"THE XFILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE"

dinsdag 17 juni 2008

X files movie marathon: slowing down again

Saw only 2 episodes last night: DPO and Clyde Bruckman's final repose. My X files movie marathong appears to be slowing down again.

DPO features Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi (Frank jr. jr. on Friends, Phoebe's sister), and they're both brilliant in this episode about a young troubled guy who can control lightning.

Clyde Bruckman's final repose has everything I want in a good episode, humour, interesting storyline and great conversations. Check out this X-files movie promo clip on YouTube where Gillian actually refers to this episode.
Here are some of my favourite quotes from this episode:

[The Stupendous Yappi accepts Scully as a believer but asks Mulder to leave because he gives off negative energy]
Scully: [to Mulder] "I can't take you anywhere."

Mulder: "Mr Yappi, read this thought."
The Stupendous Yappi: [reacting as if hit] "So's your old man!"

Detective Cline: "Look, all I know is that so far Yappi has provided more solid concrete leads on this case than you have. Now, if you don't mind, I have to get an APB out. On a white male, 17 to 34, with or without a beard, maybe a tattoo, who's impotent. Let's go."
[Detectives Cline and Havez leave the room]
Scully: "Might as well go home Mulder. This case is as good as solved."

Clyde Bruckman: "You don't get it, do you kid?." [Clyde Bruckman slips into a trance and describes the man's death]
Mr Gordon: "Mister. You really need to work on your closing technique."

Clyde Bruckman: "I'm supposed to believe that's a real name?" [Looking at Mulder's badge]

Mulder: "Do you receive any other impressions from it? [A brass ornament of three frogs]
Clyde Bruckman: "It's ugly." [Drops it] "Next."

[Their parked car is stuck in the mud and Mulder gets spattered whilst trying to extract it]
Mulder: "I'm glad I could bring a little smile into your life, Mr Bruckman."
Clyde Bruckman: "I'm not smiling. I'm wincing." [A hand is visible under the car's rear tyre]

Scully: "We can't come up with suspects by having visions."
Clyde Bruckman: "Jealous?"

[After hearing Clyde Bruckman's premonition that they would end up in bed together]
Scully: "Mr Bruckman, there are hits and there are misses. And then there are MISSES."
Clyde Bruckman: "I just call them as I see them."

Mulder: "Look at this Scully, the lab analysis for the first bit of fibre that was found just came back. It's lace."
Scully: "Chantilly lace?"
Mulder: "You KNOW what I LIKE."

Puppet: "There's something I've been wanting to ask you for some time now. You've seen the things I do in the past as well as in the future."
Clyde Bruckman: "They're terrible things."
Puppet: "I know they are. So tell me, please, why have I done them."
Clyde Bruckman: "Don't you understand yet son? Don't you get it?" [Killer shakes his head] "You do the things you do because you're a homicidal maniac."

Mulder: "If my Miss Manners serves me right, that protrusion from his left cornea is a salad fork."

Mulder: "How'd you know where to find us?"
Scully: "I didn't. I got in the service elevator by mistake."
Mulder: "Thank heaven for happenstance."

Oh and Scully ends up with a cute little Pomeranian (who happened to have been eating his previous owner...did I remember to feed my dog...?)


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