1. The X-Files: Fight The Future (1998)
"I'm the key figure in an ongoing government charade, the plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a global conspiracy, actually, with key players in the highest levels of power, that reaches down into the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet. So, of course, no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling, and when it hits, it's gonna be the shit-storm of all time." - A very drunk Fox Mulder, basically summing up his role in The X-Files
Chronologically taking place in the summer between the end of Season 5 and start of Season 6, the X-Files are closed when
Fight the Future begins. Mulder and Scully are (sort of) normal field agents investigating normal bomb threats with their normal peers. However, since they are Mulder and Scully, and since this is a feature film, they stumble into a conspiracy without even trying. Thanks to a Hollywood budget, there are helicopters, spaceships, bees, ice, and special effects that were top of the line in 1998 and aren't so bad today. Released in the height of
X-Files mania,
Fight the Future is a second pilot of sorts, produced to reel in new summer movie viewers while still satisfying existing fans. The plot is slightly convoluted (it
is a movie version of
The X-Files, after all) but understandable, and there is a certain scene in a certain hallway that made millions of 1998 moviegoers cry out in frustration and immediately wish that there were rewind buttons in movie theaters. Now, in 2013, you'll come out of the movie slightly confused and with an irrational hatred for bees, but totally ready for the next season and a little bit in love with Mulder and/or Scully. Besides, it is fortunately not 1998, and you probably won't have to worry about wearing out your VHS video tape by over-rewinding certain scenes.