SlimPickins wrote: Oh, and the coverart is lousy.  It doesn't look like the cover art to the movie at all.  I really liked the unique "X" logo they made just for this movie, and I especially liked the teaser posters.  The ones that had a long road tinted in various colors, saying either "Fight." "Future." or "Fight the future." with a huge X in the sky...I remember when I first saw the "Fight." poster I was thinking it was X-Men lol.

yeah i mentioned something similar before, not just the X but the whole title had a cool "this isnt tv, its a movie" sorta font going...it was pretty cool. and i loved those teaser posters, this box set they had made for the VHS version of the movie came with mini versions of those posters, i still have it. lol

as for the moving not aging well....i've seen it a number of times over the years so its always been fresh in my mind so i think it still stands up. while i could understand those who accused it of simply being a "longer episode" , i also thought it totally felt theatrical.

oh and regarding the original poster, this blu-ray seems to contain the bottom part of the DVD art, though colored blue instead of red. but the actual original theatrical poster looked nothing like that. the movie score (not the soundtrack with Filter etc..) used the original poster, as did a making-of book that was released around the same time.

anyway....dec 2nd cant come soon enough, both movies on beautiful blu-ray....hoorah.  

That cover art IS the poster art - just colored differently and elements moved around.  I dig it... and once I get a BR player, this is going to be the first disc I pick up!  Hooray for "X-Files" gag reels!!

The cover is excellent -- far better than the previous effort. I'm surprised to see people complaining about it. I guess some prefer something a bit less subtle, with some floating heads or a big explosion.

Blue-Kal-El wrote: The first release wasn't barebones, it even boasts a DTS track!

well it wasn't completely bare, like it didnt literally have nothing. but all it contained were 3 trailers and a 20-25min making of special from television. it was long overdue some decent extras, i was expecting a little more based on what spotnitz said but still, this is all good. even if i didnt own a blu-ray player, i'd definately rebuy the regular dvd if they released like this.

as for the DTS track, they actually released it without one at first and then something like a year later re-released it with the DTS. i was one of the unlucky few who got the first version. lol

Get them both for sure. But this movie is better then the 2nd. Don't know what chris was thinking when he made the 2nd. X-files fans wanted aliens or monsters. But he didn't deliver that. If he delivered that i am almost 100% sure that the 2nd one had been a hit in the theaters

hmmm interesting cover, not sure if I like it or not.  But I will definately get this and the 2nd movie on BD!  I love the X-Files!!

*looks more closely at BD extras*

Oh, the gag reel IS on there. I should've read it more closely.

The Blu-ray artwork looks horrible. What was wrong with the original artwork for the regular DVD releases? Maybe Fox is trying for a different scheme to match with the sequel's Blu-ray artwork.

And they didn't include the gag reel for the Blu-ray release? It was leaked online, but didn't surface on the DVD releases either.

wow i hate to be a "cover whiner" but thats one c**ppy cover. and here comes the nitpicky part of me, what bothers me most is the font..yes i'm sad.  lol

its nice that they used the same font as the 2nd movie so they go together but i woulda preferred the original movie font. i figured the cover would be the dvd cover or something similar, this is totally new and pretty c**ppy.

but in the end it doesnt matter, what matters is that the movie is coming to blu-ray and actually has some special features...hoorah.  

I'll just pick this one up. Didn't like the sequel one bit.

Cheers Tom, delighted to see there are new features for this release. Have the original spec edition on Dvd which I will keep but will get this along with IWTB.

I'm sure FTF will be re-released on Dvd but as Tom's article says a lot of those features are BD Exclusive. Sure glad I invested in that PS3.

It's about time!  I'll be picking this up at the same time as the new movie!