The X-Files Movie 2-Pack (I Want to Believe / Fight the Future) [Blu-ray]

The X-Files Movie 2-Pack (I Want to Believe / Fight the Future) [Blu-ray]

The X-Files Movie 2-Pack (I Want to Believe / Fight the Future) [Blu-ray]

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Actor: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
Brand: X-FILES
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 226 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-12-02
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

DVD Reviews of The X-Files Movie 2-Pack (I Want to Believe / Fight the Future) [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: The X-Files: Wish it Were Perfect.
Summary: 4 Stars

I've had the two X-Files films on DVD for sometime, so I know how they look in comparison with the Blu-ray releases. Fight the Future on Blu-ray certainly looks better than the anamorphic DVD, although you wouldn't know it throughout the beginning of the film until after the building explosion. The colors are way off sometimes. It gets better though and it winds up being worth the upgrade if you are a fan of the film. However, Fox did little work on the transfer to make it look it's best. All you have to do is take a look at the Gag Reel and see what the true potential of the film could have been. Some of the shots in the Gag Reel are so crystal clear, so phenomenal, that it makes Fox look really bad and really cheap for releasing this as is. The sound quality is encoded at a much higher bit rate than the DVD, so the sound is much more dynamic and immersive.

I Want to Believe on Blu-ray isn't a huge leap over the DVD, but it still benefits. The film still has a processed look due to the strong blue-green color palette used. I was hoping that would be lessened on Blu-ray, since the higher encode allows for a greater number of colors to show through, but it's the same. The blacks are better, the shades of light are better rendered, and there is more detail in the image. The sound quality is more dynamic than the DVD, though not by much, but that has more to do with the design than the transfer.

The special features on I Want to Believe are far more detailed than on Fight the Future, but I'm not big on special features anyway, except for well produced making of documentaries. What they included for the two films is good for me.

DVD Review: Great treat for fans, last film adds little to overall story
Summary: 4 Stars

As a huge fan and watcher of the entire series, this double pack was a must for me. I have not seen the 1st film on BD, but I have seen it on SD, and I liked it more than the second film. The quality of "I Want to Believe" is a 4/5. It was watched on a 42" Panasonic Plasma, and BD35K player.

While the 1st film integrates into the plot, the second does little if nothing, in my opinion to push the story forward. It was fantastic to see Mulder and Skully's chemistry again on screen, but the plot was convoluted, and I was disappointed that the entire story had nothing to to do with the larger conspiracy. I deliberately stayed away from movie theater reviews, as I knew it would be difficult for a second film to stand up to the X-Files fan legacy.

I just recently watched this second film, having promised 2 friends, we'd wait to see it with them. I loved some of the inside humor between the two characters, but the story was somewhat ludicrous. I still cling on to hope that there will be another film in December 2012 (according to Cancer Man, this was the year/month that the war between humans and aliens would take place, I believe). Although this is all a rumor, and more wishful thinking at this point, I hope that the series is given a proper closure with a third film.

As far as I am concerned, make a NEW X-Files series!:) It's worth a rent, if a you're a fan, but don't expect to get any answers or closure to the series.

DVD Review: Xphile
Summary: 5 Stars

It wouldn't matter if these sucked - I'm a die hard fan, so I loved them.

DVD Review: Blu-Ray gives it a great picture, but can't help "I Want to Believe"
Summary: 3 Stars

I'm a massive X-files fan. I got rid of my well-worn VCR episodes only when they came out on DVD. So this 2-disc set was a true and well-received gift from my lovely wife.

The most relevant point here is the blu-ray presentation: Chris Carter indulges a thrill for the cinematic in his shots of Vancouver posing as the beltway in the depts of winter in "I Want to Believe". The scenery is gorgeous and leery, although with the dark ambiance of much of the action, the movie does not always take full advantage of the blu-ray capabilities (who needs 1080p in a nearly dark building?).

Now for the movie reviews: "Fight the Future" was a very necessary link that advanced well the story, and indispensible for a fan of the series who followed the mythos behind alien colonization, human conspirators, and an interstellar war. For someone who isn't a fan, it's a bit off kilter, but still a well-told and tightly written plot with lots of suspense. That's movie 1 on disc 1.

Going to movie 2 on disc 2 is a bit of a shock, then. It's supposed to have been 6 years since the end of the TV series, but Mulder and Scully have aged a good decade since "Fight the Future", and so has Chris Carter's writing skills. The screenplay is honestly fairly lousy. Mulder and Scully share a good deal of chemistry (complete with Mulderisms) but the events in the movie are improbable even by X-files standards. Not that improbability makes a bad story (indeed, Carter's brilliant work in the series was getting his writers' improbable elements to make good stories), but there's no effort to explain the why's behind the little hill-country house of horrors that forms the impetus for the movie. Call it Russian science if you need an oxymoronic title, but really there are a lot of WTF moments here.

But if you're going to buy "Fight the Future" on blu-ray, might as well buy the second disc as well.

DVD Review: Wonderful Show, Wonderful Movies!
Summary: 5 Stars

Loved the show when it was on, still love the show, and the movies were great!!

Description of The X-Files Movie 2-Pack (I Want to Believe / Fight the Future) [Blu-ray]

Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 2-DEC-2008
Media Type: Blu-Ray

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