First Class Kind of Movie

Tonight we took advantage of some half price tickets to see X-Men: First Class.  After the previous two X-Men films I (Justin) was questioning whether or not I wanted to even see this one.  The trailers were actually making me lean toward seeing it, but I still had reservations.  But after the reviews came out and were mostly positive, we knew we needed to see this movie.  This was Mallory's first time seeing a X-Men film, but she's a fan of January Jones and that seems to have helped talk her into seeing it.

The film is at it's best an homage to the Sean Connery Bond films from the sixties, and a lot of people have said that.  Eric Fassbender's Magneto fills the Bond role as he hunts down the ones who killed his parents.  Now so you know this film takes place in the 1960s, and it is a prequel to the previous 3 X-Men films and the Wolverine film.  It's kind of exciting seeing how certain things happened.  Like, how Magneto got his helmet, how the X-Men actually got started, etc.  Another cool thing is there are cameos from X-Men who were in the original films, I won't tell you who though.

The Cuban Missile crises is an awesome backdrop for the adventure in this film, but there are still some flaws.  It does seem that there will be more sequels to this film, helping to expand the X-Men cinematic universe even further.  It's just really too bad Marvel Studios doesn't have the rights to produce these films, because it would be really cool to have these characters coexisting with Thor and Iron Man like they do in the comics.  The best thing about this film is that you really didn't need to see the others going into it.  It sets up pretty much the entire universe, and is a much better prequel to the original material than the Star Wars prequels.

Kevin Bacon is a great villain in this film, and Magneto is an awesome protagonist.  It's also fun getting to see Charles Xavier as a young playboy as opposed to the benevolent scholar Patrick Stewart brought us.  If you haven't seen this film yet, you should definitely go and check it out, it's our understanding it's WAAAAAY better than Green Lantern.

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