The X-Files - I want to believe

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

So I saw this at the weekend... and it really wasn't good at all.

[Nessa 23]

I'm ordering on Netflix since season 1 for when the dvd of the movie comes out.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The series is better than both of the movies - though at least the first one had continuity. This is just deeply boring.

[Nessa 23]

there was a first movie?

[Amby 490]

I didn't even know there was a second movie until I heard people talking about it on the radio. I liked the tv show when I was little but I didn't really enjoy the first movie. I guess I'll wait for the DVD on the second one.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

there was a first movie?

They did one in 1998 - to bridge the gap between season 5 & 6. Season 6 is when the series really went awry in terms of quality - and then David Duchovny left, I think after season 7.

I've been rewatching it too - its interesting when you get to season 4 that the tone of the show totally changes and becomes really graphically gory (including one really nasty episode with possessed plastic surgeons - and another where a man and his wife are beaten into a bloody pulp by inbred freaks). Presumably something to do with the producers or the network - but its really noticeable.

Also it didn't occur to me how off the reservation Mulder gets on occasion - beating suspects and threatening people with his gun. Not exactly FBI procedure I would guess...

[Amby 490]

Maybe the aliens got him

[*JG* 2]

I miss Scully & Mulder. I want to see it sooooooooooooo bad. I don't even care if it's good or not.

[MissStacey 1]

I also liked how the first movie seemed to tie up a lot of loose ends on the show. There was too much going on and the show was all over the place. After that they seemed to get it back on track.

My favorite shows were always the ones where Mulder showed his sense of humor. The one with the Side Show Freaks was my all time fave. I saw these guys do a show in Edmonton- it was awesome.

[Nessa 23]

it's been years i hadn't watched X-files, so i was totally lost about movies.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I also liked how the first movie seemed to tie up a lot of loose ends on the show. There was too much going on and the show was all over the place. After that they seemed to get it back on track.

My favorite shows were always the ones where Mulder showed his sense of humor. The one with the Side Show Freaks was my all time fave. I saw these guys do a show in Edmonton- it was awesome.

There's a lot of loose ends in the first movie as well though - but it does seem like a continuation of the series (though Mulder getting from Dallas to the Antarctic inside of 24 hours was pushing it IMO). This new film doesn't feel like the X-Files at all, and the story is just dull - nothing really paranormal happens at all - its like "is that it!?".

At least Robert T1000 Patrick was nowhere to be seen...

Apparently they want to do another movie in 2012 to tie up the Alien Conspiracy storyline - although the box office figures were pretty poor for this and it got buried by The Dark Knight.