X-men: First class is currently this number one movie at the box office. I would like a personal thanks from Matthew Vaughn because I contributed to its success not only opening weekend but this weekend as well. The movie was that good! I’ve only seen three movies twice in the theater: Dark Knight, Twilight: New Moon and Shutter Island. Being a broke college student, seeing movies is a luxury. Seeing a movie two times, you’re like straight-up Donald Trump ballin’! You feel me?!
I really anticipated seeing the movie the first time. First of all it’s X-men. I love X-men! I think all girls whether a comic book junky or not, loves X-men. All my girl friends and I loved the animated series. Who didn’t love the animated series?! Even when they got weird (going into space and other strange things) it was still awesome. The original X-men (2000) was awesome too and X-men 2: X-men United was the most successful comic book movie sequel and for good reason. Then there are X-men 3: The Last Stand and X-men Origins: Wolverine. I am not even going to get into that because there are thousands of postings all over the internet and more qualified geeks to elaborate on how much of a disappointment the last installments were. But it’s all about First Class now, those other films are a fragment of our imagination.
There are several awesome elements of this movie. Some were noticeable right away and were appreciated after the second time around. Right off the bat what was noticeable is how awesome Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy are. McAvoy I am along with mostly everyone is familiar with but Fassbender is a drug I probably seen around before, tried it, and now I’m addicted.
Michael Fassbender. In my opinion he steals the whole movie. I couldn’t take my eyes off of him every second he was on-screen. Yes, this is a comic book movie and yes he is wearing a goofy helmet but he does it effortlessly. He brought this kind of James Bond swag to Magneto and it was hot! Between him and James McAvoy, they made Prof. X and Magneto fun. Their bromance is so powerful and your heart kinda breaks knowing (and seeing) they break up. Watching Fassbender in this movie made me go on a Fassbender binge. The man takes awesome pictures may I just say. If you are now smitten with him I do suggest watching Fish Tank (on Netflix watch instantly), it’s an awesome movie and he is completely hot in it.
There are other elements to the movie but I’m just grateful for Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy. I think without them, the movie wouldn’t have been so powerful. Here’s a list of the good, the bad, and the why (in our new plus, minus sign, and question mark form!)
+Michael Fassbender. Amazing
+James McAvoy. Prof. X never looked good.
+Nicholas Hoult. He’s come along way from Skins and About a Boy. American Accent to perfection
-Hank McCoy’s feet. Creepy and gross.
-Beast. I liked that he didn’t look like a cat and stayed kinda true to Kelsey Grammar’s Beast but poor Nicholas looks like he couldn’t talk in those teeth.
? Angel. Jury is still out. Zoe Kravitz was appreciated the second time around but the character reminded me of Peter Pan for some reason.
- The guy from Twilight. In true tradition of every major motion film (traditionally a horror film) the brother is the first one to go. Which I was completely pissed off about. I mean your name is Darwin and you adapt in order to survive, so why couldn’t you survive til the end of the movie. I think he had a total of 5 lines. His vampire character lasted way long in the Twilight series and still he was pathetic when he died in New Moon as well. Just saying.
- January Jones. There is a lot of hate going around with January Jones but I think it has a lot to do with her character. Emma Frost in my opinion is an awful character anyways but survey says that Ms. Jones is a pretty bad actress anyways.
?Kevin Bacon. He was appreciated the second time around for me. Awesome that he spoke German and Russian though.
+The 60′s. It never looked better.
- Evil henchmen. Riptide at least should have gotten a line.
Survey says: Go see X-men: First Class. It will not disappoint!
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