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Summary: Greatness Has Been Achieved.
Review: I don't generally gush about movies, and when I do go and see them I rarely ever go back for a repeat visit. Well, then came X-Men. 6 times I saw this movie in the theatre, and every time, it was like seeing it for the first time. The movie does the impossible, it takes a 30 year old comic book property and makes it publically accessible, which is in its self, a triumph. Yet, then there are all of those little things that fanboys, such as I would pick up on. Especially the "yellow spandex" joke toward the ending of the movie. The movie also took it's subject matter seriously, which most comic movies don't do. The X-Men isn't about rich guys upset about dead parents, or aliens sent to Earth who grow up to be over the top boyscouts in blue tights, its about, simply put, racism. Humanity hates and fears mutants because of their genetic enhancements. Fueling humanities hatred, Sentator Kelly, bent on advancing his political career by stoking the proverbial fire. There truly is no villain in this movie save humanities ignorance, but on the more extreme side of the mutant spectrum is Magneto. Having survived the Holocaust in WW2, he fears world wide mutant genocide and is prepared to take any actions to prevent this from happening...even if it means waging a war on humanity. On the other end of the spectrum, Professor Xavier, who respects humanity and only wishes peaceful coexistance with them. Visually, this film is stunning. The "mutant effects" look real, especially Cyclop's optic blast. The only problems I had with this movie were that it wasn't long enough and that Storm didn't have a bigger role. Halle Berry was a wonderful Storm and she commanded every scene she was in, but her role wasn't big enough. Hopefully, that will be rectified when the sequel gets made. Oh, and Patrick Stewart has affirmed himself as a great actor to the general populace. I guess you all are finding out what we Star Trek fans already knew. :)
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Summary: Great movie!! Bonus Features not the best!! Sequels ?? YES!!
Review: As a youngster, I collected the X-Men comics (still have them in plastic!!), so I looked forward to seeing this DVD.The characters were cast perfectly (Wolverine was short in the comics though!!), and the movie is packed with elements of drama, comedy, and action.Something for everybody!! The special effects & are done well (without copying 'The Matrix'!!), and the movie didn't stray too far from the comic's essence.The 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound is excellent, so your stereo will get a work out!!
I enjoyed seeing characters I knew (Storm, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Prof.X, Magneto, Cyclops, etc.), and the film laid the groundwork for future movie sequels by giving brief introductions to 'young mutants' like Bobby Blake (the future 'Iceman', and others with special gifts!!).SEQUEL?? You can bet on it!!!
If you are familiar with the X-Men, you should be satisfied with this DVD, but the movie failed to introduce or speak of the other ORIGINAL X-Men (The Beast,and the Angel to be exact), but the script works well.
**Now, as for the BONUS FEATURES, they aren't top notch at all.After being treated with 'TOP LEVEL' bonus features in the new Terminator 2 DVD & the Independance Day DVDs, the X-Men DVD serves up average stuff.
~The extra 10 minutes of scenes should not have been clipped to begin with.What's an extra 10 minutes going to matter ??
~The interview with Bryan Singer was annoying!! Not because of Bryan, but because it is chopped into 6 or 7 '2 minute' segments!! Why not show the entire interview in one segment ??
~The 'Mutant Watch' News Parody is great, and it's actors overdo it at times, but it's a fun segment.Other bonuses include photo stills, and that's fine too.
In short, this DVD would make a nice addition to your collection!!...
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Summary: ONE OF MY FAVORITE SI-FI MOVIES EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: this movie is the bomb! it states the begining of many characters like magneto, wolverine, and rouqe. it is an awesome movie with many great special affects and hard tied twists. theres one thing. i don't know where TOAD came from. who is he? this is the best si-fi movie ever!
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Summary: Wish You Well
Review: Wish You Well by David Baldacci is one book I just couldn't put down. A great story about one family's life on top of a mountain in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia in the early 1940's. Its about honesty, integrity, hope and true love. In particular, it is about a young girl and her brother who grow up and learn what life is really all about...about having decent values and not compromising the truth. Great character development. Interesting facts about rural life in the mountains. Superb story. I only wish I could have been there myself.
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Summary: Loved the Movie...Hate the Widescreen
Review: As the title says, I really loved the movie...as a long time fan of X-Men comics I feel they actually stayed pretty much true to the comic which is rare in theatre now-a-days. My only dislike was the DVD version was in 2.35.1 ratio which took my 36" TV and made it 12!! Other than that, excellant movie and I can't wait for a sequel!
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Summary: Best comic book adaptation yet
Review: Forget Magneto's plan. Forget the critics' whine that character development and introduction eats up the first hour of the film. X-MEN is exactly what comic book fans are looking for. Director Bryan Singer has delivered a dark, mature tale based on one of the finest comic books ever produced.
As comic book characters, the X-Men were deeper than many who had come before. You knew Superman was good. You knew Lex Luthor was bad. Is Wolverine good? Is Magneto truly bad? The X-Men were constantly struggling with themselves as well as their adversaries (who often became allies). That's why I felt the first hour of character development was essential to the film, especially for viewers unfamiliar with the characters. And the plot? Who cares? Again, it's the characters that take precedence - they're more interesting than any story - and we all know this is basically a two-hour set up for a sequel. And if the sequel is as good as this original, bring it on, one after another.
For longtime fans, there's plenty to pick up on, such as other X-Men at Xavier's school, Kitty Pryde and Iceman to name two. I, for one, was pleased that they even got the characters' proper names right, something they couldn't even do in the BATMAN series. There are also clever "inside jokes," such as Cyclops' reference to yellow spandex that keep the dialogue lively and the hardcore fans satisfied without descending into campiness, e.g., "Holy Rusted Metal, Batman!"
This film is also nearly perfectly cast. The relatively unknown Hugh Jackman had the greatest challenge and pulled it off perfectly. My only complaint was the laughably miscast Anna Paquin as Rogue. Too young and unable to deliver the accent, Rogue was nothing like her predecessor in print. Rogue was the woman who was dangerous because she exuded sexuality and everyone wanted to touch her, not a child constantly wrapped in a silly cloak. Everyone else is just fine. I can think of more interesting villains than Toad, but we'll just expect to see them in the sequel.
In summary, a great, well-directed film that's fun without being silly. It's dark, but not overbearingly so. A nice transfer to DVD with nice extras, but nothing essential. The film itself stands on its own merits. This is a film that could have gone terribly wrong (remember PUNISHER? CAPTAIN AMERICA?), but, lucky for you and I, it didn't.
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Summary: True to the characters..
Review: I liked this movie. Was it the greatest super-hero movie ever? No. That title still goes to Superman 2 in my opinion. But this movie does show that modern technology can make comic book creations come to life on screen without looking overly garish. From Cyclops optic blasts to Wolverines claws, we get treated with some very nice special effects and pretty good dialogue among the characters. There could have been some definite improvements to the movie such as finding a more realistic lookking wig for Storm or getting an older actor to play Cyclops as Jean looked way too old for him. As for the dvd, the picture is clean and crips. Definitely a pleasure to view. Extras are pretty sparse with the standard character art, language select, etc. The dvd says that there are ten minutes of extra footage. Let me clarify this. First off, you could play he extra footage by themselves or view them while watching the regular feature. However, the footage isn't exactly cleaned up so it looks out of place and blurry a bit. Also, some footage are the same exact scenes as in the regular feature with some extra dialogue that had been spliced out. So, when you view the footage with the feature you could be seeing the same scenes twice. Another thing..this disc may have problems playing in older dvd players. I couldn't get it to play on my first gen Phillips Magnavox player, but it did play well on my portable Panasonic dvd-l50 and my Playstation 2. So be forewarned if you have an older receiver.
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Summary: Pretty good, unlike most comics-turned-movies
Review: Remember that stinker Spider-Man movie in the 70's? Or how about that terrible early 90's Captain America? Dolph Lungren as the Punisher!!??!! It seems that the only cool comic characters that became movies were Superman, Batman, Blade, MIB, and that cool Hulk TV show with Bill Bixby. But the long overdue X-Men is about as good as you can get for a comic movie while staying fairly true to the original. Although we see the origins of Magneto and Rogue, the story seems to center around Wolverine (who is no doubt the most popular of the X-Men). We see how Wolvie survives as a drifter in Canada, unable to remember his past as a military experiment, how he and Rogue meet up with the X-Men and are taken to Xavier's school,where there are cameos by Jubilee,Iceman, and a kid with blue hair (Beast perhaps?), and the X-Men's struggle not only with Magneto and the public who fears them, but with themselves. The tension between Wolvie and Cyclops is great too. Hugh Jackman is AWESOME as the ol' Canuckle Head (it seems as though he IS Wolvie) and has some of the best lines in the movie. Cyclops to Logan: "How do we know it's really you?" Logan: "You're a d--k!!" CLASSIC!!! Patrick Stewart as Professor X is pretty convincing as well. Comic purists will find fault with the movie, as did sub geeks with U571, war geeks with The Patriot, gun geeks with all the Lethal Weapon movies, and all cops with any Dirty Harry movie. "The uniforms were different!" "The air inlet on the Blackbird isnt correct!" "Where were the Sentinels?" This movie is set up perfectly for a sequel, which will no doubt come soon. Sound is great, picture is great, everything was great!!!
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Summary: The comics are better
Review: A totally mindless film adaptation of Stan Lee's X-Men Comic book series. This film had me pndering for hours why a director would destroy a perfectly good comic series into an hour and a half of endless idiocy. The acting was fairly good to start, and the beggining looked almost promising, but then, it dropped off considerably once you hit the first action scene. This movie may be based on a comic book series, true, but to make a feature length film out of people flying in the air and smashing each other is pointless. The director did do a good job with the casting I must say though, Ian Mcklellan, and Patrick Stewart save this film from hitting rock bottom.
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Summary: This Movie ROCKS!
Review: I didn't get to see X-men while it was in the theaters, so when my husband and I bought the DVD, I was worried about a little something I like to call "Overhype Syndrome": you know, when everybody you know sees a movie before you do, and they all tell you how great it is, and by the time you see it, you're expecting great things, and when you don't get them, you're all let down and ready to hurt someone. Well, I've read every review, and visited the website, and all my friends have seen it, and I was definately expecting great things. And I got them. I got them all. Every expectation was met. Not too much bad dialog to clog up the flow of the story, no drawn out mush scenes dragging down the pace. It was great. Cyclops was the perfect uptight geek, Jean Grey was appropriately Goody-Goody, and the best part, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos didn't mess up her part by trying to act. Sure, there were things that didn't follow the comic book (Wolverine was a little tall, and Rogue had a real name, and Storm wasn't claustrophobic), but none of it really mattered. The only really major change was Magneto's origin, but that was to make his reasoning look like more than just pure evil. Anyway, the movie was AWESOME! If you haven't seen it yet, see it. If you don't own it, buy it!
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