No. Not neat. Enough with the movies based on TV Shows and other novies and bad books. Write an original movie, for chrissakes.

All I remember of the first movie was thinking "huh, Scully sleeps in her makeup?'.

Actually, I didn't even like the first movie. But somehow I was recently reminded of how much fun the series was in the first couple of seasons, and they claim it's going to be more of that. Guilty pleasure, I guess, but I'm looking forward to it.

I haven't seen any movies on the horizon that look particularly wonderful to me, but the best ones always catch you by surprise anyway. I remember having first heard of Rushmore the first day it opened in the theater. I lived in Raleigh NC. I remember watching it and realizing halfway through that I was watching one of my new favorite movies.

For what it's worth, I think it will be entertaining. Got to be no worse than anything on TV. And if it is like the first couple seasons of the show, even better.

I'd probably go see it, but I wouldn't expect much. I didn't like the first movie, or much of the last 2 seasons of the x-files. But I'd still go see it. Sort of like the Simpsons movie. Didn't expect much. Wasn't very good. Still had to see it. Hollywood +6 bucks.

Oddly enough, wife and I just watched the original film yesterday, as part of our Epic Series Watch-through.

It was a totally decent flick. Had that same sense of being kind of a long, big-budget episode that you see with a lot of TV-to-film projects (especially, I think, since this was functionally an in-series 'episode', not a Firefly-style last hurrah), but for that they did a pretty good job of putting it together.

Some of the parts that creaked a little bit were owed, as much as anything, to the fact that they were trying to make it workable for folks who hadn't followed the show—Mulder gives one of the better forced-exposition bits I can remember seeing when, early in the film, he does a rapid-fire recap of five-plus years of his FBI career to a bartender who then promptly eighty-sixes him.

I don't know basically anything about the new movie, but I'm stoked the way a fan gets stoked, helplessly, hopelessly. It's more. There's going to be more. That's good enough for me.

Actually, I didn't even like the first movie. But somehow I was recently reminded of how much fun the series was in the first couple of seasons, and they claim it's going to be more of that.

It's funny; season one is actually pretty goddam rough. Watching it after the fact, having seen where the show went, it's clear that for all the charm in the beginnings of it and some of the nice bits they pulled off that first year, they really made some shitty episodes along the way. Some excruciating lines in there, and some really bad directing; one episode has a show-long confrontation between Mulder and a local PD heavy that was almost vaudeville except not on purpose. Oof.

Season two evens out some, there's an obvious stride developing, but I feel like it wasn't till season three that I saw the first Really Great Episode—it took the show that long to get comfortable in its own skin, to really click so well that they could sort of look at themselves and laugh and still make it work.

All I remember of the first movie was thinking "huh, Scully sleeps in her makeup?'.

All women always sleep in makeup and in pretty underwear don't take this away from me.

Sometimes when we have sleepover pillowfights and practice kissing on each other and stuff, the makeup can get kind of messed up, chris - and the pretty underwear might become disheveled. I hope this doesn't ruin your nice fantasy! I just have to be brutally honest here. It's for your own good.

*pillowfights taz*

thanks to cortex I have a new verb in my vocab, "eighty-six". Only problem is I'll never use it!

All I remember of the first movie was thinking "huh, Scully sleeps in her makeup?'.

There's an episode in the fifth season where a vacationing Scully gets woken up by her Mom or something because there's a cop at the door to see her; she's pointedly not made-up at the time, which I that was a nice nod to the idea of normalcy. Not sure what the implied elapsed time between rousing and greeting was supposed to be, though, because she was done up by the time she got downstairs.

Super efficient? Taking her damn time? Eff the continuity? Who knows.

I think they did a lot of post-processing of scenes for color during the series: on the face of it you'd think Scully just chose really, really odd shades of lipstick sometimes, but I reckon it's the scene-long tweak to more important stuff like skin-tone that just sort shifted the lip color along as well, taking something fairly normal and turning it to Dead Worm Grey.

The alternate possibility that Scully does, in fact, own a tube of Dead Worm Grey that she whips out for special occasions is kind of compelling too, though.

Thanks, taz. I guess I'll just have to deal with it. Ho-hum.