Being busy blogging about my new App on Apple’s App Store I seemed to have neglected my personal blog for a week or two. Having made a promise to make an effort with posting regularly, I’m back!
Having just returned from the cinema I thought I’d write some words on what I thought of the film.
X-Men: First Class
It doesn’t officially come out until Friday, but the ‘local’ cinema (20 miles away) had a preview screening. The Showcase cinema we go to is one that could do with a bit of modernising. Bigger screens, better sound system, nice seats. But the screen we were in did have a new digital projector which made quite a difference to the picture quality.
After being told the film would actually start at 7pm (usually when they say 7pm they actually mean about 7:30pm after all the adverts and trailers have played) I was pleasantly surprised. I hate having to sit through all the junk first before the film. But I wasn’t surprised for long… They showed about 15 minutes of trailers and some stupid Orange ‘mo-bul’ phone advert twice! It was the one where they provide their own subtitles to a film. Annoying! There were a few trailers that looked good though. Captain American, Cowboys & Aliens (with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford) and a Steven Spielberg film called Super 8.
So, eventually, after the trailers had finished, bags of pop corn stopped rustling, the annoying kid behind me had stopped kicking my chair, the film began…
I won’t go into the plot in great detail in case you want to see it, so he’s a few bits that hopefully won’t spoil the storyline too much. The film tells us how Eric Lenchur (Michael Fassbender) and Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) find each other and become close friends, both wanting humanity to accept them and their kind. Kevin Bacon plays Sebastian Shaw who’s the ‘bad guy’ of the film who is behind the Cuban Missile Crisis – the time frame of the film. There’s even a quick and funny cameo roll for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
In all, the fiancée and I thought it was an enjoyable film. James MacAvory plays a young Prof. X very well. If you’re a fan of X-Men you’ll obviously know the story and characters. This makes the film (and other prequels) different because you roughly ‘know’ what’s going to happen, just not ‘how’ it’s going to happen. We know Prof. X and Magneto don’t stay teamed up together. We know Prof. X looses the use of his legs and ends up in a wheelchair. And piece by piece the film tells us ‘how’. It reminded me of the Star Wars prequels. We ‘know’ Anakin Skywalker turns to the dark side becomes Darth Vader, and the film shows us ‘how’.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Screening at your local cinema from Friday.
