The X-Files: I Want To Believe
I wanted to believe. I did. Ooh, look, I can use my Scully icon for this post.
It could have been worse, you know. I think I liked it better than Jen did. She is a diehard noromo who was trying really hard not to yell out loud in the theater. (I also oppose the apparently-now-canon MSR on the grounds that Mulder is crazy and doesn't care about Scully, really, and they have nothing in common.
Let me make an ordered list of my thoughts on this movie.
Overall, yeah, well, eh. Coulda been worse, coulda been better.
It could have been worse, you know. I think I liked it better than Jen did. She is a diehard noromo who was trying really hard not to yell out loud in the theater. (I also oppose the apparently-now-canon MSR on the grounds that Mulder is crazy and doesn't care about Scully, really, and they have nothing in common.
Let me make an ordered list of my thoughts on this movie.
- If Mulder and Scully live together and are in wuv, why don't they use each other's first names?
- What happened to Scully's miracle baby anyway? I thought they, you know, knew where it was.
- That plot wasn't very X-Filey. I mean, the only supernatural thing was the psychic. Where are the aliens? Monsters? Head transplants don't cut it.
- I was expecting the dying-kid plot to be more related to the main plot.
- When did Scully become a pediatrician? And a brain surgeon? I thought she was a forensic pathologist.
- Do physicians really use Google to research experimental procedures?
- Does it really snow that much in West Virginia? I bet it doesn't!
- Isn't Billy Connolly that Scottish comedian? My dad likes him. I remember his routines as generally being obscene. Weird casting choice, isn't it?
- Dear Callum Keith Rennie: Can't you ever play someone who isn't creepy anymore? Weren't you already in *two different* XF episodes playing different creepy characters? Why do you need to be an evil gay Russian? Also, did you watch Dracula to prepare your accent?
- Dear Chris Carter: Why did you make the evil Russians gay? Is it because friends don't care enough about friends to want them to have head transplants? Also, thanks for doing your part to refute the idea that molested children end up gay. By which I mean, FAIL.
- Also, although they were clearly speaking Russian, why did they not have Russian names? Just wonderin'.
- (Sniff. I miss Krycek.)
- You know what was cute? Mulder and Skinner cuddling in the snow. Apparently I ship the M/Sk now. :P
Overall, yeah, well, eh. Coulda been worse, coulda been better.