Ok, so I started watching The X-Files in 6th grade and I am now 23-years-old. I still remember June 19, 1998 . . . It was the last day of 7th grade and I took 7 of my girl friends to go see FTF and then, I had an early birthday celebration after the movie . . . I had the bakery write "The Truth Is Out There" on my birthday cake. No other television series has captured my heart like The X-Files and although I actively try to find a show that fills the hole that was left in my heart when the series ended, I haven't been successful. I miss Sunday nights at 9pm. Although I was able to go on these 6 years without the show, something was just missing. That being said, when I found out this movie was coming out, I was beyond excited and relieved, because I was bored out of my mind from tv and the movies. Thank you Frank, Chris, Vince Gilligan, Darin Morgan, David, Gillian, etc., etc., for this amazing, amazing show.
So, I saw this movie yesterday, and I will give you my honest opinion about certain aspects of the movie . . .
I'll admit that I wasn't in love with this entire movie, but I didn't deplore it as some of the fans on the message boards and the mainstream critics have. Yes, it did look more like an extended 2 hour version of the tv series, rather than a movie, and the plot had a concept similar to Beyond the Sea when I was hoping for something completely and radically new--something larger than life after 6 years. The pacing of the movie was a little weird for me . . . it was very slow in the first half, and then it picked up, and then the movie came to an abrupt closure. Despite these qualms, it was an overall decent, small movie. The entire time I was watching the movie, I kept on thinking something "big" was missing, but I can't figure it out. I LOVED being reunited with Mulder and Scully in this movie, and I LOVED falling in love with those characters again (actually, I never ever really fell out of love with those characters), and if anything, this movie wet my appetite even more for another XF movie and more Mulder and Scully. I guess this movie has simply sparked my desire to see that something "big" in the next movie. I REALLY want this movie to be a huge box office success, so I can get a bigger, out of this world, ideal XF3!!
On a side note, I am really, really, really, pissed off at FOX for their lackadaisical, lackluster, and negligent effort to promote this movie. I have no expertise or background in marketing a movie, and even I could have done a better job at promoting this movie. I figured out FOX's dumb strategy--to focus on bombarding the Sci-Fi and Discovery Channels (AKA "channels for science geeks") with xf movie trailers. However, many of the fans (including me) of The X-Files when it aired on television are not sci-fi geeks and hardly ever watch these channels. Many people barely even knew this movie was coming out in theaters. Perhaps the people at FOX need to visit the many popular xf message boards, because the main chatter on these boards in the days and weeks prior to this movie was about the horrible publicity this movie was receiving. Many of us X-Philes had far better ideas on how to market this movie. It really upsets me that this is the treatment that FOX gave to The X-Files, the greatest and most innovative show in pop culture.
I can not wait to live vicariously through the next adventures of Mulder and Scully!
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