OK, I love movies and I like most prequels and X-Men First Class did not disappoint.

If you ever wanted to know exactly how Xavier got himself wheelchair-bound, or why Mystique ended up on Magneto’s side, or why Magneto is suck a stinker, this movie will fill you in on all of those things.

I read some reviews on X-Men First class before I took some people to see it, and some reviews stated that Xavier, Magneto and Mystique are the 3 most popular characters in the X -Men series so it’s good that much of this movie was centered around them.

I wish the movie didn’t focus so much on the relationship with Mystique and her inner battles seeing as how all the mutants went through similar issues, and in regard to Mystique being one of the characters X-men fans are most interested in, I beg to differ there….

Wolverine is a huge Fan Favorite, followed usually by Cyclops, then the third pick is usually saved for a favorite bad guy.

My 3 favorite characters are

Xavier, Magneto, and Wolverine

Wolverine is powerless against Magneto due to to exoskeleton being made of a certain metal or something.

Magneto is impervious to Xavier’s telepathy stuff due to the helmet he wears

Xavier is still the man, can do anything because he can make anyone except Magneto do stuff.

Rock, paper scissors almost…

What younger generation likes for X Men characters

Wolverine, Cyclops, any X-men that can fly except for the butterfly wings girl who spits fire

Back to the X-men First Class Movie Review, Trailer

Here’s a trailer

In this movie we also found out about the anti-telepathy-intrusion helmet Magneto ends up wearing in the later movies, but they really glossed over this part (Russians made it, moving on…  huh?  details please!!!!)

Even if X-men First Class wasn’t a prequel filling in some blanks for X-Men fans, it would still be good as a standalone movie.

But then again, I love the whole concept, and it’s pretty hard for me to NOT like this type of movie as is has superheroes, action, limited plot, and a reliable guilty pleasure

So I rented Black Swan after forcing my girlfriend to site through Sucker Punch.  I felt bad I dragged her to see that so I figured I’d get a “girly” movie to make up for the first bad movie we saw that night.

the whole point to this movie was to be amazed at the transformation the White Swan (Natalie Portman) goes through on her way to becoming the Black Swan, or so the critics say/said…

As I watched this movie I was of the mindset that I was gonna like it because it got rave reviews, but the more I watched it, the more I wondered what the fuss was about so I tried harder to dig deeper into my cave-man-brain to try and see what the critics saw that was so great.

Was the dancing transformed?

the character changed that’s for sure, but I guess I was looking for something my Cro-Magnon one-eyebrowed self wasn’t smart enough to see clearly…

Did the White’ Swans dancing during the course of the movie and progress from perfect White Swan-ness into Black Swan style, seductive/ feel-the-music-let-yourself-go-even if-its-imperfect mode?

I can’t dance, and I’m surely no judge of interpreting dance moves but the backup who was good at dancing black swan style surely looked like she was doing the black swan thing better than the Natalie Portman character was at the end.

This movie was entertaining, most guys won’t dig it, except for the lesbian scene.

I tried to like it, I really did but even my GF didn’t like it.

My guy friend at work liked it  a lot though, so it’s really a judgement call, and this Black Swan review probably only leaves you with more doubts than before on whether or not you should go rent it, buy it or whatever (sorry)

Sucker Punch is the story of a girl who gets sent to a mental institution after an accidental murder is blamed on her.

As it turns out the mental institution doubles as a bordello/whorehouse where young scantily clad ladies dance for clients.

In this fantasy tale, the protagonist strives to free herself (her mind) from the clutches of the evil people running the place, and in order to do so she must complete a series of quests.

What I liked about Sucker Punch:

The action scenes were OK, especially the ones with the ninjas and giant ninja robots, so cool, at least in theory (you can never go wrong when you combine Ninja + robots, known fact!! )

What I didn’t like about this movie:

It was rated PG-13 so I though tit was OK to bring my son and his friend to it, but I never expected the movie to be filled with so much scantily-clad teenage girls, then have to uncomfortably sit through that hoping there’s a gory action scene which would get us away from the half naked-ness.

Who I think this movie is good for:

OLDER teenage boys who like mindless movies, with minimal sensible plot lines and lots of skin.

OLDER teenage girls who maybe wanna feel empowered by watching “strong” women kick but ton the big screen

Who this movie is not good for:

Parents who have children under 12, or children who aren’t quite ready for such an overwhelming combination of killing, slashing, buring, explosions and skin…

ALSO: If you have children and you don’t feel comfortable explaining to them what prostitution is, then don’t bring them to see this movie.  If they’re old enough to understand what tha tis, and you’r eOK with the action killing scense, then by all means go see it.

It’s moves along quickly, you won’t be bored, but like I mentioned earlier, the movie did seem kind of long for me because I was uncomfortable with the overall plot (girls dancing for clients and murdering their way out)