X-FILES: I WANNA BE LEAVING...

POOR 20th CENTURY-FOX -- TWO WEEKS AFTER THEY CRASHED-and-BURNED with 2008's BIGGEST B.O. BUST, MEET DAVE...and ONE WEEK AFTER the DECIDEDLY EARTH-BOUND SPACE CHIMPS MADE 'EM LOOK LIKE CHUMPS... THEY ALSO RELEASED the MOST UN-NECESSARY, UN-ANTICIPATED SEQUEL of the YEAR: X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE...

NEVER HAVING BEEN FANS of the SERIES (BUT HAVING BEEN to the ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO "UFO MUSEUM") WE WERE CURIOUS HOW THIS ONE MIGHT TURN OUT. WORD-of-MOUTH, BOX OFFICE and the CRIX OVER at R.T. ALL SUGGEST NO ONE OVER at AREA 57 HAS ANYTHING to WORRY ABOUT...

SO, FORUM FILERS -- WE WANNA BELIEVE YOU WANNA HAVE YOUR SAY, TOO, SO... HERE's YOUR CHANCE!

GILLIAN: "I took a tip from Laurence Olivier when he made INCHON , and insisted they pay me in cash..."

DAVID: "Thank God we didn't agree to work for box office points!"

I hate to say it, but X-Files has definitely worn out its welcome, and should have just been left it alone. A follow up was not necessary, and it's painful to see the franchise dragged through the dirt. The only saving grace at Fox, is that of all the crap they've released this summer, this may be one of the their lesser financial disasters (since it only cost around $35 million to make).    

Unless the series still has quite a few hardcore fans left, I seriously doubt this movie is any threat to Dark Knight's reign as B.O. champion.

The show stopped being any good around the time the first film came out. Despite the story never being appropriately concluded, this still isn't a worthy endeavor. It's too far gone for compelling drama to be evoked from material that has been as ravaged as The X-Files.

The franchise is creatively dead and it should be put out of its misery because of that. It's gone from being a serious attempt at being an engaging science fiction tale to, as has already been pointed out, an effort to squeeze as much money as possible out of a property.

RESPONSE from Head RAZZberry: Then you should be pleased to know that the "prettyboy" was nominated for a total of 3 RAZZIES®, and "won" a Worst Supporting Actor trophy for his portrayal of "Darth Whiner." 

And he may well be back in our Worst Actor category this year for JUMPER -- Although the competition in that category (including Stallone in RAMBO, Al Pacino in 88 MINUTES, Mike Myers in LOVE GURU, Eddie Murphy in MEET DAVE, etc.) is already pretty stiff this year... 

Yes, I knew Christensen was a Razzie "winner" -- and he deserved it so badly! As much as I would like him to "win" again for ruining "Jumper" (along with the crappy script), I have a strong feeling it will come down to Myers vs. Murphy.

Originally posted by HeadRAZZBerry RESPONSE from Head RAZZberry: Then you should be pleased to know that the "prettyboy" was nominated for a total of 3 RAZZIES®, and "won" a Worst Supporting Actor trophy for his portrayal of "Darth Whiner."  And he may well be back in our Worst Actor category this year for JUMPER -- Although the competition in that category (including Stallone in RAMBO, Al Pacino in 88 MINUTES, Mike Myers in LOVE GURU, Eddie Murphy in MEET DAVE, etc.) is already pretty stiff this year...

 

This just in:

Actress Gillian Anderson is blaming the popularity of new Batman movie The Dark Knight for her The X-Files film's low box office grosses.

The X-Files: I Want To Believe, starring Anderson and David Duchovny, earned a disappointing $10.2 million (GBP5.1 million) in its opening weekend (26-27Jul08) in the U.S., while The Dark Knight took an impressive $75 million (GBP37.5 million) in that same weekend.

And Anderson is convinced that her movie - based on the hit TV show - is suffering because so many people are flocking to see the Batman sequel instead: "It's (The X-Files film) had a bit of a rough time in the States. It's opening against one of the highest grossing movies, Batman. People in the States are so used to lots of CGI (computer-generated imagery), action and sex -- and we don't really offer a lot of that in this film."

Clearly she hasn't seen the movie. Because if she did, she would know "Dark Knight" doesn't have excessive CGI -- or sex either. Just a great script, and excellent acting to back it up.

That being the case, she's still blaming the paying audiences' tastes in movies for her movie's poor box office, when the real culprit is the really lame movie itself.