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The X-Files: I Want to Believe

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe	comment	The X-Files: I Want to Believe is the second feature film based on The X-Files, released in 2008 (a full ten years after the first).It features series protagonists Fox Mulder and Dana Scully long after they abandoned the FBI and the X-Files; Scully is a doctor at a Catholic hospital concerned about the treatment options offered to a dying boy, and Mulder, still on the lam, lives as a hermit under Scully's protection, doing little more than collecting paper clippings. They are offered a chance at redemption, however, when the FBI requests their help in finding an old comrade, who has herself gone missing while investigating a series of mysterious disappearances. They are aided by an ex-priest and convicted pedophile named Father Joe (Billy Connolly), who claims to receive psychic visions of the victims directly from God, and about whom the agents have conflicting feelings.The film is a stand-alone work in the tradition of the show's Monster of the Week episodes, and does not revisit the series' famous — and still unresolved — Myth Arc.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Than most of the TV series - in tone as well as lighting. The villain's plan is grotesquely twisted than other villains Mulder and Scully have seen before: grafting female body parts with his own, all to live longer.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Despite rumors and the domestic trailer portraying the movie (correctly) as an upgraded Monster of the Week, the international trailer went out of its way to make it look like a movie about aliens. One trailer implied that Mulder and Scully had gone their separate ways after the end of the series and were reuniting, much to the outrage of fans. Luckily, that's disproven within the first few minutes of the movie.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Vanessa Morley, who played Samantha Mulder as a child, is seen briefly walking past Mulder and Scully in the FBI office.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_21768d3f	comment	Seduction-Proof Marriage: There's a minor plot point about the young, female ASAC on the case clearly having a crush on Mulder, having studied his work on the X-Files. Mulder does not notice. Scully definitely does. She doesn't do anything overt about it, but if if looks could kill...
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Scully and Mulder both appear to be completely unconcerned about the supposedly inevitable extraterrestrial colonization of Earth coming in four years. It's not even mentioned.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_2c437b06	comment	Violently Protective Girlfriend: Scully knocks a man unconscious with a piece of firewood to stop him from killing Mulder.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_311bcac6	comment	Beard of Sorrow: Mulder has grown one, over his continued search for the truth that has not gone anywhere since 2002.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_31bace22	comment	Rape and Switch: Dacyshyn and Tomczeszyn are lovers were both molested by Father Joe, so this implication is present.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_34a4f82a	comment	Surgeons Can Do Autopsies If They Want: Scully, a forensic pathologist during the show, is now working in the field of pediatric neurosurgery. Although enough time has passed that she might have returned to school or something, it's not explained or even alluded to.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_3d85c6bc	comment	Black Speech: The deadly medical staff speak Russian and Czech in a post-Cold War East-West paranoia way.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Mulder's in hiding from a death sentence. Surely no-one will ever think to look for him at Scully's house! Handwaved by the suggestion that the FBI is just glad to have him out of their hair, although given why he's under a death sentence that doesn't really explain much.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Not plot-related, anyway. It only shows Mulder and Scully on a boat, referencing one of Mulder's last lines in the movie about the two of them "get[ting] out of here" should Scully have doubts about Christian's surgery. As the camera pans further into the sky, Mulder and Scully look up and wave to the audience.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_59166261	comment	Second-Act Breakup: It does seem to be fixed by the end, though.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The credits play over snowy and watery environments, like waves crashing on rocks. In the extended cut, a slideshow of photos of the film's production appear around the credits.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_64713b04	type	Pedophile Priest
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_64713b04	comment	Pedophile Priest: Father Joe. As Scully puts it, "[she] didn't bugger thirty-seven altar boys".
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Littlest Cancer Patient causing a schism in Scully's faith in God and her faith in science is named Christian? Really?
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: A particularly extreme version as it extends beyond clothes. Tomczeszyn takes female body parts by killing women to prolong his own life.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_86025d8f	type	Irish Priest
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_86025d8f	comment	Irish Priest: Father Joe is Irish and a Pedophile Priest.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: No information is given on the whereabouts of Doggett and Reyes.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Scully wants to focus more on her neurosurgeon job than solving Father Joe's case.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Tomczeszyn and Dacyshyn are in a romantic relationship and are both killing women to prolong Tomczeszyn's life.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Several little ones. In Mulder's room, there are multiple pencils stuck on the ceiling. Whitney namedrops other psychics Mulder has dealt with before: Luther "Lee" Boggs, Clyde Bruckman and Gerald Schnauz. There is a brief conversation between Mulder and Scully about her son William, and how Scully gave him up to another family for his protection.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: See the sub-page listing Shout Outs from the whole franchise.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: Christian has cancer and is a cute little boy who tests Scully's faith.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_d366883d	type	Mortality Phobia
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_d366883d	comment	Mortality Phobia: The plot of this movie concerns a Russian who doesn't want to die, so he has his medial mooks kill people and graft his head onto their bodies so he can live a little bit longer. They've done this several times before the start of the film and a couple more times during the film before they're stopped in the end. It appears they're just doing it For Science!, they don't especially care about the guy or payment.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Despite the obvious Relationship Upgrade, you won't hear Mulder or Scully call each other "Dana" or "Fox" even once.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_e9604359	comment	Despite rumors and the domestic trailer portraying the movie (correctly) as an upgraded Monster of the Week, the international trailer went out of its way to make it look like a movie about aliens.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_f3e87937	comment	Tears of Blood: Happens to Father Joe during his psychic visions.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: Father Joe wants to do some good before he dies.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_f9e16ef	comment	Distressed Dude: Scully had the Distress Ball in the first movie, so it's Mulder's turn now, after he attempts to break in Janke Dacyshyn's compound.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_fb03c2ca	type	Relationship Reveal
The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_fb03c2ca	comment	Relationship Reveal: Mulder and Scully. (It was strongly implied that they'd gotten together in the last few years of the show, but it took until this movie for the writers to finally stop trying to be coy about it.)
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe / int_fc1ee7d5	comment	Deadly Doctor: Deadly doctors and nurses, who want to prolong Franz Tomczeszyn's life by kidnapping women and transplanting their organs and body parts onto him.
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