On another board I post to there are plenty of people saying they liked it and even that it is better than the first.

I disagree, but it has supporters.

Finally saw the first one last week. Didn't love it, but I think it was because I watched it alone - that kind of movie seems to need a group viewing to convey its 'funny' somehow.

Personally, I expected a darker flick, a la "Very Bad Things", which I loved.

It's odd for me to be old enough to realize that the "daring" and "edgy" studio movies are nowhere near as edgy as the '70s and '80s movies that inform them.

Last weekend, we watched "Pretty Maids All In A Row". That is a movie that no studio would make now - and we're poorer for it.

X-Men: First Class was really rather rad. Michael Fassbinder and James McAvoy are excellent in the leads, and the production was fast-paced, fun, dramatic, intelligent, and Sixties Suave. Highly recommended for beyond the fanboy set.

Also saw great trailers for Green Hornet, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Harry Potter Finale. So excited for all those, too! Pirates of the What?

Have they released new trailers for Green Hornet and Rise of the Planet of the Apes? The ones I've seen looked awful.

Not to me. :p




(I'm pretty sure these were brand-spanking new trailers. Know for a fact the Apes one was.)

Well, then hopefully they change my mind.

Green Lantern feels like it has been coming out for about three years now. I'm exhausted with it and it hasn't even hit the really heavy push yet.

I'm just generally burned out on the Apes franchise, so even really well done apes doesn't have much appeal to me.

The new trailer for Apes is all over the interweb if you want to check it out. Hold on, I'll find a linky.


Here Ya Go.



While you may be burned out over the Apes franchise, I - on the other hand - need to wash the taste of Tim Burton's take on it Out Of My Head.

The trailer doesn't evoke "Planet of the Apes" to me - looks like a standard sci-fi scary animals film (Them, The Birds, the list is endless). How are there thousands and thousands of apes instantly in the city?


We saw MacGruber last night - very funny. Will Forte run amok. I wouldn't allow myself to believe that the villain was actually Val Kilmer. Yeech. He used to be so hot!

If they follow the earlier movies, Apes are used as domestic servants in many households.

X-Men: First Class is an unusually well written comic book movie. And a standardly blandly filmed one. High meh.