The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Jul. 30th, 2008 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenchurchHmm. Well, I did enjoy the movie... but I kept finding myself wonder why this was an X-Files movie at all. Don't get me wrong, it was *wonderful* seeing Mulder and Scully again... and I had to work hard to keep myself from cheering out loud when Skinner showed up on the scene (not *nearly* enough Skinner!!). But it felt like a standard one hour episode that had been strrrrrretched into two hours. Rackham commented that it actually seemed a bit like a Season One episode, where the big plotline could have been supernatural in nature, but also easily could have had a more mundane explanation. I have to agree... but it did seem to drag. A lot. It just seems like a curious choice to make in a movie that I'm pretty sure was meant to restart the franchise. I guess I was expecting something a little more lively and intense.
I also discovered that even two and a half years later, I still have a hard time watching cars slide around on the snow. Or crash in the snow. Or roll several times in the snow.
Things I loved:
Mulder/Scully and the relationship they have.
Skinner!!!!!!! (Seriously, there's not enough squee in the world.)
Some of the names that rolled past on Mulder's cellphone.
Things I didn't care for:
Sloooooow and ever-so-slightly boring plot.
Not enough Skinner!
Scully the hospital surgeon dealing with the bureaucracy. Dull, dull, dull. And pointless.
Where's the humor? Any humor. At all.
In short... as I mentioned, I enjoyed it, but I left the theater feeling just a bit puzzled about the point of the movie. Either from a production perspective (trying to build on the franchise to maybe get more movies made) or from an internal perspective of figuring out where it left the characters and why. I really don't think I'll be going to see it again in the theater, which is very disappointing... since I actually saw "Fight the Future" several times that way and I was expecting this one to be at least as rewatchable as that one. I just don't think I'd be able to sit through all the boring bits a second time. I think I'll just wait until the DVD comes out so I can fast forward to the good relationshippy stuff. And Walter Skinner.
Now to start looking at the reaction posts from my flist over the past week...
I also discovered that even two and a half years later, I still have a hard time watching cars slide around on the snow. Or crash in the snow. Or roll several times in the snow.
Things I loved:
Mulder/Scully and the relationship they have.
Skinner!!!!!!! (Seriously, there's not enough squee in the world.)
Some of the names that rolled past on Mulder's cellphone.
Things I didn't care for:
Sloooooow and ever-so-slightly boring plot.
Not enough Skinner!
Scully the hospital surgeon dealing with the bureaucracy. Dull, dull, dull. And pointless.
Where's the humor? Any humor. At all.
In short... as I mentioned, I enjoyed it, but I left the theater feeling just a bit puzzled about the point of the movie. Either from a production perspective (trying to build on the franchise to maybe get more movies made) or from an internal perspective of figuring out where it left the characters and why. I really don't think I'll be going to see it again in the theater, which is very disappointing... since I actually saw "Fight the Future" several times that way and I was expecting this one to be at least as rewatchable as that one. I just don't think I'd be able to sit through all the boring bits a second time. I think I'll just wait until the DVD comes out so I can fast forward to the good relationshippy stuff. And Walter Skinner.
Now to start looking at the reaction posts from my flist over the past week...
