Seriously, Alex, you summed up how I feel pretty much to the tee. Except you're actually a lot more forgiving than I am? My brain keeps shouting WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY and I kind of want to burst into tears but laugh hysterically at the same time? I'm upset at myself for not loving it for what it is and maybe it's because the front page of my local paper had a picture of Mulder and Scully and a giant headline: NEW X-FILES MOVIE IS A LET DOWN! and that completely ruined my day because WHO THE FUCK DECIDED IT WAS OKAY TO PUT THAT ON THE FRONT PAGE? How crazy is it that after all of my avoiding spoilers (um, I consider reactions spoilers?) it was THE DYING MEDIUM OF PRINT JOURNALISM THAT RUINED IT FOR ME. But whatever. I don't know, I feel like I need to see this again to see if it's as bad as I thought it was or if my expectations were way too high or if I was holding it to too rigid of a standard (which I don't think is wrong given what this franchise means to me?)-- I absolutely despise myself for not being able to muster any sort of interest in the story D: D: it just felt so heavy handed and boring and for the most part I kept thinking, where is the Scully I used to know :( :( :( but again I don't know if I can trust my opinions because this is such an immediate response and my whole day was such a fucking load of GARBAGE and I was so looking forward to this to making me feel better (and seeing Mulder and Scully -- AND SKIIIIINNER!) again DID but I don't know. And to top it all off, my theater was like not even a quarter full and my little brother didn't want to be there and I felt horrible for dragging him there (he fucking left a party early to see it with me!) and I DON'T KNOW I DON'T KNOW MY BRAIN HURTS :( :(
UPSIDES THOUGH: I do appreciate the fact that this was definitely a film for the fans. But this:
I would've liked a flawless tale to go with it all.
was how I felt too. And I kept thinking back to FtF and how FUCKING BADASS AND AMAZING THAT WAS and this just...wasn't the same. Although alllll the little things they did for the fans made me smile and laugh and sometimes even clap! and even the crazy-ass ending made me giiiiiggle (come on, it's kind of really hilarious, you can't tell me it isn't) even if it made me cringe since I made my brother stay with the OH TEN OTHER PEOPLE WHO STAYED to see that. Just...Yeah, the company you share really makes a difference :( :( OH and the song playing at the end? Was AWESOME. And the kiss scene, i agree, was gorgeously shot. As were the sentiments Mulder was conveying at the end. I mean, in sentiment, i agree, they do a great job of putting us in these character's lives as a kind of WHERE ARE THEY NOW! segment (i'm not being facetious!) but like that first scene with Mulder and Scully and Father Joe (who, by the way, I didn't find interesting at all?) all of Scully's "skepticism" felt waaaaaay too forced and not natural at all? I DON'T KNOW. And the whole SCULLY'S A SERIOUS DOCTOR NOW WITH MORAL/ETHICAL DILEMMAS SHES DEALING WITH INVOLVING HER FAITH also felt so heavy handed and I couldn't make myself get into it even though I really wanted to! UGH I AM SO DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF :( :(
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Date: 2008-07-26 02:48 am (UTC)UPSIDES THOUGH: I do appreciate the fact that this was definitely a film for the fans. But this:
I would've liked a flawless tale to go with it all.
was how I felt too. And I kept thinking back to FtF and how FUCKING BADASS AND AMAZING THAT WAS and this just...wasn't the same. Although alllll the little things they did for the fans made me smile and laugh and sometimes even clap! and even the crazy-ass ending made me giiiiiggle (come on, it's kind of really hilarious, you can't tell me it isn't) even if it made me cringe since I made my brother stay with the OH TEN OTHER PEOPLE WHO STAYED to see that. Just...Yeah, the company you share really makes a difference :( :( OH and the song playing at the end? Was AWESOME. And the kiss scene, i agree, was gorgeously shot. As were the sentiments Mulder was conveying at the end. I mean, in sentiment, i agree, they do a great job of putting us in these character's lives as a kind of WHERE ARE THEY NOW! segment (i'm not being facetious!) but like that first scene with Mulder and Scully and Father Joe (who, by the way, I didn't find interesting at all?) all of Scully's "skepticism" felt waaaaaay too forced and not natural at all? I DON'T KNOW. And the whole SCULLY'S A SERIOUS DOCTOR NOW WITH MORAL/ETHICAL DILEMMAS SHES DEALING WITH INVOLVING HER FAITH also felt so heavy handed and I couldn't make myself get into it even though I really wanted to! UGH I AM SO DISAPPOINTED IN MYSELF :( :(