An anonymous reader writes
"Hot on the heels of the news from David Duchovny that FOX and Chris Carter are finally producing the long-awaited sequel to 'The X-Files: Fight the Future', actor Gillian Anderson has announced that she will not be returning as geek fav, the delectable Special Agent Dana Scully. Instead, Julianne Moore will be portraying the hot science babe G-woman. "
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Being funny online is so much harder... I mean, everyone laughed yesterday when I fell up the stairs at a tube station and walked into the wall, but online? No stairs, no walls, just Windows. What can I do?!?
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BTW, caring about karma is how you don't GET karma...
Ain't it Cool's Over that way (Score:2)
Uhhh, Dana Scully == %SEXSYMBOL% ?!? (Score:2)
Guys, Julianne Moore was born on December 3, 1960 [imdb.com], which would make her - gosh - almost 50 years old.
Somehow I'm having a hard time visualizing Special Agent Dana Scully as a GMILF [Grandmother I'd like to...].
Ha - 15 years ago, maybe. (Score:2)
Dude, that picture is like 15 years old.
Here's what she looked like back in 2005 [almost two years ago], when was filming Freedomland [released February 17, 2006]:
Red Scare: Julianne Moore takes off the make-up in Freedomland. [thewavemag.com]
You can decide for yourself whether or not that qualifies as GMILF material.
In fact, compare a side-by-side of early Gillian Anderson -vs- recent Julianne Moore:
early Gillian Anderson [pearl-jam.com]
recent Julianne Moore [thewavemag.com]
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Also you haven't seen a recent picture of Gillian, have you?
Why?
Because there are very few out there. I haunt SuperiorPics.com and you almost NEVER see Gillian any more. As it happens I do have some - see below.
Her career is as dead as Bush's next plan to "win in Iraq'.
As to looks, I don't see any significant difference between this woman [photobucket.com] and
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Yeah, that 6 part Masterpiece Theater she starred in really put the nail in the coffin. Sheesh!
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Uh, Dana Scully isn't supposed to be a barely out of high school starlet. Yes, Julianne Moore is in her mid-40's (specifically, she's 46), but she's only seven years older than Anderson, and a much better actress.
46 == post-menopausal (Score:2)
Dude, she's 46 now. By the time shooting wraps on this project [assuming it isn't just an April Fool's joke to begin with], then she'd be a lot closer to 48 or 49.
Which, if you didn't take high school biology, is well past the menopausal point for most chicks.
Scully is Mulder's love interest because HE WANTS TO MAKE BABIES WITH HER!
And post-menopausal chicks can't make babies.
PS: As for the "much better actress", Julianne Moore never in her life played a role that had a tenth the sex appeal of Gill
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Either has Gillian Anderson.
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Anderson is a good actress (doing TV for years tends to do that to you), but she can't really compete with Moore who is a recognized excellent actress with two Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe. Anderson received an Emmy, a Golden Globe and two SAG awards. In total, Anderson has won about 12 awards, Moore twice that at 22.
Furthermore, acting is about experience and intensity and Moore has both in greater degree than Anderson.
Actually I need to modif
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Boogey nights? Short cuts? The End of the Affair?
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Speak for yourself, boy. Those of us who didn't watch the first season of The X Files from a crib think she's still pretty hot.
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Both Moore and Anderson have the one usual redhead problem - serious freckles. I think Marcia Cross is about the only redhead in Hollywood who has a limited number of freckles (or has figured out what makeup to use to deal with them). She's the best looking redhead I've seen. Not that freckles are a showstopper by any means, but they tend to be a distraction from pure female be
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Bah (Score:5, Insightful)
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Loof Lirpa, the only brand of lirpa that Mr Spock trusts! (now 50% off!)
Yeah, right... (Score:2)
Trust No One (Score:5, Insightful)
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Trust bust (Score:2)
April Fools? (Score:3, Funny)
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GOD
LOL
Mmmmmm (Score:5, Insightful)
Anderson is a little stuck up anyway, it's time the franchise moved on to someone better.
Re:Mmmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
You'd like to THINK that's the reason. They're actually shooting this one as a documentary, as produced/directed by Moore's brother, Michael Moore, who has specific information that there actually is a government plot that involves aliens.
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As cheesecake Anderson isn't that much. Even as an actress Anderson isn't that much. But neither is Moore, in either department. Moore did better than I thought she would at playing Clarice Starling, but she still is too vulner
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And nobody can beat Jodie for doing cold and cerebral. That's why I was amused to see her doing comedy and sexy in "Maverick". In this last one, "Inside Man", she also broke tradition by being the "bad girl" of the flick. Not to mention "A Very Long Engagement", when she went over the top and did a hot sex scene - at 43!
Jodie is hot because she is intense, not funny (but in person she can be very funny - but it's not her main personality trait.)
Interestingly, Jodie WAS in an X-Files episode: doing a
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Lame... (Score:5, Insightful)
It's doubly lame because casting Julianne Moore is somewhat credible. Now, if TFA was about Whoopi Goldberg or Judi Dench stepping in as Dana Scully, that might warrant a groggy Sunday morning chuckle (not from me, though -- too hungover).
Me, I'd rather see Jenna Jameson star in a new XXX-Files movie.
k.
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Maybe as an alien or something... have you seen her lately [thesuperficial.com]??
That's goatse scary.
Not fake (Score:2)
And already happened... (Score:2)
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Well, actually her career is going reasonably well - just not in the United States. She's doing well in England, according to Wikipedia, having been in any number of British productions and won a number of awards doing so.
But in the US her career is dead as a doornail compared to Moore. Here she got typecast as Dana Scully. Doing the role again probably doesn't suit her at all, given that she's spent years trying to get out from under it.
In comparison, Jodie Foster had other reasons for not wanting to do St
SlashRating fits... (Score:3, Funny)
And here I thought there was no possible way that a "Slashdot Tit" button would be relevant on a story. Just goes to prove my lack of foresight.
Re:SlashRating fits... (Score:4, Funny)
MOD PARENT UP - INSIGHTFUL (Score:1)
omgponies (Score:5, Interesting)
heels? (Score:1)
Great (Score:2)
"Evolution"
Then again, maybe the producers can say "At least it will be better than"
Re:Great (Score:4, Informative)
Although the ending was a little lame, overall it was pretty good for light comedy fare.
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Better than Microsoft Outlook?
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"Evolution"
Then again, maybe the producers can say "At least it will be better than"
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Scully really isn't (Score:3, Interesting)
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So here is the way it works (Score:2)
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One of these years YOU are going to figure this
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Anderson's career (Score:3, Interesting)
Slashdot Editors (Score:5, Funny)
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WTF? (Score:5, Insightful)
The idea that Moore might play the Scully character rather than Anderson doing so is a perfectly plausible one... that just happens to be false. Not false in any interesting or obvious way, just not something that happened to come about. It's about as clever making a false claim about exactly which actor (or roughly the right age and look) might be in the next James Bond film, or who might play the next villain in a Spiderman.
Or hell, it's about as interesting as pulling everyone's leg with the "outrageous" claim I ate camembert cheeses sandwich rather than gouda... wow! I fooled you.
Note to self: (Score:1)
Uh... who? (Score:1)
Now its funny!
Hehehe.
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Quoth the IMDB (Score:2)
Hmmm.
GWoman (Score:1)
My vote would go to ... (Score:1)
Tea Leoni ? (Score:2)
Fox has announced to today that Chris Carter has finally bowed to pressure from Tea Leoni to be cast in the role of Dana Scully in place of Gillian Anderson in the upcoming X-Files 2 flick. Insiders cite a long-standing jealousy between the two actresses, with Leoni refusing to allow David Duchovny to reprise his role as Fox Mulder unless Leoni could co-star. Carter admits that the script would have to be altered to play to Leoni's grester strengths in the romantic comedy genre. Leoni w
Sense of humor shot off in some war? (Score:1)
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If anything, I'd say you're underselling "Your shoes are untied." I know "Your shoes are untied" - I've utilized it and comprehended it in all i
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Ahh yes, the classic "Your shoes are untied" - one of the greatest comedic moments possible in any person's life. That one, like this one, is fall on the floor, run-out-of-breath-laughing funny for the same reason this one is - it's so very intricate and full of second and third level auxillary meanings and Nth degree levels of intricate plotting and cleverness.
If anything, I'd say you're underselling "Your shoes are untied." I know "Your shoes are untied" - I've utilized it and comprehended it in all its thrilling vibrancy. This, my friend, is no "Your shoes are untied." To compare it to "Your shoes are untied" is to belittle the wonderful work "Your shoes are untied" has done throughout the ages to bring rich, fullfilling laughter to our lives.
On closer inspection, these are loafers.
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What if I told you the capital of Tunisia was Sousse? It's not, but it's a perfectly plausible statement, if you don't know the country. Does this make it clever or funny? Have you been "had"? Not really.
Ten Thirteen Website (Score:1)
And In Other News (Score:1, Redundant)
Suuuure (Score:1)
No decent burial this one (Score:2)
I can always hope it was a 1 April prank.
what? (Score:1)
Not so sure this is a hoax (Score:3, Interesting)
For a few simple reasons:
Mad props to her if that's the case. The whole X-Files franchise has been sucked dry of any worth for years anyway.
Poor Julianne Moore (Score:1)
In other news (Score:1)