Comments on: Dark Knight vs. X-Files: Nerd Without Pity

by: Adrienne

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:36:59 +0000

Sorry, Hear.

by: Adrienne

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:26:47 +0000

Oh, and i apologize for spelling Mulder’s name wrong, twice. Like i said, i’m not a qualified nerd. Just a nerd appreciator! Thanks for all the work you guys do, you get us less dedicated X-Files-Star Wars-Comic Book-Fans, through all the WTF moments of our lives…
(the Real Men of Genuis Song is playing in the background somewhere, if you listen hard enough i’m sure you’ll here it)

by: Adrienne

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:13:03 +0000

I knew one of you guys (apparently it was you, Mr. Todd Seavey) would be out there to explain the WTF questions i had floating around in my not nerdy enough brain, since coming home from the second “film.” The only thing that brought me any real satisfaction about this “sequel” was seeing actual proof that Moulder was finally and truly getting some. By the last few seasons, X-Files should have been renamed B-Balls. If you can’t figure out what the capital “B” stands for, you aren’t truly a nerd. (Isn’t that right boys!)

Yay Moulder, tap that a**. Good for you buddy.

Boo to the cock tease that was this movie, I’m sad too . . . I think I now know what all of those Soprano’s fans actually felt in their last moments.

by: Todd Seavey

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:32:40 +0000

Lynch himself now calls _Dune_ a disaster and asked to have his name taken off it. Too many minute details were crammed into every throwaway line of dialogue to allow for anything like a normal flowing plot.

_Pitch Black_ was good precisely because it was very sparse and straightforward — its sequel, _Chronicles of Riddick_, had overblown pretensions of being, well, _Dune_ but was as full of choppily-cut fight scenes and dumb, hammy dialogue as any low-budget USA Network barbarian film with Rutger Hauer.

I think you could safely skip all three, really.

by: Dee Lightful

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:45:29 +0000

Dune the David Lynch version is terrible? I haven’t seen enough of it, but it looks good. As for Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black, weren’t those fun and good too?

by: Yancey Ward

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:35:07 +0000

Ah, The X-Files- what a glorious beginning it had! I was an avid fan for about 5 seaons, but the series degraded so badly that I never even watch much of the last two seasons, and felt no particular need to see this movie (whose making was a complete surprise to me). Having read this blog entry, I am sure I will never watch it. I think I will just hang on to the memory of what it once was.

by: T.A.B.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:42:59 +0000

I too loved Dark Knight and didn’t even bother to catch X-Files. Speaking of Doctor Who, my girlfriend made these which did, in fact, make me laugh out loud.

by: Todd Seavey

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:23:58 +0000

By the way, for the tiny handful who care, the one spoiler worth mentioning from the X-Files movie: to convince Mulder and Scully, who are living together, to investigate the murders in the film, the government drops the charges that were filed against Mulder at the end of the TV series.

So aside from that imminent — but here unmentioned — 2012 alien invasion, our heroes should be fine now. (Or maybe the aliens’ vulnerability to magnetite convinced them to give up on their invasion plans. I give up, in any case.)

by: jenny

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:45:00 +0000

chronicles of riddick is one of my favorite terrible sci-fi movies - and one of the few movies that is far more watchable on television than it was in the theater.

it even has an actor connection with batman begins - linus roache, who played the blonde furian and bruce wayne’s father.