I Want to Believe… that this will not suck

Ohhhhh my God. A new teaser trailer for the new X-Files movie was released. I’m not quite sure what to think. Like, yeah, Billy Connelly is there. And there’s helicopters and people running around on glaciers and shit. But wouldn’t I have been more excited about this news several years ago? Isn’t there just a leeeeetle too much water under that bridge? Will I Netflix this? Absolutely. Will I see it in the theatre? Eh… probably maybe not.

Several other problems. First, there will be a notable lack of The Lone Gunmen. Unless they can come back from the dead (and I will not have any more of this Mulder Talking to Ghosts shit). Second, I always liked The X-Files when they were being funny. The vampire one with Luke Wilson? Comedy gold. The CSM and the Syndicate? Booooring. (Well, most of the time anyway. And does it make me a terrible X-Files fan that I was more a fan of the monsters of the week than of the overall Larger Picture universe in which they all existed?) The first X-Files movie? Various levels of suckitude. And now I have to contend with Amanda Peet (and her character FBI Special Agent Dakota Whitney – which is a total porn star name, by the way).

I will say this for sure: Gillian Anderson still looks hella awesome. So I guess that’s something.

(PS – Speaking of aliens, the Vatican says that it is ok for me to believe in them.  So… yay?  It’s a lot easier to believe in than, say, transubstantiation.)