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Author Topic: The X-Files: I Want To Believe John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-24-2008 05:30 PM                     Well, sorry to say I cannot review the entire film as I gave up about an hour into it. What I did get to see though was a suspenseless pile of tripe. While not an X-Files devotee, I still know a big smelly when I see one. Hey, Scully's a brain surgeon now? Oh, OK. She always was a fast learner. I want to believe these guys will now just roll over and do other things. The 90's are gone. Get over it.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-24-2008 05:58 PM                        I can't think of any other of the "big" summer movies this year that has less buzz about it than this one. The teaser onesheet looks stupid, too. Who ever pioneered the idea of the teaser onesheet with no title (or much else) on it is an idiot. Plus the title is a complete yawner. I don't know which is worse - this or "Quantum of Solace."  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-24-2008 06:57 PM                     I Want To Believe is such a dumb title. Who on earth actually convinced themselves at Fox that people would say the mouthful "Hey, I'm going to see 'The X-Files: I Want To Believe' tomorrow". Dumbest title of the year. Even the print ID's themselves don't bother with it and instead go with 'The X-Files 2'. That is what it is, after all.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-24-2008 07:25 PM                     All the boxes of marketing materials from Fox call it "30350" on the label. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 07-25-2008 07:56 AM                     quote: John Wilson Hey, Scully's a brain surgeon now? Oh, OK. She always was a fast learner. I have not seen the movie yet so I can't comment on how good or bad it is but.... If you watched the show you would know that Scully was a medical doctor before joining the FBI. She used to do autopsies all the time. This was the scientific background that she had to offset Mulder's belief in sci-fi and paranormal stuff during investications. The show ended in 2002. A neurosurgery residency is 6 years if the candidate has already had a "prelim" year of residency. That would make her a neurosurgeon in 2008 which is when the movie is released and takes place.  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-25-2008 12:31 PM                     Do you guys remember Chris Carter's other show, MILLENNIUM? If not, you might want to skip the next paragraph, which has MAJOR SPOILERS!!! The first season of MILLENNIUM was pretty much a serial killer of the week series. In Season 2, Carter was busy with the first X-FILES movie, and he handed control of the show over to Glen Morgan and James Wong, the team responsible for some of best stuff THE X-FILES has to offer. While Carter wasn't paying attention, they decided to make the show good. A supernatural element was added which gave the show direction, and Season 2 ended with a viral outbreak which essentially was going to wipe out humanity. When the show got picked up for a third season, Carter decided that he wanted to take a more active role in the writing, and wanted to bring the show back to its roots. The big problem of course, was that 90% of the world's population was (presumably) killed in the last episode. Carter's solution: Open Season 3 with a news report of a small viral outbreak which killed 60 people in the Northwestern United States. And that's when MILLENNIUM jumped the shark. So why should we be surprised that now he's doing the same thing with THE X-FILES? If you're gonna do something big, if you're gonna relaunch your series after six years, you have to make it matter. I WANT TO BELIEVE would have been a perfectly forgettable standalone movie if it had occurred at some point during the series. But by putting it after the show has ended, it doesn't just suck. It makes the overall series structure worse. It erases what has come before. It doesn't add anything new to the characters, it doesn't advance the story at all, and by sucking as much as it does, it pretty much ensures that we will never get another movie, with that iconic image of Mulder and Scully driving down an open road with a flying saucer shooting laser beams at their car in the year 2012. And that makes me sad. It's why I hate this movie when I should be ambivalent.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-25-2008 12:40 PM                    Here is my review summed up in one word........CRAP!  |  IP: Logged Robert John Jeromson Master Film Handler Posts: 264 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Jul 2004 posted 07-29-2008 06:26 PM                     Pretty dull and uninspiring... SPOILER ALERT!!! . . . . . . . . . . Billy Connelly as a convicted peadofile makes about as much sense as having Howdy Doody play a fucking bank robber!!! . . . . . . . END SPOILER!!! P.S You leave 'Quantum of Solace' alone [ 07-29-2008, 11:19 PM: Message edited by: Robert John Jeromson ]  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-29-2008 10:59 PM                        Hey, I'm looking forward to Quantum of Solace as much as the next guy but that doesn't mean I have to like the title. It's the worst James Bond title since "Octopussy."  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Goeldner Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1360 From: Washington, District of Columbia Registered: Jun 2008 posted 07-30-2008 02:44 PM                     they should have just titled this 'The Zzzz-Files: I Want to Sleep' - the first forty minutes were so mind numbingly dull. What a major disappointment, this the is the final nail to the movie franchise - what a terrible way to end the whole X-Files mythos.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 07-31-2008 08:42 PM                     After seeing this finally I have to say I was VERY disappointed. I was hoping that Chris Carter had come up with a great story to resurrect the franchise and then be able to end it properly with another movie or two. I don't think that's going to happen. If this movie was a 2 part episode of the show it would have been a mediocre episode. As a movie it doesn't work at all. Chris Carter doesn't seem to know what he is doing as a film director. The pacing was horrible, there was no tension built up. There were characters like Xzibit that just didn't have any purpose. Aside from that the story was predictable and dull. The only thing remotely entertaining was getting to see Mulder and Scully interact again and a few references back to the series. Unfortunately they killed the series when Duchovney didn't want to do the show anymore and Mulder disappeared for a few seasons. They should have just ended the show at that point and then they would have been able to do a few movie follow ups. 1.5 out of 5 stars  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-02-2008 04:54 PM                       I guess I didn't miss much with this picture, not that I was gonna see it anyway. This show has never appealed to me. The guy strikes me as a dork, and the girl seems very dull and uninteresting.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-06-2008 11:25 AM                        quote: Tim Reed The guy strikes me as a dork, and the girl seems very dull and uninteresting. Tim smacks it outta the ball park in one sentence! I could never see what all the fuss was about when this thing was on the air. This rehash so long after the show's demise is destined for the DVD bins faster than you can say the title. And no doubt the DVD will have lots of "extras not seen in the theatres" -- you know, the stuff they pick up off the editing room floor, or in the case of video editing, out of the Recycle Bin. [ 08-06-2008, 03:29 PM: Message edited by: Frank Angel ]  |  IP: Logged Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 08-06-2008 12:49 PM                     With so many dull movies being made, and the universal panning by audiences and people in our business, what do producers see in these lackluster ideas that they wish to invesy huge money into making them?  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 08-06-2008 12:53 PM                    Frank, Judging from the box office take, they could probably suggest that the entire movie wasn't seen in theaters.  |  IP: Logged

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