Emotional rollercoaster is such an understatement! I'm getting sick and I don't know if it's from the intense high I was on all week and the crash yesterday, or from all the other stuff I have going on at the same time, or WHAT but I feel SO TENSE PARTLY BECAUSE OF ALL OF THIS. It's like sensory overload and I'm way too emotional and empathize/want to empathize with EVERYONE so the split fandom is kind of breaking my heart because I want all my XF flist to be united! And it seems like the majority of my people are really really really happy about it without very many qualms? When this is definitely not the case for me. Last night I went to be deciding that I need to see it again and take the MSR scenes for what they are and focus on being happy for what they did right rather than frustrated in what they did wrong, but now I kind of don't want to see it again? I'm nervous! I don't want to get a headache half way through the movie and leave feeling like it was worse than I thought it was originally. Because I know myself and the issues I took with it will still bother me a second time around, regardless of how delightful the MSR is (AND OH MY, IT CAN BE REALLY QUITE DELIGHTFUL!)
And I haaaate being one of those people who's bitching and raining on people's parades. But I don't think I am! There are things I definitely liked about it, but there are also things about it that really really disappointed me and I can't help that! :( :( I know we were supposed to see how they've grown but...I miss who they were? BUT MAYBE I JUST DON'T LIKE CHANGE. I still don't know what the fuck I'm talking about :(
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. YES THIS IS ME, TOO.
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. YES TO THIS TOO. Gosh it's seriously frightening how in my head you are. I get wanting to do something completely different and un-XFiles, but even the actual murder? At first, I was really super intrigued, but I think the splicing between the murder/kidnapping and looking for that woman TOTALLY DAMPENED MY INTEREST. I was kind of hoping that they'd have it be like an actual episode in that shit goes down-- you don't know who the people are and what's going on, you're introduced to the baddies and the crazy shit they do, and then jump ahead to the FBI trying to solve the case. Like, in my head, I think this movie could have been made a lot better just by re-structuring things and paying more attention to people like Amanda Peet and Xzibit's characters, because then it's about more than just mulder and scully existing and being together and really attractive old people. (Although at times their age really showed? I HATE TO SAY IT BUT IT'S TRUE. AND UNAVOIDABLE?)
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. Yeah everything you said here is very true, but I don't think this was even Arcadia! Because with Arcadia, regardless of how lame/silly it was, I was still interested and intrigued. It still felt like the XF and the Mulder/Scully-ness that saved it worked because it was the perfect accents to the story. And that's why the MSR is so amazing and clutch to begin with-- IT WAS NEVER THE FOCUS OF THE STORY and yet, it became that on it's own. It became the mammouth, powerful force to be reckoned with that it is because it had the space and freedom to become that because it wasn't written with the intent of being the next ~*EPIC LUV STORY*~, you know? It just grew into it?
day two ramblings, part 1: seeing it again, the msr, etc. etc.
And I haaaate being one of those people who's bitching and raining on people's parades. But I don't think I am! There are things I definitely liked about it, but there are also things about it that really really disappointed me and I can't help that! :( :( I know we were supposed to see how they've grown but...I miss who they were? BUT MAYBE I JUST DON'T LIKE CHANGE. I still don't know what the fuck I'm talking about :(
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.
YES THIS IS ME, TOO.
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.
YES TO THIS TOO. Gosh it's seriously frightening how in my head you are. I get wanting to do something completely different and un-XFiles, but even the actual murder? At first, I was really super intrigued, but I think the splicing between the murder/kidnapping and looking for that woman TOTALLY DAMPENED MY INTEREST. I was kind of hoping that they'd have it be like an actual episode in that shit goes down-- you don't know who the people are and what's going on, you're introduced to the baddies and the crazy shit they do, and then jump ahead to the FBI trying to solve the case. Like, in my head, I think this movie could have been made a lot better just by re-structuring things and paying more attention to people like Amanda Peet and Xzibit's characters, because then it's about more than just mulder and scully existing and being together and really attractive old people. (Although at times their age really showed? I HATE TO SAY IT BUT IT'S TRUE. AND UNAVOIDABLE?)
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.
Yeah everything you said here is very true, but I don't think this was even Arcadia! Because with Arcadia, regardless of how lame/silly it was, I was still interested and intrigued. It still felt like the XF and the Mulder/Scully-ness that saved it worked because it was the perfect accents to the story. And that's why the MSR is so amazing and clutch to begin with-- IT WAS NEVER THE FOCUS OF THE STORY and yet, it became that on it's own. It became the mammouth, powerful force to be reckoned with that it is because it had the space and freedom to become that because it wasn't written with the intent of being the next ~*EPIC LUV STORY*~, you know? It just grew into it?