X-Files 2: I Want To Believe
Jul 28th, 2008 by zerosum
Well first off… Welcome to the new site. I’m going to try to put into words the weirdness that I feel when I actually have to refer back to old X-Files episodes to explain or help me understand something that’s going on in the real world. I know it sounds all tin foil hat-ish, conspiracy kooky and crazy but I believe there may be a connection. But first…
I heard for a while that Chris Carter was going to make a sequel to the original X-Files movie but there was issues with the studio, script and what not. So naturally, I was really excited when leaks of the first trailer came out a few months ago and couldn’t wait until 7.23.08.
I noticed that there really wasn’t much promotion for the movie as a summer blockbuster. I thought the trailers were very well done, captivating and cool looking but with Batman coming out and all it seems like the studio could of put some more weight behind this release. After seeing the movie, I have to admit that it may have been a good idea not to promote it to a bigger audience. It’s not that I didn’t like the movie. I thought it was classic X-Files. It was shot in all it’s dark and shadowy glory. The background music fit the visuals and the timing of it was impeccable as usual. All the shot angles, views from different perspectives, how the close ups are always extreme, all harp back to the great X-Files episodes of yesteryear. The fact that everything looked like it was real and not CGI really gave it a earthy and real tone. The pieces of information that slowly trickled out during the movie and how little was shown, I thought really pulls the viewer’s brain into actually thinking about what they are watching. Just like it used to back in the day. But that’s the problem. I just don’t see how this can become a huge hit or even a moderate one. I know it was supposed to be a movie that anyone can watch without previously watching or knowing the facts about the X-Files but in truth, this movie really can only truly be enjoyed by long time fans of the show. It’s not one of those “Monster of The Week” episodes that used to scare all of us viewers to death right before we went to bed on Sunday Nights. It’s really a movie about good and evil. The characters ask moral questions of themselves. They doubt. They hate. They love. Scully finds herself compelled to listen to the word of God coming from a pedophile Priest that she absolutely detests. He makes her question her faith in herself. A very sick boy’s life is dependent on her strength to overcome this. But in this day of age people want action, violence, blood and guts. They want the answer to what lies beneath the mysteries and complexities of the plot to be brought to them on a platter. People either can’t or just don’t want to use they’re brain when they are in a movie theater. So that’s the reason why I don’t think it will be that big of a hit and unfortunately that will lead to never releasing another X-Files movie again. It’s a shame but it’s reality. The one thing that I just couldn’t digest about the movie is the whole Mulder and Scully being romantically involved. I was never interested in that or wanted that to happen. Think of it like this. When your job is finding answer to life’s and this planet’s eternal questions, I just don’t believe you can have the time for love or even want love. Mulder understands that, Scully doesn’t. And if you are into the whole Mulder/Scully love thing, you got to stay till the end of the movie and past the credits because there is a special treat for all you “Shippers” out there.
The subsequent posts to this blog will be about certain events and phenomena that are either dangerously close to something that has happened on the X-Files or things that just seem too real to something that has happened on the X-Files. Stay tuned for my first report!
