The X-Files: I Want to Not Suck

[TVC15]

http://www.avclub.com/content/cinema/the_x_files_i_want_to_believe

 :'(  the dream is dead

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.

[Positive Touch]

noooooo



at least i can save myself eight bucks

[Sysgen]

I was just going to make the same thread.  Shame it sucks.

[Eric P]

i myself am shocked SHOCKED at this revelation

[Solo]

Californication S2 plz

[cool breeze]

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.

[Van Cruncheon]

noooooooooooooooooooooooo :'( :'( :'(

time to break out the pinot noir and the tears

[BobFromPikeCreek]

29% on RT. To put that in perspective, Space Chimps has 38%.

[Flannel Boy]

Believe

[Flannel Boy]

Can any of you actually sit through the original television series now?

[Mandark]

They should force Darin Morgan to write them a movie script.

[Van Cruncheon]

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.

[Great Rumbler]

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.

[Joe Molotov]

I didn't think it would be great, but I was hoping it would at least be decent. 

[bachikarn]

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.

[muckhole]

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.

[Phoenix Dark]

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 

[muckhole]

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 

  Well, yeah, that likely would have helped the sting a bit.

[recursivelyenumerable]

They should force Darin Morgan to write them a movie script.

.

... whatever happened to him anyway?

[Vyer]

nobody cares anymore.  Not that I ever did.

This movie might bomb hard.

[Mandark]

They should force Darin Morgan to write them a movie script.

.

... 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.

[thekavorka]

i'll watch my season 2 set in remembrance

[VALIS]

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.

[border]

Critics regularly praise explosion-free movies.  I think the problem is that X-Files is boring and the plot does not interest or enthrall.

[Bloodwake]

I'm still going to go watch it.

Maybe.


DAMMIT WHY COULDN'T IT BE GOOD?

[Bloodwake]

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.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Holy shit this flopped hard at the box office.

[etiolate]

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.