Re: Rate The Last Movie You Watched.
X-MEN (2000) - 8.8/10
Such a great flick, i forgot how good it was, i remembered the theme instantly as it first played.
The opening with young Magneto was excellent, the introductions of Prof X, Magneto, Rogue, Logan, Storm and Cyclops were all great, the pacing was brilliant, it flowed so naturally. Mystique was awesomely introduced.
Mckellan was excellent as Magneto, likewise with Stewart. Their performances were excellent and their characters unique friendship made me appreciate McVoy and Fassbender even more.
It was unfortunatley too geared towards Wolverine and Rogue, more so Wolverine, it would've been better if Cyclops was given a bigger role as leader of the team (this is the same even to today with Iron Man taking the screentime away from Cap, the leader of The Avengers)
The effects were great, from Cyclops blasts, Mystiques transformations to Wolverines Claws. Magneto's magnetism was done to perfection from his base with areas only he could access with assembled metal bridges to the turning the guns on the police.
Action was servicable, Wolverine vs Mystique (when she blue) was good, Toad had some decent action (ruined in between by his prancing)
Casting was good all around. The only problems were the balancing of characters, Cyclops, Jean & Storm didn't get a whole lot to do sadly, the costuumes weren't accuracte to the comics but served their purpose of showing a united team adequately. The villains were mostly good only Toad stood out aa the weak presence.
Some people mistakenly believe that only modern superhero movies are the good ones, that they're better because they're new, after watching this again i realise that things haven't changed or need to change much, old ones are as just good as and in many cases better than new ones.
This is the first time watching it in years and even the coninuity wasn't changed as much as i thought, Sabertooths reactions to Wolverine with his affinity for his dogtags can still make him his brother, further animalisticly evolved, Wolverine's loss of memory coincides with Xaviers's dates mentioned and explains why he doesn't know him.
Have you enjoyed Bale's performances?
