The X-Files: I Want to Believe
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I watched the movie last friday and i liked it. Though its not a movie you have to see in the cinema, but it was good entertainment to me, but i must say i was a huge fan of the show back then. Just to see Mulder and Scully again after 6 years did it for me.
But i can understand if not everyone is enjoying it like i did.
If you expect some aliens and government conspiracys, you will be disapointed, it´s only a mystery thriller.
But i can understand if not everyone is enjoying it like i did.
If you expect some aliens and government conspiracys, you will be disapointed, it´s only a mystery thriller.
http://www.boxofficeguru.com/weekend.htm
Fox rounded out the top ten with two films that few are seeing. The sci-fi sequel The X-Files: I Want to Believe collapsed in its sophomore frame tumbling 66% to an estimated $3.4M. After ten days, the $30M pic has grossed only $17.1M and should end up with only $22-25M. The animated comedy Space Chimps slipped 37% to an estimated $2.8M for a cume of $22.1M. The X-Files team must be embarrassed by the fact that its film is being outgrossed by Space Chimps.
Fox rounded out the top ten with two films that few are seeing. The sci-fi sequel The X-Files: I Want to Believe collapsed in its sophomore frame tumbling 66% to an estimated $3.4M. After ten days, the $30M pic has grossed only $17.1M and should end up with only $22-25M. The animated comedy Space Chimps slipped 37% to an estimated $2.8M for a cume of $22.1M. The X-Files team must be embarrassed by the fact that its film is being outgrossed by Space Chimps.
PlasmaTwa2
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Those numbers are very, very disappointing. I'm probably just going to sound like a bitter fanboy who is trying to place the blame on why The X-Files did so poorly here, but bear with me.
No doubt opening a week after The Dark Knight did The X-Files no favors, but I think the biggest reason the movie is doing so poorly is because of Fox (The company, not Mulder, though his beard was pretty weird). Mainly, the advertisements for this movie. What was the advertising budget for this movie? Three dollars? There was little to no hype for this movie until the week it was supposed to open.
There should have been a teaser trailer out in February, instead of a single trailer in May (Which, I might add, I did not see in front of any major movies such as Iron Man or Indiana Jones). When you release a movie a week after the biggest movie of the year - a movie that was expected to be the biggest since January - you need to have a really good advertising campaign. The return of The X-Files should have been a big movie event, but the problem was that no one knew it was happening. Of course, no one would ever have expected The X-Files to make a lot of money, but it should certainly be ****** the 40 million mark right now.
The X-Files is the defining television series, and one of the top cultural icons, of the 90's. There is absolutely no reason the movie should be doing as poorly is it is now, but if I had to pick one issue that hurt the box office, it would have to be Fox's lackluster advertising. The television show was just one of your biggest hits ever, so, you know, there is no reason to tell people it is coming out.
Hopefully the movie will be successful on DVD, and Fox allows Chris Carter to go through with a third movie that will return to the roots of the series.
And, Fox: It doesn't matter if the next movie is a television movie, a miniseries, or a theatrical release. Treat the show with the respect that it deserves and has earned. The X-Files deserves to go out with a big bang, and I Want To Believe simply doesn't fit the bill.
I saw the film last night. Epic fail.
I saw it on friday, and it was basically an hour and forty four minute episode from season 1 or 2, I mean come on if your going to make a film make it a 'mythology' film, give us some aliens the syndicate anything! Not a film about the dangers of stem cell research and genetic engineering and how it can be used for good and evil. That woul be fine as an episode but not as a film.
It was good to see Mulder and Scully again but the film was a decent thriller but for fans it was dissapointing.
It was good to see Mulder and Scully again but the film was a decent thriller but for fans it was dissapointing.
it was good but not the best
Control + C, Control + V. Your reply, my thoughts.
Good to see old friends, bad to see no progress in the X-universe/story.
Not bad but far to be as great as its predecessor which went on screens in 1998 X Files the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120902/. One key enemy is missing the unavoidable man with the cigarette, this second X Files movie deals more with Russian organized crime than with Aliens and people who obstructed Mulder in some of his investigations.
PlasmaTwa2
The Second-Hottest Man in my ******'s Basement
The movie is more for Mulder and Scully fans then for X-Files fans, apparently. I've seen that criticism alot. It's more like a random supernatural thriller that has Mulder and Scully in it then an X-Files movie. Didn't bother me that much.
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