Movie Time!
So, one time I was over at Mike & Peg's (back when it was Mike & Peg's) and we were doing something (probably playing a board game), when Peg suddenly went "It's 9:00!" and she & Mike rushed to the TV. Because X-Files was on. Now this was when the show was still in it's first season and Fox was advertising it as a UFO chasing show, so in my head I was like, "Wow, really? You watch this shit?"
Yeah well, I ended up just as obsessed with the show as they were, if not more so. At least until the first film, when the show got waaaaay too caught up in it's mythology and then Mulder left and was replaced by the T-1000, and then Scully decided to get pregnant and only show up for half of the episodes and blah blah blah.
That's a long winded way of saying, "Hey, I went and saw the new X-Files movie last night."
When we last left our swarthy adventurers, Mulder was on the run (with Scully & baby William in tow) after he was falsely accused of murder and sentenced to death. The movie picks up 6 years later. Scully, now working for a christian hospital in Virginia, is approached by Agent Xzibit. He's been ordered by his boss (Agent Amanda Peet), to find Fox Mulder. The FBI needs his help with a case and is willing to wipe his record clean if he comes aboard. Women are being abducted in rural Virginia (including an FBI agent, hence why they're involved), and the only clues the FBI are getting are from a psychic (ex-Father Billy Connolly, a former priest excommunicated for molesting children) who leads them to body parts buried in the snow. Agent Peet wants Mulder's help in telling wither Father Billy is a real psychic or is he actually involved with abducting the women. Hilarity, along with lots of gruesome scenes, ensue.
The Verdict: If I were to make a list of the 10 best X-Files episodes, I would put this movie on that list. It's an awesome episode of the show and if you go to watch this movie with that attitude (instead of "It's a movie") you'll really enjoy it. It's dark, it's creepy, there's lots of characterization, there's humor; it's everything you want in a good X-Files episode.
"I Want To Believe" isn't the title for the film just because it was on Mulder's infamous UFO poster, it's actually the theme of the movie. Or more specifically, the many faces of faith. Faith in self, in others, in love & in what you believe are all tested & questioned in the film, and not all are answered they way you think (or at all).
While knowledge of the show would help you enjoy the movie more (especially with the relationship between Mulder & Scully), it's not necessary to enjoy the film. Very little of the cliff hangers from the show are resolved or even touched upon. In fact, only one other character from the show is in it, and that's only for 5 minutes.
Overall, if you were a fan of the show, or just like a good mystery, I recommend seeing it, though I have to admit the only reason to see it in the theater is to help support it for another film (show creator Chris Carter has said he'd like to do one more for 2012 release that resolves all the cliffhangers).
Oh, also. Stay through the credits for a little extra.
Yeah well, I ended up just as obsessed with the show as they were, if not more so. At least until the first film, when the show got waaaaay too caught up in it's mythology and then Mulder left and was replaced by the T-1000, and then Scully decided to get pregnant and only show up for half of the episodes and blah blah blah.
That's a long winded way of saying, "Hey, I went and saw the new X-Files movie last night."
When we last left our swarthy adventurers, Mulder was on the run (with Scully & baby William in tow) after he was falsely accused of murder and sentenced to death. The movie picks up 6 years later. Scully, now working for a christian hospital in Virginia, is approached by Agent Xzibit. He's been ordered by his boss (Agent Amanda Peet), to find Fox Mulder. The FBI needs his help with a case and is willing to wipe his record clean if he comes aboard. Women are being abducted in rural Virginia (including an FBI agent, hence why they're involved), and the only clues the FBI are getting are from a psychic (ex-Father Billy Connolly, a former priest excommunicated for molesting children) who leads them to body parts buried in the snow. Agent Peet wants Mulder's help in telling wither Father Billy is a real psychic or is he actually involved with abducting the women. Hilarity, along with lots of gruesome scenes, ensue.
The Verdict: If I were to make a list of the 10 best X-Files episodes, I would put this movie on that list. It's an awesome episode of the show and if you go to watch this movie with that attitude (instead of "It's a movie") you'll really enjoy it. It's dark, it's creepy, there's lots of characterization, there's humor; it's everything you want in a good X-Files episode.
"I Want To Believe" isn't the title for the film just because it was on Mulder's infamous UFO poster, it's actually the theme of the movie. Or more specifically, the many faces of faith. Faith in self, in others, in love & in what you believe are all tested & questioned in the film, and not all are answered they way you think (or at all).
While knowledge of the show would help you enjoy the movie more (especially with the relationship between Mulder & Scully), it's not necessary to enjoy the film. Very little of the cliff hangers from the show are resolved or even touched upon. In fact, only one other character from the show is in it, and that's only for 5 minutes.
Overall, if you were a fan of the show, or just like a good mystery, I recommend seeing it, though I have to admit the only reason to see it in the theater is to help support it for another film (show creator Chris Carter has said he'd like to do one more for 2012 release that resolves all the cliffhangers).
Oh, also. Stay through the credits for a little extra.