The X-Files: Revelations DVD(2008).
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DVD: The X-Files: Revelations (2-Disc)
Rating: Not Rated
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Brad Dourif, Peter Boyle, Luke Wilson
Written By: Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Directed By: Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Original Year of Release: 2008
Extras: Full frame (5 episodes) and widescreen format (3 episodes), 2008 theatrical trailer, WonderCon talent panel session, Movie Cash for X-Files Revelations
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DVD: The X-Files: Revelations (2-Disc)
Rating: Not Rated
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Mitch Pileggi, Brad Dourif, Peter Boyle, Luke Wilson
Written By: Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Directed By: Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Original Year of Release: 2008
Extras: Full frame (5 episodes) and widescreen format (3 episodes), 2008 theatrical trailer, WonderCon talent panel session, Movie Cash for X-Files Revelations
Buy it now!
DVD Review of X-FILES: REVELATIONS
By: Robert T. TrateReview Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
At the New York Comic Con X-Files creators Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz spoke of a DVD that would precede their new X-Files film X-Files: I Want To Believe (in theaters July 25, 2008). The DVD was to be a refresher on Agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) and promised to be the essential guide to the new movie. X-Files Revelations is an eight episode, 2 Disc DVD set that has great episodes but, just like the series, brings out more questions than answers. The following is a quick break down and a piecing together of clues from those eight episodes. Is there any truth in these episodes or have Carter and Spotnitz done it to us again?
“The Pilot” is a great way to see how far the show had come. It also establishes the Scully and Mulder relationship at its very core. In their first assignment they investigate a strange murder that leads to an alien abduction. Could the two small, raised, side by side puncture wounds on the victim’s backs mean something? Did Scully really have mosquito bites on her back? There were three marks not two. Could that third mark have meant something else? What about the gray metallic implant? Later of course we will learn Scully will have a similar implant inside her head. The episode ends with the revelation that the Pentagon has a collection of these implants in Lot#10041. Is it aliens or just a government cover up?
“Beyond the Sea” (from Season 1) is only twelve episodes into the series and has nothing to do with alien abductions. It seems that a death row inmate, Luther Lee Boggs (Brad Dourif) has a psychic link with a serial killer. This episode has a link to what we have seen in the trailer where Father Joe (Billy Connolly) has a feeling about what is under the ice. Is there another psychic involved with Scully and Mulder? This episode also turns the table on who is the believer and who is the realist. Mulder does not believe in Boggs’s predictions and it is Scully who convinces Mulder to act on faith. Could that be a part of the “I want to believe” title? Is it Scully or Mulder who has had a change of faith?
“The Host” (from Season 2) or the one with Fluke Man was a perplexing choice for this essential guide to the new movie DVD. As a monster/ stand alone episode it did bring about two questions that may tie in with the movie. Was Mulder’s “friend” at the F.B.I. really revealed all those years ago? Since Fluke Man did impregnate that man with its offspring could the new movie be a straight up monster tale involving more Fluke Men? Perhaps it will be about the true horror man has unleashed upon itself with his disregard for nature? An odd choice for the disc but only time will tell.
“Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” (from Season 3) stars the late, great Peter Boyle as a psychic who gets involved in a murder case that the Agents are investigating. Reluctantly Clyde decides to help them and eventually will find his own demise. Again we have the psychic connection. We also learn that Mulder’s death could be from autoerotic affixation. Could this be seen in the new movie? I seriously doubt it.
“Memento Mori” (from Season 4) ties heavily in with the pilot. Scully is diagnosed with an inoperable cancer near the brain due to the implant she had up her nose. Revealed in this episode is what happened to the eggs that were harvested from Scully and the other abducted women. It turns out that the eggs were used in breeding clones. Clones with red hair like Scully’s (that’s probably a coincidence). Could the clones have a special genetic make up that makes them more or less human? Why did they all look the same but have different mothers?
“Post-Modern Prometheus” (from Season 5) or the freaky black and white episode with all the Cher songs has to be a red herring. It was about genetic mutation and making women pregnant who had no uterus. Could this have something to do with the “Memento Mori” clone connection? Outside of any tie to the movie, this episode is a lot of fun. When the show was on it was great to have a break from the aliens and Mulder’s sister. This was one is just great entertainment.
“Bad Blood” (from Season 5) is a two sided story told by Mulder and Scully about the events that lead up to Mulder stabbing a young boy who he believed to be a Vampire. Again this must be another red herring episode. Luke Wilson gets to play two roles in one of the series great monster/ stand alone episodes. There isn’t any connection to aliens, abductions, clones or psychics in this tale.
“Milagro” (from Season 6) is a twisted tale that has Scully under some psychic connection to a writer that lives next door to Mulder. The writer places her in his story and creates a perfect serial killer for a case for them to solve. However, he hasn’t finished the story yet and the killer (who only exists in his story) comes to the writer looking for his motive. This once again points to psychics in the movie.
What this DVD set has revealed is that the new movie could be about alien abductions tied to human genetic breeding and a psychic that leads Mulder and Scully to unravel yet another government conspiracy. However, this will be interrupted by an army of Fluke men dancing to Cher songs trying to conquer the world for the Vampires. In short, the DVD set has revealed nothing.
It was great getting back into Mulder and Scully’s world without having to going through the mega box set or trying to rent certain episodes via Netflix. The eight episodes are great fun and worth picking up for the trip down memory lane. In watching them again one has to wonder are David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy of the Nineties? Can they move past their alter egos? The truth is out there for them and for the X-Files on July 25, 2008.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
*pause*
I didn't realize Uwe Boll was directing.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm(n) still haven't got a clue in abaddon what this movie is about - and unless spoiler-boys want their testicles pulled up and over their foreheads with fishing line and a large rusty hook lifted from the Hellraiser set - (run-on-sentence BREATH BREAK - Ed)..if any of you lot know, you will not tell me.
I'm hoping it's Roswell/UFO story-arc related, but all pre-prelease material *appears* to be attempting to convince us that it's MOTW centered.
Whatever, so long as it has the quintessential X-Files elements, I'll be happy to return Home again. (-- that was one of my favorite episodes. Thoroughly Disgusting.
(quintessential X-Files? ah you mean: the opening theme music, an odd yet compelling mystery, dramatic tension, tight interwoven scripting, a government conspiracy and central character development? - Ed)
and don't forget the all important Gillian Anderson prancing around in her panties and bra bit.
But you know, not those granny-panties, Frederick's of Hollywood or Victoria's Secret thank you very much.
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