Zack and I went and saw the X-Files movie yesterday. I'm telling you, I'm too tired to do anything else. It's amazing what two straight weeks of late nights and drinking will do to you when you hit my age.
I'm not going to review the movie right now. I am going to print some spoilers, however, so stop now if you care.
Things I loved:
Mulder with a beard.
Mulder and Scully canoodling in bed.
Seeing Skinner again.
A two headed dog.
Lots of snow.
Scully, solving the crime and rescuing Mulder.
Things I didn't love:
The pacing.
Too many scenes that didn't seem to move the story forward.
Too many scenes where Scully tries to talk Mulder out of being Mulder.
Trying to pretend Scully would ever leave Mulder.
Bringing up Samantha as Mulder's motivation. Didn't we clear that up in Oubliette ("Not everything I do is about my sister!") and Closure ("I'm free.")?
The thing that bothered me the most was that I thought Scully behaved out of character. She's the one that urges Mulder to get involved in the case and then she spends the rest of the movie trying to talk him into dropping it. The Scully I like best is when she makes a token argument for sanity but when Mulder charges full steam over the border to crazytown, she's right there with him, as in War of the Coprophages. There's a scene where Mulder is outside a government house and he's talking to Scully on the phone.
"I don't have to remind you that's it's illegal to break into a federal facility, do I?" she scolds.
"I'm already inside." he had been climbing the fence as she spoke.
"Well, what do you see?" she immediately shifted gears and was his accomplice again.
That Scully was absent in this movie.
Although I didn't love it, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Then I remembered that back in the old days, I never reviewed an episode until I had watched it at least three times. You had to see them three times to feel like you'd really caught everything. I have no intention of seeing I Want to Believe in a theater again, but I'll buy it when it comes out, watch it at least twice more, and then I'll review it.
It was no Mama Mia.
