X-Files I Want To Believe Movie Critique

I Wanted To Believe It Was A Good Movie

We walked into the theater for the much anticipated X-Files movie, I Want To Believe. The movie has been out one week and the buzz was not that good but being a big X-Files fan, we still made the trek to the theater.

As you can see from the picture above, we viewed the noon time showing. There were three people in the entire theater, including us. This was not a good sign.

The movie began and in the first 10 seconds, the familiar X-Files theme tune played. Alas, that was the best part of the movie. The very next thing I heard was the death knell signaling the end of the X-Files franchise.

What killed the movie and the franchise? First of all, the movie had absolutely nothing to do with the first movie or the previous 9 television seasons. No aliens. No UFO’s, no secret government society, no alien hybrids, not even a whiff of paranormal activity.

Instead, we get Mulder in a beard cast out of the FBI shacking up with Scully who left the FBI as well. Of course, for this movie, the FBI needs Mulder’s expertise on a case to find a missing agent. a psychic is leading them to crime scenes and he seems to know several pieces of information, but not enough to find the missing agent.

(Spoiler Alert!) In a nutshell, Mulder and Scully begin their investigation by following a crazy psychic on a wild goose chase. Several more people are killed, another is abducted, and still they are no closer to the truth.

In the end, Mulder and scully uncover several foreign doctors in rural West Virginia experimenting with stem cell regeneration to save a patient. Of course the experiments are taken to the extreme. In essence, the doctors create a modern day Frankenstein as the head of the patient has been transplanted onto a fresh disease free body. Hence, the missing agent who had the correct blood type needed for the transplant.

As for Father Joe, the excommunicated pedophile priest, of course his psychic gift is debunked and only Mulder believes him. (At least one person wants to believe) He dies from lung cancer suddenly at the end to tie up loose ends.

The movie ends with Mulder and Scully saving the abducted woman and Mulder and Scully kiss and left us pondering what their next move might be.

One thing is for certain. Don’t do another X-Files movie.

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Jack Black And The Thought Screen Helmet

Evidently actor Jack Black is being controlled by an evil race of aliens.

Grassy Knoll Institute scientists believe that Mr. Black, even though he wears his thought screen helmet, has constructed a flawed helmet allowing aliens to access Mr. Black’s mind forcing him to make bad career choices.

This goes a long way in explaining the movie choices of
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny and Nacho Libre.

Make sure you go his new movie, Kung Fu Panda, in theater’s now.

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Triple Dog Dare

Triple Dog Dared!

Great Christmas gift. Really slow in adding it to the Institute, but I am committed to getting everything up to date. (Someday anyway!)

Make sure your speakers are turned up. (No, a scary monster won’t jump out at you. It’s just so you can hear the dialog.)

Enjoy.

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Triple Dog Dared

Apparently Inga never watched the classic holiday film, A Christmas Story. Otherwise, she would have known what happens when she sticks her tongue onto a pole.

Perhaps Inga was Triple dogged Dared much like Flick was in the movie and couldn’t resist the challenge.

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