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Overview
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Chris Carter (story) and
Frank Spotnitz (story) ...
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Release Date:
19 June 1998 (USA) more
Tagline:
Fight the Future more
Plot:
Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 7 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(11 articles)
Re-examining The Burning (1981)
(From Fangoria. 7 September 2009, 4:02 PM, PDT)
Film to TV remakes - the new Hollywood trend
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User Comments:
So worried about satisfying an audience it forgets to function as a film more (278 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| David Duchovny | ... | Special Agent Fox Mulder | |
| Gillian Anderson | ... | Special Agent Dana Scully | |
| John Neville | ... | The Well-Manicured Man | |
| William B. Davis | ... | Cigarette Smoking Man / CGB Spender | |
| Martin Landau | ... | Alvin Kurtzweil, MD | |
| Mitch Pileggi | ... | Assistant Director Walter Skinner | |
| Jeffrey DeMunn | ... | Ben Bronschweig, M.D. (as Jeffrey De Munn) | |
| Blythe Danner | ... | Jana Cassidy | |
| Terry O'Quinn | ... | Darius Michaud | |
| Armin Mueller-Stahl | ... | Conrad Strughold | |
| Lucas Black | ... | Stevie | |
| Christopher Fennell | ... | Boy #2 (as Chris Fennell) | |
| Cody Newton | ... | Boy #3 | |
| Blake Stokes | ... | Boy #4 | |
| Dean Haglund | ... | Richard 'Ringo' Langly |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
Aux frontières du réel (Canada: French title)
Blackwood (USA) (working title)
Fight the Future (USA) (working title)
The X Files Movie (Australia)
The X Files: Fight the Future (USA) (working title)
The X-Files (USA) (closing credits title)
X-Files: Blackwood (USA) (working title)
X-Files: The Movie (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some intense violence and gore.
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Runtime:
121 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
Iceland:12 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | South Korea:12 | New Zealand:M | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (British Columbia) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:PG (Alberta) | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hong Kong:IIA | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Poland:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13
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After consuming much alcohol and finding the bar's bathroom locked, Mulder relieves himself on a movie poster for Independence Day (1996). A line in Independence Day, spoken just after the first shot of the cable station, is "Yeah, I love X-Files too. I hardly get to see it." more
Goofs:
Continuity: The snow vehicle that CGB Spender rides out to Mulder's vehicle has long parallel treads. When he is driving back to the base, the tracks shown are the treads on Mulder's vehicle. more
Quotes:
Mulder:
Whatever happened to playing a hunch, Scully? The element of surprise, random acts of unpredictability? If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
[Pops a sunflower seed into his mouth]
Mulder:
What are we doing up here, Scully? It's hotter than hell.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: David Duchovny/Puff Daddy/Jimmy Page (#23.20)" (1998) more
Soundtrack:
Hunter more
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The first scene we see Mulder and Scully in involves a building being blown up. This is the first of many scenes where it becomes evident that Chris Carter wrote this film around the budget instead of using the big budget to improve the film. The script is also problematic for other reasons, not that Chris Carter was ever the most talented X-Files writer in terms of dialogue (see Vince Gilligan or Darin Morgan) but some of this movie seems extraordinarily cheap and speed-written (Carter essentially had to write this film and his season 5 episodes roughly at the same time), and the result is some really embarrassing moments.
The whole movie has a sort of 'greatest hits' feel, cramming the Lone Gunmen in just for the sake of having them there, revisiting questions but not answering them, and bringing back stuff we remember from mythology episodes just for the fun of it. This was the first step into REALLY muddling the mythology arc the series became famous for, although I for one thought season 6 was exceptionally strong, but the show's mytharc dwindled fast in quality and by seasons 7 and 9 it was the standalone episodes that remained memorable and entertaining.
To its credit, this film is well-made and excellently scored, and the acting is generally solid. There are good parts here and there but mostly it feels like a sellout. The mythology arc was seriously harmed by this film and there's no telling if it would've played out better without it. Ultimately, this movie was so worried about satisfying an audience (Mulder & Scully nearly kiss! Oh the excitement! [ /sarcasm ]) it forgot to function as a film.
5/10