June 24, 2008
Movie Trailer: X Files: I Want to Believe
Hey, someone pulled the X Files out of storage.
Every nerd in their late thirties, early forties is all giddy now.
For all of you kids out there, X Files was essentially the Star Trek of Generation X...you know, Generation X? No...they're the middle management people at work - the ones who are grown adults and have kids but still play video games and still think they have a clue...right, them. Well, this show sold a large amount of marketing crap at Barnes and Noble and was called a "phenomena" a couple times by Newsweek.
In truth, the show was good but not great (except three or four episodes). The show failed to translate to the big screen and suffered a sputtering, miserable death after its lead, David Duchovny, left the show to start a not wildly successful film career.
The fans of the show will be excited. Beyond them, they're going to have to reestablish an wide audience for this. People know the name and know the faces, but can that many people still remember too much about the show to drag themselves to the multiplex? I've been wrong before but looking at this trailer, its not dramatic enough to make me want to see it. I imagine that will be the case for others as well.
Let me know what you think about this. Is this something you're really interested in seeing?
Screenwriters: Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
Director: Chris Carter (The X Files)
Actors: David Duchovny (The Rapture), Gillian Anderson (The House of Mirth), and Amanda Peet (Identity)
Every nerd in their late thirties, early forties is all giddy now.
For all of you kids out there, X Files was essentially the Star Trek of Generation X...you know, Generation X? No...they're the middle management people at work - the ones who are grown adults and have kids but still play video games and still think they have a clue...right, them. Well, this show sold a large amount of marketing crap at Barnes and Noble and was called a "phenomena" a couple times by Newsweek.
In truth, the show was good but not great (except three or four episodes). The show failed to translate to the big screen and suffered a sputtering, miserable death after its lead, David Duchovny, left the show to start a not wildly successful film career.
The fans of the show will be excited. Beyond them, they're going to have to reestablish an wide audience for this. People know the name and know the faces, but can that many people still remember too much about the show to drag themselves to the multiplex? I've been wrong before but looking at this trailer, its not dramatic enough to make me want to see it. I imagine that will be the case for others as well.
Let me know what you think about this. Is this something you're really interested in seeing?
Screenwriters: Frank Spotnitz and Chris Carter
Director: Chris Carter (The X Files)
Actors: David Duchovny (The Rapture), Gillian Anderson (The House of Mirth), and Amanda Peet (Identity)
Labels: Amanda Peet, David Duchovny, film, Gillian Anderson, movie review
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3 Comments:
The series mined every possible vein of paranormal/UFO material. Then they beat the govt conspiracy horse to death and sat on the rotting corpse for a few seasons. So now they actually have to have a story. Unlikely.
I loved it in the 90's so I'll definately go see it. I did read it's supposed to be a stand-alone scary story and not part of the alien mythology (I don't remember much of that either). Plus, who doesn't love Mulder and Scully! Your Gen-X card should be revoked if you don't go see this.
yeah, I'd have to say X-files was not an "all hype" phenomenon in its era. I came kinda late to it (heck, I'm a Trekker and came late to TNG), but a sci-fi that even managed to catch the imagination of my much more literal-minded younger brother was doing something.
The X-files movie, in a very 90s marvel of physics, both sucked and blew.
This is a weird, weird choice. I guess they have to try to get it in before Duchovny and Anderson are completely too old for the roles, because the franchise really has nothing going for it without Mulder and Scully. After all, both the alien abduction and the paranoia themes have been MUCH explored and amplified since, and the Matrix kinda maximized the BS factor on "the truth is out there."
It's also totally the wrong historical moment for "I want to believe" mantra chanting. People are getting sick of the "believe [something or other]" push in faux-optimistic popular culture, again.
It's too late for a continuation of its very real early popularity, but too early for X-files to be retro, which is my best guess for what they thought they were pulling off. The cannibalistic "creativity" of the movie/TV culture is turning the cycle so short we may soon expect retrospective movies of shows based on their pilot episodes....
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