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Summary: BUYER BEWARE!
Review: The movies themselves are great. The problem is the packaging. It's not the regular disc holders. They are like CDs, when you fold up the Set, they get loose and slide around. I had to return it once because Disc 1 and Disc 4 were scratched very badly. I suggest paying the extra 8 bucks to get individual cases or buy two seperate DVD cases to hold them.
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Summary: DON'T BUY THIS ITEM!
Review: This is a set that compiles the first two X-Men movies into one set but do not buy this product. This isn't the kind of box set that holds the DVDs in their regular DVD cases in one larger box set. Instead, this collection just has them in folder-like packaging and the discs themselves slide around when you pick up the packaging to take a disc out or put it back in and the DVDs get badly damaged this way. I had to replace the second movie because of this. Do not buy this product! Just get the two movies individually, even if you end up spending a few more dollars.
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Summary: X-Men Rock!
Review: This is basically the Xmen 1.5 and X2 dvds at a great price. Two great movies handled with the respect the book deserves. even if it does center around wolverine they're still great
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Summary: good buy
Review: This is basically the Xmen 1.5 and X2 dvds at a great price. Two great movies handled with the respect the book deserves. even if it does center around wolverine they're still great
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Summary: X Marks The Spot
Review: This movie franchise does a great if somewhat flawed job at adapting the storyline and the themes of Stan Lee's X-Men comic book series to the movie screens yet stays faithful to the comics. The first X-men movie released in 2000 is a fabulous first outing with excellent directing from Brian Singer. The movie's theme is of the clashing of two extreme opposite prejudices. The first is of rising anti-mutant hysteria sweeping the planet and skyrocketing support for mutant registration acts headed by Senator Robert Kelly. On the other extreme, anti-human sentiment is running rampant in parts of the mutant world and the head of the extremist movement of the mutant society is headed by the magnificent villain Magneto who aims to destroy humanity and leave the world in control of mutants. Between these extremes though is a mutant organization called the X-Men headed by Professor Charles Xavier whose goal is to fight justice and be able to bridge the widening gap and bring peace between the two increasingly hostile society. Magneto plans to wipe out humanity in NYC by means of a special machine that draws it's energy from a victim and releases a force field that turns human body cells into water molecules. This one has it's share of flaws. Rogue and Storm are the main problems, being just mere background characters with only a small amount of the awesome charisma of the comic book counterparts. Wolverine though was awesome and Hugh Jackman was perfect for the role of playing this awesome character. The best of the acting performances though were Patrick Stewert as Charles Xavier and Ian McKellen as Magneto. These two actors really brought these friends yet enemies at the same time characters to life better than any other comic movie I've seen in many years. Fabulous first movie! If course there's also the now fabled paint costume of the morphing mutant Mystique played by Rebecca Romijn Stamos. Interesting camera angles I must say. The second X-Men movie though blows the first one right into orbit around the Earth. This dynamite sequel takes what was great about the first one and builds upon the greatness of that one and expands the storyline and scope of the X-Men universe. In this one, after the events of the first one, the anti-mutant organizations now decide to take even greater measures against the 'threat' and a vicious and dangerous rogue military general named William Stryker(Brian Cox) plans a massive strike against mutants. He also uses a special drug taht forces his subjects to tell what he or she knows about and uses it on Magneto. Strykers forces launch an assault on X-Men's home school for the Gifted. Meanwhile Magneto escapes from his plastic prison. Now with a common enemy, the X-Men and their archenemy Magneto's mutant organizaiton called the brotherhood of Mutants stop battling each other and join forces to defeat Stryker and stop his evil anti-mutant genocidal plans. New characters come into the picture such as Nightcrawler and Pyro and the action scenes are awesome. To put it this way "X-Men United" is as opposite to a sequel slump as you can almost go. This box set covers the first two movies and they are both great but the second one is especially awesome and what's really pwerful about both of these movies is that they really bring close to home the possibilites of what discrimination and racial intolerance leads to if left undealt with. In many ways, our world is faced with these things and these movies really shed light on these issues of intolerance and persecution yet they manage to be highly entertaining. Get them today. I look forward to X3 when it comes out around in 2006!
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Summary: UNCANNY.
Review: Uncanny, a comic book that is adapted to film and carries the same spirit of the source material to celluloid. The BEST character driven super hero soap opera has been given excellent treatment and transformed into the BEST super hero movie series. Both discs are superb and should grace all collections. Can't wait for #3. Nuff said.
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Summary: UNCANNY.
Review: Uncanny, a comic book that is adapted to film and carries the same spirit of the source material to celluloid. The BEST character driven super hero soap opera has been given excellent treatment and transformed into the BEST super hero movie series. Both discs are superb and should grace all collections. Can't wait for #3. Nuff said.
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