Wow...X-Files: I Want To Believe
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I saw this when it first came out. There really wasn't any point to this story at all. There was no NEED to make this picture at all. Yes, the character bits were nice, but it was nothing more than a very mediocre episode that was stretched out to two hours.
It was a big disappointment.
It was a big disappointment.
This is exactly what I liked about it.
This movie almost made me want to put a bullet in my head just to have something fun to do.
It was freaking July! (August?) And this movie had more snow in it than a Canadian winter during the Ice Age. -Infact, I'm pretty sure this movie took place in the same world as "The Day After Tomorrow" where the bulk of North America is covered in snow and ice.
Ugh. I'm getting cold and depressed just thinking about the bleakness of this movie.
Your principal complaint is towards the aesthetic bleakness of the film? The bleakness was a defining characteristic of the series, especially when it was in Vancouver (though I enjoyed the changed of scenery when it moved to Los Angeles, most viewers, and even most of the crew, agree it lost something aesthetically with the change of environment).
I enjoyed the film. I thought it explored some interesting issues which the show itself occasionally grappled with. I thought it was a brilliant character piece for Mulder and Scully, and it was a breath of fresh air to finally have their relationship portrayed as what it is--a relationship. That overcame any of the bleakness in the cinematography (which seemed fitting, considering the general bleakness of the story), and the average nature of the case.
I haven't seen the DVD version yet, but I lament any alterations to the credits sequence, because it was a nice articulation of Mulder and Scully's arc in the film. Despite what Scully laments, they're spending time in the shadows in their domestic life. When they decide to not turn their back on the past any longer, the ice melts away. They belong chasing monsters in the dark. I hope they get to do it one last time by 2012 in order to wrap up the alien story (which, practically, couldn't have been done with the budget of this movie).
I enjoyed the film. I thought it explored some interesting issues which the show itself occasionally grappled with. I thought it was a brilliant character piece for Mulder and Scully, and it was a breath of fresh air to finally have their relationship portrayed as what it is--a relationship. That overcame any of the bleakness in the cinematography (which seemed fitting, considering the general bleakness of the story), and the average nature of the case.
I haven't seen the DVD version yet, but I lament any alterations to the credits sequence, because it was a nice articulation of Mulder and Scully's arc in the film. Despite what Scully laments, they're spending time in the shadows in their domestic life. When they decide to not turn their back on the past any longer, the ice melts away. They belong chasing monsters in the dark. I hope they get to do it one last time by 2012 in order to wrap up the alien story (which, practically, couldn't have been done with the budget of this movie).
This movie was just a complete wreck. It had a dumb storyline, really bad acting (Duchovney and Anderson were clearly just collecting a paycheck and phoning in their lines), poor pacing, a setting that seemed bleak just for the sake of being bleak, and seemed to have been shot with a budget of about a nickel. It had more in common with an extended episode of CSI than the X-Files.
The movie was pretty darn good if you ask me, not an "X-Files" staple no, but the story was good and the movie was entertaining. Not a bad way to spend 7 bucks. I liked it and I'm not even that big of an X-Files fan. I have both the films on DVD.
Hell, I'd say it's far from bleak considering
It's well worth seeing if you're a Mulder and Scully fan. 
Hell, I'd say it's far from bleak considering
Two of my favorite TV show characters from a series I liked FINALLY ended up hooking up.
The best part of the movie was the hardly visible Scully in a bikini at the end of the credits.
Probably should've saved themselves $70 million and just done this as a FOX Made-for-tv movie.
I went in with pretty low expectations given the train wreck of the last couple seasons of the series and ended up enjoying it. It could have used a little trimming and some better character development of the supporting cast but the Mulder/Scully bits were well handled and it felt like a nice closer to the show overall.
I'm not a big fan of the x-files . . . so I waited to see the 1st movie on video. When the big revalation seen came . . . . it was too dark to see what was going on!
I saw the second movie in the theater. . . . and when they finally show Gordjanko's dog . . . . it was too dark to see it clearly!
70 million? I don't know. Maybe with all the ancillary costs that go unreported, but the production budget was only 35 million.
My wife and I just watched this last night. My first reaction was that it was a pretty good mov......er....."episode". My wife is the real "X-Phile" between the two of us and, although I've never been a huge fan of the series, I usually find myself getting sucked into the episodes after a couple of minutes whenever I happen to catch them on TV although I never really watched any of the post-Mulder/Scully eps. I liked the first movie, "Fight The Future" and thought it was MUCH better than this one, particularly since it seemed to have a more "epic" sci-fi adventure feel to it. "I Want To Believe" was clearly more suited to being one of the (non-alien conspiracy) stories that they tended to alternate the more sci-fi heavy episodes with on the series and, looking at it in that perspective, I thought it was pretty good and it was nice to see Mulder and Scully back together.
BTW my wife and I watched the extended version of the film so I'm not entirely sure what they added that wasn't in the theatrical version.
*However, I do have one question for more serious X-Files fans who followed the series to its end, did they EVER resolve the big overarching "alien conspiracy" from the first movie or is Carter maybe leaving THAT open for a third movie somewhere down the line?
BTW my wife and I watched the extended version of the film so I'm not entirely sure what they added that wasn't in the theatrical version.
*However, I do have one question for more serious X-Files fans who followed the series to its end, did they EVER resolve the big overarching "alien conspiracy" from the first movie or is Carter maybe leaving THAT open for a third movie somewhere down the line?
They never did, presumably it'll be solved in a "future movie" should it either be a MFT one or another theatrical one. Else we'll never know.
Oh I forgot to mention that I inadvertently found an "easter egg" on the audio menu of the Blu-ray version. If you go through the various sound options an "X" will pop up from which you can access some special featurette
Well, you found out a lot of the answers to the mysteries but the problems weren't solved if you know what I mean.
I just watched the movie and for the most part I enjoyed it. It basically felt like an average episode of the show, and while it could of been better and more epic it was decent. The character interactions were great of course.
I loved how snowy it was in the movie. I don't like it when we get that much snow in real life, but I like seeing that much snow in fiction (the game Indigo Prophecy had a lot of snow, which I also liked).
I loved how snowy it was in the movie. I don't like it when we get that much snow in real life, but I like seeing that much snow in fiction (the game Indigo Prophecy had a lot of snow, which I also liked).
I watched this earlier in the week when i had a nasty cold. I thought it was an ok movie, but it was far from great. I was expecting more.... strangeness. All this movie gave us was Father Joe's pedophilic-driven prophetic visions. The stakes in this movie were just kinda.... not that important in the grand scheme of things.
Still, I wouldn't mind if they made a third film. All they need to do is raise what's at stake.
Still, I wouldn't mind if they made a third film. All they need to do is raise what's at stake.
I hadn't heard--or can't remember hearing--a single positive thing about the movie until I saw it last night.
My expectations were kid of low going in, but I rather enjoyed it. It was like a better than average episode of the TV show.
I was a bit worried that I needed to have memorized every single episode of the show like that last X-Files movie for it to make sense, but it stood all by itself; The movie didn't get itself twisted in an overly-complicated super-plot, and it re-introduced us to the characters and picked up where we left off nicely. Though I completely forget what happened to Scully's son.
I don;t think this story needed to come out with a BANG. Or, let me rephrase: I don't think the X-Files franchise has much left. But, again, I was satisfied with what we got. Perhaps, if there's a next time, they could up the bar.
My expectations were kid of low going in, but I rather enjoyed it. It was like a better than average episode of the TV show.
I was a bit worried that I needed to have memorized every single episode of the show like that last X-Files movie for it to make sense, but it stood all by itself; The movie didn't get itself twisted in an overly-complicated super-plot, and it re-introduced us to the characters and picked up where we left off nicely. Though I completely forget what happened to Scully's son.
I don;t think this story needed to come out with a BANG. Or, let me rephrase: I don't think the X-Files franchise has much left. But, again, I was satisfied with what we got. Perhaps, if there's a next time, they could up the bar.
Dialogue during Mully's pllow talk scenes suggests their sun passed away a few years before the events of the movie. I think this is supposed to somehow paralell what's going on with Scully in the hospital.
I may have to give this one another view on the "small screen" it's possible it's far more suited for that that it was for a big-screen Summer movie event.