COMIC BOOK FILM SERIES: X-MEN FIRST CLASS

I had heard good things about this film and how right the rumours were!

Yes I was aware from the clips I had seen that they had played liberties with the original story line yet again but still...brilliant performances and stars aplenty doing a sterling job and great scenes.

Oddly this is the best five X-Men, or X-Men related films, so far and not an Adamantium claw in sight which just shows what I myself along with thousands of fans have said, it is the comics, the super-heroes and the characters that make this thing the success it was. It is not down to one character and not down to one actor or director either.

Hmm did Sebastian Shaw actually make that helmet? Cannot remember, lol.

Now they wre working on Days of Future Past, no not the famous Moody Blues album, and after The Avengers success many an age old X-Men fan must be have many restless nights dreaming og glowing eyes and computerised, booming voices?!

I for one know that The Avengers can not only be upstaged but that it IS and more successful and this will start a tit-for-tat battle between them, a la Marvel Comics when I was a kid, that will have us fans throwing our wallets and our mothers at them in idol worship and wanting for more?!

LMAO!

Remember The Avengers is the BIGGEST money maker by far but X-Men were a MORE peopular comic than The Avanegers. Admittedly there was not a great deal in it but that is how it was and there were various team ups and battle between them in little mini series over the years. One particular one I wish I still owned!

My god the next 12 months are going to be mad in around four blog subjects I can think of OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, lol.

Now where is my Red Bull?! I am feeling light headed all of a sudden!!

COMIC BOOK FILM SERIES: X-MEN 3

X-Men 3 utterly, utterly destroyed it for me and a classic case where a bunch of names think that they can change what is a classic thing to their way and it will be as good or better?!

I have it and a wince several times on the rare occasions I watch it. Well the pitfalls of being a big fan is you will own them despite them being...well shite really?! LOL.

No..no..NO..NO!!!

If you insist on being arrogant go and invent your own group of heroes and then make a movie!!

Where do I begin with this one. Angel is a very late member of the X-Men yet he was of the FIRST FIVE! Played by a bloody great actor and you hardly see him and took bloody ages before I realised it was same guy in The Punisher and my favourite character in that movie?!

Dark Phoenix, who looks crap, kills a man she eventually MARRIES?! CYCLOPS?! NO.. NO  oh you get the idea?!

She is killed on EARTH by WOLVERINE? No morons it was the moon and a GUN... did you even fllick THROUGH X-MEN number 137?! Well yes I owned this and a great deal more besides too.

Still not that much of Colossus either. THERE IS NO I IN TEAM OR INDEED X-MEN?!

Jesus let it be said that this how how you do not do it unless you head is up your backside?!

Did not stop Amazing Spider-Man though?! LMAO!

Right I have the Avengers, sorry Avengers ASSEMBLE that mechano set, and the first trilogy of X-Men out of the way.

COMIC BOOK FILMS SERIES: X-MEN 2

Despite being the best of the three by a hairs breadth this one was let down by the obvious...

...the only super villain was a mute and bound to a wheelchair?! The rest was just a specialist military outfit?!

I was really hoping the SENTINELS would appear or possibly the HELLFIRE CLUB or even ALPHA FLIGHT?! X-Men fans everywhere know that the list goes on?!

Also Wolverine is edging ever closer the the fore on the cover and the others are being edged out, someone want his own film by any chance?

Still I do like it but just could have been what eventually became The Avengers.

Do they know that X-Men was a more popular comic than The Avengers? Or at least it was when I was reading the comics that had these incarnations of them at any rate.

Still the Avengers is out and more of the same please!

9.2 out of 10 for me this one.