Anyone else looking forward to this? Was my fave show of the 1990's and can't wait to see Mulder and Scully back on screen.

Yes its been panned by the American critics, but most of them panned the show, so shows what they know.

Bother! Posted this in General instead of Entertainment by accident. Can a helpful mod move it please!

I'm really looking forward to seeing this, as I was a huge fan of the TV series. I must admit to being slightly perturbed by the presence of Billy Connelly, and I'm a little disappointed that it apparently doesn't expand further on the series mythology. I guess in the latter instance though there isn't a great deal to be said, at least until 2012...

As far as I'm concerned, this film is essentially critic-proof. I've been forewarned that it's an expanded monster/thriller of the week TV episode, and that's perfectly fine; I'm just happy to see Mulder and Scully together again :D .

I'm really looking forward to seeing this, as I was a huge fan of the TV series. I must admit to being slightly perturbed by the presence of Billy Connelly, and I'm a little disappointed that it apparently doesn't expand further on the series mythology. I guess in the latter instance though there isn't a great deal to be said, at least until 2012...

As far as I'm concerned, this film is essentially critic-proof. I've been forewarned that it's an expanded monster/thriller of the week TV episode, and that's perfectly fine; I'm just happy to see Mulder and Scully together again :D .

Ditto!! I can't wait!

I'm really looking forward to seeing this, as I was a huge fan of the TV series. I must admit to being slightly perturbed by the presence of Billy Connelly, and I'm a little disappointed that it apparently doesn't expand further on the series mythology. I guess in the latter instance though there isn't a great deal to be said, at least until 2012...

As far as I'm concerned, this film is essentially critic-proof. I've been forewarned that it's an expanded monster/thriller of the week TV episode, and that's perfectly fine; I'm just happy to see Mulder and Scully together again :D .

Apparently Billy is very good in the film, and he does straight acting very well, which if you've seen him in Mrs Brown you'll know all too well.

I'm going to see The Dark Knight tonight at Cineworld, so I'm hoping you'll be able to get tickets for a preview showing on Thursday night. Failing that I'll be there on Friday.

Even if the film is terrible I can still spend 90 minutes dribbling over the thinking mans crumpet that is Gillian Anderson. Also hard to believe that David Duchovny is 47!!

I'm looking forward to this one too! Quite liked the programme but never really got into it until I rented all the DVDs from LoveFilm a while back.

I find it hard to get excited about the X-Files any more. I used to love it but it became increasingly silly and obvious that the arc plot was just being made up as they went along and they didn't have a clue how to tie up all the threads.

Still, this film is supposedly a standalone episode without all that conspiracy nonsense so it should ok.

The 1990s called, they want their "cult" TV series back.

Meh, shows how much I care.

The 1990s called, they want their "cult" TV series back.

Meh, shows how much I care.

What a hypocrite you are, if anyone had said anything like this about anything you like, you'd be crying TROLL.

I'll be going to see it :)

Apparently Billy is very good in the film, and he does straight acting very well, which if you've seen him in Mrs Brown you'll know all too well. ...
I agree, he was excellent in Mrs Brown, but I'm afraid he irritates me intensely :hihi: .

I'm seeing the film on Friday night - can't wait. And even though he's getting on a bit, Duchovney still looks fantastic! :D

The character BC plays is an ex pedo-con priest which sounds interesting.

Got my tickets for 6.10 showing on Friday at Cineworld - Screen 10!

What a hypocrite you are, if anyone had said anything like this about anything you like, you'd be crying TROLL.

Read the OP, the Yanks hate the new movie, and if they don't like it, it can't be that good IMO, far be it for me to agree with them, but I'll reserve judgement till I go and see it myself (and I probably will at some point)

Read the OP, the Yanks hate the new movie, and if they don't like it, it can't be that good IMO, far be it for me to agree with them, but I'll reserve judgement till I go and see it myself (and I probably will at some point)

The critics also originally hated the show and said it would never be a success. The feedback from real fans of the show in the USA has been tremendous. Stop posting on this thread if you think it's a bad idea.

I know I've said that the film is critic-proof for me - and it is - but he does have a point (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2008/07/review_an_exx_phile_files.html) :hihi: .

Read this review from esteemed movie critic, Roger Ebert in the US. He states

"But what they're up to is so creepy, and the snow-covered Virginia landscapes so haunting, and the wrong-headedness of Scully so frustrating, and the FBI bureaucracy so stupid, and Mulder so brave, that the movie works like thrillers used to work, before they were required to contain villains the size of buildings. "


He also describes the movie as a skillful thriller with no CGI or explosions, which is why it will be lost on so many people as it's quite an old fashioned movie in many respects.



http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080723/REVIEWS/1651704

missed the boat by about 10 years i'm afraid

For some reason I don't think it will do well as a movie, then again i've been wrong before....but not very often :)

missed the boat by about 10 years i'm afraid

Seen it then have you?

Well, it wasn't dreadful. Preposterous, underwhelming and ultimately rather disappointing, but certainly not deserving of the awful reviews it's received. It's a very small film, on an entirely different scale than the 1998 film, and completely removed from the series mythology.

It's essentially a substandard, peripheral, poorly-conceived and really rather dubious TV episode expanded and padded to fill a film time slot. In fact, I suspect that Chris Carter dusted this one down from the box labelled 'rejected X-Files scripts', then added some filler about Scully's struggle with the issues surrounding her work and her religious faith. If her storyline had been excised completely (no pun intended :D) the film would have felt considerably less flabby.

I won't spoil the plot, given that those involved took pains to ensure that it remained a secret (though I can see why now :hihi:), so I'll stick to a few random thoughts:

Why not kidnap men instead?

Wasn't it lucky that they all were so readily identifiable by those medic alert bracelets?

I hate to point out more silliness in such a wealth of absurdity, but the gay partnership had no relevance whatsoever.

Tears of blood? Yes, I saw the relevance as the connection, but their significance beyond that was never touched upon, yet alone explained.

Billy Connelly took woodenness to new levels (and that strange trot he did across the snow :hihi:).

How knackered did David Duchovny look? He looked like he hadn't slept for a week. Plus he sounded like he was recovering from dental surgery - the change in his voice was very noticeable. Sorry Dave, but I take back the bit about you looking fabulous; you're not ageing well at all. Gillian Anderson looked lovely throughout though - and she's a very fine actor - while Mitch Pillegi hasn't changed at all. Shame he only popped up in the last ten minutes.

Who knew that you could qualify as a neurosurgeon so quickly? But then again Scully did rewrite Einstein for her senior thesis...


I really wanted to like this film, and if anyone was going to it would've been me, but I'm afraid it's more :| than :D . My non X-Files fan friend, lacking the years invested in the series, just thought it was rubbish. If we see another X-Files film after this one, I'd be very surprised.

i just found it amusing that at the end of the series he killed himself, now he's back for the film lol..

i just found it amusing that at the end of the series he killed himself, now he's back for the film lol..
Who?............

...Got my tickets for 6.10 showing on Friday at Cineworld - Screen 10!
So what did you think? :D

As a die hard X-Files fanatic I was in two minds to be honest. (And by die hard that includes going to an X-files convention in Manchester in 1996 and meeting a lot of the cast and crew).

The plot was a bit dreary, and the movie played out like an extended version of a non-mythology episode from the series. Any non-fan going to see it will probably hate it.

For a massive fan it was wonderful to see the interplay again between GA and DD, and it did bring a smile to my face.

However it just wasn't exciting enough. When you look at exciting classic episodes from the TV show, such as Tooms - they far outweigh this movie.

It did bring up some questions around religion, morality and judging fellow man which were interesting.

So all in all I enjoyed it, but was ultimately left feeling somewhat empty from the expectations I had built up for it. On the plus side, I was going gooey for 90 minutes over Gillian.

...When you look at exciting classic episodes from the TV show, such as Tooms - they far outweigh this movie. ...
Exactly, plus of course Tooms really was an X-File; an immortal, liver-munching, genetic monster of a serial killer. Silly as all that was, the X-File and its resolution were central. In the film, it could be argued that the squishy nastiness of the plot has a fairly mundane justification and explanation: the need to save a loved one's life (not giving anything away there, I think). The ESP was peripheral and merely served as a plot device to save the FBI a bit of time tracking down the victims. There wasn't even an attempt to provide a little more depth and explanation about the former priest and his connection to his victim.

I didn't even get to drool over the sadly now ageing Mulder. I feel robbed :hihi: .

Exactly, plus of course Tooms really was an X-File; an immortal, liver-munching, genetic monster of a serial killer. Silly as all that was, the X-File and its resolution were central. In the film, it could be argued that the squishy nastiness of the plot has a fairly mundane justification and explanation: the need to save a loved one's life (not giving anything away there, I think). The ESP was peripheral and merely served as a plot device to save the FBI a bit of time tracking down the victims. There wasn't even an attempt to provide a little more depth and explanation about the former priest and his connection to his victim.

I didn't even get to drool over the sadly now ageing Mulder. I feel robbed :hihi: .

If you like I can put on a crisp white shirt and some sexy glasses and whisper sweet nothings about extra terrestrials in your ear if it makes up for aging DD.

I think you hit the nail on the head there - it jjust wasn't 'out there' enough. We needed a mutant monster, or a more conspiracy-esque episode. Where was the shadowy government? Where were the 'Cancer Man' style people?

I've started watching all the episodes again starting at Season One, and episodes such as 'Ice' are much better than this film.