Fight the Future

"The X-Files: Fight the Future" is phenomenal! It appeals to everyone because it has all of the ingredients: action, drama, humor, romance, scariness, and intelligence. Chris Carter did a wonderful job of making the movie understandable to newbies while rewarding all of us, the die-hard fans. The movie contains brilliant acting from Gillian, as always, and execution by David that is a lot better than his normal scanty performance. Everyone involved gave their best, making this movie the wonder that it is. I am not a shipper. I am what some might call a fence-sitter. I do not want Scully and Mulder to get together romantically, and I feel that if they do, it would ruin the show. However, I love those moments when they do touch each other's hands or stare into each other's eyes. I don't view that as sexually romantic, but as romantic in a plutonic way. I, for one, loved the notable hallway scene between Scully and Mulder and think that Chris did a memorable way of writing it. If I had just spent the past five years working closely with a man, who I trusted with my life as he did me with his, and during those five years we encountered the same emotional hurdles as they have: the tragic deaths of close family members, Scully's abduction and 'child,' ect., and then I got transferred hundreds of miles away...I would be as emotional as Scully and Mulder were. I would be in desperate need of hug and a kiss as well. Even if the bee did not sting Scully and they went through with their kiss, that does not mean that they would go on have a sexual relationship. I love the character's wardrobe in this movie. It shows the top quality that money will buy.

Nitpicking: First of all, the issue of tattoos. At the beginning when Scully comes out of the first inquiry with the Office of Professional Review, Mulder and Skinner are waiting in the hallway. After Skinner goes back in, Scully and Mulder talk and she tells him that she's quitting the FBI, and then he get's called back into the room. When Scully hands Mulder his suit jacket, which he left on the bench, you can clearly see Gillian's tattoo on the inside on her right ankle. Then at the end when Mulder pulls a naked Scully from the alien cryopod and lays her on his jacket, you see Scully's naked back. Missing is Agent Scully's tattoo of a snake biting its own tail on the right side of her lower back ['Never Again']. At the very end, you see Mulder sitting on a bench, reading a newspaper. The page opposite the one he is reading is completely blank. You can also see the blank page when he folds up the paper as well. At the very beginning of the movie, after Stevie falls in the hole, a number of firetrucks appear. On the doors of the firetrucks, it says "Blackwood County." As you might recall, 'Blackwood' was the codename for the movie throughout the filming.

Entertainment Weekly (#440) had an article about the questions posed by The X-Files movie: "At the end of the movie, when Mulder finds Scully frozen inside that buried flying saucer in Antarctica, she's buck naked. Moments later, she's dashing through the snow in a cozy ski suit. Where'd she get it? And while we're on the subject, how do the two of them get home after the saucer takes off? The Sno-Cat Mulder arrived in is nowhere in sight. Duchovny clears things up. "I was wearing three layers of clothes, so I gave her some of mine," he says. "That naked scene, by the way, wasn't in the original script. But my wife read it and said, 'You're missing a great opportunity--it's the one time Mulder gets to handle Scully naked.'" Not quite as naked as Mulder might have liked. Recalls Anderson: "He was supposed to pick me up naked and throw me over his shoulder, so that we'd be cheek to cheek. But we didn't film it that way. If you're not going to see David's bare butt, you certainly aren't going to see mine." According to Carter, Mulder's Sno-Cat was "parked behind a snowdrift," out of camera range, which is how they got home (never mind that it had run out of gas). Duchovny offers another scenario: "It was all downhill, so we just got on our asses in the snow and slid the whole way back to D.C." What happened to Mulder's much-talked-about naked butt shot? "We shot it," says Duchovny. "It was me in a hospital gown. But the sight of my bare ass 40 feet high on the screen was just too frightening even for X-Files fans." "David is being modest," says Spotnitz. "It wasn't so bad. We just needed to cut that hospital scene and the butt shot seemed gratuitous." Carter, though, sounds like he regrets the trim: "I'm looking at the shot right now," he says. "We blew it up and framed it for posterity."

Below, are the ratings submitted by XFEOS members. They are followed with the quotes and comments on "Fight the Future".

Name                Rating

Cara A....................10
Christina P...............10
Crystal G.................10
Dan R.....................10
Dena C....................10
Eileen A..................10
Jim M.....................10
Julie W...................10
Monique H.................10
Valerie W.................10
Eric R.....................9
Christina O................8
Gypsy M....................8
Anand S....................6
Michael B..................2

Average Rating        8.9

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