THE X-FILES I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008) - The Black Sheep
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- From 1993 to 2002, The X Files reigned supreme on network television. One of the first shows (Twin Peaks aside) to mix a deep spiraling mythology into a standard procedural that caught on with genre fans and mainstream audiences alike. I can't stress how important this was before the golden age of dramatic television.
Yet, besides the original nine-season run (before its revival in 2016), creator and showrunner Chris Carter wrote two theatrical movies, The X Files: Fight The Future, which fans and critics alike praised, and The X Files I Want To Believe, which he directed, and what many consider too little too late. Though not nearly as good as the show's peak or the first movie, The X Files: I Want to Believe brings back the charm and chemistry that won over its core audience and delivers a small-scale thriller that should get more praise than it does. So join us and our favorite FBI agent's for The X Files: I Want to Believe on this week's episode of The Black Sheep.
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The best way to describe this movie is that it’s a lost filler episode that no one wanted too see. I mean I enjoy it because I’m a X-Files fan but even I have to admit the movie is a massive let down compared to what had came before in the series.
This show will go on forever...Its so good. I will never forget that cliffhanger ...to be continued ..in THEATERS ...
Funny that both this snd 24 were FOX shows, both which really captured the spirit of their eras. 24 went the opposite direction of The X Files, with a hyper-macho Fed in place of Fox Mulder's wide-eyed boyishness, and The US government itself largely depicted as a heroic force that was all that stood between us and The Bad Foreigners. Long term though, it looks like TXF may hold up better than 24 did, given the events since 9/11
love this movie THE X-FILES I WANT TO BELIEVE.
Yeah! He's right about one thing; the acting saves it absolutely! Terrific performances!
Also; why the Hell couldn't we get a cameo from Lance Henriksen as his 'Millennium' character?! =) Best. Cameo. EVER!
There is a show that found it's stride for exactly one season before going off the rails
@@willalan9167 Yeah, but it would be worth it just to see him! =)
Loved this show growing up! Used to scare the crap out of me, had to sleep with the lights on many a night! 😅🤘
Billy Connelly is the best. Especially, when he plays a zombie butler in Fido.
such an underrated film. Although the Debt Collector is an amazing performance of his.
Say what you will but I love this movie. The last 2 seasons were good as well I thought. Season 11 gave me the feelings of the earlier seasons with the tension between Mulder, Scully and Skinner not knowing what side Skinner is on. CSM hanging out in Skinner's office...all classic X-Files
This movie has so many problems, but I'll just say this: why on Earth make an X-Files movie, six years after the show ended, and have Mulder and Scully spend most of the movie away from each other? Whatever fans the show still had left after 2002, wanted to see Scully and Mulder working together again. No one wanted Mulder helping Amanda Peet and Xzibit, while Scully was working in a hospital. I understand how the two plots are related to each other, but that doesn't make the movie any better.
I agree that this was the "last gasp" of the TV show. I really liked this movie and found it to be a fitting conclusion to the original TV run. I'd rather forget about the painfully inept revival.
The revival seasons were superior to 8 and 9.
Saying this movie is cool but the very last xfiles season isnt... thats kinda stupid tbh because both arent that good.
Wasn't inept so much as it was a cash grab. Those always come across as desperate. Though with UFOs having a revival in the news lately, it's not inconceivable that we could see a revival/spinoff, this time with different characters
Season 11 was better than season 9 and 10. Season 8 is very consistent and is better than 7.
This film seems like a TV episode that got extended when it shouldn't have been. Having said that given the attempts at finishing off the overarching plot in the season 10 & 11, a one off story may have been the better choice.
then you know nothing!
It would've been cool if they based the film on the episode "the Unnatural".
The X-Files is the best show on TV! Nuff said!
Crazy talk, this film was X-Files as fuck and I enjoyed it.
It didn't connect to the larger conspiracy but it felt like one long episode and it's biggest flaw was that it took too long to hit the screens.
100%
As a die hard X-Files fan I was honestly hoping for something way different than what we got with "I want to believe". That being said I still do enjoy the film. It probably would've made more money if it didn't come out a week after The Dark Knight. I think it's a worthy X-Files story just not the best placement into the overall universe given the events that precede it in the last episode of season 9. Lastly I gotta ask, Lance.. No love for season 8? Any Doggett fans out there? lol
Season 8 is one of the best seasons, period!!!
I liked Robert Patrick but seasons 8 and 9 were pretty meh.
Season 8 breathed new life into the series. Sadly, it didn't carry on into Season 9.
I actully really liked Doggett but I personally think seasons 7-9 should have been condensed. Moments of brilliance but alot of treading water as well.
It has to grow on you. Since it’s barely a Mulder and Scully movie. It’s about him trying to solve a case and her just caring about doctor stuff lol.
The first X film felt like a theatrical outing. This one felt more like an episode of the show.
I hope they never replace Lance on The Black Sheep
Him and Jesse Shade are the best on the channels.
I remember on At the Movies. One critic said it was bad because Indiana Jones had aliens and the X-Files I Want to Believe didn’t.
A true fan would know the X-Files wasn’t only about aliens.
While Im genuinelly happy to read and hear season 6 getting love from the fans, for me its when it jumped the shark. The initial movie finally finally revealed and reveled in giving the people what they were looking for. Mulder and Scully finally getting to the Real bottom of the Alien truth. A UFO submerged at the end of the world at the South Pole! BUT>>> along comes season 6 and TOTALLY derails any tension, story build up previously attained by the first 5 bulletproof, classic seasons. In the s6 opener, Scully is stubbornly STILL refusing to believe in UFOs- despite the fact that Mulder had just rescued her from one at the bottom arse end of the Earth! I remember watching that in 1999 and shook my head in disbelief. And while some like the more comedic, meta approach ensuing episodes took, I thought most of them were disappointingly stalling and trailing away from the pace gathered from the movie and early seasons. The "monster" episodes lacked the chills and darkness of anything before. It was too "light" and ordinary, it was resembling some of the inferior cloned TV shows that emulated it at the time. S7 could have righted this, but instead there was even more and worse of it, resulting in the nadir, the utter shit that is "Fight Club". The worst episode in the shows history. I think s6 should have amped and wrapped up the pace of the previous movie , spliced with the clever, diverse genius that it did show in places ( Triangle is amazing!).
I just finished S6 last month, before Prime removed it from their streaming service (!!!). I think the first half is a bit average. 'The Beginning' was good. As were stand alone eps - Drive and Terms of Endearment. Its wasn't until mid season with Tithonus that the season got good IMO. Then we pretty much got 6 great eps in a row. And I loved Milagro. The Scully centric eps are always a favorite of mine. Field Trip was another highlight.
@@brion0220 Oh totally- season 6 has some highlights. I understand the more commercialised direction the show took to perhaps capitalise on the movies success and in some aspects, it works. Putting more emphesis into Mulder/Scullys "will they wont they" relationship, and toning down the horror in general for more newer, younger viewers.
But my issue was that this comprimised things and the show never really recovered from it. Having Scully Still be a sceptic in s6 was a serious mistake. It underminded her emotive rescue from the UFO and acted like a bad plot device to keep the sceptic/beliver dynamic in place and erase any development the Mythology episodes made, be it character or plot. Chris Carter to me, didnt know how to finalise or further things the way they really shud have, and kept spinning and retconning the Alien episodes to the sort of Sci'Fi that the show initially was against.
Plus Season 6&7's general themes and plots involved straight up paranormal, sci fi where the "monster of the week" was more visible, evident and Scully had less and less science to draw from. It wasnt the same style of drama now, it was lighter, sunnier, more in tune for the "Buffy" generation, and the sci'fi shows that arrived in the XFiles peak.
Scullye sceptism was now an annoying plot device that made no sense to the more opened world of paranormal that they faced. And they never even mentioned the Antartica UFO again till season 8's "Alone"! Which again was cast off in a comedic scene to hide over the fact that the show didnt know what to really do with itself now that the Aliens and Truth was out.
I think if ya put the best of 6&7 together, youve got a solid, kick ass season. Season 8 with Robert Patrick was to me- very very good! Clearly hearing from the fans, they returned to its darker roots.
I quite liked a lot of the recent episodes, but again not the Alien episodes.
Season 7 had some really good episodes (we final got rid of that troll DF) BUT I agree season 6 was by far the best season of the series.
I Want to Believe was my proper introduction to the X-Files.
I was aware of the shows existence beforehand. The theme was everywhere, that one Simpsons episode where Homer saw an alien.
But the movie was my first hurrah into the universe. Was not a fan.
I eventually gave the show a try years later on Disney+ and I'm glad I did. It's a fantastic show.
I watched this one in the cinema, and I couldn't remember a single frame of it. Forgettable AF movie.
Yep, same here. I loved The X Files, but this movie was a waste of time!
I kept waiting for it to tie into the alien mythology and it never happened. I left thinking "wtf was the point of this?"
@@journeyman1218 the director said he wanted to subvert expectations
Except for the post credit scene of them in the boat waving at the camera... WTF?
The fact they keep resurrecting it but not finishing the main plot is so damn frustrating.
Yeah. The folks over at ScreenRant were right on the money, when they opined that everything should have ended after S7
Well it's ended now. Anderson said she won't return.
w@@journeyman1218 I don't knock her for not returning. With UFOs being all over the news once again though, it's not inconceivable that there could be some sort revival/spinoff, this time with a different cast
I mean at least they knew not to do what Lost did. There is no good way to end the X Files.
It would have had a amazing ending if it just stoped at season 8
I was just thinking about this movie yesterday.
I watched it for the first time today and really liked it. I'm biased though because I grew up on the show. But overall it was solid.
I only saw this movie once when I rented it, and I remember very little of it. I wish it had dealt with the prominent story arcs of the series, or unresolved cases. (Folie à deux, anyone?) Instead, it felt like one of the less memorable episodes, but with a bigger budget. The series/franchise deserved better.
I think Mulder looks great in a beard! He's no longer with the FBI man, he's letting it all hang out.
8:12 On second thought, no more Tooms…
Thanks for sharing this entertaining video. I love everything XFiles, including thos movie. 😊🛸👽
My mom and I are huge x-files fans and while we didn’t like this movie we both agree it’s FAR better than the revival. Like you said while the story is meh it still has that magic the revival was lacking
I liked it.
It's like they made a Monster of the week episode and turned it into a movie.
From what I remember, this was made during/because of the writers strike in around 2007. Fox needed anything already written to film and release and this was available. Who knows what kind of story we could have gotten had the writers been allowed to create/update a new story focusing more on the mythology, or at the very least, a more "X-files-y" type monster. Plus they released it as a big summer tent-pole movie, when it should have been a Halloween period release. All these issues combined meant we got a very disappointing X-Files movie, though still a surprisingly decent and watchable thriller.
I’m a doctor and we google more than you think! Lol there are medical resources we use but research lags behind decades so sometimes…google it is! Third movie! I love them all!
When you need the answer now.....google it.
I’m one of the only fans that knew the next movie was gonna be a stand alone movie. It never made sense how at the end of the series Mulder was wanted and then this movie seems to forget about all that. But the movie itself is kinda dark if you think about it. I can appreciate it for what it is.
The way I see it Mulder was pardoned by the government as they knew his crimes were made up bullshit. If they wanted him bad enough all they had to do is put the eyes on Sculls and they would have found him. It was a way to get him back in the fold. If you can't find someone, go get Mulder and Scully ('cause you know he's not going alone) sit back and let the pros take care of this shit. Wait right here they'll be right back.
It feels like a big budget episode that doesnt continue anything, but that isnt inherently bad in a bubble. I still think its decent even though its a MASSIVE missed opportunity
Really excellent commentary
With your narration, you could make a video about how Ready 2 Rumble was snubbed at The Oscars and id believe it 😆😆😎👍
You are much too kind. Thank you!
Perhaps the revival didn't tie up loose ends like we the faithful would have liked BUT, the magic between GA and DD cannot be denied. Maybe Mulder and Scully were different but as DD said. It was weird being Mulder again but it wasn't weird being Mulder and Scully again.
I agree about the facial hair. DD has a great beard I can't understand why he didn't let his own grow out, it would have been so much better. It is a shame this movie didn't get better reviews. FTF was an excellent movie BUT it was released while the TV show was still airing and they made it so if the fan didn't see it, it doesn't preclude them from understanding season 6 so CC did a great job at that. The second was simply stand alone and even thought it was made 6 years after the series ended the fans were ready for it. Any way watching GA as Scully again is always worth the price of admission.
xhibit was in x flies!....🤔why am I not surprised????
I enjoyed this movie. Billy Connelly, the funniest man alive, cast against type blows the rest of the performances out of the water. Xzibit did a good job too. Duchovny, Anderson and Pilleggi are decent, and episode-good, but didn't quite rise up movie-good.
Fox studio DID NOT want another movie about aliens that came from director Rob Bowman when we interviewed him
I found some of the new ones to actually carry the X- Files charm. Some was just sloppy. But there were legit ones for sure as well.
I think it was about even with most seasons too... a lot of crap/average episodes with a few glorious episodes
I was never freaked-out by Tooms.
Until now...
This was a great series, we need more to the classified stuff just like the first one with the government. Whatever happened to it
Gene Rodenberrey, George Lucas, Chris Carter. Creators who ended up dragging down their own creation.
Period. My all time favorite series is Millennium, and I can't believe they just let it die...
Gene died in the TNG years pretty much at the height of that series success. He died a year after "Best of Both Worlds" to put that into context. It died in the never ending shitty spin offs and the reboots that didn't get what Star Trek is about.
George Lucas, controversial yes but let's be honest when RoTS ended the prequels were originally thought to have ended well. He continued on with the Clone Wars which is now seen as good. There was not a never ending whine from 2005 until 2013, it started when Mr. Plinkett showed up. It was Mr. Plinkett who started the whole "GL ruined my childhood" thing began and then many, many other RUclipsrs who attacked him over and over until he sold to Disney. Disney is who killed Star Wars and I wonder if they secretly paid all those RUclipsrs off to begin with back in the early 10s in order to get GL to sell.
CC wouldn't have dragged the X Files down if he would have used the movie to ties up loose ends for our heros. Give them the happy ending they deserved I mean we invested nine years of our lives and he couldn't give us a shared home, William and some peace? Yes, sometimes more is too much.
1993 - 2002 actually. Although I disowned season 9.
When I bought it, I was definitely thinking it would be more grandiose like how Fight the Future was. I was too young to grow up on the TV show, but I do remember watching FtF young and watched it many times. While I was surprised it did not focus on "aliens", it definitely surprised me on how good it was at being a grounded thriller. The acting between Billy, Gillian, & Dave was great in how each presented their motive to "want to believe".
While the undertone of girls getting hacked up for the body revival stuff was sad, it definitely made you invested in each character and the story. Mulder and the FBI setting aside their differences for a bigger cause, Scully pushing back at the Catholic church to try to do her damnedest to save the boy's life, Father Joe trying his best in a scenario where most will shrug him off as a kid buggerin' crackpot. It was more akin to an epilogue of the series, with having both characters settle unresolved issues to live the rest of their lives in peace. They are the twilight of their careers in the film, so it was not so bad to have them put the extra-terrestrial behind them for another day - or more for a younger generation to take the mantle. They are too old to deal with losing their minds on it.
Also, I call bullshit on Mulder's beard at 4:28. Just how many men have you heard of that become recluses keep up daily shaving? No man will spend their time doing it if there is no real practical purpose for it. Little bit of a unrealistic standard there...
This needed to be more cinematic. Its not even cinematic like The Silence of the Lambs is cinematic. The X-Files deserves better
Technically, the original series ended in 2002, a week after my college school graduation. And Rob Bowman directed the 1998 movies well as several episodes. Sorry, I'm a nerd when it
comes to the X-Files.
Rob Bowman.
How is season six your magnum opus? Did you write it?
I always say FIGHT THE FUTURE was a tribute to the Alien Conspiracy episodes and I WANT TO BELIEVE a tribute to the "Monster Movie" episodes (but yeah, FIGHT THE FUTURE just had a better plot, whereas I WANT TO BELIEVE...........just a mesh of ideas that didn't gel together well)
In my lowly and wretched opinion, despite the unhelpful delay due to legal issues, as you stated they had a golden opportunity to reignite the story lines. I mean, GEEZ, look how the series ended. It ended bloody perfectly! Mulder and Scully were out there together, their son was out there somewhere adopted by some family. The super soldiers were still out there (Damn, EVERYTHING was out there!) Here was a PERFECT opportunity to take that and run with it. And, what do they do...? They come up with some odd one-off not terribly great film, COMPLETELY blowing their chance to set this awesome thing going again. Damn shame...
I haven't watched the reboot 2 seasons yet, but from what I've read they, AGAIN, had a rare chance really to get this going again with the painfully expectant fan base, etc. And, what do they do...? 'My struggle', 'My struggle Pt. 2', 'My struggle pt. 4'...???! WTF!? How about when they came up with F'n cool episode titles like Talitha Cumi for God's sake...? Pure $hit, pure waste. And, it's their own fault. Frankly I'm honestly really surprised that someone as sharp as Chris Carter could have blown both chances so terribly... But, like you say, we have our Golden time during the series on Blu-ray, just as we have the Classic Beauty of Led Zeppelin captured forever on vinyl, just as we have the Classic snapshots of ALL the beautiful creative moments in history, and we are thankful for that.
"Billy Connelly nailed it...." You forgot to mention his greatest role; Fido
I recently re-watched this movie for the first time since it’s initial release and I actually enjoyed it. It does feel like a glorified episode but hey, even Star Wars created Jar Jar Binks 🤷🏻♀️
This would have worked 1000x better as a Millennium movie instead
Absolutely! I don't understand why isn't even a cameo of Lance Henriksen here. This is a Millennium story all over the place
All very good points, but I just gotta ask; who else thought Mulder was gonna go full Charlie-Day-in-'Always-Sunny' when Scully finds him?! LOL! =)
I completely agree. The only episodes from the revival that are worth a watch are the two directed by Darin Morgan, the rest (especially the 'mythos' episodes) are just bafflingly bad.
I agree, as a whole, many of the revival seasons episode don't work. However, two standout episodes that gave vibes of the OG series & where Mulder & Scully's chemistry were on point is "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" & "Familiar." The chemistry actually had to work in "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" because there's literally zero dialogue between them in the first 15mins of the episode & they pull you in enough to wonder where all of this is going
Not many people like Rm9sbG93ZXJz (based on what i was reading/hearing at the time). I did though, thought it was great traditional x-files
Just like Scully and Mulder..."Yeah, you see that? We don’t need that conference. We have communication like that, unspoken. You know what I’m thinking.
Hated it on release but like it now. Disappointed by it not being the werewolf movie that was hinted at
I don't think monster of the week was a mistake, in and of itself. I think the mistake was not preemptively pairing it with an alien mythology film when it was announced. Now, obviously, you need studio greenlighting for this to be possible, but for argument's sake, if they had gone about it this way and announced it this way, (monster of the week comes first as the middle film in a trilogy and alien mythology comes next to round the entire franchise out), then I think it would have perfectly suited the storytelling milleu of the series. I was as disappointed as anyone that this was not a mythology "episode," but in choosing to look at this as a standard "monster of the week" scaled up, I was able to appreciate it. But I agree, I think Carter's failure here was in not recognizing fan expectations given the nature and ending of his own series. I really wish he'd had the foresight to approach Fox with the idea to do a trilogy in the way i just here suggested.
Yep! A case of Pimp my Xfiles.
Took me awhile to like this movie
x is a great actor
Shout-out Xzibit.
I dunno I wouldn't say last. Didn't most people love Mulder and Scully Meet The Were-Monster?
Absolutely! Trying to make it seem as if EVERYONE HATED EVERYTHING about seaons 9, 10 and 11 is pure bullshit. Sure it was uneven, but, man, when it worked, it worked!!!!!
The X-Files: Fight for a Future attempted to work for fans of the series as well as bringing in new ones. But if you had not seen the series it didn't work. For X-Files fan it did work and was great. In I Want To Believe, Chris Carter attempted the same and failed even harder, pissing off fans of the TV series and newcomers alike. Billy Connolly is awesome, as always.
Both movies disappointed me. The first so much so that i started writing a book about an alien conspiracy in 1998. I finished the first draft in 2000. I had to extensively revised it the next year after you know what happened in 2001. I didn't publish it because i couldn't convince any publishers that people still wanted to hear about alien-government conspiracies. Everyone was a patriot all of sudden and all of that. People are much more cynical again about the government now so I'll self publish it next year. If somehow it's a hit nobody is going to screw me out of the royalties or movie rights. I can dream right...😁
спасибо.
I disagree that it's the last gasp. The revival had a handful of great episodes IMO. Just a pity that they once again didn't wrap up the mythology arc.
Now that we've outlived the cheeeerrna v. This xfiles makes way more sense unless this isn't the one w the guy from The Soup in it
очень классно.
I’ve shown both films to friends over the years who’ve never seen the show & this is the one they like best
I love xfiles i enjoyed the movie
X-files balancing on the nose a school bus after Chris Carter created X-files The Lone Gunmen's premiere episode, “Pilot”, which aired March 4, 2001, members of the U.S. government conspire to hijack an airliner, to smash into twin towers. That was canceled very very fast nobody wants person who rubs truth in the our nose we need subluminal bears instead. Best episode of X-files written by Vince Gilligan Breaking Bad, the highest point (golden age ) of Internet television , He also not very direct by spreading the message.
мне нравится.
This one didn't really bother me at all. I was much more into the MOTW x-files than the convoluted conspiracy soap opera x-files of later seasons.
The way you dangled your modifiers made it sound like Connolly himself was an ex-priest and paedophile. Quite a shock to hear. Gotta watch that, lol.
Yeah I gotta admit I was let down at the time when I saw it. It’s not a horrible movie but it just wasn’t what I expected. I was expecting a “lore” movie much like the first film, one that pushes the show’s overall narrative, answering some questions while posing others. What we got was a feature length “Monster of the Week” episode. If you go into it knowing what exactly it is I think it’s more enjoyable.
I liked the movie, it was a more like the monster of the week episodes of the show veering away from the crazy main plot that the two previous seasons devolved into before the movie.
didn't even know this was supposedly a black sheep.
Saw this on my birthday, it’s not my favorite flick in the world but I think it’s good. I have seen far worse
I gotta believe
Kind of a good review, but was more lackluster than the movie. I've seen it a couple of time in the distant past and had the same feelings most people had. I could not disagree with them, but I watched it again in 2023 and it royally creeped me out. I'm a fan of horror movies and this was one of those dealing with the horror of putting a man's head on a host body. We're back in the 50s horror style. Billy Connelly's acting put me in the right mood. Molder was himself and Skully was being as bitchy as she usually is and that made for good tension in the movie.
Once we get past of the movie being so-so, not quite an X-File movie and see it with blinders off, it comes into its own. It is X-File style move and the monster of the week were the doctors playing Frankenstein.
This movie was so boring and it was hard to focus on.
The problem I have is it was not explained why a mad Russian scientist doctor was in West Virginia in the winter and how the 2 gay dudes met the russian scientist and how they came to conclude they should sew the guy's body up or head to other bodies. It was not explained. And how did Scully randomly just know that Russian expiriments were happening because of something she got off the internet that was being printed to her? Can anyone explain this?
Also it never said what sentence the russians got for their crimes.
Sorry but I loved the flick.
The script was a mess and needed a total rewrite. It's a grab-bag of bad ideas thrown together. The scenes were flopping all over, in the field, in the hospital, back at home, in the city, etc. with seemingly no accounting for time. People just were where they needed to be when the script needed them to be there. There's no liner flow, it's all disjointed. (Spoilers I guess, but don't waste your time with this movie) The FBI inexplicably don't know where Fox is at the beginning of the movie even though he's living with Skully. Did they skip the first place anyone else would look? One agent they're working with dies and the reaction by the movie is: "Oh, no... so, anyway". Another agent's head is found in a box (a la Se7ven) and the FBI figures their investigation is done. Not even curious about the dozens of other victim's body parts they found nor have any intention of bringing the culprit to justice even though they have a suspect. Later Skully is like "Agent Whatsherface is still alive!" No, she's very clearly dead. We saw her head in a box. Just because someone else's head is attached to her body doesn't mean she's alive. And how the hell does she come across an article about a guy who experimented on dogs in Russia when she was researching stem cells (on google) and conclude that's their guy? It's a stretch that would even make Mulder blush, so of course it's right. Xzibit is only there to poo-poo everything until he's replaced by Skinner in the last five minutes of the movie. BTW, the last five minutes is the most hand-wavy ending with the wrap-up dealing with nothing that the audience is going to be wondering about. I don't care what the pedophile priest meant when he said "Don't give up". Nobody does.
I didn't like that the fbi agent lady died. I liked her. it should have been Xzibit that fell off
Personally for me, the worst season was 9. Accept for some hidden gems. Like John Doe! And the brady brunch episode. 10 and 11 at least had some good ones. Other then William story. Chris Carter said that because of Gillian saying she was leaving during production, he had to rush it.
CC please don't blame the outcome of season 11 on your STAR! Scripts should have be written by the time filming began. I think (not positive) her youngest was sick and she wanted to get home to him. I also think this was just about the time COVID really started to ramp up in Europe. Momma Bear wanted to get home to her cub.
Hey can anyone tell me the origin of the sound bite at the begining: "How sweet! Fresh meat!". I'm not a horror buff, but I'm learning
Freddy Krueger quote from _A Nightmare on Elm Street 4_ .
@@Duragizer8775 ahhh that makes sense. Because Freddy's voice used to be very low pitched in some movies. Thanks for the answer 😊
It's from Freddy Krueger, of course.
I definitely think that the show should have ended at season 8. Even tho season 8 wasnt that good it had a amazing finale and ending.
100%
This could have been better a Millennium movie or at least with a cameo of Frank Black. A wasted opportunity.
din't no they were what. Piotd what?
I preferred this movie to the first. The "Monster of the Week" was more compelling to me than the core storyline that never seemed to go anywhere. I thought X-Files was at its best for these sorts of stories.
Agree with you there; those weekly standalone episodes are better, but this movie was abysmal. Completely forgettable, where as Fight the Future was pretty interesting.
Fully agree with y'all.
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Naw brah seasons 1-5 where it at- fight me, I’m willing to die on that rock
No mention of season 10-11
He did mention both of those seasons
10:48
WTF happened to Amanda Peet?
haha who cares as long as Scully lives
I always thought this movie was just a way to say fans The X-Files were still relevant and there would be a final movie to end the whole story. Then they made those stupid seasons 10 and 11, and now that dream is gone and I no longer want to believe...
Yeah I want to believe was a good way to end it all. But the fans wanted a third movie but given how I want to believe was a flop it made a third movie impossible. So the fans pressured Carter to make more seasons. And he made the mythology more confusing and convoluted. And now Anderson has had enough of x files. I enjoyed the monster of the week episodes of the revival but the story arc not so much. And Mulder and Scully are broken up again smh.
I feel like xfiles fight the future is best contusion to xfiles but unfortunately run more seasons until finally end at season 9 and xfiles i want to believe it was bad you see X-Files fight future came out when was good but X-Files I want believe came out X-Files when down hill
"last gasp of the x-files"??? I beg to disagree when season 10 or 11 had the where-man episode, which straight up could have been from season 6
Where-man was awesome! I can't argue against that.
Way Better. Season 10 & Season 11 for fan. oooooo say fan's. what min't was money. ya all for the money.
Huh?
It's scary that he edited that comment and it still makes no sense.
@@danielriley4846 lmao
I've never watched the series and I saw this movie and now I'm gonna watch the first movie. I don't like series.