The latest chapter in the flagging X-Files series, I Want to Believe, is receiving mixed reviews and does not look to topple The Dark Knight. Of course, few thought it would, but there were a lot of us hoping the title would be reinvigorated.
Who knows? It still may be. After all, unlike even when the first flick was released, the entire industry is simply different - completely different. Even if X-Files: I Want to Believe completely bombs-out at the box-office, it is nowhere near down for the count.
Within months, it will have made its way to DVD and PPV. A few months after that, it will premiere on one of the pay cable stations and go into heavy rotation shortly afterward. It should receive a respectable run there for about a year or so before it makes its first basic cable premiere. There, it will be buffetted (sp?) by marathons of the original episodes and will draw-in the newer fans who have only the reruns to go by.
So, X-Files may or may not have made its final bow, but there is still hope the franchise will receive a shot in the arm from this latest outing.
© C Harris Lynn, 2008
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