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Saw The X-Files the other day with hubby. Didn’t expect anything much from it. However, I must say that it’s not really memorable for some reason. I find it disturbing in some parts, which I’m going to tell you soon. All in all, I’ll give this movie a 6.5 rating out of 10. 

The story:

We learn that the duo have now retired from the FBI. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is working as a doctor in a hospital and one of her patients is dreadfully ill and she’s wondering whether she should let him go to “die peacefully” after a while or whether she should try out a new series of surgeries. Meanwhile, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is brooding and cutting out newspaper clips in a house.

The FBI, however, needs Mulder’s help to find a missing female FBI agent. They’ve got some help from a “psychic”, an ex priest named Joseph Crissman (Billy Connolly) who were guilty of pedophilia. Joseph leads them to the place where he feels that the missing FBI agent was prior to being caught and brought somewhere else by the kidnappers. He believes that the FBI agent is still alive. Turns out that what they find is a severed arm of a man.

A string of other evidences are found one by one with the help of Joseph. Mulder, who is at first reluctant to help out, is now getting caught deep “in the game” again. This bothers Scully, who feels that dealing with the FBI again awakens the darkest era of their lives. She doesn’t want to be involved in it anymore, but she can’t help being dragged into the case anyway, especially since in the end, Mulder gets caught by the bad guys.

Does the priest really have psychic powers given from God? Will they be able to find the missing agent? What will happen to Mulder? Dare Scully do the series of surgeries on her patient or will she give up?

Notes:

1. What’s disturbing in this movie is the part where they show that they can do a string of operations on severed limbs while keeping those parts alive prior to transferring those limbs to another body. I don’t know if you find something like this disturbing, though, but for me it is somewhat disturbing.

2. I’ve seen the X-Files TV series at least a few times before and I find that I liked the duo MUCH better in those series rather than the duo in this movie. I understand that the “tired” aura is needed since they’re no longer involved in the FBI for a long while by now, but I missed seeing their banters, you know?

3. Faith is really the theme in the movie. Give up or not? We have the choice and we should make the right choices. Keep the faith, people!!!

Since this is my first blog post here, I’m going to start by writing about one of the most recent movies that I’ve watched: Meet Dave.

Even though it’s only rated 4.5 stars out of 10 in imdb, I think this movie deserves more stars as hubby and I laughed a lot during the movie and we both think it’s MUCH better than Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr.). I think this movie deserves a 6.7 stars at least.

Let me start with the story:

Two things fall down from the sky on a certain day: Eddie Murphy and a small rock. Eddie Murphy’s identity isn’t known yet, but he acts strangely. First of all, he doesn’t die or get hurt from the fall and he seems to be learning to imitate other humans. He’s looking for the rock. After a while, you realize that he’s actually a spaceship and inside it there are many TINY aliens in the form of humans. The Captain of the ship is Eddie Murphy. Anyway, one funny thing is that in the movie, the spaceship’s name becomes Dave Ming Chang. Why and how is the name chosen? You’ll have to see it to find out.

So why are the aliens on earth? They need to save their planet Nil from doomsday within a certain amount of time. However, during the time it takes them to fulfill their mission, they realize that they’ve begun to change as they learn more things about humans and their lives on earth. They no longer act and think as Nilians do. Funny incidents happen as Dave Ming Chang AKA The Spaceship, under the control of The Captain (Eddie Murphy) try to “blend in” with the crowd.

As you can expect, complications occur as Number 2 (The Number 2 in command of the ship, played by Ed Helms) decides to take over control. Will The Captain be able to regain control of the ship? Will he be able to save his planet in time?

P.S. There’s a love story in the movie between The Captain and Number 3 (Gabrielle Union).

Well, all in all, for FUN factor only, this movie is worth watching, though I don’t think I’ll want to buy the DVD to keep at home. One of my fave moments in the movie is when Dave Ming Chang is given an alcoholic drink and he downs it in one go. The liquid is gathered in a room in the spaceship and some of the crew who are cleaning that part of the ship decide to try it out and they get drunk! They start coming out of the spaceship through Dave’s ear LOL LOL LOL!!!

One thing I wonder about these aliens, though, is that they’re not depicted to be more intelligent than we do. I guess that’s why they’re funny he he he…Okay, I guess I’ll stop here and I’ll continue talking about other movies in other posts.