Googling X-Files reviews (part deux)
One month after its release, the X-Files buzz is fading - a lot less X-Files reviews or comments.
Yet again I focus on those mentioning Callum-Janke Dacyshyn.
Worst quote of the week: "Budget Daniel Craig as I like to call him"
http://thighsofdarkness.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-discovery-might-make-up-for-my.html
Carter and company essentially remade The Silence of the Lambs with more utilitarian villains. The Russian (I called him Leoben while watching the movie-Callum Keith Rennie might be in danger of type-casting) isn't interested in fashion, he's interested in function, specifically in easy to kidnap female bodies. It's just too bad their heads have to come off before he can let his husband see if they fit…/… A Postscript: I spent the whole time Rennie was on-screen suppressing the urge to shout, "You'll never create another Starbuck!"
http://uninvit3d.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-hands-are-searching-for-you.html
the only actors I knew that were in it were: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet and Billy Connolly ( no, this isn't being spoiler-free, this is being stupid! ). So, when an actor from Battlestar Galactica is on that big screen I was like: LEOBEN?! O_O I just noticed him on the pool scene and wasn't even sure if it was him! How was I to know that Callum Keith Rennie played the role of one of the Russian’s abductors?! JUST SLKADFFHADF! *-* Yes, he was on the series before, but that didn’t mean he would be on the movie, right?
http://racing-girl.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html
Mulder gets pulled into the case, which involves missing women, body parts, and Callum Keith Rennie doing his creepy best with a Russian accent…/… In fact, by the time we get one familiar face (and just one, if you don't count Rennie, who was originally up for the role of Krycek and later did two episodes of the show) it seems like the writers are pandering to the old Phile crowd. Like, look at this! You know this person!
http://www.reason.com/news/show/128028.html
The main plot involves two perpetrators, Janke Dacyshyn (Callum Keith Rennie) and Franz Tomczeszyn (Fagin Woodcock), who have serially abducted, murdered, and dismembered several victims. The same-sex pair, who are legally married in the state of Massachusetts, rely on a team of Russian scientists to perform a series of "full-body" transplants that prolong the life (or, more accurately, the head) of Tomczeszyn. The latter, who suffers from cancer as a result of radiation poisoning, manages to extend his life by having his head serially grafted on to the bodies of his victims (mainly young women), who share his AB negative blood type. Tomczeszyn heads a firm that legally deals in the transportation of human organs, but he and his partner also appear to be engaged in the illegal trade of organs harvested from their murder victims. Father Joe, the ex-priest, believes his visions provide him with a psychic link to one or more of the victims abducted by the murderers; but as it turns out, his real spiritual connection is with the perpetrator, Tomszeszyn, one of 37 altar boys whom the convicted pedophile sexually abused in the past…./…
Though they may seem unrelated, the two subplots tell the same story: a tale of the Promethean effort to transform, adapt, remake, and preserve human life outside traditionally defined "natural" limits. At its best, the film imaginatively explores the great promise and the tremendous dangers of the brave new world of bio-technology. Dacyshyn and Tomszeszyn are meant to embody practices that violate the "natural order" of things: gay marriage, gender reassignment, trade and transplantation in human organs, stem cell research, vivisection, hybrid speciation, the indefinite prolongation of life. By contrast, Mulder and Scully seem to represent the traditional heterosexual couple who respect the limits of nature and who heroically save an innocent soul from the clutches of what the papers call a "modern day Doctor Frankenstein" at the risk of their own lives…./…
Suggestively, the advanced stem cell research she relies on for her new surgical procedure appears to have been pioneered by the very same Russian medical team that carries out full-body transplants on Tomszeszyn. Mulder and Scully can, of course, fall back on their long-standing emotional and spiritual connection with each other to win our sympathies, but there's no reason to believe that their homosexual counterparts are any less fanatically devoted to each other-indeed, we witness a tender bed-side scene between the two in which Dacyshyn assures his failing partner that he will live, that he's "going to have a fine strong body again." The two couples thus represent two images of the very same phenomenon: the human endeavor to master nature and prolong human life. The parallels between the two couples thus work to erode the questionable distinction between what is or is not natural, and between those who live according to a natural order and those who challenge its authority.
http://popcolony.blogspot.com/2008/07/haiku-review-x-files-i-want-to-believe.html
Oh and also go for the always awesome Callum Keith Rennie. He's seriously the crown jewel of Canadian Television! Don't make me throw DaVinci's Inquest in your face! Not to mention he's super sexy as Thrace-obsessed Leoben on BSG.
http://www.thenerdybird.com/2008/08/dead-on-arrival-x-files-review.html
The prominent abductor was played by Callum Keith Rennie from Battlestar Galactica who certainly has a way with creepiness. He would have shown brightly had this been a plain old horror movie.
http://delirium-vault.org/kurtodrome/2008/08/13/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/
Speaking of actors, Canadian actor Callum Keith Rennie plays one of the bad people in the movie. It was quite nice to see a good actor in the movie adaptation of one of your favourite series. Don’t really know why I felt like mentioning that, maybe to get rid of that rapper taste.
http://annathepiper.livejournal.com/795222.html
The movie even caught my attention in that Callum Keith Rennie, a.k.a. Crazy Cylon Guy Leoben from BSG, was playing the main bad guy--and he is an effective villain.
The morning after we saw the movie, though, something really annoying occurred to me: it turned out in the movie that Rennie's character's main motivation was that he was trying to save the live of his partner, who had actually been one of the altar boys that the pedophile priest had abused before. And by "save the life of", I mean "kidnap local women so he can SWAP THEIR HEADS OUT FOR HIS PARTNER'S HEAD".
Which means that OH LOOK we have CRAZY QUEER GUY as the villain.
Part of me acknowledges the argument that one should be able to write stories with a psychotic queer person as the villain, just as much as one should be able to write stories about psychotic straight people. Thing is? Too much of society still equates "queer" to "crazy" in general, and this movie is just not good enough to make up for the fact that we have gratuitously queer characters as antagonists here. There's even a line of dialogue that points out that these guys have a marriage license in the state of Massachusetts.
Furthermore, why the hell, if these guys were queer, was Rennie's character trying to put his partner's head on a woman's body? Because we only saw him kidnapping women--the FBI agent whose disappearance provoked Mulder being called in in the first place, and later on, another woman who swam at the same pool.
So not only do we get CRAZY QUEER GUYS mileage, we also got CRAZY TRANSGENDER FREAK mileage going on as well!
http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/83097/What?!!-This-Column!??-08.19.08:-Issue-
The flick features a rather small, compact story about a missing FBI agent, a pedophile former priest having psychic visions about kidnapped and potentially murdered women, a weird beard cult of Russian yahoos, and the return of two old friends, Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder…/…Callum Keith Rennie is excellent as the villain Janke Dacyshyn. The man just oozes evil (he has one of the creepiest smiles in recent memory). Weren't you kind of freaked out when you saw him in the YMCA pool, sitting on the bottom, watching the hot babes swim overhead? I know I was. At that moment I thought the villain was some kind of pseudo fish man who could breathe underwater (defintely a very "X-Files" type character).../… The Dacyshyn character gets shafted towards the end because we don't really get more background information on him and what he's really all about.
http://gothamnights.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/
Also turning in a very strong performance is the ever-reliable Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica, Due South) as Janke Dacyshyn, the sinister man stalking and abducting women from rural Virginia. Rennie, who was originally offered the role of Alex Krycek back in the second season of the show, brings to mind the best of The X-Files villains, like Eugene Victor Tooms, merciless and cruel.
Unfortunately, the overall plot is too convoluted and needlessly complicated. If the focus had been a lone abductor, the film might have been tighter. Dacyshyn is surrounded by shadowy associates, none of which is as effective as he is. Their motivations are unclear, as are their reasons for conducting their grizzly work in Virginia, where they are bound to be noticed sooner or later.
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/forums/showthread.php?p=169651#post169651
Callum Keith Rennie, as one of the abductors, was wonderful and pulled off a great performance. I loved him in both Butterfly Effect as well as The Invisible, and he does a fine job here.
http://paperstreetcinema.com/?p=78
(referring to the “I want to Believe” subtitle) This free floating desire to believe also refers to the villain, a gay Russian organ thief played appropriately by one of the Cylons from “Battlestar Glatica” or Budget Daniel Craig as I like to call him which is a hell of a lot easier than writing his real name Callum Keith Rennie. And, no, the of the day doesn’t have tentacles. He’s not a vampire. And he doesn’t levitate with insane in the membrane psychic abilities.
http://taion.wordpress.com/category/david-duchovny/
All the other actors do what they can to support the untouchable double lead, but except for Callum Keith Rennie, no one of ‘em really made an impression.
Conclusion remains mostly the same - without mention of the bad teeth.
Yet again I focus on those mentioning Callum-Janke Dacyshyn.
Worst quote of the week: "Budget Daniel Craig as I like to call him"
http://thighsofdarkness.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-discovery-might-make-up-for-my.html
Carter and company essentially remade The Silence of the Lambs with more utilitarian villains. The Russian (I called him Leoben while watching the movie-Callum Keith Rennie might be in danger of type-casting) isn't interested in fashion, he's interested in function, specifically in easy to kidnap female bodies. It's just too bad their heads have to come off before he can let his husband see if they fit…/… A Postscript: I spent the whole time Rennie was on-screen suppressing the urge to shout, "You'll never create another Starbuck!"
http://uninvit3d.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-hands-are-searching-for-you.html
the only actors I knew that were in it were: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet and Billy Connolly ( no, this isn't being spoiler-free, this is being stupid! ). So, when an actor from Battlestar Galactica is on that big screen I was like: LEOBEN?! O_O I just noticed him on the pool scene and wasn't even sure if it was him! How was I to know that Callum Keith Rennie played the role of one of the Russian’s abductors?! JUST SLKADFFHADF! *-* Yes, he was on the series before, but that didn’t mean he would be on the movie, right?
http://racing-girl.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html
Mulder gets pulled into the case, which involves missing women, body parts, and Callum Keith Rennie doing his creepy best with a Russian accent…/… In fact, by the time we get one familiar face (and just one, if you don't count Rennie, who was originally up for the role of Krycek and later did two episodes of the show) it seems like the writers are pandering to the old Phile crowd. Like, look at this! You know this person!
http://www.reason.com/news/show/128028.html
The main plot involves two perpetrators, Janke Dacyshyn (Callum Keith Rennie) and Franz Tomczeszyn (Fagin Woodcock), who have serially abducted, murdered, and dismembered several victims. The same-sex pair, who are legally married in the state of Massachusetts, rely on a team of Russian scientists to perform a series of "full-body" transplants that prolong the life (or, more accurately, the head) of Tomczeszyn. The latter, who suffers from cancer as a result of radiation poisoning, manages to extend his life by having his head serially grafted on to the bodies of his victims (mainly young women), who share his AB negative blood type. Tomczeszyn heads a firm that legally deals in the transportation of human organs, but he and his partner also appear to be engaged in the illegal trade of organs harvested from their murder victims. Father Joe, the ex-priest, believes his visions provide him with a psychic link to one or more of the victims abducted by the murderers; but as it turns out, his real spiritual connection is with the perpetrator, Tomszeszyn, one of 37 altar boys whom the convicted pedophile sexually abused in the past…./…
Though they may seem unrelated, the two subplots tell the same story: a tale of the Promethean effort to transform, adapt, remake, and preserve human life outside traditionally defined "natural" limits. At its best, the film imaginatively explores the great promise and the tremendous dangers of the brave new world of bio-technology. Dacyshyn and Tomszeszyn are meant to embody practices that violate the "natural order" of things: gay marriage, gender reassignment, trade and transplantation in human organs, stem cell research, vivisection, hybrid speciation, the indefinite prolongation of life. By contrast, Mulder and Scully seem to represent the traditional heterosexual couple who respect the limits of nature and who heroically save an innocent soul from the clutches of what the papers call a "modern day Doctor Frankenstein" at the risk of their own lives…./…
Suggestively, the advanced stem cell research she relies on for her new surgical procedure appears to have been pioneered by the very same Russian medical team that carries out full-body transplants on Tomszeszyn. Mulder and Scully can, of course, fall back on their long-standing emotional and spiritual connection with each other to win our sympathies, but there's no reason to believe that their homosexual counterparts are any less fanatically devoted to each other-indeed, we witness a tender bed-side scene between the two in which Dacyshyn assures his failing partner that he will live, that he's "going to have a fine strong body again." The two couples thus represent two images of the very same phenomenon: the human endeavor to master nature and prolong human life. The parallels between the two couples thus work to erode the questionable distinction between what is or is not natural, and between those who live according to a natural order and those who challenge its authority.
http://popcolony.blogspot.com/2008/07/haiku-review-x-files-i-want-to-believe.html
Oh and also go for the always awesome Callum Keith Rennie. He's seriously the crown jewel of Canadian Television! Don't make me throw DaVinci's Inquest in your face! Not to mention he's super sexy as Thrace-obsessed Leoben on BSG.
http://www.thenerdybird.com/2008/08/dead-on-arrival-x-files-review.html
The prominent abductor was played by Callum Keith Rennie from Battlestar Galactica who certainly has a way with creepiness. He would have shown brightly had this been a plain old horror movie.
http://delirium-vault.org/kurtodrome/2008/08/13/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/
Speaking of actors, Canadian actor Callum Keith Rennie plays one of the bad people in the movie. It was quite nice to see a good actor in the movie adaptation of one of your favourite series. Don’t really know why I felt like mentioning that, maybe to get rid of that rapper taste.
http://annathepiper.livejournal.com/795222.html
The movie even caught my attention in that Callum Keith Rennie, a.k.a. Crazy Cylon Guy Leoben from BSG, was playing the main bad guy--and he is an effective villain.
The morning after we saw the movie, though, something really annoying occurred to me: it turned out in the movie that Rennie's character's main motivation was that he was trying to save the live of his partner, who had actually been one of the altar boys that the pedophile priest had abused before. And by "save the life of", I mean "kidnap local women so he can SWAP THEIR HEADS OUT FOR HIS PARTNER'S HEAD".
Which means that OH LOOK we have CRAZY QUEER GUY as the villain.
Part of me acknowledges the argument that one should be able to write stories with a psychotic queer person as the villain, just as much as one should be able to write stories about psychotic straight people. Thing is? Too much of society still equates "queer" to "crazy" in general, and this movie is just not good enough to make up for the fact that we have gratuitously queer characters as antagonists here. There's even a line of dialogue that points out that these guys have a marriage license in the state of Massachusetts.
Furthermore, why the hell, if these guys were queer, was Rennie's character trying to put his partner's head on a woman's body? Because we only saw him kidnapping women--the FBI agent whose disappearance provoked Mulder being called in in the first place, and later on, another woman who swam at the same pool.
So not only do we get CRAZY QUEER GUYS mileage, we also got CRAZY TRANSGENDER FREAK mileage going on as well!
http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/83097/What?!!-This-Column!??-08.19.08:-Issue-
The flick features a rather small, compact story about a missing FBI agent, a pedophile former priest having psychic visions about kidnapped and potentially murdered women, a weird beard cult of Russian yahoos, and the return of two old friends, Agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder…/…Callum Keith Rennie is excellent as the villain Janke Dacyshyn. The man just oozes evil (he has one of the creepiest smiles in recent memory). Weren't you kind of freaked out when you saw him in the YMCA pool, sitting on the bottom, watching the hot babes swim overhead? I know I was. At that moment I thought the villain was some kind of pseudo fish man who could breathe underwater (defintely a very "X-Files" type character).../… The Dacyshyn character gets shafted towards the end because we don't really get more background information on him and what he's really all about.
http://gothamnights.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/
Also turning in a very strong performance is the ever-reliable Callum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica, Due South) as Janke Dacyshyn, the sinister man stalking and abducting women from rural Virginia. Rennie, who was originally offered the role of Alex Krycek back in the second season of the show, brings to mind the best of The X-Files villains, like Eugene Victor Tooms, merciless and cruel.
Unfortunately, the overall plot is too convoluted and needlessly complicated. If the focus had been a lone abductor, the film might have been tighter. Dacyshyn is surrounded by shadowy associates, none of which is as effective as he is. Their motivations are unclear, as are their reasons for conducting their grizzly work in Virginia, where they are bound to be noticed sooner or later.
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/forums/showthread.php?p=169651#post169651
Callum Keith Rennie, as one of the abductors, was wonderful and pulled off a great performance. I loved him in both Butterfly Effect as well as The Invisible, and he does a fine job here.
http://paperstreetcinema.com/?p=78
(referring to the “I want to Believe” subtitle) This free floating desire to believe also refers to the villain, a gay Russian organ thief played appropriately by one of the Cylons from “Battlestar Glatica” or Budget Daniel Craig as I like to call him which is a hell of a lot easier than writing his real name Callum Keith Rennie. And, no, the of the day doesn’t have tentacles. He’s not a vampire. And he doesn’t levitate with insane in the membrane psychic abilities.
http://taion.wordpress.com/category/david-duchovny/
All the other actors do what they can to support the untouchable double lead, but except for Callum Keith Rennie, no one of ‘em really made an impression.
Conclusion remains mostly the same - without mention of the bad teeth.
