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Friday, August 10, 2012
X-Men Movie Marathon: Episode 6: X-Men: First Class Take 2
On the last episode of the X-Men Movie Marathon, it the first movie I ever reviewed! This is X-Men: First Class!
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
X-Men Marathon: Episode 5: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The X-Men Movie Marathon continues with the worst X-Men movie ever! This is X-Men Origins: Wolverine!
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
X-Men Movie Marathon: Episode 4: X-Men: The Last Stand
The X-Men Movie Marathon continues with the one everyone hates. Ok, the other one everyone hates. This is X-Men: The Last Stand!
Sunday, July 29, 2012
X-Men Movie Marathon: Episode 3: X2: X-Men United
The X-Men Movie Marathon continues with the best one of the series. This is X2: X-Men United!
Thursday, July 26, 2012
X-Men Movie Marathon: Episode 2: X-Men
The X-Men movie marathon continues, this time with the first well-known X-Men movie. This is X-Men!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
X-Men: First Class Review
PREJUDICE IS BAD. SO ARE SPOILERS. THIS IS A SPOILER WARNING.
It's time we talked about the F-word: Franchises. Franchises aren't bad. They are just exploited. Films that beg not to have a sequel are given a franchises if they make enough money. X-Men was one of those films. Honestly I think the first X-Men was just okay and it was the sequel X2 that was the star of the series. However, by the time The Last Stand rolled around, while not awful, it was clear the series had lost much of this steam and should die out as a flawed yet great trilogy. And then they made Wolverine. Oops. Suddently Fox was stuck with a major dilemma. They had to make a new movie or Marvel Studios was going to sweep the series back home. However after the disaster that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, they needed to do something drastic to get the fans to return for a new film.
So, they hired Matthew Vaughn who directed a highly underrated film back in 2010 called Kick-Ass. When fans saw a skilled director take the reins, things were starting to look up. The trailers looked good. The cast looked good. The story sounded good. So, the big question is, is X-Men: First Class good? Let's take a look.
The film stars James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender as Professor X and Magneto, respectively. Oscar-nomminee Jennifer Lawrence plays Mystique. January Jones plays villian Emma Frost and Kevin Bacon steals the show as big baddie Sebastian Shaw. Rose Byrne, Nicholas Holt, Caleb Landry Jones and Lucas Till also star. The film follows Professor X and Magneto as they try to stop Shaw from starting
World War III by making a team of their own. Now, the film does one thing right, right from the start. It completely forgets Wolverine, thank god. But, does that mean it's good? Well, for that and other reasons, yes, it is good. Really damn good.
There is a lot to love here. The cast is the best X-Men cast ever. The action and effects are very well done. And the writing is fan-freaking-tastic. I'm still not quite sure it's as good as X2, but if it isn't, it's a really close second. My one problem is that like the other X-Men films, I'm not quite sure it will be all that memorable, with me at least. Like the Harry Potter series none of the films have had a lasting effect on me. So, will X-Men: First Class be the one that changes that? Only time will tell. But untill then, it's really damn good. 5 out of 6.
See you later.
P.S. All of you wondering if HE shows up in this film, HE does and it is hilarious.
It's time we talked about the F-word: Franchises. Franchises aren't bad. They are just exploited. Films that beg not to have a sequel are given a franchises if they make enough money. X-Men was one of those films. Honestly I think the first X-Men was just okay and it was the sequel X2 that was the star of the series. However, by the time The Last Stand rolled around, while not awful, it was clear the series had lost much of this steam and should die out as a flawed yet great trilogy. And then they made Wolverine. Oops. Suddently Fox was stuck with a major dilemma. They had to make a new movie or Marvel Studios was going to sweep the series back home. However after the disaster that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, they needed to do something drastic to get the fans to return for a new film.
So, they hired Matthew Vaughn who directed a highly underrated film back in 2010 called Kick-Ass. When fans saw a skilled director take the reins, things were starting to look up. The trailers looked good. The cast looked good. The story sounded good. So, the big question is, is X-Men: First Class good? Let's take a look.
The film stars James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender as Professor X and Magneto, respectively. Oscar-nomminee Jennifer Lawrence plays Mystique. January Jones plays villian Emma Frost and Kevin Bacon steals the show as big baddie Sebastian Shaw. Rose Byrne, Nicholas Holt, Caleb Landry Jones and Lucas Till also star. The film follows Professor X and Magneto as they try to stop Shaw from starting
World War III by making a team of their own. Now, the film does one thing right, right from the start. It completely forgets Wolverine, thank god. But, does that mean it's good? Well, for that and other reasons, yes, it is good. Really damn good.
There is a lot to love here. The cast is the best X-Men cast ever. The action and effects are very well done. And the writing is fan-freaking-tastic. I'm still not quite sure it's as good as X2, but if it isn't, it's a really close second. My one problem is that like the other X-Men films, I'm not quite sure it will be all that memorable, with me at least. Like the Harry Potter series none of the films have had a lasting effect on me. So, will X-Men: First Class be the one that changes that? Only time will tell. But untill then, it's really damn good. 5 out of 6.
See you later.
P.S. All of you wondering if HE shows up in this film, HE does and it is hilarious.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Cinema Wins and Cinema Sins: Volume 2
I'm back after a nice Memorial Day weekend with this week's Cinema Wins and Cinema Sins, starting with,
CINEMA WINS
- X-Men: First Class is getting even more good reviews and, while the week is early, is currently holding a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
- After seeing Kung Fu Panda 2 I can happily say that, yes, it is better than the original, being bigger, riskier and better that the first one, something most sequels can seem to handle.
- As I talked about earlier in the week, The Muppets trailer actually looks fantastic and as a fan of The Muppets, this makes me very happy.
CINEMA SINS
- Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, writers of consistantly horrifically bad spoof movies like Date Movie and Meet the Spartans, announced their next nightmare will be The Biggest Movie of All Time 3D which will be a spoof of Avatar. I'm calling it right now, this movie will have a Rotten Tomatoes rating of... 4%.
- In the catagory of Sequels Nobody Wanted, Warner Brothers announced that Yogi Bear 2 is in the works. Because one desecration of a beloved character just wasn't enough.
- In the catagory of Remakes That Screw With the Original, the Total Recall remake is offically happenning. Except that the remake won't take place on Mars. Isn't that like remaking Harry Potter without Hogwarts?
CINEMA WINS
- X-Men: First Class is getting even more good reviews and, while the week is early, is currently holding a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
- After seeing Kung Fu Panda 2 I can happily say that, yes, it is better than the original, being bigger, riskier and better that the first one, something most sequels can seem to handle.
- As I talked about earlier in the week, The Muppets trailer actually looks fantastic and as a fan of The Muppets, this makes me very happy.
CINEMA SINS
- Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, writers of consistantly horrifically bad spoof movies like Date Movie and Meet the Spartans, announced their next nightmare will be The Biggest Movie of All Time 3D which will be a spoof of Avatar. I'm calling it right now, this movie will have a Rotten Tomatoes rating of... 4%.
- In the catagory of Sequels Nobody Wanted, Warner Brothers announced that Yogi Bear 2 is in the works. Because one desecration of a beloved character just wasn't enough.
- In the catagory of Remakes That Screw With the Original, the Total Recall remake is offically happenning. Except that the remake won't take place on Mars. Isn't that like remaking Harry Potter without Hogwarts?
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Cinema Wins and Cinema Sins: Volume 1
In this weekly series, I'll name my Cinema Wins (My favorite bits of movie news from the previous week) and Cinema Sins (My least favorite bits of movie news from the previous week).
CINEMA WINS
- Dark Knight-Fever offically begins this week as a new viral campain is started: http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/ The link show a picture of Tom Hardy as villain Bane. So far at least the photo looks great. A win because, well, it's Batman.
- Collider.com got a look at the finished X-Men: First Class and gave some very positive thoughts about the movie: http://collider.com/x-men-first-class-review/92032/ Everything from the cast, the action, the story to even the sets was praised. A win because, after two lackluster films, the X-Men series may finally be getting back on track.
- I know this has nothing to do with film, but DAMN The Mentalist finale was good!
CINEMA SINS
- Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides sadly has been getting pretty negative reviews. While many were apprehensive about the 4th movie, like I was,we were still hopeful that would not be the case. While I have yet to see the movie, I was really looking forward to this one.
- Ubisoft has plans to make 3-D movies off of three of their most popular series: Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and Assassin's Creed. Now, while the problem with video game movies is that the games chosen tipically don't really have a story that lend itself well to film (See: Street Fighter, Doom, Resident Evil), Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell may prove to be fine, though Ghost Recon probably won't. A sin, though, because their still 3-D video game movies. And we all know how well those turn out.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, in light of his child scandal, has indefinately put his current project on hold. Action movie Cry Macho (Still an awful title), a new Terminator movie and animated show The Governator, have all been put on hold as of now. A sin because all of these projects all had the potental to be good and to potentally lose them because of this scandal would be a shame. Of course I may just feel that way because Schwarzenegger has always been a guilty pleasure of mine.
See you next week.
CINEMA WINS
- Dark Knight-Fever offically begins this week as a new viral campain is started: http://www.thedarkknightrises.com/ The link show a picture of Tom Hardy as villain Bane. So far at least the photo looks great. A win because, well, it's Batman.
- Collider.com got a look at the finished X-Men: First Class and gave some very positive thoughts about the movie: http://collider.com/x-men-first-class-review/92032/ Everything from the cast, the action, the story to even the sets was praised. A win because, after two lackluster films, the X-Men series may finally be getting back on track.
- I know this has nothing to do with film, but DAMN The Mentalist finale was good!
CINEMA SINS
- Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides sadly has been getting pretty negative reviews. While many were apprehensive about the 4th movie, like I was,we were still hopeful that would not be the case. While I have yet to see the movie, I was really looking forward to this one.
- Ubisoft has plans to make 3-D movies off of three of their most popular series: Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and Assassin's Creed. Now, while the problem with video game movies is that the games chosen tipically don't really have a story that lend itself well to film (See: Street Fighter, Doom, Resident Evil), Assassin's Creed and Splinter Cell may prove to be fine, though Ghost Recon probably won't. A sin, though, because their still 3-D video game movies. And we all know how well those turn out.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, in light of his child scandal, has indefinately put his current project on hold. Action movie Cry Macho (Still an awful title), a new Terminator movie and animated show The Governator, have all been put on hold as of now. A sin because all of these projects all had the potental to be good and to potentally lose them because of this scandal would be a shame. Of course I may just feel that way because Schwarzenegger has always been a guilty pleasure of mine.
See you next week.
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