The X-files: I Want to Believe...It's HERE!
July 28th 2008 00:29
First off, I just want to say a huge thank you to Paula for taking over while I was gone! You did a great job Paula!
That being said, this is the post that I was both looking forward to and dreading the most. I have seen The X-files: I Want to Believe, but where do I even begin?
Hi my name is Meggie and I’m a die-hard X-phile…Okay, wait, maybe that’s a little too far back. 
If you’ve been around here in the last year you’ve notice that it’s no secret that I am a fan of The X-files for a very very long time. It’s crazy to think that I’ve known Mulder and Scully longer than most of my real life friends, and I don’t deny naming my first laptop “Queequeg” (or the fact that I dissolved into a fit of ridiculous grinning when I typed in “Queequeg” just now and Wikipedia first listed “Queequeg was the name of Special Agent Dana Scully's dog on The X-Files” before mentioning the legendary Moby Dick harpooner.)
I don’t deny arranging my junior high and high school schedules so that I wouldn’t miss an episode, and THE Poster is still hanging on my wall. I watched reruns of the show consistently throughout those hard college project nights, and just when I finally was about to give up hope on another movie…I graduated from college, and *gasp!*
the rumors are true! It’s FINALLY happening!
Thus began my year of The X-files. I won’t go into the details (I mean most of you were here yourself right?), but all I can say is I am one happy phile right now.
I should never have seen the movie on vacation, because I missed most of the trip thinking “I can’t wait, Mulder and Scully, I can’t wait, Mulder and Scully, Ican’twait!” and then, “Ahhhhh! I can’t believe I just saw it, Mulder and Scully, I can’t believe that happened, Mulder and Scully, Mulder and Scully…” LoL
Honestly though? The shock of seeing my favorite characters back on (in this case the big) screen was almost overwhelming. It was so different yet so the same. I don’t really know how to explain it. I mean, (rollover for spoiler warning) Mulder and Scully are finally a couple! And Chris Carter wrote it that way! *insert sounds of X-philes falling off their movie theater seats as their jaws hit the floor*
There are times when my brain literally just went “poof!” into nothingness because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing…or hearing! I’m sure you all know the parts I’m talking about…
****SPOILER WARNING**** Do not read this part if you don’t want to be spoiled. If you do, highlight below...
-“Scratchy beard”
-“ I have a little something to help with that”
“A little something?”
“Thank you.”
-Scully actually admitting out loud that she fell in love with Mulder?? Yeah, that was a fall-out-of-the-chair moment.
-Skinner!!!! Got all teary-eyed when he told her that they would find Mulder (definite teary-Scully “We will find him” flashback for me there) And I loved the ‘we know Mulder’ conversation in the car-totally made me laugh. And when Skinner went out to help Mulder?? Awwwww! Laughed again when Mulder realizes it’s him and is like, Skinner? What are you doing here? LoL
-The Kiss. Enough said. Oh wait, I do have one thing to add...curse you CC and your tricky camera work! I love the back of Mulder's head and all, but I love the front even more. 
-The rowboat!! Oh man this was the best. It left me ridiculously happy after so much angst. Mulder and Scully finally get a happy ending? On vacation? In their swimming suits?? Are you sure CC wrote this? LoL
****End of major spoilers****
Every scene in this movie from beginning to end with Mulder and Scully is amazing. The depth of history these characters and actors have with each other is something that can never be duplicated. It’s so touching and beautiful and heartbreaking and funny all at the same time.
And it’s nice to finally have a movie that is character driven. No need for blow-out-your-ears explosions every five seconds and complicated monsters that take up half the budget in CGI. This movie is about real people and real feelings in a situation that could definitely happen in real life. As Chris Carter has said before, something is only as scary as it is believable, and he’s stuck to his guns on this one. From the second you start watching, with the music and the great left-hand corner titles, you think, “Oh yeah, this is The X-files.”
You don’t need to be a fan of the show to get the movie. My aunt who has never seen the show before went with me and said she liked it, so there you go. It’s not all just a ploy to get you in the theater, you can trust the filmmakers on that one. That being said, if you’ve never seen Mulder and Scully before this movie, go, GO NOW and buy the DVDs because you NEED to see them as they were for 9 seasons to fully bask in the wonderful-ness that is Mulder and Scully.
Hard core fans, fear not, there are plenty of great nods back to the show. The sunflower seeds? The Poster? The pencils in the ceiling really made me smile. Mulder and Scully banter like they always did, and although they go through a lot of angst in this movie, who can blame them? Would you be all happy-go-lucky if you’d been through all they’ve been through?
Now I know you’ll be totally distracted by Mulder and Scully (I know I was!), but if you can manage to tear your eyes away from them for a few seconds you’ll catch lots of X-files cameos. Chris himself is reportedly sitting in the hospital (totally missed it myself, will look for it next time), and the actress who played none other than Samantha Mulder has a cameo as an FBI Agent who makes eye contact with Mulder while walking down the hall. If you like Bad Blood as much as Gillian Anderson (and me) you’ll recognize the woman playing the missing FBI Agent, and that doctor sure looks familiar…as does that big black poodle walking the halls.
Sure I kind of missed having them in the FBI (I mean what’s an X-file without Mulder losing his gun right?) but all in all, I am very happy with this movie. After the shock of seeing it (and missing half the plot due to my distractions…hehe) I was kind of depressed. Not because the movie was bad (because it wasn’t!), but more because it was like the day after Christmas. Kind of that, “now what?” feeling. But over 24 hours I thought about the movie, listened to the soundtrack, thought about it some more, talked to fellow philes, and focused on that last scene and all the GREAT Mulder and Scully moments. And as I did, one big well of happiness seemed to bubble up and burst inside me and I haven’t stopped grinning since.
I just want to say a million times thank you to CC, FS, DD, and GA for giving us this amazing chance to see Mulder and Scully again. You guys worked so hard for so long to give us fans what we wanted, and we love you for it!
Oh and yes, David if you’re wondering, you all totally “Nailed it!”
Here’s to XF3...and 4…and 5…and that XF2½ Mulder and Scully’s Vacation…and…ahhh I love it.
PS-(spoiler warning, highlight)...All I can say is I am so glad Scully did not have to sew Mulder’s head back on. That poor man has been through enough! LoL And I'm still wondering...just who's in that helicopter at the end and do they have a camera with them?
That being said, this is the post that I was both looking forward to and dreading the most. I have seen The X-files: I Want to Believe, but where do I even begin?
If you’ve been around here in the last year you’ve notice that it’s no secret that I am a fan of The X-files for a very very long time. It’s crazy to think that I’ve known Mulder and Scully longer than most of my real life friends, and I don’t deny naming my first laptop “Queequeg” (or the fact that I dissolved into a fit of ridiculous grinning when I typed in “Queequeg” just now and Wikipedia first listed “Queequeg was the name of Special Agent Dana Scully's dog on The X-Files” before mentioning the legendary Moby Dick harpooner.) I don’t deny arranging my junior high and high school schedules so that I wouldn’t miss an episode, and THE Poster is still hanging on my wall. I watched reruns of the show consistently throughout those hard college project nights, and just when I finally was about to give up hope on another movie…I graduated from college, and *gasp!*
the rumors are true! It’s FINALLY happening!Thus began my year of The X-files. I won’t go into the details (I mean most of you were here yourself right?), but all I can say is I am one happy phile right now.
I should never have seen the movie on vacation, because I missed most of the trip thinking “I can’t wait, Mulder and Scully, I can’t wait, Mulder and Scully, Ican’twait!” and then, “Ahhhhh! I can’t believe I just saw it, Mulder and Scully, I can’t believe that happened, Mulder and Scully, Mulder and Scully…” LoL
Honestly though? The shock of seeing my favorite characters back on (in this case the big) screen was almost overwhelming. It was so different yet so the same. I don’t really know how to explain it. I mean, (rollover for spoiler warning) Mulder and Scully are finally a couple! And Chris Carter wrote it that way! *insert sounds of X-philes falling off their movie theater seats as their jaws hit the floor*
There are times when my brain literally just went “poof!” into nothingness because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing…or hearing! I’m sure you all know the parts I’m talking about…
****SPOILER WARNING**** Do not read this part if you don’t want to be spoiled.
If you do, highlight below...-“Scratchy beard”
-“ I have a little something to help with that”
“A little something?”
“Thank you.”
-Scully actually admitting out loud that she fell in love with Mulder??
Yeah, that was a fall-out-of-the-chair moment.-Skinner!!!! Got all teary-eyed when he told her that they would find Mulder (definite teary-Scully “We will find him” flashback for me there) And I loved the ‘we know Mulder’ conversation in the car-totally made me laugh. And when Skinner went out to help Mulder?? Awwwww! Laughed again when Mulder realizes it’s him and is like, Skinner? What are you doing here? LoL
-The Kiss. Enough said. Oh wait, I do have one thing to add...curse you CC and your tricky camera work!
I love the back of Mulder's head and all, but I love the front even more. -The rowboat!! Oh man this was the best. It left me ridiculously happy after so much angst. Mulder and Scully finally get a happy ending? On vacation? In their swimming suits?? Are you sure CC wrote this? LoL
****End of major spoilers****
Every scene in this movie from beginning to end with Mulder and Scully is amazing. The depth of history these characters and actors have with each other is something that can never be duplicated. It’s so touching and beautiful and heartbreaking and funny all at the same time.
And it’s nice to finally have a movie that is character driven. No need for blow-out-your-ears explosions every five seconds and complicated monsters that take up half the budget in CGI. This movie is about real people and real feelings in a situation that could definitely happen in real life. As Chris Carter has said before, something is only as scary as it is believable, and he’s stuck to his guns on this one. From the second you start watching, with the music and the great left-hand corner titles, you think, “Oh yeah, this is The X-files.”
You don’t need to be a fan of the show to get the movie. My aunt who has never seen the show before went with me and said she liked it, so there you go. It’s not all just a ploy to get you in the theater, you can trust the filmmakers on that one.
That being said, if you’ve never seen Mulder and Scully before this movie, go, GO NOW and buy the DVDs because you NEED to see them as they were for 9 seasons to fully bask in the wonderful-ness that is Mulder and Scully.Hard core fans, fear not, there are plenty of great nods back to the show. The sunflower seeds? The Poster? The pencils in the ceiling really made me smile. Mulder and Scully banter like they always did, and although they go through a lot of angst in this movie, who can blame them? Would you be all happy-go-lucky if you’d been through all they’ve been through?
Now I know you’ll be totally distracted by Mulder and Scully (I know I was!), but if you can manage to tear your eyes away from them for a few seconds you’ll catch lots of X-files cameos. Chris himself is reportedly sitting in the hospital (totally missed it myself, will look for it next time), and the actress who played none other than Samantha Mulder has a cameo as an FBI Agent who makes eye contact with Mulder while walking down the hall. If you like Bad Blood as much as Gillian Anderson (and me) you’ll recognize the woman playing the missing FBI Agent, and that doctor sure looks familiar…as does that big black poodle walking the halls.
Sure I kind of missed having them in the FBI (I mean what’s an X-file without Mulder losing his gun right?) but all in all, I am very happy with this movie. After the shock of seeing it (and missing half the plot due to my distractions…hehe) I was kind of depressed. Not because the movie was bad (because it wasn’t!), but more because it was like the day after Christmas. Kind of that, “now what?” feeling. But over 24 hours I thought about the movie, listened to the soundtrack, thought about it some more, talked to fellow philes, and focused on that last scene and all the GREAT Mulder and Scully moments. And as I did, one big well of happiness seemed to bubble up and burst inside me and I haven’t stopped grinning since.
I just want to say a million times thank you to CC, FS, DD, and GA for giving us this amazing chance to see Mulder and Scully again. You guys worked so hard for so long to give us fans what we wanted, and we love you for it!
Oh and yes, David if you’re wondering, you all totally “Nailed it!”
Here’s to XF3...and 4…and 5…and that XF2½ Mulder and Scully’s Vacation…and…ahhh I love it.
PS-(spoiler warning, highlight
)...All I can say is I am so glad Scully did not have to sew Mulder’s head back on. That poor man has been through enough! LoL And I'm still wondering...just who's in that helicopter at the end and do they have a camera with them? | 46 |
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So... now I am gonna watch it again, and again and again and then probably some more.... and I'll be waiting for XF3!!!
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Regardless if you are a fan of the TV show or not, this movie is about one thing: Intelligence.
If you have been brainwashed into expecting all movies to be about CGI, explosions, or sex scenes, then you will be disappointed.
This movie requires thought, intelligence, and an understanding of common sense.
I realize most of our generation and the one below it do not have these abilities anymore, but if you think you can try, go see the film. Enjoy it.
If however you can not or will not try the above, help out other fans by buying a ticket for the X-Files and seeing something else once inside.
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