Animated Movie Posters Inspired by Neon Signs

George Lucas has been imprisoned for 20 years while an imposter has been making movies using his name:

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Funny shit.

Sad.

But funny shit.

Okay, so Beau was really excited about X-Men and we both just got home from the movie. In case you need to understand my taste: I liked the first movie; I liked the second one better: I did not like the 3rd movie. The Wolverine movie is not spoken of in our home.

This is an enjoyable movie. I was entertained throughout. With regard to quality, I don't think it is as good as X2, probably on par with X1, but more entertaining than X1.

The acting is pretty good and the movie is well-cast. There are a lot of clichés in the movie and a couple of them made me laugh out loud in the movie theater. There is a scene set in a covert building in the CIA. The line of text underneath the building literally said "A Covert Building of the CIA."

There is a lot of repetition with regard to Mystique and accepting the way she is. I wish the audience was hit over the head with this theme.

I didn't realize Kevin Bacon was in the movie, but I found his character to be a bit mu-ha-ha-ha evil and lacking in depth and subtlety.

I'd watch the movie again though.

Is it canon for there to be subtext in the relationship between Charles Xavier and Magneto, because damn. It's text in this movie.

I don't think it's ever been more than an old friendship prior to their animosity in the comics, but Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen played them pretty much like exes who had a falling out in the movies. Bless them.

George Lucas has been imprisoned for 20 years while an imposter has been making movies using his name:

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Funny shit.

Sad.

But funny shit.

Unexpected Oldboy reference is unexpected!

Seen on tumblr:

(For the record, McAvoy would have preferred it if Xavier and Magneto stayed together. Like, really together. "It is a little bit of a mini-tragedy that him and Magneto don't, you know, have sex and become married and become best friends.")

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see? that's what I'm talking about.

BTW, something from the movie I really didn't like. There is a particular character's death that is just such a cliché. I had to sit there and try to remember if the character was wearing a red shirt or not. That character did not have to go out like that.

I don't think every movie has a responsibility to bear the balance of race relations, but I do think that the X:Men First Class people should have given their movie a once over at the prematurely dead black guy (he can't seriously be dead, though--isn't his point that he can't die???) and the black chick from the wrong side of the tracks that goes bad. If that's the net effect of your movie, look at the landscape as a whole and think...do I *need* to do this, or can I tell a good story without that slant?

I liked the movie, so bear in mind my nit pickings are pickings in the face of liking it even more than Thor so far this season. Magneto and Professor X were absolutely amazing. When did everything get so gay? Everything is so gay.

Anyway, onto the nitpicking...some of it is about divergence from the comics, some of it apparently happens in the comics too.

Why do the XMen need a separate dissimilar Angel who isn't particularly angelic, nor anti-angelic? It's just confusing. Why use Alec Summers? Especially if you're going to flash past Scott Summers in the mutant census. Mystique and Professor X going way back? Why? I'm guessing all four preceding movies are out the window, then. There's no way to work any of them in with this.

January Jones was a weak-assed Emma Frost. She was as naked as Emma needed to be, but not as sexy. She's supposed to be aggressively on all the time--vamp vamp vamp. She just looked second tier. Disappointing.

I usually think of Sebastian Shaw as a bigger guy. But Kevin Bacon is looking really good.

They also switched the nationality of two characters to American, and I don't know why. One was even played by a British actress.

I just watched The Green Hornet and really liked it. What the hell, everyone else. It's a fun movie! And Kato is TOTALLY AWESOME!

When did everything get so gay? Everything is so gay.

About the time that movie studios realized how popular slashfic is? Or when A Billion Wicked Thoughts came out, and provided massive data points for it?