darth silas
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Joined: 1/10/2005 From: My living room
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ORIGINAL: KeithM X-Men First Class is actually very good, albeit with plenty of little issues a fanboy/movie buff could nitpick over - continuity issues as a prequel, odd character decisions, a complete disregard for the source material and whatnot, but, most importantly, it's exciting, fun and downright entertaining. That's right. I said it. I liked a Fox Marvel movie. I hate myself. A big part of me is still complaining about how I'd love to see THE X-Men First Class - the real deal, not this 'alternate' vision which, as good as it might be, misses the important dynamics between the original characters and screws up any chance of us seeing anything like the REAL X-Men in live-action in my lifetime. Probably. *sigh* But I digress... Whatsisface from Shameless is good as Professor X, but Fassbender totally owns the movie as James Bond Erik/Magneto (and we'll pretend not to notice the totally incongruous and out-of-nowhere reversion to his full-on Irish brogue in the last third...). It almost borders on Austin Powers territory occasionally, but thankfully never actually goes there and balances the setting and tone actually rather well. Not perfect but very entertaining and definitely a massive improvement over X3 and Wolverine Borigins, putting the X-franchise right back on track*. 8/10 *Which as I mention means it probably won't revert to Marvel EVER and we'll never see the actual, proper X-Men done properly, in their proper place, in the MU, as they should be. Downside. :( What or who are ''The REAL X-Men'' pray tell? You mean the ones that were in the comic back in the sixties? This is the MOVIE X-men universe my friend.its supposed to be a prequel,oh sorry,its a soft reboot,oh wait that doesnt work either,how about reimagining?,no that cant be right,is it a remake?Oh hell i give up,id advise you to ask the filmakers but i dont think they know either.
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Star Wars:Episodes 1,2,3,4,5,6.Taken together they are one giant movie and it is the greatest movie EVER.
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