Comments on: The X-Files: I Want to Believe http://www.moviezeal.com/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/ The official podcast of MovieZeal.com, where film is always best discussed under the gentle influence of fine wine (as fine as $10 will get you). Each week Evan, Heather, and Luke pick a theme, discuss a theatrical release based on that theme, pop the cork and drink a wine that fits said theme, and finally subject one another to The Gauntlet, where forcing others to watch painful films nets you fabulous prizes. There is not anything else on the internets like it (literally). Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:39:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: [review]: The X-Files: I Want to Believe « …yet made of stars http://www.moviezeal.com/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-39159 [review]: The X-Files: I Want to Believe « …yet made of stars Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:41:34 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=1091#comment-39159 [...] 14, 2009 Cross-posted at: MovieZeal • Tulsa [...] [...] 14, 2009 Cross-posted at: MovieZeal • Tulsa [...]

]]> By: Film-Book dot Com http://www.moviezeal.com/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-15527 Film-Book dot Com Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:25:08 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=1091#comment-15527 The "Home" episode is scary, filthy, disturbing and badass. That one episode was better than The Hills Have Eyes 2 (which isn't saying much but you get my point). That episode is better than most STV horror films and half the ones that come out in theater. Believe it or not, the episode is actually censored. It would have been far more unforgettable the way it was originally written. Check it out online. I think it was the one ep that was micro-managed. On topic however, this X-Files' movie sucked. SUCKED. Great evolution for the character of Scully and the pedophile priest with visions was interesting but everything else was sorry. This was an X-Files episode stretched out and elongated, again. You got that impression from the first X-Files movie but this film took the cake and stomped on it. The religious aspects of this film, specifically faith, were interesting but not enough to bolster the film and save it from mediocrity. The “Home” episode is scary, filthy, disturbing and badass. That one episode was better than The Hills Have Eyes 2 (which isn’t saying much but you get my point). That episode is better than most STV horror films and half the ones that come out in theater. Believe it or not, the episode is actually censored. It would have been far more unforgettable the way it was originally written. Check it out online. I think it was the one ep that was micro-managed.

On topic however, this X-Files’ movie sucked. SUCKED. Great evolution for the character of Scully and the pedophile priest with visions was interesting but everything else was sorry. This was an X-Files episode stretched out and elongated, again. You got that impression from the first X-Files movie but this film took the cake and stomped on it.

The religious aspects of this film, specifically faith, were interesting but not enough to bolster the film and save it from mediocrity.

]]> By: Alexander Coleman http://www.moviezeal.com/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-8408 Alexander Coleman Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:14:43 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=1091#comment-8408 I love "Home," always have since I first saw it live on TV. Unlike anything else in the history of TV, including this show. I <a href="http://colemancornerincinema.blogspot.com/2008/07/x-files-i-want-to-believe-2008.html" rel="nofollow">was a little less enthused</a> by the film, but it <a href="http://colemancornerincinema.blogspot.com/2008/08/flex-your-x-files-muscle.html" rel="nofollow">has lingered in my thoughts nevertheless</a>, especially as a long-time fan of the show from way back. I think this is pretty clearly the end of <i>The X-Files</i> in any form, due to the terrible box office results, so I'm glad this movie exists because it was a much better send-off than anything the TV show did or even could have done by the time it had deteriorated so completely by the end. Luke, the '90s were all in the first 15 years of my life, too. I should have been a normal kid with the cartoons, not twisting my brain with <i>The X-Files, Millennium</i> and seeing movies like <i>The Exorcist</i> when I was about six years old or something. I'm going to watch all of the mythology episodes in a marthon from the first three seasons fairly soon, as that is when the mythology part of the show still made sense. Then I can conclude it with a viewing of "Home," Sam, haha. :) I love “Home,” always have since I first saw it live on TV. Unlike anything else in the history of TV, including this show.

I was a little less enthused by the film, but it has lingered in my thoughts nevertheless, especially as a long-time fan of the show from way back.

I think this is pretty clearly the end of The X-Files in any form, due to the terrible box office results, so I’m glad this movie exists because it was a much better send-off than anything the TV show did or even could have done by the time it had deteriorated so completely by the end.

Luke, the ’90s were all in the first 15 years of my life, too. I should have been a normal kid with the cartoons, not twisting my brain with The X-Files, Millennium and seeing movies like The Exorcist when I was about six years old or something.

I’m going to watch all of the mythology episodes in a marthon from the first three seasons fairly soon, as that is when the mythology part of the show still made sense. Then I can conclude it with a viewing of “Home,” Sam, haha. :)

]]> By: Sam Juliano http://www.moviezeal.com/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-8405 Sam Juliano Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:30:50 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=1091#comment-8405 Julia, I well understand you're beeing absolutely terrified by that episode, and I do know it could cause anyone (as it did with you) to permanently turn off to the show. But it is powerful and disturbing, for me sure trademarks of something unforgettable and masterly. Still I know it's one few want to return to. Julia, I well understand you’re beeing absolutely terrified by that episode, and I do know it could cause anyone (as it did with you) to permanently turn off to the show. But it is powerful and disturbing, for me sure trademarks of something unforgettable and masterly.
Still I know it’s one few want to return to.

]]> By: Julia Harrington http://www.moviezeal.com/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-8404 Julia Harrington Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:16:04 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=1091#comment-8404 Sam, "Home" is almost entirely the reason I stopped watching TXF, and anything "scary"/"horror". I would have been about 13 when that episode aired, and I'm not sure if I saw it then (although I distinctly remember seeing it a few years later...I saw it in a New Years Eve marathon when I was in high school, I think it was the 12 am episode and I watched it alone because it was already past midnight and everyone else wanted to go to sleep), and it creeped me out to no end. Nightmares for weeks. And now, almost 10 years later, I wont go to (most) horror movies with Luke (and I'll hate all of them), because I hate the nightmares they give me. But I did catch this one with him - I guess some of that nostalgia Luke doesn't think is there yet for the TXF audience was there for me. :) It was a good show, and something I got to enjoy with my dad - which was a rare find for us. Sam, “Home” is almost entirely the reason I stopped watching TXF, and anything “scary”/”horror”. I would have been about 13 when that episode aired, and I’m not sure if I saw it then (although I distinctly remember seeing it a few years later…I saw it in a New Years Eve marathon when I was in high school, I think it was the 12 am episode and I watched it alone because it was already past midnight and everyone else wanted to go to sleep), and it creeped me out to no end. Nightmares for weeks.

And now, almost 10 years later, I wont go to (most) horror movies with Luke (and I’ll hate all of them), because I hate the nightmares they give me. But I did catch this one with him – I guess some of that nostalgia Luke doesn’t think is there yet for the TXF audience was there for me. :) It was a good show, and something I got to enjoy with my dad – which was a rare find for us.

]]> By: Sam Juliano http://www.moviezeal.com/the-x-files-i-want-to-believe/comment-page-1/#comment-8403 Sam Juliano Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:14:49 +0000 http://www.moviezeal.com/?p=1091#comment-8403 I was fond of a number of episodes of the television show (my favorite was HOME) but this film was problematic on a number of fronts. But you are fair enough when you say "Philosophical pretensions aside though, THE X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE is a well-paced little film, and so on..." I was fond of a number of episodes of the television show (my favorite was HOME) but this film was problematic on a number of fronts. But you are fair enough when you say “Philosophical pretensions aside though, THE X FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE is a well-paced little film, and so on…”

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