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The X-Files: I Want to Believe is a 2008 science fiction film directed by Chris Carter, and written by Carter and Frank Spotnitz. It is the second feature film based on Carter's TV series The X-Files, and follows the 1998 film. The stars of the TV series, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, reprise their respective roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

 

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Release Date 1st August

 

 

 

Any X-Files fans out there, I'm so looking forward to this, my all time favourite cult TV series ever. I've got the whole series on DVD

Saw the trailer for it a few week ago and i was like :o AMAZING! :heart: Cant wait :dance:

It's a show i never really got into first time round, but i've been catching the re-runs on cable,

and i love it. Great series!

Looking forward to the movie though.

 

Looking forward to seeing this.

 

Here's a trailer

I'm looking forward to this a week tomorrow, this film is not a sequel to the first movie, its a standalone movie that centres on a new script.

 

You do not need to watch the first movie to follow this, the first movie has got nothing to do with the new X-Files movie.

It's actually out on August 1st.... Well, let's face it it's probably NOT a good idea to have this open in the same week as "The Dark Knight".... :lol:

 

I'm really unsure about the idea of a stand-alone story... I was kind of expecting it to be a part of the "X-Files" 'myth-arc', and was looking forward to a decent conclusion to the show, as the finale of the series was a bit of a damp squib.... There was so much work to do with that particular plot-arc - the Super Soldiers, William (Scully's baby), the colonisation itself....

:rofl: its taken America BY STORM not

 

It has taken just 2 million :o (Pounds not Dollars :lol:) so that just over $4 million quite poor actually! -_-

:rofl: its taken America BY STORM not

 

It has taken just 2 million :o (Pounds not Dollars :lol:) so that just over $4 million quite poor actually! -_-

 

Well, this just proves to me that making it a "stand-alone" feature and NOT the huge climax to the X-Files "myth-arc" storyline is an absolutely grievous error on the part of Chris Carter.... If this film dive-bombs, Carter wont get the money to make the actual finale to the "X-Files" story that I'm sure he wants to do.... :(

 

Releasing it so soon after The Dark Knight is, I feel, also another error... I think perhaps, the producers should have waited until, maybe, September/October....

I think perhaps, the producers should have waited until, maybe, September/October....

 

I absolutely agree should have left it till the autumn, its also a 15 rating

 

I absolutely agree should have left it till the autumn, its also a 15 rating

 

TBH, I dont think the 15 rating is a big problem.. The Sex and the City film was a 15, as was the previous X-Files film which did pretty damn well at the box office... Of course "Fight The Future", I believe was released closer to the Autumn (September...? :unsure: ) back then, I certainly dont remember it being a big "summer blockbuster" as such....

 

The timing and the fact that it just seems to be an extended TV episode (from what people are saying on IMDb...), as opposed to having a "big-screen" feel is what's doing the damage....

Sorry I must apologise... it actually took $10 million in its opening weekend... still not great but better than what i said :lol: But I think that was just first DAY takings not Opening weekend :unsure:

I went to see itttt the other night and I reaaaallly liked it. Even though I've only played the games/seen like 4 episodes and even those were from when I was a wee nipper.

 

I didn't see the point of that

ill kid, Christian?

other than Scully

being a doctor and the psychic guy

but still lol.

 

Love4David Duchovny.

 

And gutted for everyone overly expecting it to be

UFO ALIEN ET

lol.

Well, this just proves to me that making it a "stand-alone" feature and NOT the huge climax to the X-Files "myth-arc" storyline is an absolutely grievous error on the part of Chris Carter....

 

Well yeah the film could have easily been the pilot for a Addison Montgomery/Hank Moody tie up than Mulder & Scully :lol: and tbh might have been better if it wasn't an X-Files film and gone for the torture-porn market instead...just lacked a certain something...

I haven't seen it yet but I'm a bit X Files fan. Sadly I haven't read very good reviews of it. I still want to see it. :o

Well, it was alright, but frankly came across just like a TV episode tbh.... Production values seemed pretty low-budget, I liked the fact that they used the wintry Canadian locations to give it that feeling of unfamiliarity though, but that's all the more reason to wait until AFTER Summer to release it surely.... :lol: Gillian Anderson gave an outstanding performance however, definitely one of the plus points of the film (she got by far the best lines, especially in her confrontation with Billy Connoly's Paedophile Priest character which she put across a disgust that was thoroughly convincing...), she really is a vastly under-rated actress who deserves a LOT better from Hollywood, so many woefully over-rated actresses (**cough, cough Jessica Alba, cough cough**...) undeservedly getting attention, while Anderson is relegated to B or C list... Quite, quite shameful....

 

Billy Connoly was surprising as well, I'd expected to just laugh at his portrayal of Father Joe, but for some reason he actually came across as pretty convincing... I was a bit disappointed that Skinner didn't play a bigger role though.. He just seemed a bit "thrown-in" at the end there to keep the fans happy.... And that final shot of Mulder and Scully on the boat, waving to the camera, strange..... Does this mean no more "X-Files" again, ever....? :o

I was very disappointed wit hthis to be honest.

It should've have really brought about the climax to the TV series, Billy Connolly was awful as I knew he would be from the moment I saw the trailer. I loved The X Files - even the last two series where the show didn' focus as much around Mulder and Scully doing the cases and such but this was very poor :(

 

I always felt the TV show was left with far many unanswered questions. I wanted to see the alien invasion properly begin or something. :D

It should've have really brought about the climax to the TV series, Billy Connolly was awful as I knew he would be from the moment I saw the trailer.

 

Billy wasn't that bad..... I think we're just so used to seeing him as a stand-up comedian that anything else he tries wont be taken seriously... Check out a Brit-flick called "The Debt Collector" with him and Ken Stott (a seriously good actor...), Connolly plays a loan shark trying to go legit, Stott plays an obsessive cop who wont let him forget his past... A bit cliched at times, but it's actually well acted from both leads....

 

Agree that it should have been a proper climax to the show though.... Apparently Carter has this in mind for a third film... I just hope that this doesn't fail SO badly that he doesn't get the money from Fox to do it..... :mellow:

 

Well, it was alright, but frankly came across just like a TV episode tbh.... Production values seemed pretty low-budget, I liked the fact that they used the wintry Canadian locations to give it that feeling of unfamiliarity though, but that's all the more reason to wait until AFTER Summer to release it surely.... :lol: Gillian Anderson gave an outstanding performance however, definitely one of the plus points of the film (she got by far the best lines, especially in her confrontation with Billy Connoly's Paedophile Priest character which she put across a disgust that was thoroughly convincing...), she really is a vastly under-rated actress who deserves a LOT better from Hollywood, so many woefully over-rated actresses (**cough, cough Jessica Alba, cough cough**...) undeservedly getting attention, while Anderson is relegated to B or C list... Quite, quite shameful....

 

I would have said well thats because Jessica Alba is always in the top ten honeys..but i read the other week that in about 1997 Gillian Anderson was #1 either maxim's or fhm most saxy list...so if thats true i guess in a decade or more's time it will be fliiped with Anderson getting interesting supporting roles and the plank-like Alba not only ending up in mumsy-roles in daytime 'Lifetime' TV Movies but elipsed by her child as well who's turned out as the new Emma Roberts ...:lol:

 

 

Billy wasn't that bad..... I think we're just so used to seeing him as a stand-up comedian that anything else he tries wont be taken seriously... Check out a Brit-flick called "The Debt Collector" with him and Ken Stott (a seriously good actor...), Connolly plays a loan shark trying to go legit, Stott plays an obsessive cop who wont let him forget his past... A bit cliched at times, but it's actually well acted from both leads....

Well i guess some people would be only happy if Connolly is riding around the country on a motortrike shouting 'big jobbies' and yeah Ken Stott is a good actor - there a new dvd just released of an old series that stars him and David Tennant about hospital radio in a mental home that looks like it could be an alright show to watch if it come cheap...

I would have said well thats because Jessica Alba is always in the top ten honeys..but i read the other week that in about 1997 Gillian Anderson was #1 either maxim's or fhm most sexy list...

 

 

Not sure if it was #1, cant really remember... But, that sort of thing isn't interesting to me, I cannot abide the "lad w*** mags..." they dont even have the decency to be proper pornography.... :lol: Besides, Gillian Anderson has always been considerably more than just a pretty face (which you certainly cannot say for the likes of Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Lindsay Lohan or Emma Roberts...), she got a Golden Globe for "X-Files", and I'm pretty sure she was nominated for something for her outstanding performance as Lady Deadlock in "Bleak House" as well, unlike many Hollywood types who attempt similar things, her upper-crust English accent was 100% spot on, of course she lives in UK now anyway... She even managed to make the frankly awful "Straightheads" fairly watchable.... :lol: