I want to believe too.
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nolawitch58Weird is sleeping with a person and still addressing him/her by last name. I mean, after you've boffed each other, you can call each other Fox and Dana, for crying out loud. That sorta irked me.
More irked was the sister-in-law. She confessed she didn't much like the movie as we were navigating traffic back to my place. She didn't elaborate, and I'll probably find out tomorrow evening at the Zephyrs game we're all going to attend. I strongly suspect she didn't care for the ambivalent religious overtones and undertones. The "psychic" was a priest defrocked for molesting altar boys. Even though he turned out to be right about his "visions," he didn't even get to know he was right before he got conveniently killed off with lung cancer.
The Catholic hospital Scully worked in wasn't portrayed very pleasantly. The priest in the hospital administration didn't want to save her child patient with experimental stem cell treatment. And I seriously would NOT want my doctor performing treatment on me that she had just recently fucking Googled anyway. My eyes were rolling hugely over that tidbit. I also didn't really give a shit whether the kid lived or died; he wasn't even a McGuffin in the story.
Seriously, can't any writer have FBI characters do the believable thing? Do no members of law enforcement in the fictional world call for backup...ever? The way Clarice Starling got into her OMGWTFBBQ scrape at the end of Silence of the Lambs was inadvertant. It was well written with cross cutting to make the viewer think the FBI team were arresting the perp at the same time. She was just there to interview Jaime Gumm for additional material for the file. Fox Mulder knew he was walking into the epicenter of evil without backup, a weapon or even his damned cell phone. He had a pretty good idea that it wasn't a one-man operation, that there would be a number of accomplices. He was cocky in the TV show, but I never thought of him as doing stupid things. Maybe his character was re-rejecting his FBI training, but I don't think you can really do that when the stakes are above and beyond your own skin.
The writing was weak in spots and the plot had holes you could drive a snowplow through. I guess I expected the acting to be bigger than the small screen that spawned it. I wanted Duchovny and Anderson to expand on their characters and add layers of depth that weren't possible on TV. Maybe they couldn't within the weak script they were given.
It must have sucked pretty bad to work that film as crew. The snow was piled up everywhere and it was obviously cold as hell. Yeah, stand around outside up to your knees in snow in the freezing cold. Where do I sign up for that? Not!
More irked was the sister-in-law. She confessed she didn't much like the movie as we were navigating traffic back to my place. She didn't elaborate, and I'll probably find out tomorrow evening at the Zephyrs game we're all going to attend. I strongly suspect she didn't care for the ambivalent religious overtones and undertones. The "psychic" was a priest defrocked for molesting altar boys. Even though he turned out to be right about his "visions," he didn't even get to know he was right before he got conveniently killed off with lung cancer.
The Catholic hospital Scully worked in wasn't portrayed very pleasantly. The priest in the hospital administration didn't want to save her child patient with experimental stem cell treatment. And I seriously would NOT want my doctor performing treatment on me that she had just recently fucking Googled anyway. My eyes were rolling hugely over that tidbit. I also didn't really give a shit whether the kid lived or died; he wasn't even a McGuffin in the story.
Seriously, can't any writer have FBI characters do the believable thing? Do no members of law enforcement in the fictional world call for backup...ever? The way Clarice Starling got into her OMGWTFBBQ scrape at the end of Silence of the Lambs was inadvertant. It was well written with cross cutting to make the viewer think the FBI team were arresting the perp at the same time. She was just there to interview Jaime Gumm for additional material for the file. Fox Mulder knew he was walking into the epicenter of evil without backup, a weapon or even his damned cell phone. He had a pretty good idea that it wasn't a one-man operation, that there would be a number of accomplices. He was cocky in the TV show, but I never thought of him as doing stupid things. Maybe his character was re-rejecting his FBI training, but I don't think you can really do that when the stakes are above and beyond your own skin.
The writing was weak in spots and the plot had holes you could drive a snowplow through. I guess I expected the acting to be bigger than the small screen that spawned it. I wanted Duchovny and Anderson to expand on their characters and add layers of depth that weren't possible on TV. Maybe they couldn't within the weak script they were given.
It must have sucked pretty bad to work that film as crew. The snow was piled up everywhere and it was obviously cold as hell. Yeah, stand around outside up to your knees in snow in the freezing cold. Where do I sign up for that? Not!
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Date: 2008-07-31 08:53 pm (UTC)