i want to believe

[sab]

Saw XF: IWTB with rossetti and thassalia last night, midnight show at the Grove. It was a packed theater with a good X-Filesy crowd too.





Saying that I thought it was a godawful movie would be misleading only as far as it would imply I thought it counted as a movie. I think we landed on "sub-par non-Sweeps episode of CSI" last night, and I would go so far as to say it was a godawful one of those.

Just, holy crap, what a waste of time and space and money and story. Surprise!Callum was the best bit, and the nice throwaway fanservice of Skinner cradling Mulder, but, just. I suppose somewhere in there was maybe a story about evil transgendered people and their sins against biology, and I'd get all haughty about that except that I just don't care. And was unable to really deduce enough plot to come up with a good argument. I was also probably supposed to enjoy the scruffy bed kiss near the beginning, and the "that's why I fell in love with you" near the end, and I'll tell you, I enjoyed both of those things on their own, but it's not like they were contextualized or that any character or relationship issues were addressed or observed.

Also there was something with Scully either playing god or not playing god by working at a crazy Catholic hospital and using revolutionary stem-cell research, but I have no idea what was going on with that either. I mean. I followed it, mostly. I just didn't care.

I Want To Believe makes Fight The Future look like an emotional roller-coaster, rich with conspiracy and conflict and heroism and fear! which is embarrassing in and of itself.

Ten years it took, to make this, and I swear I could have made this in my bathtub with oatmeal and dish soap.

For what it's worth, the MSR arc paid off just as well, such as it is, as anything else did. Rather, the movie was just exactly as shippery as it was compelling, exciting, scary, or interesting.

I'm willing to leave myself the loophole to rewatch this... thing that's not a movie, somewhere down the line, and revise my opinion on it.

The credits came on and the midnight theater audience all went, "what? What?" out loud.

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[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

Maybe if you went in expecting big things, you might feel like this about it. I didn't, so I don't. It was a typical MOTW episode, just longer and with more shippy M&S bits. It was a small-scale film, not an epic. Do I care? Not one bit. It was M&S together again, it was fun, and it didn't character assassinate anyone I love. :)