiolate on February 03, 2009, 04:59:25 AM
Finally watched this. Rather enjoyed it.

Much better than people made it out to be. I am looking through reviews, and they either don't get it or list complaints that do not actually exist in the film. The DVD has two cuts, so I'm wondering if the complaints are based on the other cut.

I think the bad mood towards this film comes from too much fan service being given to people lately. No, it doesn't have aliens or explosions or too much weirdness. Instead it's a story that follows the faith/science theme of the series and does it with complex moral situations.