ThisisGina's Advent Calendar: Day 18

It's a Very X-Filey Christmas, as today we have the season 6 episode "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" condensed into a 10 minute video. Enjoy!

What if there was no bee?

Oh my God, it's like an alternate X-Files universe.

Just $346,123.00 more and they break even!

Box Office Mojo is reporting that the total box office so far, foreign (as of July 27) and domestic (as of Aug 25), for The X-Files: I Want to Believe is $29,653,877, just over $346,000.00 shy of the $30 million production cost.

The foreign box office totals are a month behind, and we still have DVD sales...could they actually make enough money for another movie?

I'd be willing to send in the $123.00, if they think that will help!

I want to believe there'll be another movie.

There be MAJOR spoilers ahead!

I cannot believe it's taken me this long to post about the movie! I blame it on the drugs! (BTW, my back is still bothering me, although not as bad. Physical therapy is helping, but I wish it would heal faster, dammit)

I keep blaming the drugs, but seriously, I can't think well enough to do a proper review (and I was drugged when I saw the movie), so I'm just going to post some random thoughts. Please leave a comment if you saw the movie - I'd love to hear what you thought of it.

I was happy to see the take charge Scully back in action, especially after the way they were writing her at the end of the series. DD and GA did a wonderful job of showing just how much Mulder and Scully have changed over the years, as individuals as well as a couple. They are both so world-weary, you can see it in their eyes; but they’re also very confident of who they are to each other and, will wonders never cease - they actually talk to each other now!

I liked that the movie was more about them and that the x-file was secondary. I think that’s the way they had to go, after so much time had passed since we last saw them. I loved how they were able to tie Scully’s medical case to the x-file through her faith issues. That’s always been such a big theme in the show.

Billy Connolly was fantastic as Father Joe, especially in the scene where Scully goes to ask him what he meant when he told her, “Don’t give up”. Actually, I think that was one of the best scenes in the movie.

I don’t understand why the bad guys needed to have an organ transport company as a front. Can someone explain that to me? "Leoben" (Callum Keith Rennie) would pick up a cooler, bring it back to the office and then just leave it there? I’m confused. There's an urban legend about Russian scientists who severed a dog’s head and kept it alive (I think I read something in a Fark forum a while back), and I bet they based IWTB on that. I was pretty grossed out by the story, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I know there’s been discussion about the fact that the bad guys were a gay couple and that some people think Chris Carter was trying to say that gay men wish they had a woman's body...I don’t agree with that at all. I just think that they were written as gay because that was part of the connection between the bald guy and Father Joe; and they used a woman’s body because that was the only one that was available with that rare blood type.

There were some fun Easter eggs for longtime fans (geeks!) of the show (myself included): the contacts on Mulder's cell were names of behind the scenes people, Chris Carter was sitting in a hallway holding someone's ashes in an urn, and other fun stuff that to be honest, I sort of completely missed.

Overall, I thought the movie was very enjoyable. I think it succeeded as a film because it stayed true to the characterizations and themes of the show, which is quite a siginificant achievement, considering that it's been what, 5 years since it went off the air? The flip side of that, of course, is that it wasn't a movie for everyone and reviews were lukewarm at best and its domestic box office was relatively low. I hope that the movie does well enough in foreign box office for it to merit another installment (at least make back its $30 mil cost).

Besides, colonization is supposed to begin on December 22, 2012. They can't just leave us hanging like that!

And because this is a pretty lame review, I'll end it with a cool video made by someone else so you'll leave feeling like you just read something AWESOME:

Note to Self: When Colonization begins in 2012, there's a PLAM in the Smithsonian.

NMAH | Smithsonian Wants to Believe! National Museum of American History Acquires X-Files Collection: "During a special ceremony today, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History received a collection of objects from “The X-Files,” the television series and movie franchise. Twentieth Century Fox together with Chris Carter, series and film writer, director and producer, and Frank Spotnitz, series and film director and producer, presented an annotated script from the series’ pilot episode, FBI badges, posters and other objects to the museum’s entertainment collections."

The movie opens a week from tomorrow! Because I'll be in the middle of Nowhere, Maine, I'm going to miss seeing it on opening night. Hopefully I'll be able to dodge spoilers until I can get myself to a theater.

XF Trailers

Two of the TV spots that are currently airing are included in the video. The second one is one I hadn't seen yet.

Woo!

For Johnny Canuck.

"The answers are there. You just have to know where to look."

FOX has released a new theatrical trailer for the X-Files movie that is much more informative and better than the teaser trailer (which I suppose is the point). It's up at YouTube, but I'm not sure for how long so watch it while you can:



You can also click here to view a better quality version.

Aaaand, how about some new, high-quality stills from the movie:



I may be alone in this opinion, but I do think her hair is too long. Whenever I see her I want to cut off about 4 or 5 inches. I hope it doesn't bother me while I'm watching to movie!

Official I Want To Believe Trailer

XF2 Stuff

More promotional photos from the movie [No Spoilers]:

More XF Scraps!

First, the new movie finally has a title! It is, appropriately enough, The X-Files: I Want To Believe.

Second, here's a good article written by someone who toured the set during filming. Some things might be considered spoilery by some, but I didn't think so. Here's a snippet:

So, what is Mulder and Scully up against this time...an alien menace, more government spooks, Scully's offspring back for revenge like the Davies baby? Try an X-file that has never been covered before. Hard to believe, I know. "I have to say it was challenging after 202 hours to find something that wasn't done," admits Spotnitz. "That isn't to say there are not elements - there will always be [familiar] elements - but the fundamental idea is different from anything we had done in the show. What we also wanted was an X-file, however fractured, that could serve as a mirror to Mulder and Scully - we were looking for a case that could expose things about them."

There are links to interviews with Duchovny and Anderson at the bottom of that article, too.

Last but not least, another still from the movie:

Chicken Soup for the Geeky Soul

So, yeah, I'm still sick. In fact, I'm waiting for a call back from the doctor as we speak, and hoping that he'll call in an antibiotic or something. I need SLEEP and this cough is KILLING ME.

I found some new pictures from the XF2 movie, though, and they made me feel a little better.

I found another version of the XF trailer!

Watch it before FOX makes them take it down.



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Believe Again

The X-Files trailer that was shown at the Paley Festival last night!!



ETA: FOX SUCKS.

Geekalicious

There was an X-Files panel at a convention last weekend - NO, I didn't GO - and there are a few good video clips from it floating around on YouTube, if you're interested in hearing about the new movie.

This one is a video of a video - a sneak peek at the trailer:



And this is a short interview with Gillian Anderson:



Wee!

Fangirl Moment

OhmyGodthefirstofficialphotoofMulderandScullyfromthenewX-Filesmovie!!OhmyGod!

Sorry. I can't help it.






















ETA: I just found another one!