OT - X-Men 1st Generation

[Javier González]

Just saw it at the movies (looong time since we managed to sneak a
movie with the missus - I think the last movie we saw before this one
in the theaters was No Country For Old Men? Whoa!) and I was
pleasantly surprised. Top notch entertainment. James McAvoy gives an
excellent performance, probably the highest point of the movie. Kevin
Bacon just loooves playing the bad guy. Entertaining plot, we manage
to care for most of the primary characters... except for Emma Frost.
January Jones demonstrates that if she didn't look like that, she'd
get no work at all in Hollywood. And Hugh Jackman has an outstanding
performance.

BTW, watch for David Ferrer and his wind tricks ;)

[ca1houn]

LOL now that you say that he does look like David Ferrer. Anyways it
was a great movie; I also think Emma should have shown more of her
powers. The diamond form from the comics is much stronger then
portrayed in the movie

[Gracchus]

On Jun 5, 1:04 pm, Javier González <jagon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just saw it at the movies (looong time since we managed to sneak a
> movie with the missus - I think the last movie we saw before this one
> in the theaters was No Country For Old Men? Whoa!) and I was
> pleasantly surprised. Top notch entertainment. James McAvoy gives an
> excellent performance, probably the highest point of the movie. Kevin
> Bacon just loooves playing the bad guy.

I saw it today too. Agree that most of the casting was great and it
was very entertaining.

Some linguistic anachronisms though. Were the budding X-Men"hep cats"
or hippies? "Groovy" was not in fashion in 1962. Nor was "Daddy-O." :)

[Bonaf]

"Javier González" wrote :

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> BTW, watch for David Ferrer and his wind tricks ;)

Hehe, I thought the same thing ;)

[TT]

Thanks for the thumbs up.

...You never know about these new movies, IMDB rating of 8.3 MIGHT have
nothing to do with reality...it could be just special effects with an
awful story...

I believe Dark Knight is still one of the highest rated films there and
I thought it sucked big time...

Anyway, I've always liked X-men movies, nice entertainment.

[Javier González]

On Jun 5, 8:44 am, TT <as...@usenet.org> wrote:
> 5.6.2011 9:04, Javier González kirjoitti:
>
> > Just saw it at the movies (looong time since we managed to sneak a
> > movie with the missus - I think the last movie we saw before this one
> > in the theaters was No Country For Old Men? Whoa!) and I was
> > pleasantly surprised. Top notch entertainment. James McAvoy gives an
> > excellent performance, probably the highest point of the movie. Kevin
> > Bacon just loooves playing the bad guy. Entertaining plot, we manage
> > to care for most of the primary characters... except for Emma Frost.
> > January Jones demonstrates that if she didn't look like that, she'd
> > get no work at all in Hollywood. And Hugh Jackman has an outstanding
> > performance.
>
> > BTW, watch for David Ferrer and his wind tricks ;)
>
> Thanks for the thumbs up.
>
> ...You never know about these new movies, IMDB rating of 8.3 MIGHT have
> nothing to do with reality...it could be just special effects with an
> awful story...

The story's pretty cool, there are some disposable characters, January
Jones could have been replaced with a cardboard cutout and you
wouldn't notice, but it's good. McAvoy and Fassbender really sell
Xavier and Magneto.

> I believe Dark Knight is still one of the highest rated films there and
> I thought it sucked big time...

TDK is a good movie. It's problem is that it ends... and then it
inexplicably keeps going on for about 45 minutes. WTF? (kind of like
"Snake Eyes"... a pretty decent thriller... then suddendly Gary Sinise
kills himself. WTF? And the movie doesn't end. WTF x 2?)

> Anyway, I've always liked X-men movies, nice entertainment.

Same here, though X3 and Origins felt disappointing after X and X2.