the thread where we anticipate X-FILES 2!

and people though The Simpsons Movie was too late.

i know right what with starting 4 years earlier and all that

David Duchovny looks EXACTLY THE SAME. Eeiree.

Scully sure looked different in that Idi Amin thing.

that was forest whitaker.

I'd hit it.

;_; @ banishment of red hair for hegemony of brown

it's red

is xzibit really in this?

they should release all films one random frame at a time.

they both look very tall

not the boring supersoldier shit in this one i hope

We want a stand-alone movie, not a mythology conspiracy one. = oops, it's been like 10 years since anyone without severe social problems could remember / cared about the overarching lamebutt alien stuff

I could definitely enjoy X-Files movies -- hell, a franchise of them -- that followed the standard random-episode thing from the TV show: i.e., series of strange deaths turns out to be caused by/connected to person with some weird monstrous ability or supernatural quality

Like a kid who is secretly an insect, or a weirdo animist suburban neighborhood association, or the guy who can tell when you're about to die

or a dog who can fly.

that movie should just be about the dog, i think

leave the FBI out of it

i hope it's written by the guy who wrote the funny ones

i can't even remember who that is now. wow the x files cultural impact sure vanished quickly didn't it? I predict that unless this movie is amazing, it's going to bomb because no one cares

http://alicia-logic.com/capsimages/sbr_013Hosehead.jpg

who wrote the Jose Chung episode?

This guy:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Flukeman.jpg

Yeah, Darin Morgan. According to IMDB he hasn't written anything for TV in years.

Who wrote the one with Charles Nelson Reilly? That guy should clearly be writing this.

That was him.

I wonder what Billy Connolly's role will be? As much as I love Darin Morgan's episodes, I don't want this to be a comedy - something along the lines of the first two seasons would be good, as story with some genuine mystery, something original. Chris Carter has written some great stories (the Millennium episode "Lamentation" is his masterpiece), but that was a long time ago, and everything he's done in recent years has been one failure after another.

"Where are the J.J. Abrams of yesteryear?"

"Oh, right over there"

i can't even remember who that is now. wow the x files cultural impact sure vanished quickly didn't it?

i think more like it was so absorbed thoroughly by pop culture that it mostly remains as an abstract influence on things now

I don't know, really? Where do you see that influence? Not rhetorical.

"Where are the J.J. Abrams of yesteryear?"

"Oh, right over there"

-- nabisco, Friday, January 18, 2008 12:11 AM

lol

also the answer to 31g's question.

TS in terms of actual cultural influence via TV series started in 1993 -- Chris Carter vs. J. Michael Stracyznski

yeah I guess that's fair, I don't watch Lost.

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TS in terms of actual cultural influence via TV series started in 1993 -- Chris Carter vs. J. Michael Stracyznski

-- Ned Raggett, Friday, January 18, 2008 2:48 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

carter takes it in a walk. what did JMS influence besides some dedicated nerds? you mean the super long-arc storytelling?

I don't know, really? Where do you see that influence? Not rhetorical.

-- 31g, Friday, January 18, 2008 2:10 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

funny you should ask, i stumbled across this just now:

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-01/pl_screen

well

its not BAD

i've been hearing, at best, "mixed" things about this.

so yeah, this is basically just a 2-hour episode of the tv show. and while i dont necessarily have a problem with that (not in theory at least), at some point i dont know why this couldnt have just been a 'network premiere' or something. i mean actually this is basically the law & order 'movie' from a few years ago--extended version of whats basically a single-show plot, and in the end not particularly 'cinematic.' carter still directs like he's on TV, all the shots are tight close-ups of faces, and it just seems sort of small--not very many people, it doesnt really go anywhere, all of which would be more forgiveable if i was watching it on tv instead of paying 10 bucks to see it in the theaters.

the other thing is that its not even a great premise. if it were an episode of the tv show, it wouldnt be in my top 10 or even 20 probably. pretty standard "is he or isnt he a psychic," mulder thinks he is, scully is on the fence, ends inconclusively (its getting harder for scully to be a believable skeptic given that shes like, had sex with aliens).

PLUS one of the things that i always liked about the show was the way it adopted so many of the formal devices of 'regular' cop shows, right down to the little time/place titles in the corner, but always weird. mulder and scully as regular civilians means you lose all that--the interviewing and clue-searching and everything. and i hate to say it but having them together as a couple makes the dynamic even less interesting.

but all that being said--its really not bad. duchovny and anderson are both really terrific (anderson is still hella blappable btw), its well-written (or well-written enough), connolly is pretty good, it moves quickly enough, etc. and its sort of nice to see mulder and scully again. but i guess in the end it just sort of feels like a missed opportunity--not wasted, just not really what i was hoping for.

lb im disappointed that you didnt see this @ midnight like i did

ps there were surprising numbers of babes at the midnight showing!!!! where were u all when i was in middle school/high school??

i was on my way home from the beach at midnight

... sometimes i doubt your commitment

haha.

i'm kinda bummed, because i had such a shitty week and a crappy vacation and all i have is a mediocre x-files movie to look forward to.

eh, fuck that emo shit.

damn yall i just caught series 4 finale of doctor who and i'm all ;_;

"mediocre x-files 2 movie" is enough to get me :/

i think i might watch balls of fury now in hopes of full transition to :D

still worth it, guys. watching mulder and scully is like seeing old friends.

i'll lovefilm it

^

hella blappable

It sort of felt like an extended episode of L&O: SVU or Without A Trace or something. Rather underwhelming. But, yes, nice to be back in their company for 90-odd minutes. Did you stay for the odd aerial shot of the rowing boat close to the end of the credits?

av club tore it apart

this movie is great. way better than batman. slow and nicely acted and kind of thoughtful. not too loud and of an appropriate length. certainly the best x-files related anything since season 3.

the reviews don't make any sense to me. ok, so xzibit kind of sucks. most everything else was all well-tended and muted and just... pleasant.

what an odd little movie. it's basically a drama about scully and mulder with a mini-x-file stuffed in there. i didn't hate it, just wish the underlying story wasn't so...slight.

i'm more puzzled than disappointed, to be honest.

not about the movie itself, just that they went with this to continue the series. i mean, there's no way this is gonna make any money.

i think thats partly what i mean by 'seems so small'--ive been thinking all day about the difference between what i expect from tv shows (or at least what i expect from shit i see on tv) and what i expect from movies, and, in particular, what i expect from stuff that makes the 'leap' from one to the other. like, part of my disappointment is predicated (i guess) on an expectation that moving from tv to movie means that the scope of everything will be widened--larger cast, bigger story, bigger thrills, etc. and thats maybe an unfair expectation! but this certainly doesnt deliver--cast is the same size more or less, story is small (maybe smaller than a lot of episodes of the tv show), "thrills" (not that this is what i should be expecting but cmon its the x files) are barely there. so like i said, as an extended tv movie or something i think i would have felt a lot differently, because it would have met my expectations for what i see on my TV. but as a movie-movie it gave me blue balls.

i guess i just mean, 'is it fair for me to expect/demand different things from what i see on tv and what i see in the theaters?' especially given how blurred the two have gotten over the last decade or so

but honestly i think of all the places for me to expect (and demand!) different things from a movie-going experience than from a television experience, a tv show being made into a movie is one of them, if for no other reason that for the movie to justify its existence as a movie

i think you're right to expect that shit

otherwise what is the point

also you're paying more $$$ so you wanna see a return on that

Kind of like Fight the Future, except despite all that I think people there wanted more of an x-files episode

this movie was so much better than I thought it would be - Slate reviewer complains that it "takes itself too seriously" but I have no idea what they're talking about; it's packed with jokes, especially two slashfic shout-outs that're hilarious, and it's not conspiracy-related, so it's really like one of the good standalone episodes

first 15 minutes are clumsy & awkward and then it's good if you liked X-Files, is my take

I think the smallness of the movie was 1) its strength and 2) a little deceptive

Although I can and do watch episodes on Sci-Fi Channel (and sometimes others) most any late night (the stand-alones come from a tradition that includes Carter's cited starting point, Kolchak--but doom looms and moves like a boom mic, and a black copter rotor in some of the mythology eps, and there's always Cancer Man, who even got his own quasi-stand-alone origin ep, as the real Lone Gunman, collecting rejection slips from editors, a secret success and secret failure--until...)

still worth it, guys. watching mulder and scully is like seeing old friends.

this is the comment that has convinced me to go tonight.

Wasn't there an awful X-Files spin-off with those nerds or something? Oh the 90s.

the lone gunmen had to stop the government from piloting a plane into the wtc!!!

coincidnece?? you decide!

There's a decent tv episode of the series somewhere in this film - the mad Russian scientists, creepy animal experimentation, finding body parts of the 'victim,' the is-he-or-isn't-he seeing things priest. But it ruined by a laughable (and I mean laugh-out-loud-in-the-theater laughable) medical subplot with Dr. Scully and pounds of forced exposition about the status of their relationship. To make it worse the writers get very lazy in the last 1/4 of the film allowing a multitude of unbelievable coincidences and dumb decisions to guide the plot towards conclusion. Enjoy what you can, based on the less than 1/2 filled theater I saw it in last night this is the end of the line. Two surveyors showed up after the film with blue questionaires that seemed to be testing for a straight-to-DVD market (as well as the effectiveness of the terrible previews before the show).

haven't seen it yet but I have to assume the 'small scale' was done because carter didn't feel (and neither did anyone else) that the "big scale" movie did well. and it didn't. but he's hinting at doing a third movie in a few years to finish everything off which sounds "big", only if this one does well. it doesn't sound like this one will though, which is too bad, maybe. I don't really care though.

I'm waiting for dvd for this one, not worth the babysitting money.

Two surveyors showed up after the film with blue questionaires that seemed to be testing for a straight-to-DVD market

actually i would have no complaints about the series continuing as direct-to-dvd movies. this is the kind of film that would perfect for that format.

i wrote this off with little concern after a couple of words of the review, but then i saw the commercial last night and i had a tinge of WANT. now i read this fucking thread.

David Duchovny looks EXACTLY THE SAME. Eeiree.

that's what they always tell me at the reunions

No one in Hollywood, least of all Fox, really expected the TV series-based movie sequel, The X-Files 2: I Want To Believe, to wow at the box office after a decade since the first installment came out. Still, rival studios thought the pic could make high teens/low 20s since the gangs all there: Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson. Instead the 4th place sci-fi pic underperformed by a wide margin after opening to only $4 million Friday from 3,185 plays and probably only an $10 million weekend.

actually i would have no complaints about the series continuing as direct-to-dvd movies. this is the kind of film that would perfect for that format.

8080

hbo or showtime or someone should pick them up and have them do short 6-12 episode seasons

i'm not surprised this movie kind of tanked considering the advertising on it seemed to be nil compared to other flicks opening around the same time.

def i was like "oh shit this is coming out this week huh"

In other news: Pamela Anderson was first choice to play role of Dana Scully!

you know what else was fucking corny about this movie was when they zoomed in on that picture of gw bush and played the whistle part of the theme song

i liked it well enough except for duchovny's horrible fake beard.

[00:55] me: NEXT ON HBO: THE X-FILES I WANT TO BELIEVE
[00:55] me: yusssss
[00:55] jumaan: hahah X-Files: I've Been Meaning To See That

okay so far
i) lol why is xzibit in this
ii) this should've been set in 1995 imo
iii) HHAHAHAHAHA the shot where they are inside the fbi place and the camera pans onto a portrait of george w bush and the x-files whistle theme plays for no reason ¯\(°_o)/¯

oh lol

you know what else was fucking corny about this movie was when they zoomed in on that picture of gw bush and played the whistle part of the theme song

― max, Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:04 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oakland director Ryan Coogler, hot off a record 16 Oscar nominations for “Sinners,” has been confirmed to write and direct the pilot episode of “The X-Files” reboot greenlit by Hulu. Danielle Deadwyler, known for roles in “Till” and “The Piano Lesson,” has been named the show’s co-lead. Chris Carter, the original show’s producer, is onboard as executive producer.