I watched The X-Files: Fight the Future yesterday on CD.  It has been a while since I watched this most excellent movie, and it was great to see it again.  If I'm not mistaken, the CD which I got was the "Home Video" version of the movie, which is a couple of minutes longer than the theatrical release version.  I had written a detailed review of the movie long ago, and maybe I will post it here sometime.  Anyway the movie does a great job of maintaining a feeling of paranoia and thrill throughout, and it is a very well made movie.  It seems Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz are working on a screenplay for a sequel, though there is no official word from the studio on whether the movie will go ahead or not.  Anyway, it would be cool if there was a sequel!  The headline of this post comes from a line spoken in this movie by The Well Manicured Man (John Neville), who says something like "My God!  This isn't colonisation, this is spontaneous repopulation!"  Tonight, Rupak brought the CD of The Game, which I will watch in about an hour from now.

A couple of days back, I finished Jazz Jackrabbit 2, after beating the evil Devan Shell in the last level, creatively titled "Bad Pitt" (heh) which takes place in the Jazz-ish hell that I spoke about in the last post (not a cold one this time though!).

I have by now finished reading about five issues of Epic Comics' Clive Barker's Hellraiser.  The artwork, as I mentioned, is very good, and the stories are delightfully demented and perverse!  So far I liked writer Jan Strnad's unofficial trilogy featuring the cenobite "Face", of which the last story is the best in my opinion.  I also got to read "Songs of Metal and Flesh" [issue 3], written by Peter Atkins (writer of Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth) and illustrated by Dave Dorman.  I mention this in particular because I read the script [PDF] of this story earlier.  Some other stories which were good were "Dear Diary" [issue 5] in which a young girl discovers the Lament Configuration, and "The Threshold of Pain", where a scientist tries to discover what lies beyond pain.  Some of the stories are very vague (like "Writer's Lament").  I was actually pleased to find that my own stories were sort of similar in style to these — especially "Doorways...", I could probably make a Hellraiser story out of that if I develop it a little nicely!