Saturday, July 26, 2008

The Dack gets nostolgic with the X-Files......


The Dack was raised on X-Files and while others can claim devotion to Star Trek or Star Wars Friday Nights at the Dack's was the place to be at least for the people I hug out with.

This tradition continued for every season (well, at least until the crappy ones without Fox Mulder) even though the locations and people might have changed, watching X-Files is something I will always remember.

Because the last several seasons were pretty disappointing the Dack's expectations were set fairly low. The story for this film's only attachment to the famed sci-fi television show is three characters in this movie, which I believe was both the best and worst idea for this movie. By choosing to not even touch most of the story thread that ran through the series Chris Carter and Co. risked disappointment from the fan base....however much of that fan base moved on a considerable time ago......so this movie seemed like a fresh look at the relationship between David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson better know as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. This relationship is what made the series such an interesting show....Mulder the believer and Scully the skeptic, solving mysteries. And that is exactly what we get. While who the believer and who the skeptic are change several times these two actors have such on screen chemistry one can't help but be interested. The only thing this movie could have used was a little more epic feel. The scale seemed only a tad to small for the big screen but it's an understandable problem considering the budget wasn't huge. For the most part the acting around Duchovny and Anderson defiantly felt big screen which helped. Amanda Peet who surprisingly manages to keep her clothes on, Billy Connolly and, Xzibit all do a decent job filling their rolls. The actual crime being investigated was interesting if not just a little strange. For the Dack the X-Files felt like a welcome visit from an old friend, you sit back enjoy each others company, catch up with what has been happening in your lives, find out how you've grow as people. With I Want To Believe, I was happy to see how Mulder and Scully had grow both as individuals and well...... no more from me, go see it if you want to know.

X-Files scared up enough for sixDacks, and if you go be sure to stay for some of the unusual credits the Dack has ever seen.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I had the same thought on Amanda Peet when I saw the preview... maybe I'll see this one after all. :)

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