On Saturday, I wrote about how I was a long-time fan of the X-Files and was really looking forward to the new movie. I avoided reading any reviews - but - I must publish the excellent piece below, written by Damon Romine (warning: plot spoilers ahead).

I am so disappointed with everyone involved in the film, no matter how well it may be put together; as Damon says:

 "Transgender issues, pedophilia and a married psychotic gay couple are inexplicably and erroneously blurred together in a premise indefensible when not in the presence of any counter-balancing characters or scenes that lets the audience know these extremes are not the norm." 

I will never watch another X-Files episode again. I am sick and tired of Hollywood using these tired cliches in any form whatsoever. When LGBT have full legal rights all around the world and when being LGBT is not considered aberrant in any way, then and only then, will I reconsider my decision. Until such time, I consider the X-Files to be closed.

Damon Romine writes:

As a fan of the original series, I looked forward to this reunion, but after viewing the movie, I am deeply insulted by the film's Silence of the Lambs rehash. This goes beyond a problematic line of defamatory dialogue; [spoiler alert] the entire plot revolves around the victim of a pedophilia priest who is now a gay adult dying from cancer. His husband (it's established that they are married in Massachusetts) abducts young women so a Frankenstein doctor can attach the dying man's head to a healthy female body. Transgender issues, pedophilia and a married psychotic gay couple are inexplicably and erroneously blurred together in a premise indefensible when not in the presence of any counter-balancing characters or scenes that lets the audience know these extremes are not the norm. 

More than a few critics specifically cited the film's dismal LGBT content. MSNBC.com's Alonso Duralde wrote that it's "howlingly offensive to GLBT audiences." According to Ohio's WLWT-TV, "Homophobia rages in one reference involving the belief that all altar boys molested by a priest will turn out to be gay." And in The Kansas City Star: "Perhaps more offensive is how the film seems to use pedophilia, homosexuality and transvestitism interchangeably. We should be past that." READ MORE