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The X-Files: I Want To Believe
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28-07-2008 8:00pm#1
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Ah crap - a part of me feels compelled to see this, having seen every episode of the original series (often multiple times) but there doesn't seem to be a positive word about it. And the trailer had me wary enough to start with...
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Ah crap - a part of me feels compelled to see this, having seen every episode of the original series (often multiple times) but there doesn't seem to be a positive word about it. And the trailer had me wary enough to start with...
The trailer how be laughing out loud in the cinema. Billy Connelly, legend/0 -
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I saw it over in Germany..it truly is an awful movie!The Master wrote: »I think you're being too kind to this movie
It really is absolutely diresuper_furry wrote: »Shockingly bad. I was a fan of the series, but it's just dross. Like a bad episode dragged out, with Billy Connolly hopelessly miscast.It had a disastrous opening weekend in the States too
I can't get over how bad it was. I used to really like the series back in the day 0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »Any review featured on AICN is instantly null and void. Subjective criticism is something that AICN could never quite grasp. Fangoria gave it 2 and a half skulls out of 4, blood-disgusting gave it a 1 out of 5, so the gap between reviewers is quite large.
The best way to judge the film is to go see it yourself and make up your own mind rather than allowing other people to dictate what you watch.
says you who thinks that Batman 6 is the best film in the universe
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alan dunne 27 wrote: »says you who thinks that Batman 6 is the best film in the universe
Well it is, so there.
Knowle's is infamous for giving preferential treatment to any film which the studio allow him early access to, gives him free stuff, sends him on holidays, pays for his liposuction, ect, ect.0 -
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Well I'm still gonna see it. TBH I'm put off mostly by Billy Connollys presence rather than the slew of bad feedback. Tho that said he was good in the Debt Collector and Lemony Snicketts so who knows.....
I'm put off every time I see Billy Connollys name on a cast list. He should stick to comedy!
Dont get me started on this man!
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alan dunne 27 wrote: »Mature :rolleyes:
I think we need a sarcasm smilie on here.
alan dunne 27 wrote: »You could easily say that about any and every review(er) wether it be Jonathan Ross, Empire Magazine or Knowles. I linked to his site cause I thought that review was sort of funny in a tragic way!
The review was tragic no doubt about that.
Is Ross even a critic? Having watched some of his reviews he does'nt actually review the film so much as offer a plot synopis followed by some less than steller criticism. More often than not he will slate an actor on Film 2008 then be sucking up to them on his chat show come Friday. And lets not forget that he called Batman Forever "the greatest movie ever made"
While every critic is guilty of it Knowles just crosses the line and does it on such an obvious manner. Look through any of his reviews and it's difficult to find a negative one in there. He panders to anyone who offers him freebies which completely undermines his position as a reviewer.
Roger Egbert is a bonafied film critic. His initial distaste for Vincent Gallo's Cannes cut of The Brown Bunny and the war of words which himself and Gallo engaged in isinfamous. Yet when the film was released in a re-edited form Egbert gave it a positive review showing just how subjective he could be.0 -
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I was expecting to seriously hammer it completely but once the lights went out I felt all that wanting to loathe it drift away as I wanted to give it a fair chance. I was honestly preparing myself to come here and post a long rant about how many of us began a journey 15 years ago, had reached the present only to be visited by a pile of crap. I guess I was a little knocked by the reviews but as stated I dropped all that once the lights dimmed. Overall, I would say it wasn't great but not atrocious. I don't know why but the projector or something was slightly out of line so any time the location showed up in the bottom left hand corner in traditional XF manner, it was somewhat obscured. It was the same with FTF. Annoying.
The FBI characters were wasted, CC's talk about Peet being somehow Scully-like in terms of intelligence just didn't quite come through for me. I wasn't expecting her to be a Scully-clone but generally the FBI peoples were a bit underdeveloped. OK, so it's about M & S, I get that, but sometimes it's no harm to flesh out the surrounding characters, anything, a peculiar personality trait, sorry but I just wanted a little more there. It simply wasn't scary, this is what we kept hearing and what they were trying to sell us from pre-production to now. It didn't have that eery feel of say, The Mist, no real jump out of your seat moments and it just didn't feel like an X File. Of course jumping out of your seat is not always an accurate measure of something being scary, and perhaps TXF often took a less is more approach, and we had plenty of episodes ending with the monster not being fully investigated or caught. I liked some of the little nods such as pencils in the ceiling and Mulder leaving Scully a voicemail, there's something about the Mulder's phone mannerism that I find hilarious. Perhaps Scully was right back in the day 'Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes, you’d lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.'
The scene after the credits was pretty silly and I'm glad the camera didn't zoom in too much. I was the only one to stay for that part. If we were to cut this down to the running time of an episode from back in the day, and were given the task of introducing some to TXF, then this is not something I would show them. It just isn't up there. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece or a blockbuster, and to be honest I don't get some of the fierce online hatred of Chris Carter, but the story is essentially what lets it down. I've said it didn't feel like an X File and it just doesn't, is it because the FBI trappings/leash (not that a leash always stopped the duo's antics!) are absent, who knows but most weeks in the series we got a taste of something strange, odd, freaky, a good conspiracy back when it was comprehensible...whatever you want to call it. This felt a bit static, flat.
I thought Gillian was amazing though, might just be me but wow, what a screen presence.
I don't think I've been particularly harsh but I don't think I can give it more than 2/5. I feel the plot is the main reason I can't be generous and give it 3. As I said, I expected to hammer it, and I was going to come out saying the best thing about it was that there was hot girl a few seats away from me, ahem, but I don't believe my criticism is stinging like it is in some quarters. It was no The Happening but it just felt like they could have done more. I know some fellow philes who expressed some concerns about the short window of production time and release around the time the film got the greenlight. I can't help but wonder if they were right. I wonder if the writers' strike played a role here, weren't the TPTB sort of half boasting that they'd gotten the script sorted out prior to the strike kicking off? I mean, maybe they put themselves under unnecessary pressure to finish it and crammed. We know they said Fox said that it's pretty much now or never but I think they could have given themselves a little more time, and who knows held off until Xmas 2008 or summer 2009 for a release date. At least that way they might have been able to sharpen the storyline. I was never expecting a masterpiece but they could have ensured that all the necessary elements worked.
Is it a good X File? No
Is it a good film? Not particularly.
Is it an achievement that they made it considering it was stuck in development hell for yonks and yonks? Well, yes.Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.
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