My brain keeps shouting WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY and I kind of want to burst into tears but laugh hysterically at the same time? OH MY GOD, HASN'T IT BEEN SUCH AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER????? In the theater I was jittery and excitable and during I was... I don't even know, it changed so often and on the way home I was oh so shell-shocked that I had just seen a new X-Files movie that I kind of feel like I shouldn't have been driving a large vehicle? Today I've been jumping back and forth between "WHAT IS THIS SHIT" and "but remember that part? that was lovely" and it's sort of settled into this gross melancholy KNOT IN MY STOMACH that I can't seem to shake. And meanwhile every bad review and half-empty theater is actually kind of breaking my heart :( :( :( I'M SO OVERINVESTED IT IS ACTUALLY RIDICULOUS.
Your newspaper is a douchebag, ugh.
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?) famousdeaths said this thing about how if this film had come out in 2003 or 2004, two years after the series, she would've liked it more. I kind of agree? I just, they had six years. Six fucking years to make this the BEST POSSIBLE FILM. It isn't even that it's a trainwreck, because I don't think it really was, I just... I wanted it to be some sort of paradigm I could hold up to the world and say "This. This is my show." They had six years to make it that. And they didn't.
And like, I don't know. A lot of the episodes of the show itself are half-hearted stories made wonderful by the simple inclusion of MULDER AND SCULLY and that's one of the ways season 8 went so wrong -- I feel like all those excruciatingly boring Scully/Doggett (that is a very platonic punctuation mark between their names, by the way) cases in the beginning might've actually been episodes we all loved if they'd had a few Mulderisms and Scully eyebrows? I guess what I mean is that this fandom has a long history of loving episodes despite a crappy storyline because of the Mulder/Scully. But we've also had episodes that are flawless start to finish. I guess I was just hoping this film would be a Pusher, and it ended up being an Arcadia.
kept thinking, where is the Scully I used to know :( :( :( You knowwwwwww she didn't really bother me during viewing but this afternoon I've been thinking about 2012 and fighting the future and I'm suddenly really bothered that Scully's started some new career and Mulder's hiding out cutting out newspaper articles and obsessing over his dead sister when they're SUPPOSED TO BE SAVING THE WORLD. You know? They're supposed to be TRYING and they're not and I get this feeling this Scully, this 2008 Scully, wouldn't want the darkness that would come with that. (But at the same time I liked the way they did the darkness thing, because OH MY GOD THE LAST SCENE???? Like, not even just the kiss and how pretty that was it was just so emotionally pitch-perfect for me. Like, had that scene not existed, I would be a lot more disappointed than I even am.) But... how could they not be doing everything in their power?
I guess, however crappy the mytharc ended up, it just feels wrong to separate Mulder and Scully so completely from it. The stupid aliens, the conspiracy, the god damn supersoldiers -- that was part of them. I don't understand why it isn't now. I don't get how they could just let go.
I know, blah blah blah standalone film :( BUT STILL! Could they not have thrown us a bone? I MISS FIGHT THE FUTURE TOO.
Um, I'm throwing the last two paragraphs of this comment with the reply to your next comment becauseeeeeee according to LJ I talk too much :(
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Date: 2008-07-26 04:06 am (UTC)OH MY GOD, HASN'T IT BEEN SUCH AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER????? In the theater I was jittery and excitable and during I was... I don't even know, it changed so often and on the way home I was oh so shell-shocked that I had just seen a new X-Files movie that I kind of feel like I shouldn't have been driving a large vehicle? Today I've been jumping back and forth between "WHAT IS THIS SHIT" and "but remember that part? that was lovely" and it's sort of settled into this gross melancholy KNOT IN MY STOMACH that I can't seem to shake. And meanwhile every bad review and half-empty theater is actually kind of breaking my heart :( :( :( I'M SO OVERINVESTED IT IS ACTUALLY RIDICULOUS.
Your newspaper is a douchebag, ugh.
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?)
And like, I don't know. A lot of the episodes of the show itself are half-hearted stories made wonderful by the simple inclusion of MULDER AND SCULLY and that's one of the ways season 8 went so wrong -- I feel like all those excruciatingly boring Scully/Doggett (that is a very platonic punctuation mark between their names, by the way) cases in the beginning might've actually been episodes we all loved if they'd had a few Mulderisms and Scully eyebrows? I guess what I mean is that this fandom has a long history of loving episodes despite a crappy storyline because of the Mulder/Scully. But we've also had episodes that are flawless start to finish. I guess I was just hoping this film would be a Pusher, and it ended up being an Arcadia.
kept thinking, where is the Scully I used to know :( :( :(
You knowwwwwww she didn't really bother me during viewing but this afternoon I've been thinking about 2012 and fighting the future and I'm suddenly really bothered that Scully's started some new career and Mulder's hiding out cutting out newspaper articles and obsessing over his dead sister when they're SUPPOSED TO BE SAVING THE WORLD. You know? They're supposed to be TRYING and they're not and I get this feeling this Scully, this 2008 Scully, wouldn't want the darkness that would come with that. (But at the same time I liked the way they did the darkness thing, because OH MY GOD THE LAST SCENE???? Like, not even just the kiss and how pretty that was it was just so emotionally pitch-perfect for me. Like, had that scene not existed, I would be a lot more disappointed than I even am.) But... how could they not be doing everything in their power?
I guess, however crappy the mytharc ended up, it just feels wrong to separate Mulder and Scully so completely from it. The stupid aliens, the conspiracy, the god damn supersoldiers -- that was part of them. I don't understand why it isn't now. I don't get how they could just let go.
I know, blah blah blah standalone film :( BUT STILL! Could they not have thrown us a bone? I MISS FIGHT THE FUTURE TOO.
Um, I'm throwing the last two paragraphs of this comment with the reply to your next comment becauseeeeeee according to LJ I talk too much :(