The Sci Fi Catholic Yak Module
Ah... David Duchovney is back..he is definitely MY kind of wierd.... 
My experience was different then our blogmaster's. I started watching it on TV when I was old enough. I likecd the show better when it was more episodic and less involved with the constnt "cover-up" storyline involving Mulder's missing sister.
I agree that the best episodes were the stand-alone nostalgic shocker stories with mutant serial killers. The ongoing cover-up/alien invasion thing never appealed to me. It sounds like the new movie is going to be a two-hour stand-alone episode, so it might be good.
One can only assume that the brains of those who are developing this movie are being held hostage by unnamed extraterrestrial terrorist forces. That's the only explanation I can come up with for this sort of staggeringly bad judgment.
The X-Files was astonishingly successful for the young Fox network. Along with the Simpsons, Married With Children, and In Living Color, they dared to cross over a line (and then some) that the three big networks would never dare. Perhaps they are trying something now that is happening on a couple of different shows, such as Lost, and that is taking long break, then showing a few episodes, then taking another long break--in this case maybe indroducing a movie that will see if their loyal following is still around...then maybe folowing up with a reintroduced series. Although it DOES irritate me when Lost takes a 6 or 8 month hiatus...I can hardly remember what happens from day to day, much less catch up on the story line 6 months later.
Those who are more familiar with literature may know what i'm talking about, but I remember studying YEARS a go that with ongoing serials there has to be a thread that links everything together....and often the bads guys are just a couple of steps ahead of the good guys, ruining the evidence and concocting mover cover-up as more clues are discovered. I think that ws what was happening with the Mulder's sister thread...especially with a juicy clue would come along only to lead to nowhere.
Hi, Sara. Yes, I realize the show was very popular, but I REALLY don't like it. The first (and last) episode I saw involved an incomprehensible plot about alien abduction of elephants. Huh????? If I was being catty, I would claim that my 5-year-old can write better dialogue than that show ever produced, but that would lack charity, so I'll refrain.
Now, what I'd like to see is a feature-length Pinky and the Brain. That would be nostalgic, for me.
The first question now is, will all the X-philes be enthused, or has everyone put this show behind him and moved on?
Speaking only for myself, I vote for option (b). Real life has enough gloom, doom, and paranoia these days. I don't need to invent it.
The second question is, will Hollywood stop resurrecting old TV shows as movies?
Don't bet on it.
I will watch it IFF
Mulder is back.
He has a very good explanation for where he has been all those years.
He finds his sister.
And the whole conspiracy is exposed.
AND THEY PRODUCE A NOTARIZED STATEMENT,WHERE THEY ACKNOWLEDGE OUR RIGHT TO BEAT THEM TO A PULP IF THEY DO NOT DELIVER.
Speaking of ressurecting old TV shows, I'm really looking forward to the "Get Smart" adaptation. If anyone could pull off the bumbling secret-agent, it's Steve Carrell. The trailer alone was a riot. Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4...h?
v=4PK7RSEzP9Q
If I was being catty, I would claim that my 5-year-old can write better dialogue than that show ever produced, but that would lack charity, so I'll refrain.
Your 5-year-old must be quite the writer. I never thought the problem with X-Files was bad dialogue, and I was usually (usually) impressed by both writing and acting. My beef was with the ongoing story arc that kept piling it on without explanation and looked thinner and thinner with each new detail.
Yes, I have a very precocious 5-year-old. He is perfectly capable of dissertating on the most minute details of one his favorite topics (Legos, cooking, and dinosaurs) for four or five hours (at top volume, while circular breathing) without repeating himself. I think he is more rationally coherent, more savvy about idea development, more imaginative and inventive, and more humorous than the X-Files writers were. Not to boast, or anything...
Well, you can't argue with another man's tastes. I remember being generally impressed with The X-Files, but that was way back in high school.
Yes people still care about the X-files and no Hollywood will not stop recycling old tv shows. The good news here is its not a remake and it has the potential to be really good. Firefly was a critical success and box office failure, hopefully X-files will succeed in both areas and we could see a new trend. Quality TV shows on the big screen.
Well, you can't argue with another man's tastes.
What I meant to say was I can't argue with another man's tastes. I enjoyed The X-Files, but then again, I also thought Explorers was a good movie.
The good news here is its not a remake and it has the potential to be really good.
Alright, then. I'm intrigued to see what they're going to do with it, but I'm having difficulty getting my hopes up. I fear that, since the hooplah around the show is past, people will generally be more critical, which can hurt it at the box office, and I wonder if everyone associated still has what it takes to make it good. The X-Files looks to me like one of those remarkable things a creator can't usually pull off twice.
Major family trip to library tonight netted "Space Vulture" and "Zombies of the Gene Pool." With titles like that, they have to be good!
Can't type now! Reading!
Argh! You're reading Space Vulture before me!
Actually, I'm starting with "Zombies...". The Gene Pool appears in Ch 3, and the first zombie in ch 8. In terms of cinematic flair, there've been no explosions, spaceships, long-lost subarctic power stations, or the like; but in ch 6, an old Chevy broke down (I'm not making that up). I keep hoping for the zombies to start eating brains, or something, but that's not happening yet. Ooh, the suspense!!!
Why did your parents make you stop, were you too young?
Actually, there are MANY 'X-Files' fans still out there. Go to any fan forum and you'll see people discussing this every day.
The movie is just going to be a stand-alone scary-thriller story, so you if you didn't like the convoluted Mythology, you won't be lost on this.
The movie is being made by ALL the same people who made the show, so it's not just some clowns pumping out crap for Hollywood.
Also, Adriana, Mulder found his sister in season 7. She is confirmed dead, now.
Thanks for the info, Pluto. This one has continued to slide under my radar, so I know little about it except that it's coming out. Of course, I should have guessed, even without visiting a related forum, that the X-Files fan base would still be healthy. Heck, even Captain Power still had a healthy fan base last I checked, and that show only ran for one season back in the early '80s. (And for the record, in case there is any question or confusion on anyone's part, no, Captain Power has nothing to do with Captain Planet!)
My biggest concern with the new X-Files movie are critical reception, appeal to the uninitiated, and appeal to the fans, in that order. The X-Files had the sort of inexplicable magic most creators can't pull off twice, and it's been long enough that the magic has likely dissipated by now, so the movie may end up an artistic flop that will annoy the critics, fail to intrigue the uninitiated, and disappoint the fans. Look what happened to the new Indy: the formula was there, but the magic was gone.
As for my parents and their parenting decisions, I make it a policy not to talk about certain subjects in any detail on the blog, and my family is one of them, so I'm afraid I'll have to leave that mysterious.
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