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X-Men: First Class
Matthew Vaughn, 2011
I was always looking more forward to seeing the origin story of Magneto, but after how bad Wolverine did, I was worried that I was never going to get to see it. I now know that this essentially was an origin story for Magneto. If they ever would’ve made one for him, it would’ve turned out exactly like this because it would’ve had to include his relationship with Charles in it anyways. This just completely exceeded my expectations for it, though – my expectations for this were already pretty high to begin with too.
Fassenbender just completely stole the show all together, like there were moments where I even forgot that McAvoy was even in the movie. He’s just rising up my list on actors to be on the lookout for, which is surprising because I’ve actually only seen him in like three or four movies. I was somewhat distracted throughout the movie though, by the gorgeous Jennifer Lawrence. I could just stare at her for hours. I do kind of wish Azazel would’ve gotten some more screentime throughout, though. He just has the coolest power, though, and I wouldn’t mind seeing a baby Nightcrawler in the sequel.
They got the period down perfectly, I thought. Everything in the movie just screamed of sixties, a time that I honestly wouldn’t have been too upset to live through. They incorporated the historical events in there so well. The Cold War was one of my favorite things to learn about in U.S. History, so it was nice seeing those even portrayed throughout the movie.
The part that stands out the most for me though, was the actual Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s the first time where we really see them use their powers to their full potential and it’s just done so well. To be honest, though, I wasn’t expecting that ending. It seems like they rushed to get everything in there so quickly at the end like they weren’t going to have more time to play it out better. Everyone knows there’s a sequel coming, so I just don’t understand why they rushed it so suddenly the last fifteen minutes of the movie.
Even though Stan Lee didn’t get a cameo, which I can totally understand why, there is another very noticeable cameo that had me chuckling when it popped up.
This is, as of right now, my favorite movie of the year and truthfully the first actual great movie we’ve gotten so far. Actually this is probably the best X-Men movie so far, in general. I can’t believe they were actually able to top the second, but they did. I feel as though I could just watch this over and over again and it wouldn’t ever turn out bad for me. I look forward to seeing where they take it with the sequels and what characters they’ll bring in. Let’s hope Wolverine 2 can live up to this quality, but I have my doubts that it won’t.
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Matthew Vaughn, 2011
I was always looking more forward to seeing the origin story of Magneto, but after how bad Wolverine did, I was worried that I was never going to get to see it. I now know that this essentially was an origin story for Magneto. If they ever would’ve made one for him, it would’ve turned out exactly like this because it would’ve had to include his relationship with Charles in it anyways. This just completely exceeded my expectations for it, though – my expectations for this were already pretty high to begin with too.
Fassenbender just completely stole the show all together, like there were moments where I even forgot that McAvoy was even in the movie. He’s just rising up my list on actors to be on the lookout for, which is surprising because I’ve actually only seen him in like three or four movies. I was somewhat distracted throughout the movie though, by the gorgeous Jennifer Lawrence. I could just stare at her for hours. I do kind of wish Azazel would’ve gotten some more screentime throughout, though. He just has the coolest power, though, and I wouldn’t mind seeing a baby Nightcrawler in the sequel.
They got the period down perfectly, I thought. Everything in the movie just screamed of sixties, a time that I honestly wouldn’t have been too upset to live through. They incorporated the historical events in there so well. The Cold War was one of my favorite things to learn about in U.S. History, so it was nice seeing those even portrayed throughout the movie.
The part that stands out the most for me though, was the actual Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s the first time where we really see them use their powers to their full potential and it’s just done so well. To be honest, though, I wasn’t expecting that ending. It seems like they rushed to get everything in there so quickly at the end like they weren’t going to have more time to play it out better. Everyone knows there’s a sequel coming, so I just don’t understand why they rushed it so suddenly the last fifteen minutes of the movie.
Even though Stan Lee didn’t get a cameo, which I can totally understand why, there is another very noticeable cameo that had me chuckling when it popped up.
This is, as of right now, my favorite movie of the year and truthfully the first actual great movie we’ve gotten so far. Actually this is probably the best X-Men movie so far, in general. I can’t believe they were actually able to top the second, but they did. I feel as though I could just watch this over and over again and it wouldn’t ever turn out bad for me. I look forward to seeing where they take it with the sequels and what characters they’ll bring in. Let’s hope Wolverine 2 can live up to this quality, but I have my doubts that it won’t.
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