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levite · 08-06-2008, 10:49 PM

Hancock - 8

Dark Knight - 9.5

X-Files - 6.5

I think people were expecting way too much from the X-Files movie. They were pretty up-front when they publicized it that it was a "Monster of the Week" movie, and there would be no "mythology" revealed in it. Anyone expecting anything else clearly didn't read any of the pre-release press. I actually thought the choice of no fresh mythology was kind of a good idea: you'd have to be a pretty damn hard-core X-Phile to remember all that stuff now.

I thought of it basically like a "Monster of the Week" episode of the show, but long, with a largish budget, and on a very big screen. As such, I thought it was very enjoyable. I thought the character work was just fine. The story was about on a par with any of the "Monster of the Week" episodes they did during the run of the show.

Basically, I asked myself: "Would you go pay $12 to see a brand-new episode of X-Files on a very big screen?" I said yes. I wasn't disappointed.

08-06-2008, 10:49 PM	#2958 (permalink)
levite Minion of Joss Location: The Windy City	Hancock - 8 Dark Knight - 9.5 X-Files - 6.5 I think people were expecting *way* too much from the X-Files movie. They were pretty up-front when they publicized it that it was a "Monster of the Week" movie, and there would be no "mythology" revealed in it. Anyone expecting anything else clearly didn't read any of the pre-release press. I actually thought the choice of no fresh mythology was kind of a good idea: you'd have to be a pretty damn hard-core X-Phile to remember all that stuff now. I thought of it basically like a "Monster of the Week" episode of the show, but long, with a largish budget, and on a very big screen. As such, I thought it was very enjoyable. I thought the character work was just fine. The story was about on a par with any of the "Monster of the Week" episodes they did during the run of the show. Basically, I asked myself: "Would you go pay $12 to see a brand-new episode of X-Files on a very big screen?" I said yes. I wasn't disappointed. __________________ Dull sublunary lovers love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove That thing which elemented it. (From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)