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THE X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE

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  THE X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE   “I’m done chasing monsters in the dark.”   The theme!!!! After so long!!!   This will be good, no?   First, I don’t care what was cut out. If I have to search for the story you really wanted to tell, I’m already put off. Carter is now working (2025?) on a director’s cut but it seems a director’s cut was already put out? It’s R rated or something? Carter wanted more horror? A two headed mutant dog? More grossness? More Dahmer type horror? NO, thanks.   Not a minute in and I’m already bored. The visuals are stunning but who cares about that? I have a MILLENNIUM feel again from this: a woman driving alone on a snowy road while listening to music, an isolated house, a dog, her parking in a garage and being attacked there, all very MILLENNIUM. Then there’s the men poking the ice and dogs and helicopters which feel like the 1980s THE THING, among others such as Steven King’s rip off movies. Next thing you kno...
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STARFLEET ACADEMY and the KURTZMAN problem and TREK issues overall

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STARFLEET ACADEMY and the KURTZMAN problem and TREK issues overall No one noticed I didn't review the awful season three of STRANGE NEW WORLDS, nor episode five of SFA or 8, 9 and 10. I was shocked by what I saw in the lowering of quality and retroactively they made me even hate the first four episodes which, at first, I saw as at least entertaining and even some 10/10, even Jay Den's backstory but....in hindsight. Anyway here are some of my responses to the high praise given the characters and SFA in general and my review of the flavored, unearned glory given to both Kurtzman's error/era and the 1990s TREK in general. I think they are all quite flawed and almost a total waste of time. Given there is some goodness and even greatness among the muck but still....here goes the compilation.   CALEB I will give him this: he's handsome, fit, well built, looks good dressed in anything or nothing at all, muscled, good looking, and very, very tall and a pretty good actor, too. H...
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