X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE

I think Chris Carter wanted to believe this would do better than it is doing. I want to believe the cost of my over-priced movie ticket will be refunded. I also want to believe that Chris Carter didn't write a super long X-Files episode and con me into paying to see it instead of airing it on television. But alas, I have been suckered. Not only was it just an extra long X-Files television episode, it wasn't one of the better ones. Mike was upset that it was alien-free. The acting and dialogue were actually awkward and strained, and through parts of it I was actually uncomfortable because of it—like I was embarrassed for the cast (most notably, Gillian Anderson, who although looked great after her weight loss, performed poorly throughout the entire film). Duchovny also looked great; perhaps he took a few of Gillian's lost pounds, which suited him well. His acting was better than that of his ex-partner, but the dialogues and subplots between the two were weak, attempted to be dramatic but weren't, and just seemed out of sorts overall.

There were some political agendas present, which may have gone unnoticed by the liberal movie-going public—it didn't go unnoticed by me. I might have forgiven this had it been a white knuckle movie.
The ending was by far the weakest element of the movie, exacerbated by Anderson's sad performance. It attempted to be very dramatic, yet somehow missed the mark entirely and the result was sheer hokeyness.

The main storyline was OK, and that's as much praise as I'll give it. It was hardly worth them keeping the storyline hush-hush, as if it was some deep, dark, terribly inventive, and original idea. If it's any indication of the movie's worth, Stepbrothers is outperforming X-Files this weekend, and of course The Dark Knight is crushing it as one would expect, which would have been the case even if it had been decent. We saw X-Files on Saturday, only one day after opening, and it was only showing in two small theatres out of eighteen (I think), and there were only five other people in that theatre. BOMB.

There is another X-Files being tossed about for 2012, but I think it's contingent on how well this one did. I'm thinking this one might not see the big screen?

One a brighter note, the staff at Celebration Cinema were no longer wearing Mamma Mia! T-shirts, and the ticket girl looked quite pleased when I commented on the fact. Mike suggested she put her no-longer-needed-t-shirt on E-Bay, but I told her I didn't think anyone would buy it. I told her to use it for a dust rag. Even though the T-shirt looked stupid and the movie was super sucky, I think it would make a perfectly good dust rag.