X-Men

[fredericks]

Watched X-Men: First Class this evening. I caught a lot of positive reviews from fans and so was expecting a better movie than I found myself sitting through. The plague of bad acting (I'm looking at you, January Jones and Zoe Kravitz), heavy-handed writing (the invention of the code names was pretty lazy writing, fo serious), the weird choices for X-history revision (I was never a fan of the newer Emma Frost, and what was with the whole Mystique/Xavier thing?) and the occasional shoddy CGI aside, it wasn't a bottle of Awesomesauce, but it did make for a fun film experience. And Erik/Xavier? Shyeah, I'm on that boat. No doubt, homies. The guy who played Erik rocked that turtleneck, blazer, and shades look like no one's bidness. Caliente!

Comments

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

And not only did he die, but they played the mournful strings and dragged his death scene out. We barely knew anything about the guy besides he drove a cab before Prof X and Magneto recruited him and he had a vague adaptation power...that obviously wasn't all that effective. Token or no, I didn't care that he'd died.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He'd been in basically one scene. The viewer didn't even know who he was. His attempt to save Angel was noble, and all, but that was barely a blip on the screen, compared to all the time spent exploring Erik's, Raven's and Charles's angst.