{"id":10016,"date":"2015-07-31T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2015-07-21T09:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:24:41","slug":"x-men-first-class-2011-matthew-vaughn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10016","title":{"rendered":"X-Men: First Class (2011, Matthew Vaughn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major prequelitis, all about its digi-effects and massive Henry &#8220;Hugh&#8221; Jackman score.  X and Magneto are buddies, meeting a bunch more friendly mutants and trying to defeat Kevin Bacon, who starts the Cuban Missile Crisis and killed Magneto&#8217;s mom.  At least Oliver Platt and Michael Fassbender were good.  And at least, since it&#8217;s a male-driven comic movie, all the girls get sexy and half-naked.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sexy J-Jones:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/xmenclass1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Sexy J-Lawrence:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/xmenclass4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Mutant Round-Up: Magneto (Fassbender), X (James McAvoy), energy-consuming, anti-psychic-helmet-creating Shaw (Bacon).  Shaw&#8217;s crew: disappearing devil Azazel (Jason Flemyng, chasin&#8217; women), diamond-fleshed psychic Frost (January Jones of <em>Mad Men<\/em>), tornado-chuckin&#8217; Riptide (Alex Gonzalez), fire-breathing dragonfly Angel (Zoe Kravitz).  X&#8217;s crew: Beast (Nicholas Hoult, Firth-stalker in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4960\">A Single Man<\/a><\/em>), scream\/flying Banshee (Caleb Jones of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9529\">Antiviral<\/a><\/em>), energy-whip-shooting Havoc (Lucas Till), easily killed gill-man Darwin (Edi Gathegi of <em>Gone Baby Gone<\/em>), shapeshiftin&#8217; Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), and their no-powers CIA contact Rose Byrne (<em>Sunshine<\/em>, <em>Insidious<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Sexy Byrne:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/xmenclass2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Sexy Kravitz:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/xmenclass3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>IMDB says Azazel and Mystique are Nightcrawler&#8217;s parents, and that Bryan Singer couldn&#8217;t be arsed to direct since he was devoting four years of his life to <em>Jack The Giant Slayer<\/em>.  Vaughn later made <em>Kingsman: The Secret Service<\/em>, which I didn&#8217;t watch on the plane since they had a lousy looking, censored version.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mighty Morphin&#8217; Bacon in nuclear mirror room:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/xmenclass5.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major prequelitis, all about its digi-effects and massive Henry &#8220;Hugh&#8221; Jackman score. X and Magneto are buddies, meeting a bunch more friendly mutants and trying to defeat Kevin Bacon, who starts the Cuban Missile Crisis and killed Magneto&#8217;s mom. At least Oliver Platt and Michael Fassbender were good. And at least, since it&#8217;s a male-driven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,139,1338,1530,1485,1251],"class_list":["post-10016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-comics","tag-jennifer-lawrence","tag-kevin-bacon","tag-michael-fassbender","tag-prequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10017,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions\/10017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}