Comments on: The X-Files: I Want To Believe Review

By: Baychuk

Baychuk — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:54:24 +0000

How about “The Twilight Zone” franchise? Is there some hope for us sci-fi conspiracy types?

By: Rian

Rian — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:23:42 +0000

Booooooooring…

Why was this story worth unearthing this franchise to tell?

By: David

David — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:12:02 +0000

Having seen the movie last night, I think most of the criticism were unjustified. I have seen critics rave about poorly acted, poorly edited and poorly directed movies BUT the Xfiles movie wasn’t one of them. It had a good flow, pacing (although a tad long) and interesting story with tension and excitement (it wasn’t a Fight the Future). It was worth the money to see it, whereas almost every Will Ferrel and Judd Crapatow movie I have seen (not including Strange Than Fiction – I did love that film) was not.
I think expectation were too high for this one, but it shouldn’t take away from the fact it is an enjoyable movie.

By: Baychuk

Baychuk — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:05:35 +0000

I was honestly hoping it would rekindle the franchise with new material, but from what I’ve read, the main characters of Mulder & Scully were just not into it. :/

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:02:04 +0000

Yeah, I guess in some ways it’s not fair to judge it because it doesn’t feel like a summer blockbuster, but as I mentioned in the review, I don’t think the lack of action is what makes it a subpar movie. All of the Star Trek TNG movies were criticized for just being episodes of the TV show, but the truth is most of them justify their existence on the big screen a lot more than this movie does.

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:54:58 +0000

This is the third bad review I’ve read for this movie. Out of curiosity, I went to rottentomatoes to find out if anyone had anything good to say.

Most of the reviews are negative, and I daresay that most people fall into the traps of criticism that Sean has fallen into. Not that they’re bad criticisms, but they’re too easy to fall back on when someone needs a reason to explain why they did not like a movie. For example, just because a “summer” movie doesn’t have a blockbuster plot, is this a justifiable reason to give a movie a bad review?

Interesting that the reviewer at Salon who disliked The Dark Knight (for some reason, I began typing The Black Knight) gave this movie a positive review. She seems to like being the devil’s advocate (a part I relish).

She did make an interesting comment about The X-Files in general: “The recurring gag of the show was that Mulder, no matter how screwy his ideas were, was usually right — although I don’t think the intent was to suggest that man’s intuition trumps that of womankind, but more to affirm that logic can take us only so far.”

By: Jon Rocks

Jon Rocks — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:07:40 +0000

I can’t believe Xhibit is getting jobs as a serious actor. That was the first bad sign for this movie. Seems like he should be pimping mulder and scully’s cars or something.

By: Baychuk

Baychuk — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:18:38 +0000

Goes to show how hollyvitz operates. Build the hype off of crappy movies and roll in the dough. Then dust yourself off and make plans for another shitty movie. Hype get the sheeple everytime.

By: Ryan M.

Ryan M. — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:02:02 +0000

It’s no surprise that this sucks. The last trailer I saw took me back to 1996.

By: Lord Dungbeetle

Lord Dungbeetle — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:09:18 +0000

Well at least there is J.J. Abrams’ “Fringe” this fall…maybe the new X-Files?

Am I alone, or has Scully gotten better looking with age?

By: cronenfly

cronenfly — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:50:39 +0000

Great to see Mulder and Scully as characters again, but other than that it was a very weak film. It reminded me of just some poorly made x files episode. oh well…

By: Baychuk

Baychuk — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:18:32 +0000

Wow…a “psychic pedophile priest”…wtf?!?

Anyways, besides the cliche, your 1 1/2 star guarantees that this is a paint by numbers thriller.

Thank God I didn’t waste my money on this turd.