Sadly, reading some disturbing comments re: Xfiles movie (spoiler alert)

[soleft]

I've been looking forward to this movie forever, and in a couple of review I've peaked at, they've mentioned something about two characters being portrayed in an unenlighted fashion, and something having to do with gay marriage. Especially troubling is that another character, I don't know if it's the same as the other two mentioned, is reportedly a pedophilic priest.

I'm seeing the movie tomorrow night, so I'll report back once I've seen it.

[Pale Blue Dot]

1. The reviews in general have been pretty bad.

Most are saying that the movie is no better than a mediocre episode.

[soleft]

2. 29% on rotten tomatoes

But Scully is supposed to be great, an the chemisty is supposed to be great, so for an old shipper, it should be worth the price of admission. I just don't want to get pissed off.

[WillParkinson]

4. *SPOILER* (within a possible spoiler...)

Soleft,

Just in case you want an advanced warning, here's one of the things I read about the movie from an internet site:

"The X-Files: I Want to Believe is also marred by bad guys who are simultaneously smart enough to engineer a multi-person kidnapping ring but dumb enough to make traditional movie villain errors like not checking to see if the person they've tried to kill is actually dead, or running a few errands while the person they want dead is lying there unconscious. (And again, do Carter and Spotnitz have to mention that the two male lead suspects in the kidnappings are "... married in Massachusetts"? It's as if someone suggested "Kidnapping and dismemberment isn't creepy enough; let's make them gay kidnappers!") Screen time devoted to the traditional back-and-forth between Mulder and Scully -- his hunt for truth in the darkness against her need to find faith in the light, and all of that stuff -- is screen time that could have been used to make the villains of the piece more compelling, or, at the very least, more interesting."

[soleft]

5. thanks

I already bought my tickets, so I'll let you know how it rates on my offensometer.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. It has a 28% freshness rating at RottenTomatoes

For those unfamiliar with the site, RottenTomatoes is a "meta" rating site: they compile reviews and collate them to provide an average of whether reviewers say the movie is good or bad, called the "freshness rating." If 60% or more of reviews are positive, the movie is "certified fresh."

The X-Files: I Want to Believe has a freshness rating of 28%, meaning that only 28% of reviews were positive.

[Chovexani]

11. You don't say.

I had no idea a second movie for a TV show that ended years ago, long after the shark was jumped would suck.

I will watch my TV wife Scully when it hits HBO in a month. :P

[galledgoblin]

6. yeah, that was kind of lame

I wasn't very offended though. the gay part of that relationship wasn't the weird disturbing part.

if you're an X-Files fan, then you'll probably still enjoy it, as I did.

[Divine Discontent]

7. Spoiler ending

this is a comment I read at wired that details the ending, it's the long review near the bottom http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/07/x-files-review.html


man, does he RIP them. If it's true they reference they were married in MA. and these two are the ones doing the abducting of these young women to harvest their body parts totally smacks at GLBT people, b/c of the ridiculous reference to having mention they got married in MA. And of course, big surprise, they also tie into the very same storyline about a sadistic Gay married couple of homicidal wackos, a pedophile priest, although he ends up doing something to stop the killers, so Mulder tells Scully to see people can change or something...

I am shocked they didn't take this back to a supernatural base, b/c that's what I loved about the $83 Million tickets sold first film.

[soleft]

8. Update: Yes, as it turns out, very disturbing (spoiler)

The victim of a pedophile priest grows up to a homicidal gay man, dying of cancer, with a homicidal partner who seeks to replace his diseased body with a woman's body. WTF.

[sui generis]

9. it could have been worse

It could have been Michael Jackson murdering white folksis to replace his body parts one at a time. Woopsie. No, changed my mind. That was satire in nearly as bad taste, while the movie plot apparently was not satire and in truly bad taste.

my bad :blush:

[soleft]

10. and worse than disturbing, it was just bad, and not very scary at all