X-Men: First Class Movie

[Jaggyd]

none of the "top critics" have reviewed it yet, but IGN and comingsoon.net are sites I use and trust, so that's cool.

Also, don't forget that most "top critics" won't give it a fair shake, since it's a comic book movie.

 

[Gothamite]

Also, don't forget that most "top critics" won't give it a fair shake, since it's a comic book movie.

:?

Most of the top critics do approach these movies with the proportionate amount of respect that a Summer Blockbuster deserves. Roger Ebert, especially.

 

[Captain Canuck]

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Most of the top critics do approach these movies with the proportionate amount of respect that a Summer Blockbuster deserves. Roger Ebert, especially.

i was thinking that exactly. Ebert goes in knowing what genre the film is and reviews it based on that. He's not the academy.

also:
a featurette that includes new scenes and a cameo

Spoiler

from Storm

as well as a new clip.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Rotten Tomatoes has 50 reviews in so far and only one of them is rotten. It currently has a rating of 98%

 

[DIrishB]

It might be a bit early to judge the quality based on others' reviews, but a 98% rating even at this point in the game is encouraging. Granted, it'll drop, its just a matter of seeing how far. Still, as I said previously, just about everything related to this movie seems great.

 

[Bass]

or Xorn!

*ducks*

:cry: I loved Xorn.

 

[ourchair]

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Most of the top critics do approach these movies with the proportionate amount of respect that a Summer Blockbuster deserves. Roger Ebert, especially.

Exactly.

Not to mention, even if they give the movie a fair shake, their reviews operate from assumptions about comic books NOW based on the comic books they read as a youth, or outdated assumptions of what the genre can and should accomplish or has accomplished.

For example, even if Roger Ebert is entirely correct about his criticisms of movies like Spider-Man or Fantastic Four, he consistently has a problem with supers not being super. The Fantastic Four don't do anything really fantastic (like move continents or reverse planets) and Spider-Man's wimpy rejection of his own feelings for Mary Jane (which he compares to impotence).

He still comes from the school of "superheroes must be larger than life, mythic and grandiose and maybe even perfect" that isn't necessarily wrong, but is simply not a objectively useful way of measuring the narrative merit of a superhero film. Which is strange, because he's perfectly willing to withhold that yard stick for other 'super films' if they look like they have enough gravitas.

 

[Jaggyd]

Apparently, CNN's Tom Charity hates it, and for some reason thinks Emma turns to ice.

 

[DARKKNIGHT]

He didn't seem to love it, but I wouldn't say the review makes it seem as though he hated it.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Apparently, CNN's Tom Charity hates it, and for some reason thinks Emma turns to ice.

maybe b/c her name is Emma Frost.

EDIT: I just read Roger Ebert's review and he really doesn't like it.

 

[Jaggyd]

Y'know, I have to say, reading a few of the negative reviews, I'm curious as to how they would make a movie like this.

 

[Captain Canuck]

i'm kind of enjoying reading the bad reviews for the puns.

"First class? More like coach"

"First Class is second rate"

:lol: