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X-FILES Sequel Director Chris Carter To Paley Crowd: We’re Tussling Over Title!!
I am – Hercules!!
Chris Carter and 20th Century Fox are fighting over the “hush-hush” title to the second “X-Files” movie due July 25, relays James Hibberd of The Hollywood Reporter in his report from the Wednesday “X-Files” Paley Fest event at the Arclight in Hollywood.
"I know what I want it to be, but Fox has ideas of their own," Carter told the Paley crowd. "I know what it should be."
From Hibberd’s piece:
The film will pick up six years after the end of the series. It's supposed to be a standalone feature removed from the alien mythology of the TV show, a throwback to the show's "monster of the week" episodes. Still, some lingering aspects from the series, like whether Scully's child will be a normal tyke, will be addressed. "It will not be a mythology movie, but it's true to everything that's come before," says writer-producer Frank Spotnitz.
The creators also talk about, perhaps for the first time since 9/11, the March 2001 pilot of spinoff “The Lone Gunmen,” which featured a hijacked jetliner nearly connecting with The World Trade Center.
Read all of the report from the Paley event here.
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That Carter takes responsibility for the events of 9/11. I'm kidding but would love to see that episode. Never saw one episode of Lone Gunmen, was it cancelled before 9/11 because of bad ratings or after?
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but i'll go see it if nothing better is playing at the same time.
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Smite these multi-title spamming assholes with the Ban Hammer.
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So it'll pick up all those horrible plot lines from the last four seasons? Wonderful.
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it was cancelled after if i'm correct, but the series is on dvd if u wanna check it out. it isnt really a bad show, it just had the unfortunate reality of being the spinoff of X-Files. so everyone was thrown by the completely different tone and style. but if you enjoyed the 2 Gunmen-centric episodes they made then you'll likely enjoy this show.
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...Mr. Nice Gaius? The enitre POINT of this talkback is to suggest alternate titles. You goof.
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So Agreed To Another Movie...she really hates this job
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Even the core audience has crumbled.. this better get GREAT word of mouth or its gonna die badly.
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KWIS?
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X-Files 2: Terminators Take Over Earth
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Seriously, it started out OK, but by the end it was like someone just transcribed their notes and didn't bother to actually put it into actual sentences that made sense.
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Given that Hollywood loves to reboot every old franchise, really surprised they didn't recast Mulder and Scully.
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capable anymore? I used to come to the TB for some decent flame wars, a witty comment or two and maybe even some film discussion and now all there is now are lame ass humorous titles for everything. Shame on you assholes.
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No, the point is that you multi-title spammers KILL Talkbacks. Actual discussion of any said topic goes right out the window. What's the use in trying to interject something worthwhile when it gets devoured by a million phony titles.Look, I know we all like to have fun. It's just that this multi-title trend is beyond tiresome.
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Amen.
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Sure, some are lame, but there are occasionally some laugh-out-loud gems. Usually it's just a subject header, so you can just breeze by them.
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Please? Before it's too late!
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I'm in.
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I must have subliminally read yours.
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Mar 27, 2008 12:06:03 PM CDT
Just stick a big, grand Roman numeral after the title and be don
by henry jones sr
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unless they were holding a double feature w/ the original, there should be no confusion @ the box office about which x-files movie u want 2 c. if it worked for RAMBO...zeppelin...peter gabriel...seal...
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gimme dap?
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a buncha times?
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The WTC was already attacked once years before in 1993 and alongside the ESB, it's the most recognizable building in the US. Having a story where a plane flies or almost flies into it isn't all that far out a plot point that the writers can be called Nostradamus or anything. Now if there was a story about someone firing a cruise missile up the Statue of Liberty's snatch and the terrorists later did THAT, then I'd say they had something but the terrorists didn't need that episode of the Lone Gunmen to get the idea. No one in America, much less a bunch of muslim extremists watched that show anyway. And maybe an article about a show's title was the wrong place to bitch about the constant title jokes but it's in every Goddamn thread already.
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It's a prequel...
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I mean, that's what all this silly Russian hikers stuff that's suddenly appeared is anyway, isn't it? Viral marketing.
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We'll set in high school, and a young Mulder works for the school paper investigating paranormal stuff like a gooey locker, or some girl's virginity mysteriously disappearing. Then one day a young Scully transfers in. And of course there's -- wait for it -- Principal Skinner.
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yay for a new title thread!
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Buzzzzzzzz.
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It was pretty clear Mulder was a wanted man and the world was going to end in 2012...so how do they get around that?
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Brought to you by Alfred E. Neuman.
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and bean counters at Fox probably want to cash in on the name recognition.
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This could be the new Terminator 4 talkback.So just to get these out of the way...
The A-Files. - The B-Files. - The C-Files. - The D-Files. - The E-Files. - The F-Files. - The G-Files. - The H-Files. - The I -Files. - The J-Files. - The K-Files. - The L-Files. - The M-Files. - The N-Files. - The O-Files. - The P-Files. - The Q-Files. - The R-Files. - The S-Files. - The T-Files. - The U-Files. - The V-Files. - The W-Files. - The Z-Files. - The 1-Files. - The 2-Files. - The 3-Files. - The 4-Files. - The 5-Files. - The 6-Files. - The 7-Files. - The 8-Files. - The 9-Files. - The 0-Files. - The Alpha-Files. - The Beta-Files. - The Delta-Files. - The Gamma-Files. - The Omega-Files. - The Led Zeppelin Runes-Files. -
Here is a nice on topic post about the controversy over the director of the next X-files movie and the studio disagreeing over what the title should be
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Here is a nice on topic post about the controversy over the director of the next X-files movie and the studio disagreeing over what the title should be
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Here is a nice on topic post about the controversy over the director of the next X-files movie and the studio disagreeing over what the title should be
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Here is a nice on topic post about the controversy over the director of the next X-files movie and the studio disagreeing over what the title should be
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Here is a nice on topic post about the controversy over the director of the next X-files movie and the studio disagreeing over what the title should be
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Here is a nice on topic post about the controversy over the director of the next X-files movie and the studio disagreeing over what the title should be
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Here is a nice on topic post about the controversy over the director of the next X-files movie and the studio disagreeing over what the title should be
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What a burnnnn for Skinner.
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Mar 27, 2008 6:33:38 PM CDT
but as I was saying.............................................
by napoleon park
I think a film should have a title so that persons who wish to purchase a ticket to see the film in a theater can verbally address the topic with the movie ticket salesperson rather than just say "Me want see movie!" and hope they get it right. Of course this only applies to multiple screen theaters, though most modern theaters are being built in that configuration.Another good reason for a film such as the new X-Files movie to have a title would be so that people who prefer to wait and then purchase the property on DVD can make their selection without having to point or obliquely describe the film to the help. And I realize that most DVD retailers are self-service establishments, but their merchandise is generally arranged in some sort of logical fashion both by genres and then, within those catagories, alphabetically. It would be hard to know where to file a film with no title.I don't actually think this would be a problem with NetFlix, at least while the rilm is less than a few years old. If you requested that they add "the new X-Files movie with no name" to your queue, they would probably locate it for you eventually.In conclusion, I think the new X-Files movie should have a title, though it would certainly not be my place, as someone who was never a regular viewer of the series, to suggest what that title should be.Happy now, Xiphos and Gaius?
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Scully on all fours. Vin Diesel provides the anal probe.
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Now, that's what I'm talking about! Well done, sir. What you did right there is exactly what this site needs more of. Creativity and wit...NOT multi-title spam. Kudos.
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...could have probably passed as an actual X-File.
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Damn those mutents.
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of the flesh variety
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Cause if this movie fails, we will never hear of the X-Files again in decades until someone decides to do a remake.
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Some kind of crossover with Bauer tagging along with Mulder and Scully would fit in nice with their COPS crossover. Or not...probably not...
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A zany "spoof" of he X-files with Pamela Anderson as Scully and Leslie Nielsen as Mulder!
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Mar 27, 2008 10:10:21 PM CDT
Cloverfield type movie was done on Xfiles with the COPS episode.
by stormwatcher
Still it would be cool to have a Clvoerfield style Xfiles where they fight a HUGE monster. Fight this future biatch!
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If I remember correctly, the reason why memories of this episode freaked out more than a few viewers (myself included), was not only because it involved a terrorist plot to attack America via crashing an airplane (along with hijacked passengers and crew) into one of the twin towers, (and c'mon guys... seeing that episode and then actually seeing a virtually identical scenario played out in real life a few months later was more than a bit sobering and creepy, at least just as much so as the attacks themselves were horrifying and devasting), but also because the episode stated that certain elements within the United States government (the Pentagon, if I recall correctly), were behind the plot. According to the storyline, with communism defeated our military bases were being decomissioned left and right by liberals who felt that America's collective Armed Forces and defense systems, otherwise known as the industrial war machine were no longer necessary (at least not to the size and scale which it had developed within the previous two decades). Democrates wanted to drain the defense budget so as to use the money on the domestic front (education, healthcare, etc...). And so, desperate to convince the American public that this was an extreme error and that the Country was not safe, the powers that be needed to use the politics of fear... to replace the Soviets with a newer, more fearsome enemy of our country. They chose terrorists as the logical threath for the next decade or so. I personally do not believe that our government was behind the actual 911 attacks, but a few elements of the episode storyline certainly ring true enough to breathe a bit of life into several possible conspiracy theories. And there are more than a few people out there who are only too happy to believe the absolute worst with regard to the present administration (of which I am certainly no fan). After all, for better or worse, America is the home of the conspiracy theory and what is the "X-Files" if not a brilliant television series centered around one of (if not the largest), fictional conspiracy theory of all time? Hell, speaking of real conspiracy theories, think about where the Lone Gunmen got their name from.
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Will Mulder scream, "KRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYCHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK?"
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Does any one remember the Hasselhof made for TV "Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD" on Fox? I watched it new and taped it. Years later, (after 9/11) I was at a friends watching the tape. When the villains from Hydra opened the back of their truck and their twin missile launchers were pointed straight at the World Trade Center towers, we both lost it and went "Holy sh*t, they're NEVER going to show this on TV again." As it happened, we were wrong and it did show up on a late show a few years after that.Which is cool. At the time, and for a while after, it seemed like the country would never heal. Or scrape off those multiple flag decals.
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erm no, i've seen multiple documentaries about 9/11 that include writers of that episode explaining how they'd been told by authorities that the hijackers had been planning the attack for nearly a year and that their episode wasn't responsible for the idea.
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Yeah I saw that Hasselhoff flick. Up there w/ the Dolph/Punisher IMO. But damn the Hoff looked just like Nick Fury. Damn you Hasselhoff!!!
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I mean, shit, how many times do I have to say this? If you insist on being an annoying prick and feel the need to fill the board with useless fake titles, AT LEAST ATTEMPT TO MAKE THEM HUMOROUS. There is not even one funny post up there.
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It's funny because it's true.
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Truth hurts, don't it, fucknuts? "Raiders of the X-Files Cabinet"??? Painful.
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Seriously can't smeone make a Kolchack sequel and remember the characters supposed to be mddle aged and funny, not thirty something and taking himself WAY TOO Seriously, with a dark and tragic past no less. People liked Mulder because he knew when to laugh at himself, how did Spotnitz an X-Files vet and fan of the original remember the value of that humor in X-Files and forget it in Night Stalker. The lost opportunity there still burns.
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American played by Matthew McConnhey or Brad Pitt with a tragic past, now fight corporate America and their dark conspiracies while looking dower and saying shit that's supposed to sound portentious with a straight face. And give him a spunky conservative love interest. That would be true to original.
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I'm trying here..
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Not funny, I know.
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Reboot the crossover episode. Be ballsy as all hell.
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I remember the pilot, it was supposed to be a group within the government that was crashing the plane into the WTC because they figured some terrorist group would take responsibility, and the would throw the country into an endless war, and these people would profit from the oil and arms deals. sound familiar? IT'S ALL A CONSPIRACY!
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You just suck. Shit, you can't even spell my name right. When you due back in Boystown?
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if he spelled your name wrong why did you think he was talking to you, ya conceited bastridge?Seriously, everyone griping about title parody posts should probably avoid reading articles with "creators argue over films title" in the headline.Also, XXX-File Stew, the story of a filing cabinet filled with an erotic blend of hot steamy meats, vegatabels and potatoes in a rich gravy redolent with the aromas of heady herbs and spices.Or as Bette Midler so elequently put it, fuck you if you can't take a joke.And before you sharpen your quill for a stinging roposte about how "jokes" are supposed to be funny, I know mine was lame. It's not easy to come up with a clever and on target quip for a show you only ever saw a couple of episodes of nearly a decade ago.Although I'll admit it does seem a little odd to have people tryig to seriously discuss fictional portrayals of events similar to 9/11 while a bunch of other people are making with the silly Electric Bugaloo comments.But if devoted X-Files fans actually want to discuss the program, they can go to the article with the nifty poster and abandon this one to the title spammers, okay?
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Knowing your "jokes" are lame and still posting them anyway is just sad. Especially when nobody asked you to come up with a clever and on target quip for a show you only ever saw a couple of episodes of nearly a decade ago anyway.
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the type of humor used in comic gems of films such as EPIC MOVIE and MEET THE SPARTANS. Grade A, guys, really. You should all join those writing teams. Send these examples and they'll hire you in a flash.
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Trumped my Bette Midler quote with a harry Callahan. Ouchie, ya got me there pard. How embarrassing of me to have posted in a public forum without anyone having asked me to. Show me your engraved invitation, buttocks-headgear. You're not so funny.
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An X-Files remake of Sleeping Beauty. With elves instead of dwarves, since dwarf is now the PC term for "little people" who were used to be called midgets. There are Seven Elves but #6 holds the key to the mystery. "I am not a number, I am a FREE ELF!"
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Mully and Sculder solve the murder of Caesar.
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S&M meaning Sculder and Mully, of course, not Sam & Max.
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It's a pun. Either you like puns or you don't.
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They used to be French girls (Filles is Canadienne for girls) but now, do to mysterious abductions and a strange experimental surgery, they're Dutch boys instead. How could that be? How can someones nationality be altered surgically? That's what Smelly and Colder have to find out.
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"2L" is leet-speak for "tool" - it's about a strange mysterious fantastic sex device that Smuddy finds embedded in her scarlet tressed muffington after a strange, mysterious drunken party.
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[okay I cheated and spelled out t w o] Something strange is happening with the towels. Something weird and out there.
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A strange incontinent mysterious Inuit brings Scummy and Ludder to an inexplicable continent
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because Satanistas are just dyslexic scilohtac.
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the prequel to "Les Fix 3: Still More Les Fix"
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Redrum and Culdysack must solve the mystery of life before it all stops.
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They wind up living together and she learns to regret the choices she's made, especially that one.
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S for Scully - I forgot the S in the previous title. My bad, totally.
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the lone gunmen theory about the 2000 election
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"Hello, I'm a Mulder""And I'm a Scully"
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More mysterious weirdness on mountain bikes.
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Because basically I'll watch anything with a Mimi Rogers nude scene.
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the offensively stereotypically Asian transposition of the L and r sounds version.
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Just so they can then release "X-Files 3: the Directive Cult the Directors Cut."
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I had a strange dream I was watching the first series of the X-Files and was inside the show last night. Maybe that's a subconscious urge to actually watch the show. To Bitlord.....
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Ironically, Noiretblanc's post made me laugh. The idea of an 'Internetland' alone is amusing enough, the fact that its governing system is a monarchy only adds to it. Bonus points for the use of "TUT TUT".
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Mulder discovers a cabal of a dozen women have gained control of New York's media - books, film, television - and the fashion and make-up industries and are Stepfordizing America's women. What is their ultimate goal and how can they possibly have time to drop everything and gather for champagne lunches whenever one of them has relationship issues? Scully infiltrates their inner circle but when she returns with a gorgeous make-over Mulder suspects genetically engineered cloning.
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Why did it take seven years for two partners with an obvious attraction to consumate their relationship? Mully looks in Sculders closet and whoops, there he is.
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Starring Adrian Brody and Alicia Witt
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Starring David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel.Yes, I stole that idea from the person who posted "X-Files 2: Bones". That was actually a very insightful comment, Zooch.
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Abducted cattle are returned with their hooves trimmed, filed, polished and buffed. Mulder just want to know one thing: WTF?
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And its un-amused king. Comedy gold.
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When his neglectful unloving mother sobers up and notices the stench, the rotting carcass of an internet troll is discovered in his mother's basement.Scully locates his walnut sized brain matter and determines he died of apparent loneliness and his humorless emotional development was stunted at the age when children try to get attention by being annoying and insulting their betters.Meanwhile Mulder goes on a year long search to find anyone who ever gave a rats ass what that person thought, only to give up when he realizes that no such person exists.And that boys name was... Sniper K.
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You probably thought that post was about you.
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Dana Scully )Gillian Anderson)and two alien women, Sally Solomon (Kristen Johnston) and Deanna Troi (Marina sirtis), hatch a plot to trick sci-fi fanboy geeks into thinking that plain looking women are attractive via pavlovian conditioning by playing romantic leads and sex symbols on cult favorite television shows. Mulder sees through the trick and marries the actress who played Scully in the movie-within-the-show (Tea Leoni).
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An early april fools gag gone horribly awry convinces people there will be a second X-files movie until they realize they actually have no recollection of there ever having been a first one.[Yes, I swiped that joke from Mel Brooks "Spaceballs 3: the Search for Spaceballs 2"]
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More wacky hijinks with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neil, only this time weird and spooky. [Also a none too subtle shout out to Doc Manhattan. Whuzzup?]
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Dana teams up with a forensic anthropologist and they commiserate with one another about how frustrating it is to work with an FBI agent who won't fuck then no matter how many hints they drop.
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Because it's like "skull and bones" the warning label on poison bottles and pirate ships. It's a pun, get it? Because those are the name and nickname of the female leads on two similarly formatted Fox network shows.
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Mar 30, 2008 6:54:37 PM CDT
X-FILES 2: SCULLY AND BONES red hot lesbian sex festival
by napoleon park
Tired of waiting for their sexless FBI agent partners, Dana Scully and Temperence Brennan get it on. special guests: Michaela Conlin, Mimi Rogers, Zooey Deschanel.
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Fox (the network, not the FBI agent) hops on the CSI forensics bandwagon and tries to replicate the unrequited sexual tension chemistry of one of their old hit shows. They realize they've failed to duplicate the X-FILES formula when they accidentally produce a watchable show that people actually like.
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X-FILES 3: XIPHOS IN LOVE
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Mulder: Gee wiz Scully does anybody remember our UFO CONSPIRACY?
Scully: Yeah, some bitter, single women in their 30s and 40s do. No, they're not married yet. Still carrying a torch for a fictional character. You.
Mulder: Wow. Really? But I can't even act! I just sort of sleep walk through everything.
Scully: Don't forget you also managed to direct a really awful movie.
Mulder: Hey thats right! Even I don't remember what it was called. Even I'm astounded by my smug superiority complex considering I'm barely employed and only marginally talented.
Scully: I bet your mom probably gave you an inflated sense of your own importance, thats why you still have that whole smug superiority complex going on even though your basically the same as William Shatner -- a bad actor who's entire career rests on a long dead sci-fi tv franchise.
Mulder: Yeah, I guess your... HOLY SHIT DO YOU SEE THAT?!?! THE UFO CONSPIRACY IS REALLY JUST A BUNCH OF TERMINATORS AND THEY"RE COMING TO TERMINATE OUR HOPES THAT THIS MOVIE WON"T BE A MASSIVE BOMB!!!! AIIIIEEEEEEE!!! GEDD DOOODAH CHAHHPPAH!!! DOOO EEEED NOWWW!!!!! -
The Tartar Sauce is On There.
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same joke as above, but beefy.
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Cunt.
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I like the X-Files FYI.
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Seriously, not a title spam, an actual question. There was a previous X-Files movie? Really? Never heard of it. Was it some made for TV thing?
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the clone is out there.
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the clone is out there.
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but it was a nice bit of juvenile fun while it lasted.
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The 24th aisle of one big-ass supermarket.
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The real-time story is set on a boat rescuiing Sluldy and Mutter, who have been lost on a deserted island for 108 days. But the whole story is told in a combination of flashbacks explaining how they got there and flash forwards explaining how they investigate and find out how they got there. And it's spooky.
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men go into the hospital for complicated, expensive operations and come out as women! Slutter and Moldy investigate the strange, mysterious and spooky word of post operative male-to-female transsexuals.
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Loyal fans of a once popular 2nd rate sci-fantasy series on one of the baby-nets are punished for their dedication by exiled to a darkened theater for nearly two hours and made to accept as canon what some hack script-churner says happened to Sciffy and Mussy for the last five years.
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One major holiday, two sets of mythological traditions.One violates the laws of genetics (virgin birth), physics (water walking) and involves alchemical wizardry (converting water to wine, feeding ultitudes). The other has a wealth obese generous man who doles out rewards for good behavior, reaching millions of recipients in a matter of hours. Scupler and Muldly have to find a way to believe in one or burn forever in a lake of fire - but which one is less implausible?
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Scuddy and Muffler vs. the Daleks.
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Because it's a movioe, get it?
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