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luciddreamer326 December 30 2008, 22:37:26 UTC
General: Hmm, what to say? Mulder/Scully shipper here, so the fangirl in me also went nuts. I remember people were virtually throwing blows over whether they were together or not. Haven was a crazy place to be, pre-movie. Whitney being impaled was so great as well! I smiled big on that one too when I watched the extended cut.

Plot: Some guy is harvesting body parts for his gay lover in a remote part of Canada? This is the story CC had sat on for six years? I like to think not. I like to think there is another installment out there. That being said, there were good moments. Most of which were the Mulder/Scully stuff. I also liked Billy Conneley more than I probably should have, considering he was a child molester. *sits* Anyway..

Ending: The ending still kills me. I get the whole "nod to the fans" wave thing, but it was lame. So was the boat. I could have settled with no boat and a shot of the kiss without the back of Duchovny's head.

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erries December 30 2008, 22:40:58 UTC
Some guy is harvesting body parts for his gay lover in a remote part of Canada? This is the story CC had sat on for six years?

Aaahhh! ::tears out hair::

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truemyth December 30 2008, 22:50:00 UTC
This is the story CC had sat on for six years?
Seriously, Mary Shelly is like, in her grave, rolling over and being all, "Chris Cater, you have very sizable BALLS, dude."

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luciddreamer326 December 30 2008, 22:56:41 UTC
ROFL. I <3 you.

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truemyth December 30 2008, 22:46:42 UTC
Re-watched with my family this week. It was fun listening to my mom catch my dad up on the plot: "They had a baby together, you know? And he was abducted but then he came back. And now Scully's a doctor, but neither of them are working for the FBI anymore... But they aren't married."

I love how Whitney calls Mulder Fox, and then, as quickly as a fangirl can say, "Oh, no you d'dn't, die!bitch!die," she does.

I still need to watch the extended cut, obviously.

I like the ending, but I think it's totally to be taken as a weird little wink. I don't think they actually go on a magical tropical vay-cay, you know?

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milesadrift December 30 2008, 23:04:20 UTC
I LOVED THE MOVIE. And like you I think the story was just fine. It was just like any other XF episode. I don't know why everyone always expects aliens when there were only a couple of episodes about aliens. Well I know some people expected that. I much prefer stand alones though so maybe that's why I enjoyed it more. It makes me sad that this realistic movie couldn't stand up to movies with CGI. I just loved how real it was and it doesn't get the credit it deserves much.

I've probably seen this movie like 500 times after having the dvd and what not. I love to quote it and watch it and watch it some more.

Oh and Scully gets a curse word for once and she says balls to boot. Oh and scratchy beard for the win. Yeah.

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milesadrift December 30 2008, 23:07:57 UTC
Crap I forgot stuff in my last comment.

Oh and I agree that the whole sister thing was annoying. Let's bring her up. Um no. I loved the boat scene myself. And I freaked out when I heard there was an X in the ocean via the reef. I had no idea about that.

Finally, can I just say I loved all the inside jokes! It was fun trying to find them all and noticing them in the theater.

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mangomandie December 31 2008, 05:26:20 UTC
X in the ocean?? Oooo I will have to check that out!

~Mango

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southoffebruary December 31 2008, 13:26:37 UTC
And I freaked out when I heard there was an X in the ocean via the reef. I had no idea about that.

Me either! When I heard it on the commentary I was like .. wait a minute, I didnt see that! I had to rewind and have a look. Its totally there though.

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erries December 31 2008, 13:49:15 UTC
I rewound it when I heard it on the commentary too and STILL couldn't see it. Where is it?

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madshrubbery December 31 2008, 02:03:40 UTC
This movie brought me back to the fandom. I will heart forever and ever. But on with it...

ME LIKE
  • The score. Let's just get that out first and foremost. MARK SNOW, I WANT YOUR BABIES. And UNKLE, I will babysit for you.
  • I've never realized how awesome the cross-cutting of the abduction and the first search is. Perfectly edited.
  • The theme song playing over the glance at the photo of President Bush was adorable.
  • Billy Connolly is creepy cool. He and John Cleese should have babies or something.
  • I love them bringing up "Beyond the Sea" and "Clyde Bruckman's." Way to hit the olden days! Nothing like Starbuck and autoerotic asphyxiation.

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madshrubbery December 31 2008, 02:04:29 UTC
...and from the top.

ME DON'T LIKE
  • The DVD would not play in my player and I had to rip it; damn you, Fox. Made me forget to rip the extras. I only remember the art boards and the fan extras.
  • Okay, when Scully gets to Fox's house, she looks around as if she's NOT BEEN THERE IN AWHILE. I don't understand why some people think they've been living together this whole time. Clearly, as we see later on, their relationship had some sort of deterioration in the past 6 years. If they were still deeply in lurve, "scratchy beard" would not exist. She even says, "I worry about you and the effects of long-term isolation." Their powerful Hank Moody fucking make-up sex was just that: MAKE-UP SEX.
  • Who the FUCK is that strawberry-blonde who keeps giving Mulder the eye in the bullpen? At first I thought it was Marita since I hadn't seen her in awhile, but of course it's not. Is there something from the show I forgot? Oh, and Xzibit = bad actor.
  • Scully's major angry skepticism annoys me. Since when was she all up in the hard-core Catholicism?
  • There was ( ... )

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madshrubbery December 31 2008, 02:09:10 UTC
OMG, both Skinner and I rule for Google Mapping during the course of this film. I did not realize this until re-reading my comments.

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wittybib December 31 2008, 05:09:45 UTC
Okay, when Scully gets to Fox's house, she looks around as if she's NOT BEEN THERE IN AWHILE. I don't understand why some people think they've been living together this whole time. Clearly, as we see later on, their relationship had some sort of deterioration in the past 6 years. If they were still deeply in lurve, "scratchy beard" would not exist. She even says, "I worry about you and the effects of long-term isolation." Their powerful Hank Moody fucking make-up sex was just that: MAKE-UP SEX.I guess I'm confused how anybody could think anything besides them living together all this time. I didn't think Scully looked around like she hadn't been there; I noticed that she walked in without knocking--something they NEVER did in the series with the exception of Existence when Mulder had apparently moved in. It doesn't make any sense to me why they would suddenly be in bed together after some sort of "deterioration" when they were clearly fighting over his deep involvement in the case. They didn't really have time to make-up, break up ( ... )

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