After a long hiatus from blogging (and after several drafts) I've finally worked up the courage to write again.
Beginning today will be a series on my thoughts about movies both old and new, and what better to start with than the one movie for which I have had to wait for 10 years to watch.
The X -Files , released in 1998- starring Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny- was a collage of the entire X-Files concept. It had all the constituents of a trite Sci-Fi thriller- a deadly virus, ugly aliens (MIB is probably the only movies which showed pretty aliens), a love story that could have been, an end of the world scenario,but with the added X-Files flavour-a government conspiracy, aliens with no guns or protective force fields, and an FBI agent whose job is to investigate unexplained phenomena but not solve the mystery.
Keeping up with the standards set by the widely popular TV series, the movie brings with it all the neat packaging that had become a trademark of the TV series. The posters are absolutely mind blowing, the taglines are brilliant and although the Mark Snow Theme song is played only once it sets the tone for the movie.
The film starts with a teenage boy in Texas getting infected with an alien virus, when he accidentally falls into an underground cave. The virus, which has been lying dormant in the underground caverns suddenly comes out of hibernation and starts to evolve. And its up to Scully and Mulder to get to the bottom of it.
Although the movies drags for a few minutes, there are plenty of scenes which sends you "wow", like the one where Mulder is chasing the tanker and he reaches a T junction and has to discern if the tanker went right or left, Mulder being the sceptic he is chooses to go straight instead of following the road- the back ground score when he does so is incredible (the hair at the back of my neck were standing up as I watched this). Gillian Anderson looks absolutely adorable in the movie, actually she looks just like the person you would want with you when you go chasing after aliens:).
To summarise, I loved the movie.
I would give it 3.5/5 . (Not a 4+ movie, after all, its what you expect to see when you see the title X-files)
The sequel, "I want to believe" releases on July 25. I hope its a 4+ movie.
Either way, I'm sure I'll love it.
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2 comments:
"Gillian Anderson looks absolutely adorable in the movie, actually she looks just like the person you would want with you when you go chasing after aliens:)"
from my interactions with a bunch of people i believe that a lot of guys wouldn't mind having Gillian Anderson with them at any point of time. :P
finally, the lamb has broken the silence ;)
good post, haven't seen the movie yet, guess I must before the 25th..
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