Welcome to Sci-Fi Night! This is the RU-vid show where we take a look at some of the lesser known sci-fi and horror movies out there to find out what's needed to get the most out of them.
Perhaps you need to be prepared for a slower, less action-packed film, maybe you need to be drunk to be able to have fun with the flick, you might even need to fast forward through some dry parts to get to the entrainement.
Either way, we're here to give you a feel of what these films are like in the hope of bringing some of these films to light for fans of the genres.
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I always said it’s too bad the sow just never cut ties with Scully and Mulder. It was time and the new leads of Dogget and Reyes would have worked if given a long enough chance to develop. Let Fox and Scully do their movies and the new cast just build a new story and lore of its own. Still feels like a missed opportunity!
Yes! I've always loved Season 4 the most. I had the series on video as a child and it's definitely the one i've re-watched the most. Unruhe is my favourite x-files episode of all time. I was an X files kid, I grew up with it, Scully was my idol.
I believe the terminator is considered as a sci fi horror by it's soundtracks, the tone through the film, where there was a scene he ripped a heart out from a punk before taking the others clothes, the fact that it's a single pursuer with his own theme tune chasing a woman, it's mainly set at night all these is a horror related elements apart from that the film was even the only one that was rated 18 when it first came out if these ain't horror to you then tell me what is
In my opinion, HPL is more to be pitied than condemned for his racism/xenophobia. He was the son of parents who both died in Butler Hospital, a Providence, RI hospital for the insane. One concept that appears in his writings is an obsession with madness; in some cases, the fear that insanity passes from one generation to the next or through racial inbreeding. It's quite possible that his mental state was genetically compromised; we shouldn't rule it out as a mitigating factor in the formation of his prejudices.
I read that Tarkovsky and a few others who worked on the film died of cancer related to the toxic environment in which the film Stalker was filmed - it was the *SAME TYPE* of cancer. This isn’t necessarily fact, but it is a suspicion that is pretty frequently repeated by numerous sources. So, it’s bleak in reality as well as in fiction.
I just rewatched it today and it is much better than its reputation and I really loved it. I actually liked the acting and the effects look better than in newer Marvel movies. OK, CGI creatures simply always look like CGI, have something artifical about them and perfection is rarely achieved… but to my eyes there was nothing awful and nothing that took me out of the movie. The characters were well developed and the story fine. It‘s not a totally original story but fairly standard… but I really, really loved it. I thought the mix of likable characters, eye-candy, drama, action, sci-fi, and horror could easily gone wrong, but it always stayed on the good side.
Tbh i went in this movie blind folded and holy sh*t i wasnt expecting it to be that brutal and psychological i love horror films and o wasn't expecting alot out of the movie and jesus but about the question im in the middle of it i like how that the movie is trying to say its story but again i wasn't expecting to be brutal
For me, the show peaked in season 3, but had great quality during the second to fifth season. I see some people praise the sixth season as one of the best, but for some reason it doesn't work for me. 1 - Season 3 2 - Season 5 3 - Season 4 4 - Season 2 5 - Season 1 6 - Season 6 7 - Season 8 8 - Season 7 9 - Season 9 10 - Season 11 11 - Season 10
I think "Followers" wasn't that bad actually. What i hated in the 10th/11th season was that forced "messaging" that is kinda common today, but with the X Files it barely works except for a few cases. In that episode, but also in "Familiar", i get these "Boomer parents tell you how everything has become worse than it ever was because they read it on the internet" kinda vibes. Like i said, social commentary was never an X File strongpoint
Seeing season 8 higher than most isn’t a great shock… but seeing it above season 2 is jarring for me personally. It’s not that Doggett is bad.. it’s that Mulder is the beating heart of the X-files. I know Scully is great, a vital character and counterpoint- but Mulder is the one, for me personally.
First time seeing any of your vids, really enjoyed this one. I can appreciate the way you ranked things, I'd bump season 1 a spot or two higher, personally, but it does have some downsides. I thought the show really hit its stride in season 2, then hit a "golden age" in seasons 3, 4 and 5. Afterwards they get subsequently worse, though still always some good episodes through the end.
It's so childish to dive into deep waters over a simple TV series, and don't get me wrong - every single episode has its charm, and has meant so much to me over the years. But dissecting all the episodes does no one any good. We all have our favorites, which is why these types of videos are useless. If people could understand that it is about a TV series and not a life's work of opus driven opinions we would land more right. Mulder and Scully deserve their place in the top ten, if not even a number one. But after all, basically it's a commercial series that Fox made a lot of money from. The mythology of the X-files is a completely different matter, and it is precisely this aspect that I miss in such videos.
But please little friend, talk a little slower and BREATHE, you sound completely snowed in and I'd like to diagnose you with autism. This is just too much!
I am not a fan of the Stalker movie. I can see why people like it, and I don't think it's a bad movie.. Just too boring for my taste even with all the tension and creepy atmosphere.
I think what grinds my gears the most about Alien 3 was just the fact that newt died to implantation from the previous movie. Subversion of expectations is a common writing method, but in this particular instance, where there is already a great deal of misery and abject horror, there needs to be at least some good otherwise its all pointless really and just gore porn. So ultimately writing out the kid by chest burster is just terrible writing imo. It just made watching it pointless.
The first half of season 8 has one of the best runs of episodes I can think of with a real focus on dark horror that brought the show back to life after a couple of experimental seasons
The Dogget and Reyes seasons were so annoying to me. The endless chiaroscuro lighting, Dogget's terrible accent, Reyes' turtlenecks and leather jackets, "someone's in the hospital" episodes where it's just the other people pining away at the bedside. It goes on an on, but it's mostly that annoying noir lighting that they thought was probably super clever but is just so phony looking.
And I didn't dislike those seasons because I was too loyal to Mulder and Scully or something. If a show is good, it's good. Good writing could have made their replacements work perfectly well. The stories just weren't interesting and it felt too much like a "TV show" whereas the early seasons felt like "case files", if that makes any sense.
Good ranking, and similar to how I rank them: 11. Season 11 Favourite Episode: Followers Least Favourite: My Struggle III 10. Season 10 Favourite Episode: Mulder and Scully Meet the Weremonster Least Favourite: Home Again 09. Season 7 Top 3 Episodes: En Ami | all things | Requiem Bottom 3: Fight Club | The Amazing Maleeni | The Goldberg Variation 08. Season 9 Top 3 Episodes: John Doe | Daemonicus | 4-D Bottom 3: Underneath | William | The Truth 07. Season 1 Top 3 Episodes: Beyond the Sea | The Erlenmeyer Flask | Darkness Falls Bottom 3: Born Again | Lazarus | Shadows 06. Season 6 Top 3 Episodes: Milagro | Field Trip | Drive Bottom 3: Dreamland | Dreamland II | How the Ghosts Stole Christmas 05. Season 8 Top 3 Episodes: Via Negativa | Three Words | Roadrunners Bottom 3: Invocation | Surekill | Salvage 04. Season 4 Top 3 Episodes: Paper Hearts | Memento Mori | Small Potatoes Bottom 3: El Mundo Gira | Elegy | Kaddish 03. Season 2 Top 3 Episodes: One Breath | Anasazi | The Host Bottom 3: The Calusari | Aubrey | Blood 02. Season 5 Top 3 Episodes: Bad Blood | Kill Switch | Redux II Bottom 3: Mind's Eye | All Souls | Travelers 01. Season 3 Top 3: Paper Clip | Jose Chung's From Outer Space | Pusher Bottom 3: Hell Money | Teso Dos Bichos | The List
My lists: 1 - S7 Top 10 Episodes: 2 - S1 1 - Jose Chung's From Outer 3 - S6 Space 4 - S2 2 - X - Cops 5 - S3 3 - Hollywood A.D. 6 - S4 4 - Musings of a Cigarette 7 - S5 Smoking Man 8 - S9 5 - Tithonus 9 - S8 6 - Arcadia 10 - S10 7 - Soft Light 11 - S11 8 - Darkness Falls 9 - Space 10 - Beyond the Sea The X-Files is my favorite show of all-time. I watched every episode on TV when it was on. I love the balance of mythology and stand-alone. And I've watched the entire show through many times. While I do like the mythology, the stand-alone episodes are much more memorable and enjoyable. And that played a large part of my season ranking. I felt the show was incredibly strong through the first 7 seasons. I still liked seasons 8 & 9. And I liked Doggett and Reyes. But I think that having to introduce the new characters interfered with the rhythm of the show. And that's the primary reason I didn't like seasons 8 & 9 as much. And I wasn't a big fan of the supersoldier storyline. Seasons 10 & 11 just felt out of place. I did enjoy seeing Mulder and Scully back together on the screen. But overall I was disappointed by those seasons. And one final note. As a lifetime lover of the paranormal, I think it's unforgivable that the X-Files never made a Bigfoot episode.
