The X-Files - Worth Watching? — Page 3

Author: Mike O
Time: 26-Sep-2006 6:22 PM
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father

Originally posted by: JediSage
Are there any more spinoffs or movies in the works?

All the key players have said they would be up for making a second movie. You can sign a petiton for a new movie here

Which is all good and well, but egos, money, and rights clashes have to be considered.

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Author: Yoda Is Your Father
Time: 26-Sep-2006 9:00 PM
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Originally posted by: Mike O

Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
What do you mean Mike?

The show is fictional, but for the most part the stories are based on actual phenomenon/legends. Whether or not Aliens and abductions are actually real I can't say (I believe they are, btw).

I mean are they real on the show?

Yeah, they are real on teh show. i.e, Mulder is not paranoid - this shit is really happening: he just has trouble getting evidence to make other people believe him.

War does not make one great.

Author: Mike O
Time: 26-Sep-2006 9:41 PM
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father

Originally posted by: Mike O

I mean are they real on the show?

Yeah, they are real on teh show. i.e, Mulder is not paranoid - this shit is really happening: he just has trouble getting evidence to make other people believe him.

Interestingly phrased. And thank you. As I understand it, the production values were top notch, and nearly every episode look like a mini-movie with high quality photography, score, and special effects.

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Author: Yoda Is Your Father
Time: 27-Sep-2006 12:27 AM
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Yeah - the cinematography in particular is phenomenal.

War does not make one great.

Author: Mike O
Time: 27-Sep-2006 2:07 AM
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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Author: Yoda Is Your Father
Time: 27-Sep-2006 2:43 AM
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The DOP on the show was a guy called Bill Roe. His work on the X-Files won him the ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a TV Series (he was also a nominee a number of times). I would personally say that at times the show reached a level of cinematography on a par with cinematic quality (and at times better). The look of the X-Files has been shamelessy copied ever since to the point where people don't know what they are looking at is a rip-off because it's so common (kinda like the Matrix / bullet time).

War does not make one great.

Author: JediSage
Time: 27-Sep-2006 4:31 AM
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All this talk about the show reminds me of something my brother said:

We used to see previews for it all the time on Fox Sunday Nights, and one night he yells, just out of the blue..."Scully is still a skeptic?! How many anal probes does it take??!!"

Nemo me impune lacessit

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Author: Stinky-Dinkins
Time: 27-Sep-2006 11:59 AM
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17 anal probes.

Author: Mike O
Time: 27-Sep-2006 5:12 PM
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
The DOP on the show was a guy called Bill Roe. His work on the X-Files won him the ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a TV Series (he was also a nominee a number of times). I would personally say that at times the show reached a level of cinematography on a par with cinematic quality (and at times better). The look of the X-Files has been shamelessy copied ever since to the point where people don't know what they are looking at is a rip-off because it's so common (kinda like the Matrix / bullet time).

The Matrix borrowed from its fair share. I love the movie, but I'd be very surprised if there's a single original idea in it.

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

Author: Yoda Is Your Father
Time: 27-Sep-2006 8:53 PM
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You get what I'm saying though, right? - a fairly original idea which eventually bacme way over-used and commonplace due to the popularity of the movie/show it featured in.

Originally posted by: JediSage
Scully is still a skeptic?! How many anal probes does it take??!!"
Originally posted by: Stinky-Dinkins
17 anal probes.

I personally became a believer after only 14 anal probes.

War does not make one great.

Author: ADigitalMan
Time: 28-Sep-2006 10:00 AM
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I think I may have posted this in the past, but it definitely merits re-posting in this thread. A set of lyrics by Don Henley on the subject of Alien Visitation. Great tune from Inside Job...

They're Not Here, They're Not Coming

(Don Henley/Stan Lynch)

From the Arizona desert
To the Salisbury Plain
Lights on the horizon
Patterns on the grain
Anxious eyes turned upward
Clutching souvenirs
Carrying our highest hopes and our darkest fears

They swear there was an accident back in '47
Little man with a great big head
Splattered down from heaven
Government conspiracy; cover-ups and lies
Hidden in the desert under endless skies

Well, it's a cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold
Post, postmodern world
No time for heroes, no place for good guys
No room for Rocky The Flying Squirrel

They're not here, they're not coming
Not in a million years
Turn your weary eyes back homeward
Stop your trembling, dry your tears
You may see the heavens flashing
You may hear the cosmos humming
But I promise you, my brother
They're not here, they're not coming

Would they pile into the saucer
Find Orlando's rat and hug it?
Go screaming through the universe
Just to get McNuggets?
Well, I don't think so, I don't think so
It's much too dangerous, it's much too strange
Here in a world that won't give Oprah no home on the range

Well, it's a cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold
Post, postmodern world
No authenticity, no sign of soul
The radio won't play George and Merle

They're not here, they're not coming
Not in a million years
'Til we put away our hatred
'Til we lay aside our fears
You may see the heavens flashing
You may hear the cosmos humming
But I promise you, my sister
They're not here, they're not coming

To this garden we were given
And always took for granted
It's like my daddy told me, “You just bloom where you're planted.”
Now you long to be delivered
From this world of pain and strife
That's a sorry substitution for a spiritual life

Well, it's a cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold
Post, postmodern world
No place for sentiment, no room for romance
Bring back the Duke of Earl

They're not here, they're not coming
Not in a million years
Turn your hopes back homeward
Hold your children, dry their tears
You may see the heavens flashing
You may hear the cosmos humming
But I promise you, my brother
They're not here, they're not coming

They're not here, they're not coming
Not in a million years
'Til we put away our hatred
And lay aside our fears
You may see the heavens flashing
You may hear the cosmos humming
But I promise you, my brother
They're not here, they're not coming

I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.

Author: Stinky-Dinkins
Time: 28-Sep-2006 11:16 AM
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
You get what I'm saying though, right? - a fairly original idea which eventually bacme way over-used and commonplace due to the popularity of the movie/show it featured in.

Originally posted by: JediSage
Scully is still a skeptic?! How many anal probes does it take??!!"
Originally posted by: Stinky-Dinkins
17 anal probes.

I personally became a believer after only 14 anal probes.

It took 19 for me, but 11 were voluntary.

Author: JediSage
Time: 2-Oct-2006 11:17 AM
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Well, just finished the second disc of the first season. You guys were right...what an awful set of "Monster of the Week" episodes, though I did like "Ice" where they were trapped at the Arctic Circle. I think the episode where the computer takes over an office building is one of the worst examples of bad sci-fi I've ever seen.

However, I'm still looking forward to the next one so I can get into the mytharc asap.

Nemo me impune lacessit

http://ttrim.blogspot.com

Author: Yoda Is Your Father
Time: 2-Oct-2006 2:14 PM
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Originally posted by: JediSage
I think the episode where the computer takes over an office building is one of the worst examples of bad sci-fi I've ever seen.

Wait until you see the episode where Mulder gets trapped in a video game - TV cancer. It doesn't happen tillseason 7 or 8 though so don't worry.

War does not make one great.

Author: ADigitalMan
Time: 3-Oct-2006 10:57 AM
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father

Originally posted by: JediSage
I think the episode where the computer takes over an office building is one of the worst examples of bad sci-fi I've ever seen.

Wait until you see the episode where Mulder gets trapped in a video game - TV cancer. It doesn't happen tillseason 7 or 8 though so don't worry.

Oh, but it guest starred the ever-hot Krista Allen as "Jade Blue Afterglow." If you were looking for serious TV, that episode ain't it. But it was damn funny watching every male's tongue hanging out when she was on screen. Funnier still was Scully's exasperation.

I am fluent in over six million forms of procrastination.

Author: Stinky-Dinkins
Time: 3-Oct-2006 5:08 PM
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Didn't Duchovny create/direct/write/something that episode? I specifically remember a few episodes creted by certain cast members.

Author: JediSage
Time: 28-Oct-2006 4:43 PM
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Just picked up the third disc of the first season. Watching the one with the space program, where the face on Mars is attacking people. This too, I think is one of the awful episodes. Hoping it gets better...

Nemo me impune lacessit

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Author: C3PX
Time: 30-Oct-2006 10:23 AM
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That episode is one of the worse ever. Just hang in until season three, some of those episodes get quite good.

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

Author: JediSage
Time: 30-Oct-2006 12:13 PM
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Originally posted by: C3PX
That episode is one of the worse ever. Just hang in until season three, some of those episodes get quite good.

Yes, I followed that ep with the one about the Adam & Eve project, with the twin 9 year-olds with the genetically enhanced abilities. That was a good episode. Watching the one called "Fire" now where the guy is roasting people with some kind of pyro-ability.

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Author: Krycek87
Time: 30-Oct-2006 12:15 PM
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You should have just watched the Mythology Packs instead.

Author: JediSage
Time: 30-Oct-2006 12:22 PM
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Originally posted by: Krycek87
You should have just watched the Mythology Packs instead.

Not sure if those are available via Netflix. That's the way I'm doing it...I'll have to check it out, though.

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Author: ChainsawAsh
Time: 30-Oct-2006 3:52 PM
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In which case, be sure to fit the movie in after the episode "THE END" and before "THE BEGINNING" in the second or third set. I think it's the third (Colonization).

Author: DrCrowTStarwars
Time: 19-Feb-2015 12:03 AM
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Drop everything you are doing and go watch it now.

This show is worth watching for any Sci-fi fan.