Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:32 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:37 am
I've always loved the first several seasons of that show.
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:24 pm
I've always loved the first several seasons of that show.
Ditto. The final couple of seasons are a perfect example of how Hollywood egos destroy good things. I'd bet David D. wishes he hadn't walked away from the series now.
I'm looking forward to this film, but I fear a lot of the movie going public will say "What's an X-File?"
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:12 pm
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:27 pm
Yeah, he should've realized that he was then & will forever be Fox Mulder. Much in the same way Ed O'Neill will always be Al Bundy. They won't get steady work ever again unless they reprise their respective roles.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:29 pm
Personally, I loved him in Evolution.
"Ooo... you're so brave! YOU'RE. SO. BRAVE!"
"Man, that thing was like really long and you took it like a MAN!"
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"Ooo... you're so brave! YOU'RE. SO. BRAVE!"
"Man, that thing was like really long and you took it like a MAN!"
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:43 pm
Evolution felt like a huge letdown to me. Maybe I expected too much of Ivan Reitman, but the bullshit science they come up w\ to take down the last critter was just abhorrent. They may as well've'd a little elf, pixie, Ewok, or Jar-Jar tell them.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:13 pm
This is one of those "you can accept the super-evolving critters from outter space, but not the head-and-shoulders solution?" moments.
It's the banter between characters that I love.
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It's the banter between characters that I love.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:00 pm
Goddamnit, I can envision some ultra-mega-fast evolving lifeform a helluva lot more readily than I can believe that chemical vulnerabilities translate that well on the periodic table. I mean, fucking seriously, they could've used almost any other explanation. One has a booze-induced vision, some ancient Indian medicine man gives them some fucking tomahawk that kills them, a genius scientist that has a breakthru*, fucking Lassie shows up & tells them, I don't care.
* : genius scientific breakthrus involve more than dragging your finger along a few entries on a standard chemical chart blindly.
At least make an attempt to lie to me. I know "Hackers" is an idealized version of some underground geek utopia that doesn't exist, but at least I can imagine cool apps that could make a DOS attack like that. I can imagine nothing cool between arsenic:carbon::???:silicon, then magically guessing that x=fucking selenium. Seriously, gimme a fucking Muppet before shoving that sorta crap to tie things up.
* : genius scientific breakthrus involve more than dragging your finger along a few entries on a standard chemical chart blindly.
At least make an attempt to lie to me. I know "Hackers" is an idealized version of some underground geek utopia that doesn't exist, but at least I can imagine cool apps that could make a DOS attack like that. I can imagine nothing cool between arsenic:carbon::???:silicon, then magically guessing that x=fucking selenium. Seriously, gimme a fucking Muppet before shoving that sorta crap to tie things up.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:16 pm
Now... you DO realize there is a reason that elements fall within those specific rows and columns of the Periodic Table, right? There is actually some half-ass logic in their solution. There would indeed be a proportional correlation between Arsenic and Selenium, outter electron/number of shell-wise.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:20 pm
This is a real geek conversation, and I didn't really intend to argue about it that much. But there is a correlation...2 spaces down and one over = 2 more electrons and one more shell (or whatever the spacing was) for each element they were comparing.
But I don't really care. I'd have to be pretty fucking needy to require everybody like the same things I do.
But I don't really care. I'd have to be pretty fucking needy to require everybody like the same things I do.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:49 pm
There's a period of years where I pretty much hated every movie I saw. I saw this flick during that time. Usually I'm just unnecessarily hard on them. It's like some weird subliminal response to any flick I saw during the time.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:51 pm
Ha, let us know when that period ends.Malcolm wrote:There's a period of years where I pretty much hated every movie I saw.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:56 pm
It was a period of particularly intense hatred. It has been done w\ for years now.GORDON wrote:Ha, let us know when that period ends.Malcolm wrote:There's a period of years where I pretty much hated every movie I saw.
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:25 pm
Filming starts in December.
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:10 pm
Was looking at how it is doing...
32% of Rotten Tomatoes.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_files_2/
I don't always agree with their ratings, though. I thought Hancock was much better than the 38% it got.
32% of Rotten Tomatoes.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_files_2/
Consensus: The chemistry between leads David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson do live up to The X-Files' televised legacy, but the roving plot and droning routines make it hard to identify just what we're meant to believe in.
I don't always agree with their ratings, though. I thought Hancock was much better than the 38% it got.