Comments on: The Awful New X-Files Movie http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2008/07/26/the-awful-new-x-files-movie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-awful-new-x-files-movie www.ToryAnarchist.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2008/07/26/the-awful-new-x-files-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-1264 Tim Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:57:07 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=664#comment-1264 It's a shame as X-Files had some brilliant one off episodes, even if the overall mythology became byzantine. And Carter's X-File spin-off "The Lone Gunmen" had a debut episode featuring a plot to remotely control a passenger jet and fly it into the WTC as part of a plot to foster a war. All this was well before 9/11. I suppose X-Files and family "jumped the shark" soon after the series left Vancouver. It’s a shame as X-Files had some brilliant one off episodes, even if the overall mythology became byzantine. And Carter’s X-File spin-off “The Lone Gunmen” had a debut episode featuring a plot to remotely control a passenger jet and fly it into the WTC as part of a plot to foster a war. All this was well before 9/11. I suppose X-Files and family “jumped the shark” soon after the series left Vancouver.

]]> By: The young fogey http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2008/07/26/the-awful-new-x-files-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-1263 The young fogey Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:45:58 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=664#comment-1263 From the commercials I got the feeling that Chris Carter needed the money and David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson had nothing better to do and possibly needed the cash too. Sounds like this won't be going in my Netflix queue in six months. Thanks; you saved me two hours. From the commercials I got the feeling that Chris Carter needed the money and David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson had nothing better to do and possibly needed the cash too. Sounds like this won’t be going in my Netflix queue in six months. Thanks; you saved me two hours.

]]> By: Daniel McCarthy http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2008/07/26/the-awful-new-x-files-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-1260 Daniel McCarthy Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:36:56 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=664#comment-1260 There are a couple of funny one-liners from Mulder early in the film. That's something, I suppose. Two precedents for "X-Files: I Want to Believe" come to mind. In tone, it seems more like a script for Chris Carter's other series, "Millennium," although it doesn't involve any apocalyptic cults. It also seems like a virtual rewrite of a classic non-paranormal "X-Files" episode, "Unruhe," which also involved violence against women -- only there it was handled well, and it was a very suspenseful episode, one of my favorites in fact. There's zero suspense in the movie, and the violence against women is in poor taste to little dramatic effect. There are a couple of funny one-liners from Mulder early in the film. That’s something, I suppose.

Two precedents for “X-Files: I Want to Believe” come to mind. In tone, it seems more like a script for Chris Carter’s other series, “Millennium,” although it doesn’t involve any apocalyptic cults. It also seems like a virtual rewrite of a classic non-paranormal “X-Files” episode, “Unruhe,” which also involved violence against women — only there it was handled well, and it was a very suspenseful episode, one of my favorites in fact. There’s zero suspense in the movie, and the violence against women is in poor taste to little dramatic effect.

]]> By: Daniel McCarthy http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2008/07/26/the-awful-new-x-files-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-1262 Daniel McCarthy Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:23:55 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=664#comment-1262 Hmm... well, the soundtrack is ok, if obtrusive in places. And if you want to see lots of snowy scenes (set in West Virginia, but actually British Columbia) while it's sweltering outside the theater, "I Want to Believe" has that, too. But no -- if anything the movie is even worse than what I've written above suggests. It has the least climactic climax of any film I've ever seen. I won't spoil it -- if that word even applies -- but I will say that you're left after climax #1 saying to yourself, "Is that it?" and then after the movie runs for another ten minutes you have to ask again, "is that it?" Chris Carter apparently regrets creating the "X-Files" rather than "E.R.," and I guess he's trying to make up for that by directing a film in which doctors are the real heroes. Hmm… well, the soundtrack is ok, if obtrusive in places. And if you want to see lots of snowy scenes (set in West Virginia, but actually British Columbia) while it’s sweltering outside the theater, “I Want to Believe” has that, too. But no — if anything the movie is even worse than what I’ve written above suggests. It has the least climactic climax of any film I’ve ever seen. I won’t spoil it — if that word even applies — but I will say that you’re left after climax #1 saying to yourself, “Is that it?” and then after the movie runs for another ten minutes you have to ask again, “is that it?” Chris Carter apparently regrets creating the “X-Files” rather than “E.R.,” and I guess he’s trying to make up for that by directing a film in which doctors are the real heroes.

]]> By: John Payne http://www.theamericanconservative.com/mccarthy/2008/07/26/the-awful-new-x-files-movie/comment-page-1/#comment-1261 John Payne Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:23:27 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=664#comment-1261 I was really looking forward to this movie, so this outright sucks. Is there any redemptive value aside from what you've already said? I was really looking forward to this movie, so this outright sucks. Is there any redemptive value aside from what you’ve already said?

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