Siwilliams
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I hope 20th Century Fox sees sense (that they did not advertise the movie well at all) and lets them make a third X Files movie
X-Files EE: Is it worth it? POSSIBLE SPOILERS
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I hope 20th Century Fox sees sense (that they did not advertise the movie well at all) and lets them make a third X Files movie
I was actually going to compliment you on your avatar in another thread but then forgot. I love the Joker, expecially in that incarnation.
I'm still holding out hope for a third film in 2012. The X-Files was such a big name once upon a time, that it might still carry enough weight to give it another shot, even if the last movie (and the last season(s) of the series) was not a big succes. A similar thing happened to Star Trek after all, although it did take a change in PTB in that case.
Siwilliams
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Yeah, too bad the series did not reach 100 episodes (that is if you don't count the new adventures of batman and robin with the new animation)
That would be so awesome
Ya there is always a chance. Would be cool to get one more movie!
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
There was an interview with someone (forgot who) saying that there is a possibility that X-files 3 will be made and be about the 2012 alien apocalypse.
The Scully scene appears to be a nice little character moment. Not essential to the story because we get that Scully is desperate without that scene. but One more Scully scene can't be bad in any case.
Yes, that was Frank Spotniz, one of the producers: http://www.geos.tv/index.php/credits?person=Frank+Spotnitz. See the thread I started about that here: http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=74608
The Scully scene appears to be a nice little character moment. Not essential to the story because we get that Scully is desperate without that scene. but One more Scully scene can't be bad in any case.
True, in general. Although I fear that most people would only think this is yet another unnecessary plot slowing scene. I mean, it's more of what already was in the film, so it will probably only be liked by those who liked the film already. So good news for us I guess.
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
That's right
Siwilliams
Fleet Captain
no, I have the standard dvd, but some dvds' don't allow the skip over commercials on the dvds
That is so rude, i have a few DVDs like that.
What is even ruder is forcing you to sit through 5 minutes of trailers you don't want to watch and then forcing you to sit through a 10 second counterfeitng notice to get to the menu after the trailers you didn't want to watch on the DVD you just just paid 10 quid for. Fuck you guys!
One of my 2 DVD players has a handy little playback control hack on the handset which lets you take control over all the unskippable bits
What is even ruder is forcing you to sit through 5 minutes of trailers you don't want to watch and then forcing you to sit through a 10 second counterfeitng notice to get to the menu after the trailers you didn't want to watch on the DVD you just just paid 10 quid for. Fuck you guys!
One of my 2 DVD players has a handy little playback control hack on the handset which lets you take control over all the unskippable bits
Might just be your player. I just checked my copy and every single one of those functions worked just fine. I fastforwarded through one ad, skipped the next, then just menued past all the rest. (I have a PS3)
As for the movie itself...I thought it was okay. Nothing spectacular, but a decent character piece for Scully.
I DO question why Chris Carter thought this particular story would relaunch the franchise. It was more of a crime procedural than a X-Files story. It was too quiet and too introspective. Too far from what the general public thinks the X-Files is about.
The obstacles this movie faced had little to do with budgets or marketing and everything to do with poor story choices. The stakes needed to be higher for the characters and end the end they should have either gained or lost something. Instead everything is basically back where they were before. The villains needed to be something more than personalityless ciphers.
The movie just needed to be more.
I suspect that he was working on this when crime dramas like CSI were all the rage, and he figured that's what audiences wanted, as opposed to alien invasion stuff. Either that or he realized that with his extremely low budget, he really couldn't do any other type of story.
I'm sad to say that the movie was truly awful, IMO. I'm a huge X-Files fan, I waited for YEARS for this and then I kept nodding off during the movie. (My wife had to keep nudging me awake.) It was poorly written, poorly acted (I hate to say that, but Anderson and Duchovney really seemed to be phoning it in) poorly paced, and filmed in such a way that they almost seemed to be trying to put people to sleep.
There's a reason that the studio isn't spending much money advertising and promoting the DVD - the film just plain sucks, and they know the limited market for it (hardcore X-Files completists) will seek it out even without any marketing.
^I kinda wonder how much of that explains it. I imagine that, if I were a 20th Century Fox executive coming out of that screening room, I would have said to the marketing department, "It sucks donkey balls. Bury it." Sometimes, studios can recognize shit and bury it appropriately. (Lionsgate was bang on when they opted not to give Highlander: The Source a theatrical release. They might have been even wiser to suppress any release of that film at all. It was shockingly bad, even considering the low expectations that all the previous Highlander sequels had set for it.) Only die hard Mulder/Scully fans could possibly have liked this.
I knew going in that it wasn't going to be an alien story. But I still expected a strong paranormal element and a plot that would be a strong driving force throughout the film. Instead, we get a lot of Billy Connolly muttering to himself and some lame crap about head transplants tacked on in the last half hour. Had this been an episode of the TV series, it might well rate as Worst. Episode. Ever!
Still, I don't abandon hope for the series to redeem itself in a 3rd movie. Just give me a plot I can sink my teeth into.
Although, looking back, I wonder if perhaps they felt that, since Scully had evolved into such a believer in the paranormal towards the end of the series, that perhaps the only way to maintain her role as a skeptic relative to Mulder was to present a paranormal element to the story that was so weak as to be almost unrecognizable.
I knew going in that it wasn't going to be an alien story. But I still expected a strong paranormal element and a plot that would be a strong driving force throughout the film. Instead, we get a lot of Billy Connolly muttering to himself and some lame crap about head transplants tacked on in the last half hour. Had this been an episode of the TV series, it might well rate as Worst. Episode. Ever!
Still, I don't abandon hope for the series to redeem itself in a 3rd movie. Just give me a plot I can sink my teeth into.
Although, looking back, I wonder if perhaps they felt that, since Scully had evolved into such a believer in the paranormal towards the end of the series, that perhaps the only way to maintain her role as a skeptic relative to Mulder was to present a paranormal element to the story that was so weak as to be almost unrecognizable.
The writing worked for me. Honestly, given the budget precluded them from telling an alien conspiracy wrap-up, I'm pretty pleased with the end result. Better make a film for a certain section of the hard-core fans (that I am part of) than do Serenity and make a film that tries to appease general audiences without bringing them in.
Like most TV writers that are popular at one point and are praised, people get tired of them and proceed to call their work crappy.
My problem with XF2 is that, while I enjoyed it, it wasn't really epic in either plot or character development. It was more of a "oh, this is what they are up to now" sort of thing.
well, no, they were always crappy. it wasn't CC's and Spotnitz's writing that made TXF. especially not Spotnitz. CC had his moments but it was really writers like the Morgan brothers, Vince Gilligan, Cliff Bole, James Wong etc. CC's style was definitely epic but IMO it was more long-winded than epic. and I can't think of a single episide by Spotnitz that I liked.
