dreamer

So, The X-Files movie was a very broad and grave disappointment. I'm not sure, exactly, what I had been expecting, but what I got was a long, drawn out romance affirmation between Mulder and Scully and very little by the way of, I don't know, a story?

It wasn't very X-Filesy.

It was all about faith and God, and believing. Somehow, coming away from the theatre, I had the feeling that Mulder had been portrayed as a sad, pathetic figure, and Scully was valiantly trying to rescue him from wasting his life, whilst performing medical miracles herself. The X-file was little more than a series of murders that a man may or may not have had a psychic link to - not the strongest plot line.

Where were the werewolve, the vampires, the Loch Ness monsters? When they said it was a "monster" movie and not following the mythology story arc, I was excited because all my favourite X-Files episodes (with a few exceptions) are monster of the week episodes. This monster wasn't scary, and very upsettingly, was predictable and boring.

I did enjoy the pencils in the ceiling though. Heh.

I'm going to go have an X-Files marathon now so I can remember why this show was the most awesome creation ever. Sigh.