FTF or IWTB?

[ex_rustingwil400]

Which X-Files movie do you prefer...Fight The Future or I Want To Believe? How many times did you see them in the theater?

I like both of them, but if I had to pick one over the other, I would choose I Want To Believe. I was disappointed to read so many negative reviews and comments on message boards after the movie's release. I liked the look of the film, and the snow and shadows were beautiful. I liked the story, even though there were a few lines of dialogue that seemed pretty hokey. (All the stuff about looking into the darkness...) I got to see it four times before it got yanked.

I saw FTF twice, I think. By comparison, it seems really bright and colorful and exciting, but I can never keep the story straight.

Comments

[chrissytng]

Just wanted to chime in to say that while I agree with the plot being very weak, I was actually fine with the two-headed dog coming up in her google search (though how it came up with stem cells I don't know), bc ironically enough I read a story about a week or so before IWTB came out that dealt with some wacky Soviet scientist that experimented with creating two-headed dogs and other things. So even though I'm sure Chris Carter and co. was just on the crack like normal here, it was kinda strange (to me at least) to have read that and then see it in the movie.

[my_daroga]

I think it's one of those things that, in a movie I enjoyed better, I might have been more inclined to overlook. I'm sure you're familiar. But I've gotten ever-more-sensitive to the shortcuts that writers take, the "enhance!" buttons on computers, the really really shoddy science. It's not so much that I need everything to be true/accurate/doable, but that when it's so obviously wrong it feels like they either 1) assume I'm not going to notice or 2) assume that if I do, I won't care. And then I feel condescended to.

I have no doubt that it's possible to find a two-headed dog experiment using Google. But that they want me to believe that has anything to do with stem cell research--that any of this did--seems insulting. Not the least in a political climate where stem cell research is being vilified and debated.

Which isn't to deny that was probably a really funny circumstance, for you. And doubtless, I expect too much from my entertainment. I am often told so.

[chrissytng]

Oh I completely agree that it's a stretch for it to be in the movie, let alone trying to connect it to the plot (which yeah I'd forgive too if it had been more enjoyable), I just found it ironic for me to have read something similar so soon before seeing the movie. Though unlike Scully I wasn't googling for stem cells, lol (and um, yeah, I was a bit miffed at the 'stem cells are wrong' vibes I was getting from it, probably didn't help also that Scully's co-workers were strongly against it as well).

But yeah I understand expecting too much from entertainment, it's why I stopped watching Heroes and other shows. It's just sad for me to think of IWTB as the last we'll see Mulder and Scully on screen. I think about how long we waited for this movie...and just feel, depressed.