X-Files: I Want To Believe

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Saw the movie yesterday afternoon .... soooooo disappointed! There was nothing X-Files about this movie, nothing alien about it at all.

I had such high hopes for it too. :(
 
why did you 'love' it?

Did you think it was X-Files at all? I mean aside of the characters being in it?
 
The first time I saw it I was wondering for the first hour how the hell it was an X-Files movie. I still don't really see how it was the "X-Files", it just wasn't like the show we all love.

I did really enjoy the movie and loved seeing Fox and Scully back, but it just wasn't the same X-Files.

Overall, it was a good movie, I liked it. But it fell short of trying to have the same X-Files formula.
 
Psionic Force said:
Saw the movie yesterday afternoon .... soooooo disappointed! There was nothing X-Files about this movie, nothing alien about it at all.

I had such high hopes for it too. :(
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What are you talking about? Not every X-Files plot involved aliens. In fact, many of the best episodes had nothing to do with aliens. Those episodes are what this movie tried to aim for because the alien plots became so convoluted and tired.

Not saying it was a good movie, but I AM saying that it doesn't need aliens to be an X-Files film.
 
Carcharodon said:
What are you talking about? Not every X-Files plot involved aliens. In fact, many of the best episodes had nothing to do with aliens. Those episodes are what this movie tried to aim for because the alien plots became so convoluted and tired.

Not saying it was a good movie, but I AM saying that it doesn't need aliens to be an X-Files film.
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I know that but many of the episodes WERE. If this was not supposed to be anything like that then they should not have named it 'I Want to Believe'. Believe in what? That they actually had good reason for making the movie?

I love the X-Files, don't get me wrong ... just very disappointed. I kinda see why they really did no promoting of this ...
 
Psionic Force said:
why did you 'love' it?

Did you think it was X-Files at all? I mean aside of the characters being in it?
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the chemistry between mulder and scully, the way it continued after the show ended w/them on the run and how the FBI offered them a truce and bringing them back, the way it felt like a monster of the week episode, billy connely's disgraced priest, the gay frankenstein angle was creepy and cringe inducing (in a good way)... i loved how skinner came into it and i loved how it all came together. i liked that it was well set, very atmospheric and dug the repeaed-from-the-show angle that nobody believes in mulder except mulder himself and the guest star kook (billy connely)...

better than the first movie and the last couple seasons of the show.
 
Went to see this film last night.

Didn't have high hopes to be honest because I'd read a couple of brief reviews and they didn't have anything good to say about it and they were right. Like others have said the film didn't seem very X Files to me, it was more like a thriller with Mulder and Scully, no aliens, werewolves, vampires or anything weird at all. Worse still, they pretty much explained what was going on in the first half hour of the film, which means there wasn't even a sustained mystery till the end of the movie. It was nice seeing Mulder and Scully back together again and some of the references to the series were nice, but that's about the only good thing I've got to say about it.

Still, I'm sure it'll make it's money back, because based on having seen it Fox spent about fifty pence on the whole thing.
 
I loved it because of how sad it felt. It's kind of a strange feeling, hard to describe, but even though nothing terribly sad happens in the film, our main characters just felt forever changed after the film's events. Especially Scully, whose plot I really enjoyed.

The dark snowy setting really cements that isolated feeling too, and the UNKLE remix of the main theme (that I can't stop listening to), feels more tragic and depressing than anything Mark Snow ever wrote (not to put the man down, love his work). And I love those end title shots that go along with the song, too.

Overall, it's a film that has worked a lot for more for me upon reflection, not so much in the actual viewing of it.
 
i didn't want to believe this movie was bad, when i watched it but it was. for me it was just a 2 hour long episode that was just ok, still love the show.
 
jabbatheridge said:
Still, I'm sure it'll make it's money back, because based on having seen it Fox spent about fifty pence on the whole thing.
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Well, it won't be making it's money back from the domestic gross which will end up at 20 to 21million. The budget is 30million so Fox won't be seeing a profit from this film until it comes out on DVD.
 
Theweepeople said:
Well, it won't be making it's money back from the domestic gross which will end up at 20 to 21million. The budget is 30million so Fox won't be seeing a profit from this film until it comes out on DVD.
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ive said it before ill say it again:
itll be HUGE on dvd
 
Just saw this. As a big X-Files fan, I digged it.

I can see now why this flopped. It was a very personal movie to Carter, Mulder, Scully and the fans. You could just tell that Carter wanted to tell the Mulder/Scully relationship story to the end. A very ballsy move from Fox to approve this. Basically IWtB was a drama movie, the thriller aspect was just the secondary plot. Personally, mainly the only thing I didn't care about this "episode" was the Scully/doctor/hospital/sick kid -plot. It was necessary for the behaviour of Scully, but we less of it wouldn't have hurted anyone.

And I really liked the end credits scene. Very nice "Goodbye, everyone!" thingie. :yay:

(If this really was the end...?)
 
Rac said:
Just saw this. As a big X-Files fan, I digged it.

I can see now why this flopped. It was a very personal movie to Carter, Mulder, Scully and the fans. You could just tell that Carter wanted to tell the Mulder/Scully relationship story to the end. A very ballsy move from Fox to approve this. Basically IWtB was a drama movie, the thriller aspect was just the secondary plot. Personally, mainly the only thing I didn't care about this "episode" was the Scully/doctor/hospital/sick kid -plot. It was necessary for the behaviour of Scully, but we less of it wouldn't have hurted anyone.

And I really liked the end credits scene. Very nice "Goodbye, everyone!" thingie. :yay:

(If this really was the end...?)
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agreed
agreed
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agreed
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ballsy move yes -- and prolly is the final movie.
 
Theweepeople said:
Well, it won't be making it's money back from the domestic gross which will end up at 20 to 21million. The budget is 30million so Fox won't be seeing a profit from this film until it comes out on DVD.
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I think this might've done better as a direct to DVD release, although Fox wouldn't have been able to spend 30 million on it, the fans expectations for a direct to DVD or TV movie would've been less and if this had been on TV I think people would've been more accepting of it's flaws and it would have been a cool reunion movie.
 
Cagefighterkip said:
the chemistry between mulder and scully, the way it continued after the show ended w/them on the run and how the FBI offered them a truce and bringing them back, the way it felt like a monster of the week episode, billy connely's disgraced priest, the gay frankenstein angle was creepy and cringe inducing (in a good way)... i loved how skinner came into it and i loved how it all came together. i liked that it was well set, very atmospheric and dug the repeaed-from-the-show angle that nobody believes in mulder except mulder himself and the guest star kook (billy connely)...

better than the first movie and the last couple seasons of the show.
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Better than the first movie? I'm not arguing against your opinion, of course, but I honestly can't imagine how you could see it that way.
 
adhokk7 said:
Better than the first movie? I'm not arguing against your opinion, of course, but I honestly can't imagine how you could see it that way.
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My only real complaint w/the 1st movie is that it isn't a standAlone which is what I'd preferr, and this is a standAlone.
 
Damn, this movie was really bad.. the first movie was so much better..If felt like an unused script from the tv show, that they just stretched out longer.

3/10
 
i didn't think it was that all that bad, but it was not great either. it just didn't feel like a movie at all, more like a mediocre episode of the tv series. at the least it was great to see mulder, scully, and skinner again. Billy Connolly was good as the priest. the problem was the FBI case was not interesting at all. i think its a good movie to rent, just not to pay $10 to see in the movies. i'll rate it a 6/10.
 
I wonder if this is the end for hope of X-Files movies picking up because of big commercial and critical success...It took so much effort and years to get this out, maybe it's a last gasp. :(
 
If they had trimmed it down and tightened up the story it would have been a good 45 minute episode. So I really had no major complaints, except I was hoping for something more than Doc Frankenstein theme, being a tried and true Phile and 'shipper since '93. I saw the movie with someone who is not any of those things and they did not like it and found it depressing.:whatever: Don't ask!
 
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