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Not as bad as it seemed when first released...

posted 11 years ago by StrontiumAE
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Actually its really good. Its just the story seems an odd choice for an X Files movie. The 90s movie and the entire last season was about the alien/government conspiracy mythology, but then after a 6 year wait they decide to release a movie which has no supernatural element to it? Its not even a monster of the week story. Its a straight up FBI detective thriller. Its still debatable if the priest was psychic (which I don't think), while the Frankenstien thing at the end, although important, only made up a small part of the overall story.

Anyway fans need to give it another chance. It is a very very good film, just not an X Files film.

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[–] midgets_are_evil 10 years ago

I actually watched it again tonight and loved it! I had finished all 9 seasons of the xfiles prior to watching too, it gave me a bit of hope for a third film

[–] WhoToTrust 10 years ago

I've been going through the series again too, and have been tempted from time to time to pop IWTB back in, but my plan is to hold off until all the way through with the series...which with any luck and some planned timing on my part...will occur sometime this winter so that the weather outside at the time will be about the same as what I'm watching on the screen.

[–] Steadybox 10 years ago

Yeah well, when I first saw it, I was waiting for some kind of conclusion for the myth-arc, as I think most of the viewers were. Nowadays I'm not angry about not developing the myth-arc, and in fact I do like the story of this movie.

In my opinion, this still isn't too close to the monster of the week episodes of the show. Not because of the story, but because of the way of directing. In my opinion, this movie was quite badly directed (sorry CC!). There were way too much close up shots (felt kind of claustrophobic, in a really confusing contrasting way with many of the scenes taking place in pretty remote and wide open area.) and that shaking camera thing (that seems to be quite popular thing nowadays) really turned me off. Also some of the cuts from scene to scene felt somewhat flawed. The directing was so different from the original show, that it made this movie also feel quite alien (pun intended) to the original show.