The X Files 2

domesticelefant · 28 Mar 08 :: 19:40

Cool poster.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 28 Mar 08 :: 19:44

Check on YouTube, Carol. They might be there...

justme · 28 Mar 08 :: 20:35

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hUKQz-xm0is

Whoa! Spooky is the word.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 16 Apr 08 :: 23:46

New info...

"X-Files" Movie Details And Title Revealed: "The X-Files: I Want To Believe"
DAVID GERMAIN | April 16, 2008 12:45 PM EST |
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LOS ANGELES — The truth is finally out there about the new "X-Files" movie title.
The second big-screen spinoff of the paranormal TV adventure will be called "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Chris Carter, the series' creator and the movie's director and co-writer, told The Associated Press.
Distributor 20th Century Fox signed off on the title Wednesday.
The title is a familiar phrase for fans of the series that starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents chasing after aliens and supernatural happenings. "I Want to Believe" was the slogan on a poster Duchovny's UFO-obsessed agent Fox Mulder had hanging in the cluttered basement office where he and Anderson's Dana Scully worked.
"It's a natural title," Carter said in a telephone interview Tuesday during a break from editing the film. "It's a story that involves the difficulties in mediating faith and science. `I Want to Believe.' It really does suggest Mulder's struggle with his faith."
"I Want to Believe" comes 10 years after the first film and six years after the finale of the series, whose opening credits for much of its nine-year run featured the catch-phrase "the truth is out there."
Due in theaters July 25, the movie will not deal with aliens or the intricate mythology about interaction between humans and extraterrestrials that the show built up over the years, Carter said.
Instead, it casts Mulder and Scully into a stand-alone, earth-bound story aimed at both serious "X-Files" fans and newcomers, he said.
"It has struck me over the last several years talking to college-age kids that a lot of them really don't know the show or haven't seen it," Carter said. "If you're 20 years old now, the show started when you were 4. It was probably too scary for you or your parents wouldn't let you watch it. So there's a whole new audience that might have liked the show. This was made to, I would call it, satisfy everyone."
Hardcore fans need not worry that the movie will be going back to square one, though, Carter said. The movie will be true to the spirit of the show and everything Mulder and Scully went through, he said.
"The reason we're even making the movie is for the rabid fans, so we don't want to insult them by having to take them back through the concept again," Carter said.
Carter said he settled on "I Want to Believe" from the time he and co-writer Frank Spotnitz started on the screenplay. It took so long to go public with it because studio executives wanted to make sure it was a marketable title, he said.
The filmmakers have kept the story tightly under wraps to prevent plot spoilers from leaking on the Internet, a phenomenon that barely existed when the first movie came out in 1998.
"We went to almost comical lengths to keep the story a secret," Carter said. "That included allowing only the key crew members to read the script, and they had to read it in a room that had video cameras trained on them. It was a new experience."
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TheCentralScrutinizer · 18 Apr 08 :: 17:16

Here it is, the supposed plot of the movie that Chris Carter has been trying so hard to keep under wraps. The publisher of the novelization leaked it yesterday, but it's fast disappearing from the net...

"Mulder and Scully are back in the thrilling novelization of the summer 2008 blockbuster movie based on the classic X-Files TV show! When a group of women are abducted in the wintry hills of rural Virginia, the only clues to their disappearance are the grotesque human remains that begin to turn up in snow banks along the highway. With officials desperate for any lead, a disgraced priest's questionable "visions" send local police on a wild goose chase and straight to a bizarre secret medical experiment that may or may not be connected to the women's disappearance. It's a case right out of The X-Files. But the FBI closed down its investigations into the paranormal years ago. And the best team for the job is ex-agents Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully, who have no desire to revisit their dark past. Still, the truth of these horrific crimes is out there somewhere...and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it!"

Sounds OK to me.

Donna · 18 Apr 08 :: 19:12

I'll see it. I was a big x-files fan.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 12 May 08 :: 15:50

The first trailer has arrived...

http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/37976 … 50908.html

TheCentralScrutinizer · 27 Jul 08 :: 07:27

Saw the movie today. I can't say it's great. I enjoyed it, but I'm sucker for these characters. The plot is kind of a mess, a bit hard to follow at times, and one might even say somewhat silly. Billy Connolly was fun. And there's a moment near the end that got a cheer from some of us in the audience. The Mulder and Scully interaction was cool though. You could even say they've grown a bit over the years and can finally admit certain things to each other that they never could on the show. The tag after the end credits was absolutely priceless and made me wanna cheer yet again.

But I will say this, Mr. Carter, the next movie had better be The X Files III: The Search For William. Otherwise, don't even dream of making another one.

Bottom Line Verdict: If you're a hardcore fan of the series, or the Mulder/Scully 'ship, go see it. If not, eh, go see The Dark Knight instead.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 27 Jul 08 :: 09:13

Good review, Deb. Thanks for the tips. :- )

TeeJay · 11 Aug 08 :: 20:27

SPOILERS TO FOLLOW!

I just came back from watching it. And I quite liked it. Granted, it's not a movie where you should question or challenge certain facts too much. But I was thoroughly entertained and I loved the Mulder/Scully interaction. And the little in-jokes, like the pencils in the ceiling. I also didn't find it confusing or convoluted or hard to follow at all. After your warning, Deb, I had kind of expected a really complicated alien conspiracy plot with lots of politics or something. I thought this was fairly simple and even halfway scientific.

Okay, aside from the fact that you can't become a stem cell research expert in less than a day and gain enough knowledge to do hands-on complicated brain surgery overnight. Not to mention the notion of transplanting a human head onto a human body and still expect full both cognitive and physical function afterwards. And of course they had to resort to the old Russian underground organ mafia cliché. Steffi said they should have used Koreans for that who were messing with cloning and shit.

Watching this kinda makes me wanna buy the show on DVD and watch it again from the beginning...

The two questions I am left with are:
1) Why was the dude whose head they wanted to transplant looking for the FBI agent they kidnapped himself? Wouldn't he have someone doing his dirty work for him?
2) Why did they saw this guy's arm off and why was it buried under the ice?

Oh, and by the way... I thought both David and Gillian looked stunning. Older, but still very handsome and attractive.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 11 Aug 08 :: 21:02

I still have no idea what the hell went on in the movie. I didn't say it was complicated. I said it's muddy. And it is. It's a total mess of murkiness. None of it made much sense and it wasn't any better than the most mediocre ep of the TV series.

I loved the shippy stuff too. Did you notice there was some book that had the word "sex" on the cover on Scully's bedside table when they were sleeping (just sleeping, apparently) together?

The tag was my favorite part.

TeeJay · 11 Aug 08 :: 21:16

I didn't think it was muddy. I found the plot pretty easy to follow. Sure, it was sometimes a bit vague, but at no point was I lost where the story was concerned. I even thought it made a certain kind of sense. You know, an X-Files kind of sense.

Was it special? No. Was it a great movie? No. Did I think it was better than the TV episodes? No. You're right when you say that compared to the really great episodes they've had, it was mediocre. But I still really enjoyed it. Maybe it helped that I haven't watched any X-Files for years (apart from the episode we watched together at your place). I just really enjoyed it for what it was.

Nope, didn't realize the "sex" thing. I'm sure there's tone of more in-jokes in there that I missed. I really have to watch the show again. And I thought the tag was really cheesy. Can't say it was cute or that I really liked that.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 11 Aug 08 :: 21:42

Fine. You obviously liked this show for different reasons than I did. For the record, most people didn't care for it. Only 32% fresh on the tomatometer.

TeeJay · 11 Aug 08 :: 21:48

I never much care about what the public or reviewers say. If I think a movie sounds interesting, I watch it. Sometimes I'm disappointed afterwards, but most of the time I'm not. Guess it works differently for everyone. How boring would life be if we all agreed on and liked the same things?

-TeeJay

TheCentralScrutinizer · 11 Aug 08 :: 22:51

Maybe it bothered me more that it wasn't better because I have to painfully squeeze out every drop of money I spend on movies and it pisses me off to blow $10 on something that turns out to be a big letdown.

Donna · 13 Aug 08 :: 00:59

That sucks, when you build yourself up for a movie and it lets you down, I do that a lot. I am working on it though. I will go into this one with low expectations and hopefully be pleasantly surprised. BIG FAN of the show. Didn't love the first movie either.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 13 Aug 08 :: 01:50

The first movie was Oscar-caliber compared to this one. You'll see. Somebody seriously needs to remind Chris Carter that he shot his wad years ago and really has no business making anymore X Files. I wish he'd turn the franchise over to one of the better writer/directors on the show. Like Spotnitz or Gilligan, or better yet, let Morgan & Wong make an X Files movie, then maybe it would at least not be humorless and murky.

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