Ongoing X-Files Thread of Doom...

Apparently there’s going to be a new directors cut of the movie on Hulu?

Specifically the second movie: 2008's I Want To Believe.



I remember it not being all that good and I don't think adding a bit more gore will make much difference.

I don't think I ever saw that one.

Billy Connolly was a paedo priest in it.

I heard, that is probably that put me off going to see it.

I would’ve bet good money there was only one movie. I wondered why the trailer didn’t seem familiar!

I have to remind myself they made two more seasons after that as well (one in 2016, one in 2018.)

Didn't they also make one or two in the 2020s

No. There's a pilot for a reboot from Ryan Coogler that hasn't been picked up yet (without Mulder and Scully.)

It was 2018, ,8 years ago, could have sworn it had only been a few years.

This thread has, somehow, become about "The X-Files" instead of whatever I happen to be watching on free over-the-air digital TV. So I shall risk derailing it because Movies! has had "Breakfast at Tiffany's" on lately. The first time, it was just starting and I only had an hour or so to spare so I skipped it and watched a 40 minute YouTube react video as compensation, but it was on again tonight and halfway through, so I decided to watch it.

I've got to say...I've got to say lots about "Breakfast at Tiffany's." First, I didn't see it until I was over 40. And I read the book much later. And I lived the story to a bit. So I love the ending of the movie, because it makes you happy. But it should've ended with Paul in the alley with the cat and Holly on a plane to Brazil. The book is much closer to reality. But not as satisfying. Because the movie is so fulfilling. If you're my age, it's hard not to see John "Hannibal" Smith of the A-Team, but if you can get past it, Peppard really is handsome and young in it. And Audrey Hepburn is just gorgeous. There's a couple scenes where you realize how tiny she is. And the chemistry between them is so good. Mickey Rooney's Mr. Yunoshi is...unfortunate. But you just have to be a little forgiving of the times and enjoy the story. And the rest of the film makes up for it. The cinematography, the sets and pacing, the dialog. Just great. And it's neat because it's New York City in color in 1961. It really helps you see a time that was just before my time.

It's a good job George Peppard learned from the yellow face controversy and didn't do the same thing in the A team. (He even black faced at one point , but at least they had BA tell him off about it)

I hadn't thought about that. He did play "Mr. Lee" the Chinese laundromat owner in the pilot, but he never appears as Mr. Lee after that--even though he is referred to by clients as a first step in the screening process.

That pilot episode was weird, no van, Hannibal doing karate kicks, and that's not even getting into Tim Dunnigen as Face, too tall and too young, plus the execs hated Murdock, they told him he was going to be fired and he hide to ride with the stuntmen as they didn't want him bringing the other actors down.

Then he turned out to be a fan favourite and face was the one that didn't come back, at least not as Dunnigan.

The 1964 "Gunsmoke" episodes are very rewarding. They have drama and a little morality play and the production values are pretty good. You can see the story coming a mile away, but in a fulfilling way, because it gives you just what you're expecting.

First one tonight, I missed a good chunk of it for various reasons, but a guy thinks he's killed someone in self-defense but that it will look like murder so he goes on the run with his (hot) wife. He does increasingly sketchy things in his efforts to escape Matt before his wife finally puts her foot down and makes him turn himself in. As it happens, he DIDN'T shoot the dead guy. He must've shot and missed and the dead guy managed to shoot himself somehow--because the slug Doc dug out was the caliber of the victim, not the suspect. BUT, in the process of running he shot at someone to scare them and managed to kill them dead. So probably a hangin' when he should've just turned himself in. Neat cameo: Ted Knight is some homesteader the fugitive runs afoul of.

Second one was a Matt-lite Festus story. 3 trappers are in town and 1 of them pulls the Wolverine whisky bottle trick before they bust up the Long Branch and get thrown in the hoosegow to sleep it off. Matt has something to do out of town so he enlists Festus as deputy (apparently this is very early in the Festus arc) to watch the jail and let them out when they sober up. Well! Turns out they're Festus' kinfolk. So he lets them out when they sober up (which was what he was supposed to do anyway) BUT! Some tedious little skinflint shitheel comes down to the stable to bitch about a harness repair and accidentally knocks the guy he's talking to's head into a wagon wheel hub. Instead of getting Doc, he freaks out and when the Hagen cousins show up he decides to blame them for what appears to be a murder. Then, to make matters worse, when he hears Festus made them swear to get straight out of town, he says they laughed at the blood oath over the body of Festus' friend. So Festus tracks them all down and brings them in. Well while he was gone his friend has recovered and Matt is pissed about a number of things. Festus feels down until he remembers how Shitheel Skinflint led him to his conclusion. He heads out to bring him to justice. There's some shooting, but Matt shows up to settle things down. Later Festus' kin show up to forgive him for not believing them, Festus gets a kid he's been contributing to the delinquency of to go to school, and they head off to the Long Branch to prove Cousin Claudius can really chug a bottle of whisky. Neat cameo: Denver "'Dukes of Hazzard' Uncle Jesse" Pyle is Cousin Claudius.