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

[wendelah1]

I have never seen Fight the Future in a theater, as I was not even watching the show in 1997(?) when it was released. I have seen it on DVD a couple of times. It has some nice explosions and few shippy moments that I personally could have done without and an utterly incoherent plot. I do prefer it over I Want to Believe which has even more Mulder/Scully romance and a plot line that makes FTF look brilliant by comparison. Despite that, I saw it three times in the theater. I guess I kept thinking I would like it better, that I would see what so many fans saw and loved.

I don't think I have looked forward more eagerly to a movie since I was a child waiting for the Sound of Music to open in my neighborhood theater. IWTB was a horrible disappointment to me. To be honest, I nearly left the fandom over it, and I don't think I've felt the same about the show since. They had so many years to come up with a good script, and they failed. What I wanted from the movie was what I loved about the show: watching Mulder and Scully's partnership. I wanted to see them work together, and solve a crime or x-file together. I have not bought the DVD nor do I plan to do so. What is sad is how indifferent I am now to the idea of a third movie.

My retreat into denial is complete: in my personal canon, nothing past Je Souhaiteever occurred.

[ex_rustingwil400]

I went to see IWTB mostly unspoiled and with low expectations because people who had seen it before me had said it was crap. If I had spent anytime at all thinking about what kind of movie I wanted it to be or what I wanted to happen, I probably would have been disappointed as well.

[my_daroga]

I share a lot of these feelings, though I had already "left" fandom by the time it came out (the last few years of XF drove me away). I think we feel differently about their relationship--that is, that's what I've gathered from the other thread, here--in the sense that they're being together doesn't bother if I feel it's done right. But I don't trust them to, and regardless I'm interested in them as a partnership. I felt that even when they were on screen together, they didn't make sense, and didn't have that chemistry that was the reason I loved the show.

After my disillusionment several years ago, I went into this film thinking it wouldn't be that good but at least I'd try to enjoy my Mulder and Scully. And that usually works to keep my more cynical instincts at bay. It didn't, this time.