The X Files
Tags: paranormal, suspenseful, cult

Plot synopsis:
The film opens in 35,000 B.C., in what will become North Texas. Entering a cave, two cavemen hunters stumble upon a large extraterrestrial life form. One is killed by the alien; the other fights back, stabbing the alien to death, but is infected by a black oil-like substance that crawls into his skin. In 1998, in the same area, when a group of boys are digging a deep hole, a young boy named Stevie falls down the hole and finds a human skull. As he holds it, black oil seeps into his body until it reaches his head, causing his eyes to turn black. Later, four firefighters descend into the hole to rescue him, but do not come out. A team of biohazard-suited men arrives on the scene. The boy's body is brought out.
Meanwhile, FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been assigned to other projects since the closure of the X-Files. They are helping investigate a bomb threat against a federal building in Dallas. Mulder inspects a building across the street from the supposed target and discovers the bomb in a vending machine. Special Agent in Charge Darius Michaud stays behind to disarm the bomb as Mulder and Scully evacuate the building. Unknown to the agents, Michaud makes no attempt to disarm the bomb, which detonates. The building is partially destroyed.
Returning to Washington, D.C., Mulder and Scully are chastised because, in addition to Michaud, four people were apparently still in the building during the bombing. There are scheduled separate hearings at which their job performances will be evaluated. That evening, Mulder encounters a paranoid doctor, Alvin Kurtzweil, who explains that the victims were the firefighters and boy, that they were already dead, and that the bomb was allowed to detonate in order to destroy evidence of how they died. At the hospital morgue, Scully is able to examine one of the victims, finding evidence of an alien virus.
Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully's enemy, the Cigarette Smoking Man, meets with Dr. Ben Bronschweig in Texas, where they locate one of the firefighters who contains the same alien virus, but with an alien organism residing inside the body; the Cigarette Smoking Man orders to administer a vaccine to it, but should it fail, have the body burned. Later, the alien organism gestates and kills Bronschweig, who is locked inside the area by his teammates.
Mulder and Scully travel to the crime scene in Texas. They come across a strange train hauling tanker trucks and they follow it to a large cornfield surrounding two glowing domes. They enter the domes, only to find them empty. Suddenly, grates leading to an underground area open in the floor and a swarm of bees chases the agents out into the cornfield. Black helicopters appear and begin to chase them, but they escape and head back to Washington.
After returning, Mulder unsuccessfully tries to get help from Kurtzweil, while Scully attends her performance hearing and learns that she is being transferred to Salt Lake City, Utah. Mulder is devastated to lose Scully as a partner. The two are about to share a kiss when Scully is stung by a bee which had lodged itself under her shirt collar. The sting causes Scully to quickly lose consciousness. Mulder calls for the paramedics but when an ambulance arrives, the driver shoots Mulder in the head and whisks Scully away. Waking up in hospital, Mulder is told the bullet only grazed his temple and leaves with the help of The Lone Gunmen and FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner. Mulder then meets a former adversary, the Well-Manicured Man, who gives him Scully's location in Antarctica, along with a vaccine to combat the virus that has infected her. The Well-Manicured Man then kills himself in a car bomb, before his betrayal of The Syndicate is discovered.
Mulder travels to Antarctica to save Scully, and discovers a secret underground laboratory run by the Cigarette Smoking Man. Mulder uses the vaccine to revive Scully, disrupting the stable environment of the lab and reviving the cocooned aliens. The lab is destroyed just after Mulder and Scully escape to the surface. It turns out to be part of a huge alien vessel lying dormant beneath the snow; the vessel pushes up through tons of ice and snow and travels straight up into the sky. Mulder watches the ship fly directly overhead and disappear into the distance, as Scully regains consciousness.
Some time later, Scully attends a hearing, where her testimony is ignored and the evidence covered up. The only remaining proof of their ordeal is the bee that stung Scully, collected by the Lone Gunmen. She hands it over, noting that the FBI does not currently have an investigative unit qualified to pursue the evidence at hand. Outside, Mulder is reading an article that has covered up the domes and crop field in Texas; Scully informs Mulder that she is willing to continue working with him.
At another crop outpost in Tunisia, the Cigarette Smoking Man warns Strughold that Mulder remains a threat, as he explains what Mulder has found out about the virus. He then hands him a telegram revealing that the X-files unit has been re-opened.

Review: People that don't even watch the show know what it is, and EVERYONE knows who Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are, whether they've ever seen one episode or not.
I admit, while watching most of the episodes, I thought, "This isn't very scary...", but then I payed attention to the detail and it got so good...the lighting, the sets...even when Mulder and Scully are outside (which is often), the sky is hardly ever sunny and bright, but rather dark and shadowy.
The writer's of the show have a wonderful talent of leaving certain stories hanging only to the extent that does not make the viewer feel betrayed but wanting to watch more.The X-Files defined an era of television and opened the way for other Sci-Fi related shows as well as helping define the crime drama shows that are all over the place now.
Whether The X Files is spoofing the Brady Bunch or alluding to Moby Dick or creating a homage to Frankenstein and movies of its ilk or just trying its best to scare you or disgust you(the episode Home - a favorite of mine), it is always true to itself in terms of the creativity that courses through its proverbial veins.
Dr Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is a skeptic, a woman of science, and assigned to keep Mulder under control.The X Files represents a breakout for the sci-fi genre.
The X-Files would have probably have been the single best sci-fi show ever created by Chris Carter and Fox. The show itself was very well made and had a good feel of jump-out horror, psychological horror and suspense horror.
It would tell individual and bizarre stories but would have a bigger and more enticing plot that would reveal itself.The characters have great chemistry together (Dana Scully and Fox Mulder).
In all my years of watching television,i have to say that the x-files to me has to be the most controversial and well made series in history.Chris Carter who gave the idea that the governments keep secrets or too many secrets away from the public,only gives the people the absolute power to say....I do believe.David duchovny and Gillian Anderson,is the best duo on TV bar none.And yet the supporting cast throughout the seasons gave us the spectacle of comradery in the toughest situations each agent had to endure.Especially the odd three known as the lone gunman.Aliens,specters,or freaks of nature or government conspiracies could not hide well enough,and this television show brought us more imagination to our lives than anything else being watched.Hopefully there will be a second movie which i hear is in the works to 2008.Hopefully the legal battles are done by then with David and carter.It was so sad to see them feud like this all because one wanted to move to L.A.,still other than that we are going to see a wonderful film to give us dreamers and aliens another chance to maybe see a next series kick-off with the new generation dynamic duo.Hats off to David and Gillian,and also carter.Fantastic wonder you gave us all..
Conspiracies were presented with the necessary gravitas to draw the viewer in, creating dramatic tension and encouraging investment in the story line.The new episodes however (seasons 10 and 11) are just bad.
This simple exchange between Mulder and Scully re-ignites that age old question..."Is their life on other planets and are there actual alien abductions of humans?" It was this intense exchange between the two main characters that draws you right back in to the success of the original 1993 ground breaking Science Fiction series.
Was this the cause of the initial entry of aliens to earth that the government kept secret for the past 70 years?There is so much information that Mulder and Scully are provided by the new rich guy Tad O'Malley (played by Joel McHale) that we the audience may start to believe that our own government is the biggest conspirator of hidden agendas and that the government would actually blame the cataclysmic outcome on our neighboring nations that would result in World War III.
The best thing about the reboot of this series is if you didn't previously follow or watch the beginning you can still get so much from the characters and story line this time around.
and then I am watching and I think Yes Yes that is how you do a reboot you work from strength and then augment that strength, and I know that I am hooked from halfway into the first episode and my brain is pumping endorphins and I love the way they incorporated modern conspiracies and I liked the way they used McHale from The Soup and I am having this incredible stream of consciousness but I am not actually typing anything and I have no idea how my thoughts are being recorded by the IMDb...
I've seen them in other series and they are both terrific actors.Sorry Chris Carter, but having your characters repeat old slogans and long drawn out periods of expositions does not constitute a script.I will not be watching further episodes..
To this day I still struggle to remember which is Star Wars and which is Star Trek...But despite that, The X-Files got me hooked since the very first airing of the Pilot episode almost two decades ago.It just had it all: monsters, mystery, murders and an interesting UFO/conspiracy plot that didn't really take over the whole show until the final seasons.The X-Files could be enjoyed both as a series of unrelated cases of mysterious events, or as a coherent story about a government conspiracy about aliens.Either way, it was always a nice experience and the count of disappointing episodes is remarkably low for a show that ran for nine years.Mulder and Scully (played masterfully by Duchovny and Anderson) were an interesting take on the traditional "odd couple".
A real rarity for most shows, especially nowadays, where the characters are either driven and dedicated iron men or squeamish teen-like wimps, more focused on their private life than on their job.Thankfully we were spared a full-fledged romantic liaison between Mulder and Scully, despite some hints of something being there in later seasons.
Not every show on Earth needs romance, much less a show like X-Files with two rather "asexual" characters like Mulder and Scully.The rest of the cast was very solid and the characters worked very well with the two main stars and with the plots.It's really difficult finding flaws in a show of that caliber, but just for the sake of nitpicking, I have to say the final seasons, when the alien/government conspiracy plot became the main focus of the show, were a little bit over the top in terms of twists and swerves.But all in all it's a forgivable sin, considering the overall quality of the series and the fact it would have been impossible ending the show without putting more emphasis on the main theme of the whole story and trying to give it some sort of closure.The X-Files was a landmark in the history of sci-fi and of television.
So far this this reboot, seems to throw all that away, in favor of making a quick buck on the love and cult-following that the original legendary show always had.After a somewhat okay promising short introduction and a nostalgic return of the classic intro and theme, we are thrown into a way too fast paced mess of constantly changing scenes, atmospheres, character "introductions", quick underdeveloped dialog, mediocre CGI, plot-threads and plot-twists and bad acting.
An old main character like Skinner, is just suddenly standing and talking to Mulder, instead of setting up an atmospheric long awaited reunion.The old show also could be quite scary and intense some times, especially in the scenes involving aliens or the paranormal - the new show tries to do a scene like this, with a girl in a car, but this reaches its climax within a minute, way before most well directed similar scenes, would even indicate that something bad is about to happen.Well I guess I could go on and on about some of the lesser problems (like the bad acting, inter-explaining dialog for the viewers, Mulder and Scullys sudden loss of chemistry together, or the overcompensating modern take on the whole conspiracy/alien-plot).
Obsessed and desperat.The first episodes 1X79 - THE X-FILES: PILOT, 1X01 - DEEP THROAT, 1X03 - CONDUIT started off this magnificent show with the real mythology and I (and everyone else watching it) was captured by Mulders devotion for the truth.
This was a brilliant show that had potential to continue to be pure gold all the way thru, but they choosed to follow the mainstream and please the sci-fi lovers (well I love sci-fi, but X-Files was supposed to be more like a "mystery show" and not Star Wars - if you get my point,) and all the girls watching the series just to see Mulder and Scully in the bed together.
A real X-Phile wants to remember The X-Files with David Duchovny (Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully) - To claim something else is just ridiculous.* We didn't have to suffer while watching crappy episodes, and the episode that revealed the truth about Mulders sister - I REALLY HATE WHAT THEY DID!
There were still great episodes through the whole show, but - unfortunately - more disapointing times.There's surely much more I want to say, so maybe I'll post another long comment in the future.Finally I want to say that, even if it doesn't seems like it, I think that this is one of the best series I've ever seen!
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson bring such depth to their characters (Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, respectively), the writing, directing and cinematography are good enough to grace the silver screen (and did in the summer of '98!), and the plots are imaginative, intriguing and downright "SPOOKY"!
Based on the fictional characters about two obstinate FBI agent investigating unexplained paranormal phenomena and it had two theatrical films : I want to believe (2008) by Chris Carter and X files : Fight to the future (1998) by Rob Bowman and both of them based on the series , being all of them played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson .
Special mention for the mysterious and thrilling musical score by Mark Snow .Stars two wonderful characters Fox Mulder well played by David Duchovny who directed 3 episodes , Fox is a true believer .
But whatever your reply,if you cared to watch more than an episode or two of it,you'd have to admit that it had a cool,smart,edgy quality that was hard to resist.You probably know the story,but here goes anyway: Deep in the bowels of the FBI is the eponymous department,which is so abandoned and lightly regarded,it consists of basically two agents: quiet,quirky,emotionally-scarred believer in anything "out there" Fox MUlder(David Ducovny,able to finally go mainstream after years of soft-core movies and direct-to-video fare to that point)and soft-spoken,rational,medically-trained and religious DAna Scully(GIllian Anderson,who would slowly develop over the series run).
If they remained the way they were in the earlier seasons (and trust me, I am a true fan...I stuck by it the whole 9 years but I love the first 7 seasons best) but they had to change sometime; they wouldn't have lasted as long as they did if they had continued on with the Samantha ordeal and/or the alien/ government cases.
I hope there will be a sequel to the first movie "The X-Files: Fight the Future" and I'm sure even though they lost some fans along the way, they will probably return and watch it...remembering how great a show it was........and is..
Back in 1993 Chris Carter had an idea (Two FBI Agents investigate paranormal/unexplained cases, one a skeptic the other a believer), unknown to him and everyone else this was the best idea in TV history - it was completely original and intelligent and just what TV in the early nineties needed, add to that the great acting abilities of David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, the wonderful writing talents of Chris himself, James Wong, Glen Morgan, Vince Gilligan and many others and some excellent directing from Kim Manners, Rob Bowman, Chris himself and too many others for me to list here and the you have the ingredients for the most visually stunning, wonderfully acted and written 45 minutes of TV I've ever had the pleasure to watch.Still as good as ever after 7 seasons..
I really like the good chemistry of Gillian Anderson and David Duchonvy, they give their best to make the movie and the series beautiful.
But at least that show got to tell most of it's story over the five years it was on.At first, when I heard about this "10th X-Files Season" I was pleased until I heard it was SIX EPISODES?.
Agent Carter was given at least 10 episodes this year, while we wait for Agents of SHIELD to come back in March.Shows are not done the same way they were back in the early 90's where the Seasons started in September, and lasted until June.
Actually I am starting to believe that shows like The X-Files, episodic shows, shows that tell a story over time, do not work well as Feature films.
Not to mention the main character Fox Mulder makes little to no appearances and his wonderful partner Scully looks like she has just completely given up on the show.
It should also be noted that in a recent X-Files Reunion (20th Anniversary) featuring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, as well as the series' creator Chris Carter, that they wouldn't mind doing a third movie again, especially after seeing all the fans that showed up for it!
Having completed my DVD collection and having just finished watching every single minute of every single episode I believe 201 in total i'm left sadend that they stop at season 9, But all good things come to an end and the X FILES will live on in my house when ever I need cheering up or fancy a bit of Mulder and Skully I can simply put on one of my DVDs. Here is hoping the brilliant Chris Carter does get this problem with 20th century fox sorted out and he does indeed make another X FILES movie the fans demand it..
The Norwegian tag line for this show is "You don't believe it, until you see it" (sounds cool in Norwegian) and that's a good way to sum up this show.X files follows the FBI agents Mulder and Scully.
I am ashamed to say I started to watch the X-Files while they started to run the Conspiracy episodes from Season 1 'till Season 7 a few years ago.
So I started to watch every episode from Season 1 and up.David Duchovny's character is not your typical badass, in fact, in many ways what makes his character so lovable is that he's just an average guy just like all of us who if pushed enough can tick.Gillian Anderson is awesome as his sidekick Dana Scully, who specializes in science and medicine to try to reason out Mulders work in medical terms.All the characters from Assistant Director Skinner, to Cigarette Smoking Man, Alex Krycek, Deep Throat, to Mr. X, they're all so well done.
However, after watching the first several episodes of season 8 I knew that the X-Files had a lot more mileage left.
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny (two wonderful actors!) performed wonderfully in their roles as Scully and Mulder and I am a big fan of them both as I am of the show.
What made this TV series my favorite TV show ever, and why I think it is the best show ever written, are the two characters Fox Mulder and Dana Scullly.
As a guy who has never followed the original X-files but i watched more than a bunch before, I'd say the Pilot in here went really fine and surprisingly so much better than i expected.The story and the plot is easily followable even if it is your first time watching the show, they explain everything with a fast yet organized throwback, the script seems to really having a great potentials with new story each episode (like most Sci-Fi shows) and mysterious new faces with new secrets.I'v noticed a couple of times in the pilot that Mulder Maybe is trying to make it clear that forget about the last seasons this something new, this is a new conspiracy, which is good for me again as i didn't follow the last series that much but i don't know how the show "lovers" would feel about it ;)As for the cast, well lets be honest David Duchovny is more than 13 years older than the last time we've seen him on the show, and for me i was used to seeing him with that witty, careless, snarky character in Californication so here he's well the total opposite but still he has that factor of "follow me , and keep it up" so you can't stop yourself waiting for his next move...
I was watching 11 s 04 episode where the "alien" showed and told Mulder and Scully that they finished gathering Intel about human...That alien was like from comedy, I was so disappointed, It was so low, so disgusting for X-files, so embarrassing for Carter as the master and the creator of X-Files...
And finally, I watched all 3 episodes of new Season 10.
Think of the earlier episodes, how involving they were, it was like you're really into the Mulder&Scully's world, looking for the truth along with them.
The characters of Mulder and Scully are the architecture of the series and every episode.
I've watched this series since it's first episode in 1993, *10 years ago*.
I hope that the shows will never ends.P.S. I love Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny so much, and I can't wait to see The X-Files 2..