#iwtb

[dailytxf]

THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008) dir. Chris Carter

[mytardisisparked]

I am absolutely on the FLOOR about the fact that the agent Mulder sees in the hallway at the beginning of the movie is played by the actress who played Young Samantha Mulder.

[mulderscully]

Don't do this now.

[dgct2]

MULDER: If you have any doubts, any doubts at all, just call off that surgery this morning. And then we'll get out of here. Just me and you.

[Scully pulls away and looks closely at him, smiling slightly.]

SCULLY: As far away from the darkness as we can get?

[Mulder smiles.]

MULDER: I'm not sure it works that way. I think maybe the darkness finds you and me.

SCULLY: I know it does.

MULDER: But let it try.

I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008)

[bisexualfbiagents]

You're not understanding me. I can't look into the darkness with you anymore, Mulder. I cannot stand what it does to you or to me.

Dana Scully in I Want to Believe (2008)

[sunflowernyx]

cinematography

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

Hilarious 🤭

[teiasviago]

Fox Mulder + no shirts

[sculderand-mully]

new substack post defending i want to believe because i love scully’s hair

[unremarkablehouse]

I was a huge X files fan as a kid during the original run and I became so upset and disillusioned during season 8, I was literally heartbroken by how it was ruined for me. I just remember watching IWTB movie with my best friend on NYE because we were both huge fans together and I feel like that actually healed me. It took a few more years for me to obsessively rewatch the show and read fanfic, but I’m so glad the x files is more than what was written. Thankfully these characters transcend Chris Carter and the network, becoming something so much greater. Plus David and Gillian have that once in a lifetime chemistry that is so fun to watch..

[dailytxf]

That second victim may be alive. Everybody's given up on her, but I'm not going to.

[carefulfears]

very underrated moment in the iwtb bed scene is when scully says that she’s lying awake “cursing god,” and mulder asks what’s wrong and she tells him about her patient and how this little boy is going to die and there’s nothing anyone will do. and the way that they talk about it for a minute and then he whispers, “just go to sleep. let me curse god for awhile.”

actually the most romantic sentiment of the movie, i think! to say, you rest, i’ll take this shift. you don’t have to give it up, but let me hold it tonight. bearing witness as a love language etc

[spooky-jordan]

Currently ripping out my hair, writhing around on the floor, convulsing, dry-heaving, shaking and crying - (rewatching IWTB) - she loves him so much and he's been so lost without the FBI, without his quest, isolated, hiding from the world, and maybe for a second she thought "this will be good for him, this means he can stop hiding" but almost immediately he's in too deep, he's on his knees in the snow digging for bodies with his hands, obsessing, single-minded, blinded by his mission, so desperate to believe. And all she can think about are all the times she almost lost him before, how many times he cheated death, everything they've sacrificed and all the lucky escapes, the near-misses, and what if this time they don't get lucky? And she begs him to stop, to drop it, to come home, to let the FBI do their work, but even as she's saying it she knows he can't do it, he can't give up, because that's not who he is and she can't ask him to be someone else, and god damn it, what a cruel twist of fate that all the reasons she fell in love with him in the first place are the same reasons she can't follow him back into the darkness? But of course she goes after him, because that's what they do - he went to the ends of the earth to find her, once - and she finds him and he's safe, thank god, another near miss, and then it's over and they're together, and she loves him so much, but she can't quite shake this feeling that maybe next time they won't get so lucky, that maybe if it's not the darkness outside that consumes him, the darkness inside will...

[kool-beanz]

I wanted an "I WANT TO BELIEVE" desktop bg, so I made one.

[twogravesinsomecemetery]

thinking abt that one scene in iwtb when scully's talking about mulder while he's not there and she's all flustered and angry being all like 'he's not my husband!!!!!',, like ,,, babe ???? that man has been your husband since 1994. you are literally the last to know.

[theysteponyou]

After Mulder and Scully scene kiss in The X Files: I Want To Believe

Just David, Gillian and Chris. March 2008 - Vancouver, Canada

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