THE NEW X FILES MOVIE!!!!!!!!

[cal125]

...was due to come out on my birthday but has now been put back to 1st August... I am sooooooooooo annoyed! Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh! As is my mother who was looking forward to seeing it with me since I'll be down there visiting for the week (my birthday and my mother's are just 4 days apart so we always spend the week together as a family, though I am having one night in my favourite hotel in Perth just before I go.)

I now have the dilemma of deciding whether to go and see it as soon as I can on my return to Edinburgh or wait until I'm next in Inverness and make up for the release date disappointment by seeing it in the city of my dreams. I'm going up on 19th August for a week. How likely is it to still be on then???

[cal125]

I went to see it in Perth, since it is already down to one screening per day in the evening everywhere and I'll be an Edinburgh Festival refugee for most of the rest of the month in Pitlochry and Inverness. There isn't a cinema in Pitlochry as far as I know and I seriously doubt that it will still be on by the time I go to Inverness. Couldn't be doing with the hassle of fighting through the crowds to go to an evening showing here so I went up to Perth yesterday and stayed over.

It's very impressive but extremely dark and heavy, with much angst and little of the banter and one-liners which so successfully balanced out the depressing themes of many of the crimes in the TV series. You don't have to have seen the series to enjoy the film as it has a stand-alone storyline but there are references to people, events and cases from the series as well as some of the long running plot threads such as Mulder's grief over his abducted sister Samantha. There isn't as much of the supernatural as you might expect either; that occurs in the visions of a suspect but otherwise the main themes are religious rather than paranormal. I enjoyed seeing it and am glad I went but it was different from what I expected.

[FireFox]

I wish I had got to see that now, drat.

[mrs sixx]

Used to love xfiles. An excellent show of how the paranormal effects us..... no ... it was always a showcase of how good lookin the protagonists were! Much respect for the ephemeral gillian anderson (a true beauty) but the californicated duchovnay? He's just wee mikey douglas.

[cal125]

I completely agree re Gillian. So glad they didn't use a stereotypical female lead. She kept it real, made it work and ended up with just as much of a following as an enhanced, posing supermodel type would have.