First Class Blu-ray/DVD party for the X-Men
Today is the Blu-ray/DVD release (review here)Â for the mutant powered film that is my favorite of the series, and a movie that silenced a lot of doubters who thought Thor and Green Lantern were going to trample Matthew Vaughn’s prequel to the 2000 flick from Bryan Singer. They were dead wrong!
Press and fans were treated like royalty as Fox and IGN brought the Hellfire Club to life at the Roosevelt Hotel in L.A. with free food, free booze, slamming music and a bevy of Emma Frost (yum!) clones. For your enjoyment, I snapped a few pictures from the gala.
X-Men: First Class is the thrilling, eye-opening chapter you’ve been waiting for… Witness the beginning of the X-Men Universe. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
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Honestly, I would still say that I enjoyed Green Lantern alot more than this film and Thor. Maybe I’m biased when it comes to DC comics.
Jason Bené Reply:
September 10th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
I haven’t seen GREEN LANTERN, but the previews were godawful, so it’s currently in my Netlix que.
Loved THOR, just not as much as the First Class prequel.
CAPTAIN AMERICA is not even part of the conversation.
Matt Keith Reply:
September 10th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Here’s how I would rank them in temes of quality:
Captain America
XFC
Thor
Green Lantern
GL wasn’t a great film, but it was still alot of fun. Most of the complaints come from it being cmparted to Nolan’s Batman films. People have forgotten to have fun with a movie, rather than having something serious.
Captain America is great, as is X-Men: First Class. Thor is just good, light-hearted fun. Green Lantern suffered from a rather simple (which isn’t a bad thing) story, that had no emotional weight.
As for 2012, my must-see comic book films are in this order:
THE AVENGERS
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
And lastly THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.