The X-Files - The Complete Fourth Season (Slim Set)
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Movie Reviews of The X-Files - The Complete Fourth Season (Slim Set)
Movie Review: La mejor temporada de X-files
Summary: 5 Stars
La mejor temporada de x-files. Un buen pack, de buena calidad con subtitulos en espa?ol.
Realmete muy recomendable, para los seguidores de la serie es imperdonable no tenerla
Movie Review: Slim set is the better way to go in this reviewer's opinion
Summary: 5 Stars
So for about $35 compared to the earlier set price of $90, I'm getting better packaging, and I won't get the extra disc of bonus materials that the sets come packaged with. Um, I think I'll go ahead and get the new reissues.
I got lucky and purchased the original first season box set for less than $40 right here on Amazon. The packaging for these more expensive sets are downright atrocious. It's one of those fold out thingies that are annoying to unfold completely when you just want to get to one disc. I felt like I was trying to take apart complicated origami everyttime I opened the set. I think if you open the whole thing up completely, it's about the length of a pool table.
Now with these new sets, the discs come in individual slipcases, minimizing wear and tear on the box itself and making it loads easier to get the specific disc that you want to watch. Also, the bonus stuff wasn't really that in depth and I can do without it. Considering that you're getting better packaging with these new reissues, it's almost like you're paying upwards of $50 just to get some behind the scenes info on a show that is even better with the less you know about it.
At any rate, I'd suggest going with these new sets, unless you absolutely have to have the extra disc of features. The transfers are top notch and best of all, you can relive all your favorite episodes of Mulder and Scully for a much more reasonable price.
Movie Review: Everything Dies
Summary: 5 Stars
Season 3 was definately the best of at least the first three seasons, and the fourth season follows in the shadow of this colossus. Fortunately, Season 4 of The X-Files is still a great season of TV. Starting right off with a continuing episode the storyline will pull you in as it did in the last season. The mythology in this season is largly dedicated to the plot development concerning Scully's cancer, but deals with other things such as a short stint with Krycek and the return of Max Fenig from Season 1. We also see the end of Agent Pendrell, and a special appearance by Darin Morgan, the emmy winning writer of "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose". Season 4 also holds claim to one of the scariest, if not the scariest episode in the seried, Home: the only episode on the series to be banned from TV. And as usual there are episodes that fall short (The Field Where I Died, Sanguinarium, Kaddish, etc.) but most of the episodes are excellent. Season 4 features one of the most poignant character studies of the series: "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man". Continuing in the footsteps of the Season 3 slim set there are a few commentaries, deleted scenes on assorted episodes, and speciel effects clips & international clips.
Notably Good Episodes:
Herrenvolk (2)
Home
Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man
Tunguska (1)
Terma (2)
Paper Hearts
Never Again (feat. the voice of Jodie Foster)
Memento Mori
Tempus Fugit (1)
Max (2)
Small Potatoes
Zero Sum
Elegy
Gethsemane
As usual, if you enjoyed previous seasons of X-Files, than I recommend this to you after you've seen the previous episodes.
Movie Review: CINEMATIC AT LAST
Summary: 5 Stars
Whereas Seasons 2 and 3 of The X-Files slim set are seriously deficient in picture quality, Season 4 takes a surprising turn. Owing to a much better film-to-video transfer, the images are impressive, particularly in exterior shots. Although grain is sometimes evident in indoor scenes, it isn't distracting, and jitter, commonplace in the previous seasons, is rare. Outdoor shots look the way they should in a high-quality production--clear, sharp, and vivid. Worth noting are the scenes in the episode "Gethsemane" wherein several scientists--and later in the show, Mulder and a forensic anthropologist--trek in the snowy St. Elias Mountains on a mission to retrieve an alien corpse encased in ice. Here the visuals are flawless. The men's colorful parkas and backpacks brilliantly contrast with the pristine snow; stray snowflakes are clearly noticeable on their hats and boots. Viewed on an HDTV, this is as crisp as full frame (1.33:1) gets. As for sound, it has been consistently good since the first season: clean, robust Dolby Digital 2.0.
Just be sure to inspect your discs after you open the package. It's evident that the studio has cut corners on all fronts with this slim-set edition, including the way the discs are handled at the manufacturing plant. If your brand-new DVDs look like rental discs--with smudges, scratches, and dirt--send them back. Fewer extras are acceptable with a lower price, but disc abuse is not.
Movie Review: Alien colonization or deception?
Summary: 5 Stars
The X-Files Collection is a worthy hobby and next to Star Trek is certainly one of largest of the television series DVD collections, running an extra two seasons longer than the maximum seven season Star Trek series. Although The X-Files is not the longest running television media franchise, it can boast being one of the longest running SF series airing for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002. At around 1100 minutes per box, you are looking at approx. 9 boxes with 165 hours of viewing. That is nearly 1 full week of non-stop X-Files. Very few DVD series can come even remotely close to that. Get going collecting right now and you could build up the series collection in no time. By the end you will have a television paranormal anthology that defines the word awe. This is the kind of item that requires 1 hour a day of your time over the course of a year. The X-Files creator Chris Carter nails a powerful television series premise, setting up a fringe paranormal bureau of investigation that is at odds with its own department, the government, the military and just about everyone else, with the immortal tagline "The truth is out there". Fox "Spooky" Mulder (David Duchovny) is the workaholic basement-dwelling good-looking nerd with a heart of gold and a mind for the criminal macabre, all things supernatural and who runs the X-Files department. He is teamed with Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), the rational doctor turned FBI agent who is asked to write reports on the X-Files cases by her cynical boss. Most episodes play along with the theme of Mulder witnessing a paranormal event while Dana gradually arrives on the scene only after it is over, missing it all, or discovering something odd at best. This kind of regular plot occurrence bonds the characters and is what makes The X-Files so enjoyable. There are some improvements with the Season III DVD case with a seventh bonus disc now inside a cardboard holder and not just sitting in a slot in a piece of card that falls out easily like in Season I and II, bouncing around the box. Not all boxes have this bonus seventh disc item. It depends on the edition. The more important six discs with episodes are firmly in place in a plastic flip case inside a thick season box that slides into a wider cardboard presentation holder for the shelf and looks quite good. Although the inside is slightly flimsy, these DVDs are presented on the cheap and so economically The X-Files seasons are sound value for money but the presentation is nothing to brag about and when we get around to seeing what is on the discs we will not be so blown away either. There are 4 episodes per disc, and 6 episode discs in total, making it 25 episodes in total. Some discs have a few deleted scenes... and that is about it. On the episode discs there are no commentaries and not much in the way of bonus material except for some international clips with Mulder and Scully speaking in Japanese for a scene. They could have at least provided us with the X-Files remastered in 5:1 Dolby Digital but have instead just presented the series as it was aired in 2:1 surround. Again, everything here is on the cheap. The transfer quality however is very good for most of it. Since the show was shot in full frame, these dimensions are retained.
X-Files: Season four follows in the steps of Season three, produces a virtually unstoppable series of great episodes, now that it has been firmly established as mainstream TV series viewing, finished with the `to be continued ending' of Mulder getting caught between a shape-shifter alien and a miracle-working alien battling it out, revealed that there is a possibility that the truth he is searching for has something to do with hegemony and the alien colonization of planet Earth. The Cigarette-Smoking Man (William B. Davis) is back along with Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner (Mitch Pileggi). The mysterious Mr X (Steven Williams) is here, but also introduces us the new mystery deep throat type contact, Marita Covarrubias (Laurie Holden). Back are `The Lone Gumen' John Fitzgerald Byers (Bruce Harwood), Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood) and Richard 'Ringo' Langly (Dean Haglund). The Well-Manicured Man (John Neville from "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen") is here. Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea) has a surprise. Deep Throat (Jerry Hardin) even turns up again even though he has been dead for over three seasons. The X-files season four goes for the formula of giving us the conclusion to the previous season's cliffhanger but immediately spins right back into the individual episodes about various supernatural things that is more like season one, however this only lasts for half the season and the remaining half has some of the best X-files the series has had to offer so far. There is more conspiracy however there is lots of revelation to suggest that the X-files is being misled to believe that Aliens exist. The only critic is that Scully's cancer story has been long drawn out... but Season five has a major revelation in store. Season four also boasts a lot of recognizable supporting actors you have seen in the movies. Season four of the X-Files is mostly about - alien colonization, inbreeding, mutant albinos, past lives, demonic surgery, the cigarette smoking man's past, serial killers, deadly cargo, El Chupacabra, Jewish mysticism, deadly tattoos, resurrection, dying, stealth assassins, UFO crashes, time travel, reproducing shape shifters, Skinner's crime, mind control and aliens in the ice. Episodes ``Tempus Fugit' Unrequited', `Tunguska', `Synchrony' stand out the most but the best episode is Skinner's cover-up of crime in the episode `Zero Sum'. Ending sets the scene for Season five.