I Want to Believe Coming Soon.

Posted by dominic in Films on September 17th, 2008

The X-Files: I Want to Believe will be released on DVD December 2nd. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release the film in a single disc version ($29.98 SRP) a three-disc “The Ultimate X-Phile Edition” ($34.98 SRP) and on Blue-ray ($39.98 SRP). The Blu-ray edition will be Fox’s first release with BD-Live features. All three versions will be presented in widescreen (2.40:1 ratio) with English 5.1 Dolby Surround and Spanish/French Dolby Surround, with English and Spanish subtitles.

I was very excited about the return of the X-Files to the big screen. The idea that Chris Carter and his team were bringing the movie back to the stand alone, episodic format was a breath of fresh air after the last film in 1998, and the final few seasons where things became far to convoluted and out of whack. Then, I finally saw the film and instant disappointment set in. I wont review the picture here, but the fact that the show has been off the air for six years I Want to Believe was the best they could come up with-an uneven and overall flat story of modern day Frankenstein doctors, child molesting priests and a bearded Mulder-really disappointed me. Okay, Duchovny wore the beard well so that really didn’t bother me all that much. Apparently Fox is going all out with the DVD release.

Laid out by MoiveWeb.com the Special Features on the three different versions are as follows:
- Both the Theatrical Version and Unrated Extended Cut of the film
- Audio commentary by Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz
- Body Parts: Special Make-up Effects featurette
- Chris Carter: Statements on Green Production featurette
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
- Music Slideshow - “Dying 2 Live” by Xzibit
- Theatrical Trailers
- Still Galleries
- Collectibles
- Storyboards
- Concept Art
- Unit Photography
- Trust No One: Can The X-Files Remain A Secret? feature-length documentary (Three-disc and Blu-Ray only)
Part 1 - “You Can Go Home Again”
Part 2 - “Misinformation”
Part 3 - “Don’t Give Up”
- Digital Copy of the film for portable media players (Three-disc and Blu-Ray only)
- BD Live
- BonusView mode (Blu-Ray only)
- The X-Files Complete Interactive Timeline - featuring over 80 video clip segments from The X-Files archives (Blu-Ray only)
- Picture-in-picture commentary with Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz (Blu-Ray only)
- In-Movie Features via BD remote direct access (Blu-Ray only)
- Real-time Index (Red Button) (Blu-Ray only)
- BonusView Commentary (Green Button) (Blu-Ray only)
- Behind The Camera (Blue Button) (Blu-Ray only)
- Storyboards and Concept Art (Yellow Button) (Blu-Ray only)
- Isolated Score track (Blu-Ray only)
- Enhanced for D-Box Motion Code systems (Blu-Ray only)

For those of you who haven’t seen the movie, but are curious, I highly recommend you rent which ever of the above detailed choices best suits you. However, if you truly want your X-Files fix do yourself a favor and rent the first three or four seasons.