2 X files movies

[Kynch]

To understand Fight The Future, you NEED to watch the first 6 seasons. I Want To Believe is more like any other episode so there's not much to it, although there's some parts of the dialogue you might not get if you haven't seen the series.

[thecroshow]

i watched the first few seasons off and on, kinda followed the show but not really...i went to see the most recent xfiles movie and felt so lost and confused the entire movie

[EricJ]

Movie 1 was commercially MADE to sell the title to mainstream noobies who needed a quick representative taste-sample of the still-running TV series, while Movie 2 was a fairly depressing "Seven years after the finale" reunion that wandered off-topic.

...Not hard guessing which movie to see here, and you'd be right.

Originally Posted by Kynch

To understand Fight The Future, you NEED to watch the first 6 seasons.

Speaking as one who never watched the show at all, there's not much series background that isn't deliberately explained in passages of dialogue--
There're a few shots of the Cigarette Man, and a fan-ref gag involving the Lone Gunmen, but as neither one particularly figures in the central plot, a quick Wikipedia search will clear things up.