The X-Files (1998)
Directed by Rob Bowman
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
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Before the film is over, we also see a series of human incubi straight out of the Alien series; a subterranean creature encounter that traces exactly the Return of the Jedi Rancor Pit sequence; the sinister-cropduster passage from North By Northwest; and even a reprise of the "creatures beneath the ice!" idea from The Thing and more recently from Smilla's Sense of Snow, pilfered I assume from the novel since no one in the natural or supernatural worlds seems to have seen that movie.
For a moment it seems that The X-Files will smartly tip its hat to the Ed Wood-era epics of papier-mâché peril that inspired at least some aspects of Carter's alienfests.
A mysterious Dr. Kurtzweil (Martin Landau, Oscar-winner for Ed Wood) tips Mulder off to something that the bomb was meant to hide.
Before the film is over, we also see a series of human incubi straight out of the Alien series; a subterranean creature encounter that traces exactly the Return of the Jedi Rancor Pit sequence; the sinister-cropduster passage from North By Northwest; and even a reprise of the "creatures beneath the ice!" idea from The Thing and more recently from Smilla's Sense of Snow, pilfered I assume from the novel since no one in the natural or supernatural worlds seems to have seen that movie.
Plot-wise, The X-Files bears more than a passing resemblance to 1996's alien invasion/conspiracy movie, The Arrival.
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I assume by this time even the Dalai Lama knows about FBI special agents Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and their penchant for dark overcoats flapping like angel wear in Wings of Desire.
They're an endearing pair on TV, and yes, they have good moments together in the film, like the bomb scene à la "Lethal Weapon" at the beginning of the film.