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X-Men: First Class is good!!!!!

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goldust40

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It was a half-decent genre film with the odd amusing moment. The -script was below par, but the story was worthwhile. Fassbender was probably the best of the bunch as the young Magneto, McAvoy was passable if annoyingly twee as the eccentric idealist who ends up as Professor X, and January Jones (worst performance in a super-hero movie ever?) was a mannequin who only lit up the screen courtesy of the usual quality SFX, which along with the cinematography, were the only first class things about this movie.

 

Nice to see Kevin Bacon cast against type as the master baddie, although he did underplay his role. Which is better than chewing the scenery, to be fair.

 

Worth watching, if only for all the nifty self-referential moments, although there's a lot of half-baked hokum and angsty soul-searching before the big finale in there. Despite the clever use of the early '60s backdrop (definitely had a classic James Bond feel to it at times), you've seen it all before.

 

 

The Beast was laughable once he mutated into the blue hairy version.

 

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Comicopolis

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Spoiler warning.....

 

 

 

 

 

It was a half-decent genre film with the odd amusing moment. The -script was below par, but the story was worthwhile. Fassbender was probably the best of the bunch as the young Magneto, McAvoy was passable if annoyingly twee as the eccentric idealist who ends up as Professor X, and January Jones (worst performance in a super-hero movie ever?) was a mannequin who only lit up the screen courtesy of the usual quality SFX, which along with the cinematography, were the only first class things about this movie.

 

Nice to see Kevin Bacon cast against type as the master baddie, although he did underplay his role. Which is better than chewing the scenery, to be fair.

 

Worth watching, if only for all the nifty self-referential moments, although there's a lot of half-baked hokum and angsty soul-searching before the big finale in there. Despite the clever use of the early '60s backdrop (definitely had a classic James Bond feel to it at times), you've seen it all before.

 

 

The Beast was laughable once he mutated into the blue hairy version.

 

You're just a grumple.

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NewWorldOrder

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Spoiler warning.....

 

 

 

 

 

It was a half-decent genre film with the odd amusing moment. The -script was below par, but the story was worthwhile. Fassbender was probably the best of the bunch as the young Magneto, McAvoy was passable if annoyingly twee as the eccentric idealist who ends up as Professor X, and January Jones (worst performance in a super-hero movie ever?) was a mannequin who only lit up the screen courtesy of the usual quality SFX, which along with the cinematography, were the only first class things about this movie.

 

Nice to see Kevin Bacon cast against type as the master baddie, although he did underplay his role. Which is better than chewing the scenery, to be fair.

 

Worth watching, if only for all the nifty self-referential moments, although there's a lot of half-baked hokum and angsty soul-searching before the big finale in there. Despite the clever use of the early '60s backdrop (definitely had a classic James Bond feel to it at times), you've seen it all before.

 

 

The Beast was laughable once he mutated into the blue hairy version.

 

Since it seems they are showing the UK all these American superheroes films first then here in America we better get to preview the last Harry Potter film before you guys. :P

 

Ironic that I will probably hear the reviews of Captain America from the germans first. :/

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Spoiler warning.....

 

 

 

 

 

It was a half-decent genre film with the odd amusing moment. The -script was below par, but the story was worthwhile. Fassbender was probably the best of the bunch as the young Magneto, McAvoy was passable if annoyingly twee as the eccentric idealist who ends up as Professor X, and January Jones (worst performance in a super-hero movie ever?) was a mannequin who only lit up the screen courtesy of the usual quality SFX, which along with the cinematography, were the only first class things about this movie.

 

Nice to see Kevin Bacon cast against type as the master baddie, although he did underplay his role. Which is better than chewing the scenery, to be fair.

 

Worth watching, if only for all the nifty self-referential moments, although there's a lot of half-baked hokum and angsty soul-searching before the big finale in there. Despite the clever use of the early '60s backdrop (definitely had a classic James Bond feel to it at times), you've seen it all before.

 

 

The Beast was laughable once he mutated into the blue hairy version.

 

Since it seems they are showing the UK all these American superheroes films first then here in America we better get to preview the last Harry Potter film before you guys. :P

 

Ironic that I will probably hear the reviews of Captain America from the germans first. :/

 

Harry Potter - that's for kids lol

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goldust40

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Spoiler warning.....

 

 

 

 

 

It was a half-decent genre film with the odd amusing moment. The -script was below par, but the story was worthwhile. Fassbender was probably the best of the bunch as the young Magneto, McAvoy was passable if annoyingly twee as the eccentric idealist who ends up as Professor X, and January Jones (worst performance in a super-hero movie ever?) was a mannequin who only lit up the screen courtesy of the usual quality SFX, which along with the cinematography, were the only first class things about this movie.

 

Nice to see Kevin Bacon cast against type as the master baddie, although he did underplay his role. Which is better than chewing the scenery, to be fair.

 

Worth watching, if only for all the nifty self-referential moments, although there's a lot of half-baked hokum and angsty soul-searching before the big finale in there. Despite the clever use of the early '60s backdrop (definitely had a classic James Bond feel to it at times), you've seen it all before.

 

 

The Beast was laughable once he mutated into the blue hairy version.

 

You're just a grumple.

 

It's a living.

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Spoiler warning.....

 

 

 

 

 

It was a half-decent genre film with the odd amusing moment. The -script was below par, but the story was worthwhile. Fassbender was probably the best of the bunch as the young Magneto, McAvoy was passable if annoyingly twee as the eccentric idealist who ends up as Professor X, and January Jones (worst performance in a super-hero movie ever?) was a mannequin who only lit up the screen courtesy of the usual quality SFX, which along with the cinematography, were the only first class things about this movie.

 

Nice to see Kevin Bacon cast against type as the master baddie, although he did underplay his role. Which is better than chewing the scenery, to be fair.

 

Worth watching, if only for all the nifty self-referential moments, although there's a lot of half-baked hokum and angsty soul-searching before the big finale in there. Despite the clever use of the early '60s backdrop (definitely had a classic James Bond feel to it at times), you've seen it all before.

 

 

The Beast was laughable once he mutated into the blue hairy version.

 

You're just a grumple.

 

It's a living.

 

:whee:

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Ken Aldred

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Despite the clever use of the early '60s backdrop (definitely had a classic James Bond feel to it at times), you've seen it all before.

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That's what appealed to me the most when I saw the (UK) trailer before Thor, the film's early 60's Cold War / missile crisis setting, which I thought would make it quite bleak in tone and closer to the early X-Men comics. (shrug)

 

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