| farlaff said: Nice picking of First Class! As much as I like X2 and "Days", First Class is a good "movie" in the better sense possible. You get to feel like you are a part of the relationships that are built and the acting from the 2 mains characters is insanely good for a popcorn movie. P.S. you seem to have a preference in direction (Kingsmen at the end of the list). |
Yeah, what really grabbed me with that film was how excellently the scenes were put together; but also how well the characters were developed and the plot as a whole. The film didn't feel as cookie-cutter as other license films tend to feel, it felt like they were really making something unique.
I felt that for Super Hero films in general this was one that really stood out above the pack. I liked Blade, Batman, and the first Spiderman, but otherwise wasn't crazy about the genre. The original X-men trilogy felt a little too close to the 90s cartoon to feel like something fresh, and yet far enough away that it felt like an off-adaptation. I think the first moment I felt the series was doing something I really felt interesting was, ironic, in X-Men origins wolverine - a mess of a film by most analysis. I liked the quick 80's style action scene pacing of Wolverine, but it was the fresh take on Sabertooth played by Liev Schreiber that really caught my attention. Then, the second "origins" film, First Class did both interesting things but also transcended the "superhero" feeling of the original trilogy despite being heavily about superheroes. X-Men Origins Wolverine didn't feel like a superhero film either, but it's mostly because they made it kind of like an 80's action film with superheroes slapped in. I guess what I'm trying to say is that First Class did something good to advance and expand the superhero genre, while Wolverine more or less just spliced elements of the superhero subgenre into the 80s-style action subgenre.
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