I have no idea how this movie managed a summer release date.

[ayrdaomei]

Saw the X-Files movie with [Bad username or site: rickenbacker / @ livejournal.com] this morning. If you're considering seeing it, please be advised that it could not be less worth the price of a matinee ticket if TPTB had said "hey, let's make a movie that's not worth the price of a matinee ticket."

Seriously, if this movie were in the $4 bin at Walmart, you'd be wasting your money if you bought it. As you might have suspected when you saw the trailer, the plot is stupid when it's making sense, and doubly stupid when it's not. And no lie, I had a hard time understanding a good 50% of the non-plot driven exchanges between Mulder and Scully. (That is to say, I understood the words, but I didn't understand why the characters were having the conversation, or their motivations, or you know, any of that unimportant stuff). Granted, I stopped watching the show somewhere in season five, but I don't think that's enough to explain why I was left "...?" by more than one conversation between those two.

Totally not recommended, not even for die-hards or true blue Callum Keith Rennie fans. IMO, you're better off rewatching your favorite X-Files two-parter, or some third season dS.

Comments

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

I heard it was utter dogshit (see my recent post). Now that you've said so too, I might just avoiid it altogether. It would hurt far too much, I think, were I to see it myself.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have to second [Bad username or site: yuki_onna / @ livejournal.com]'s review. Avoidance really is the best bet, unfortunately. It'll be on tv soon enough, and then you can just change the station once you realize it's definitely as bad as you feared.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

Also, totally unrelated -- you spent a considerable amount of time in Egypt, right? Do you prefer your falafel with fava or chickpea?

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

Oh, fava all the way. It may just be that I had it with fava for a long time before I ever tried it with chickpea, and I wasn't able to give the chickpea version a fair shot, but either way, I was not a fan of it with chickpea (although I love chickpea in other dishes).

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

I made fava falafel for the first time the other night, as chronicled in my recent, overlong LJ post. That's why I'm asking.

I liked it, maybe more than the chickpea kind, but it was a much bigger pain in the ass working with dried fava than with chickpea, and I don't know that I liked it that much more.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

I saw! Pretty impressive, actually. Times I've made falafel from scratch = 0, so I have to admit I've never given any thought to how much work goes into one over the other.

[aurealis.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that only fans of The X-Files should care to go to this movie. I guess they were being ultra generous with that review.

Hey, could you tell Bri, congratulations on getting Biffer! (Congrats to you too, new mommy. ;-P) Her post is taking forever to load, so I haven’t been able to leave a comment.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

Oh man, nope, it wasn't even a "good for fans only" movie (although I know why they would say that - there is no effort to make the movie accessible to people who don't already know the show and its characters). It was just bad on all counts. I consider myself a fan, and I didn't like it. Bri is a diehard, and she didn't like it.

I will pass your congrats on to Bri :P

[schnaucl.livejournal.com]

That's not surprising, but that's really too bad.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

Right? I was sitting there just trying to figure out why they even bothered to make another one. There was nothing inspired about any of it.

[schnaucl.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. They clearly waited too long. Even fans of the show are going...?

[johnnybvo.livejournal.com]

Poor Bri. Here's hoping Clone Wars is won't suck too (hard to say that with a straight face), otherwise she's looking at a trifecta of summer suck. Her dorky fandoms done did her dirty.

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

lol, I know. I've already told her I'm begging out of Clone Wars, though.