
And that sums up the new X-Files 2 I Want to Believe movie - a love story. Ok wait, that's just an opinion from some twoot at KansasCity.com.
Just watched it today. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should. Let me spoil one part. The subject title above was actually a book just beside Dana Scully in one scene in the movie where Scully and Mulder were “sleeping together” presumably, a scene of them after sex. LOL, that would make perfect sense but wait, there's something more to it. I went googling on the title and sure there existed a book with that title albeit a different cover used in the movie. Apparently, the author of the book is Dori Carter wife of Chris Carter, the creator of the X-Files. More on that here. Speaking of the cover of the book in the movie, I thought it looked something like the image above if my memory serves me right. :D Correct me if I'm wrong (I didn't hold the remote). I need to find a screenshot on that.
All in all, I thought it was so-so. It was an okay movie, leaning more towards drama and thriller. This movie is a continuation after the final episode(s) where Mulder is quoted saying “I want to believe that the dead are not lost to us. That they speak to us as part of something greater than us — greater than any alien force. And if you and I are powerless now, I want to believe that if we listen to what's speaking, it can give us the power to save ourselves”. I see it as a probable “real” conclusion to end the X-Files saga aka “The Extraordinary Adventures of Mulder & Scully” although Chris Carter mentioned that he wants to believe in a third movie that would go back to the mythology of the series particularly the alien invasion due to begin on December 22, 2012, as revealed in the series finale”.
To be honest, I thought this was just like watching a two part CSI (minus those micro CGI effects thingy). Or, watching two episodes of the X-Files series combined. In anime, that would be like "special episodes" or an OVA that just might bear significance to the whole story.
I predicted a “messiah” kinda mystery that would involve supernatural stuff after watching the teaser trailer back then but I was wrong (but nothing that negative about the movie). It turned out to be sort of like, a “detective” type movie leading to a chain of related disappearings along with gruesome discoveries involving with a Catholic Pedophile Priest, to summarize. Pedobears anyone? :D
I think I may watch it again once, to pick the important details I may have missed. I hope I’ll still be alive by then if there’s gonna be a third movie. I was and still presently am (despite the 2nd movie) really, really hoping I’d see another X-Files movie back to its original roots, the extraterrestrial. I have doubts this movie will hit it big time (a requirement for the next movie) especially with the "decline" and the releases of block busters such as Batman but I WANT TO BELIEVE!!!!!
Links:
X-Files Official Web
The Mulder/Duchovny Files
Telegraph.co.uk "Mulder and Scully reopen the X-Files"


2 comments:
Never knew you were an X-files fan, man. All these years I thought I was the only one enthusiastic enough watching the series on TV back in the day. The rest of the other villageans as I knew kind of snubbed it, saying shitty stuff 'bout it and whatnot as I recall back then. Now that you yourself wrote this post 'bout your interest in the film/series...hmmm, you should write more posts regarding this kind of stuff well beyond just on the anime genre. How 'bout Battlestar Galactica -- you dig that?
I know I dig Grace Park on BG :D
I'm a "space cowboy"!! *spank*spank* Yeehaaww!
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