I Want to Believe

I think the tag line for the new X-Files movie pretty much sums up my thoughts on it. I want to believe. It's not that I want to believe in aliens, monsters, and ghosts. I just want to believe that this movie sequel is not going to be a waste of my time. I mean, it comes ten years after the release of the first movie and a decade is a long time. It comes 7 years after the show went off the air. Still, I want to believe. I want Duchovny and Anderson to still have that chemistry. I want the movie to still creep me out. I want this not to be a waste of my time.



But what I think I want more than anything is not the closure that some fans are looking for from this franchise. I simply want a good X-Files story. Give me something on par with The Fluke Man or the creepy inbred family. Give me some meat and potatoes - something that will creep me out and leave me entertained. Give me a reason to remember why I LOVED this show, before it got consumed in the muck and the mire of it's own conspiracy theories and red herrings. Make me believe.