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X-Files Revelations Overview
Genre: Television: Series
Rating: NR
Release Date: 1-JUL-2008
Media Type: DVD
X-Files Revelations Specifications
The X-Files Revelations is a two-disc grab bag of eight significant episodes from Fox's iconic sci-fi/horror series starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents investigating the paranormal. From season 1, it includes the pilot and "Beyond the Sea," in which Brad Dourif plays a death-row inmate who claims to have psychic visions of a serial killer. In "The Host" (season 2), Mulder (Duchovny) and Scully (Anderson) pursue a human-sized fluke worm, and "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (season 3) features an Emmy-winning Peter Boyle as a man who can see how people will die. "Memento Mori" (season 4) deals with an attempt to save one of the agents from a critical disease, Jerry Springer appears as himself in the black-and-white Frankenstein story "The Post-Modern Prometheus" (season 5), "Bad Blood" (also season 5) is a vampire story, and in "Milagro" (season 6), a writer turns to Scully as his subject as he also becomes a murder suspect.
Released just before the theatrical opening of the second X-Files movie, The X-Files Revelations bills itself as the "essential guide" to that movie. But really it's just a broad sampling of the kind of episodes the series had to offer, with one major omission. By concentrating on the stand-alone "creature feature" episodes, it almost completely ignores the entangling, absorbing, and often-baffling story lines about alien abduction and government conspiracy that the series was known for. Tellingly, only two of the episodes (the pilot and "Memento Mori") also appear in The X-Files Mythology compilation series, which attempted to condense nine seasons of conspiracy themes into 16 discs. The X-Files Revelations has a lot of entertaining episodes, especially "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," and creator Chris Carter and executive producer Frank Spotnitz have filmed new introductions explaining why they picked each episode. And fans will also be interested in a 27-minute WonderCon panel from February 2008 with Duchovny, Anderson, Carter, and Spotniz discussing the new movie. But novices shouldn't expect this two-disc set to teach them everything they need to know about The X-Files. --David Horiuchi
Horror Movies Customer Reviews
Wow, when I received this put it on my DVD player, I had forgotten how awesome this series was when they were at the top of their game! In all honesty, I preferred the "One Off" episodes of "Legacy - Conspiracy - Cover-up" episodes because the episodes interesting Legacy started and then everything seemed to follow a similar pattern and did not ever seem to develop or change in my eyes . Have intrigued a bit ', but nothing has been resolved and have become interchangeable in my eyes. This 2Disc successful collection shows the great diversity of the series in terms of types of incidents, as well as style. All 8 Stories here are excellent except for the last (Milagro), Which I do not think really deserved to be strong These included other episodes, but I WAS included to demonstrate that Gillian Anderson's "acting chops" and was a favorite writer.
The pilot has a boot things exciting and the story kept me all the time absorbing. E 'was greatfirst assignment to see Mulder & Scully together. "Beyond the Sea" was next and featured an excellent performance by Brad Dourif, who played an inmate on death row who may or may not have psychic abilities that can lead FBI agents to save a kidnapped couple whose time is is low. The final scene of his journey is pretty gruesome. Interestingly, Fox & Dana switch in this episode with you as a believer "Hopeful" and Mulder as the skeptic.
"The Host" is one of the coolMonster or Alien "ep isodes type involving Fluke Giant-Man. Speaking of creepy, a look at this thing is quite freak out. Great fun scary! performance Peter Boyle in "Clyde Bruckman's Final Rest" is just so Awesome, steals every scene he is in. portays Aman, who is able to see how people die, including himself, and how this "gift" has become as much a curse him.
This episode has suspense, dark humor and a few tears as well. A great episode! For disc 2,It begins with an episode of Legacy (Memento Mori) involving Scully do with his terminal cancer condition caused by a mysterious plant found in his body. This episode Legacy is quite strong and holds well on it's own, even without the background and support from other episodes. Gillian once again shows his excellent range as an actress here.
"Post Modern Prometheus" is a modern Frankenstein meets Elephant Man type of episode, once again with a lot of bad and off beatHumor. And that was me is tearing. Cher would have to guest star in this episode, and they do not, but his character did and was just the icing on top of a Sundae Perfect / episode! Off the Wall Humor is back again in Superb "Bad Blood" which gives a different turn on the vampire legend and teaches us some new things on the Children of the Night! I do not want to give away the surprises but there is some Hilarious stuff here. Did I mention this episode is also told by both Scullyand divergent views of Mulder? Their different views on the Sheriff, and there is a reason for this are hysterical. But not all funny business, you have the share of chills as well. Finally, "Milagro" is made in a different style, narrated froma writers point of view. Although he had some interesting moments, I thought it bogged down and was rather boring. Not that it had no plot twists, etc..
This group of eight episodes reminded me what made me Love this show in its originalrun! The chemistry between Mulder and Scully is an obvious strength of the show, but do not forget the important chemical with Mitch Pileggi as well,
which is very credible as the FBI boss. There are a couple of my other favorites that I exchanged with or added to these discs, but overall, you can "T go wrong with this 2 DISC SET! Chills, mysteries, suspense, Dark Humor, Superb acting, well written stories, scenes elegant and not listed above atmosphericsoundtrack make this series one of the best when it was at the peak! And this series has not even taken in some other very cool characters in the series as the man smoking, Deep Throat, Mr. X, Krycek and those three guys Super Geek (The Lone Gunman?) What were Mulder always help out! And do not forget that Creepy Alien Bounty Hunter! Damn, this set worked, now I want to go back and have the whole series ... Well, before you begin to lose their source of actors / actresses anyway! Get It, 5of 5!
Classic X-Files - X-Philer - NYX-Files Revelations Although I have the box, I bought Revelations intro for Chris Carter and I was not disappointed. Furthermore, it is nice that some of my favorite episodes on DVD. I will probably buy more copies of this to give to friends who, for reasons we'll never understand, do not watch the show when it originally aired. I am confident, after watching these episodes will be looking for more.
More, More, MORE PLEASE!!! - Leonard Huang - Nanuet, USAOnly $ 13, X-Files Revelations is a superb introduction at affordable prices for 8-episode in the world of (criminal), almost forgot to X-Files. Now if only Fox and Chris Carter are willing to drop another 4 volumes of Revelations (the same price point) highlighting the best stand-alone episodes from all nine seasons. In combination with the four existing volumes Mythology and Revelations I, then we have the latest X-Files Greatest Hits collection for the casual customer who would not investmore expensive in the season / complete sets (or thought only half of the whole series was good )....
Just a thought ....
A Good Sampling of the Series but too Scully Focused - Derek W. Childers - VAThis dvd is not really "essential" in understanding the movie but a good sampling of the show for those who have never seen or the fan who wants some of the most memorable episodes, but does not want to buy all nine seasons of the series. Included in this set are:
1. The pilot-is basically set the entire series.
2. Beyond the sea-A "mental episode that showcases Scully.
3. The Host, one of the "most popular shows of the week" episodes
4. ClydeBruckman's Final Repose-Another episode of "psychic as well as a comic episode.
5. Memento Mori-a "conspiracy", an episode that deals with Scully's cancer.
6. Post-Modern Prometheus a comic reinterpretation of Frankenstein.
7. Bad Blood, a vampire story in comics. Voted by fans as a favorite episode.
8. Milagro-Another episode shows the character of Scully on a writer who can bring can literally kill with the written word.
Each episode is introduced by creativeThere is also a panel discussion with film stars and creators included as special features.
In general, this is a good value for money ($ 10 at Walmart), with some episodes of quality. My only gripe and the reason why I gave the dvd 4 stars instead of 5 is that the DVD is too focused Scully. One episode centered on Mulder's character should have been included. Perhaps Paper Heart "Season 4, Episode excellent showcasing the dramatic talent of David Duchovny,a story about the abduction of his sister. I'm not really sure why "Milagro" was included in this set and the episode "Hearts of paper or another season 6 episode would be the perfect DVD. IMHO
Yet, I would recommend this DVD to anyone who wanted to find out what the show was about a fan or casual that does not have a lot of dollars to spend on sets.
