X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 12 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Friday, June 3rd, 2011
show:  5:30 p.m.
costs:  $7.50 Ticket + $4.50 Pretzel Bites + $4.00 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke + $13.75 dinner @ Empire Chinese Buffet ( + $2.25 Tip ) after the show = $32.00
auditorium: 8
seat:  5th row, 10th column

2nd time


where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
show:  2:30 p.m.
costs:  $7.50 Ticket + $4.00 small Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $11.50
auditorium:  8
seat:  5th row, 10th column

synopsis/overview:  X-MEN: First Class Drop-outs and Rejects


Charles, the future Prof. X ( James McAvoy ), and Eric, the future Magneto ( Michael Fassbender ), meet, become good friends, and recruit other mutants to fight a power-hungry mutant, Sebastian Shaw ( Kevin Bacon ), who wants to start a nuclear war between the USA and Russia.  But because of  their personal differences, Charles and Eric part ways.  And so begins the war between Prof. X's  X-Men and  Magneto's  Brotherhood.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) Poland, 1944; 2.) Westchester, NY, 1944; 3.) Ravenous raven; 4.) Doctor's office; 5.) Oxford University; 6.) Groovy mutation; 7.) "Would you date me"; 8.) "Illegal gold"; 9.) Using some equipment the CIA didn't give me"; 10.) CCCP; 11.) "What the hell did you put in my drink";  12.) War Room; 13.) "Expert on genetic mutation"; 14.) Argentinian pub; 15.) "I really need your help"; 16.) Yacht; 17.) "How's that for a magic trick"; 18.) Drinking fountain; 19.) "Get in the car"; 20.) "Ah, now it's a party"; 21.) "There's someone else out there"; 22.) "Calm your mind"; 23.) "You're not alone";  24.) Covert CIA research base; 25.) Helmet; 26.) Blood; 27.) "I've felt your agony"; 28.) "I've been a lab rat;  I know one when I see one"; 29.) Private dance; 30.) Other recruits; 31.) "Identification, that's how it starts"; 32.) The code names; 33.) "These freaks are dedicated, hard-working young people"; 34.) "I expect more from you"; 35.) "This wasn't on the map"; 36.) "Nothing, it's empty"; 37.) "He's not coming"; 38.) "I'm not CIA"; 39.) Barbed wire; 40.) Bedroom; 41.) Attack; 42.) "Kings and queens"; 43.) "You will make it happen"; 44.) "We can avenge him"; 45.) Interrogation room; 46.) New home; 47.) Training; 48.) "Don't forget to scream"; 49.) "You want society to accept you, you can't even accept yourself"; 50.) Flight; 51.) "True focus lies between rage and serenity"; 52.) Presidential address; 53.) "Mutant and proud"; 54.) Reaction; 55.) "How about now"; 56.) "Where are your clothes"; 57.) "Do we really have to wear these"; 58.) "Where's Hank ( Nicholas Hoult )"; 59.) "Sound general quarters"; 60.) "You just averted war"; 61.) Sonar; 62.) Submarine; 63.) "He's gone into the void"; 64.) Deception; 65.) "We are the future"; 66.) The coin; 67.) "Collateral damage"; 68.) "United in their fear of  the unknown"; 69.)  "New orders"; 70.) "I've been at the mercy of men just following orders"; 71.) Deflected bullet; 72.) "You did this"; 73.) "No more hiding"; 74.) "I can't feel my legs"; 75.) "Next thing you know, I'll be going bald"; 76.) "X-Men"; 77.) "A kiss"; and 78.) "I prefer ... Magneto."


favorite scene:  Dr. Moira MacTaggert ( Rose Byrne ) in undercover ( underwear-uncover ? ).


miscast:  Jennifer Lawrence is too plain-looking to take on the role of  a  young Mystique.  She just ruined my Mystique fantasy.


is that ...?  A cameo by Wolverine and by an adult Mystique ( both are funny scenes, by the way ).  But I don't recall seeing Stan Lee in a cameo role, though--I must have been busy scribbling notes in the dark, as always.

audience reaction:  The audience liked it enough for some to give it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

recommendation:  If  you're a fan of  the X-Men, go see this movie.  It is a good "origins" movie.

spoiler alert!  Young Eric didn't have a mark on his rifle-butted face.  Why didn't the young Eric manipulate the metallic parts of  the bad guy's eyeglasses after he crushed the helmeted soldiers' heads?  How in the world did Shaw become a mutant?  This movie doesn't explain his transformation from a human to a mutant--Ooh!  I know, Spiderman bit Shaw.  Ha, ha, ha.  If  Charles was a mind-reader, why couldn't  he  figure-out the kind of  person that  Eric  was before it was too late?  I guess that  the shoe store clerks  also didn't ask Hank, so he didn't bother to tell them; yet, the shoe store clerks, through the years,  still managed to find Hank shoes that were "custom-made" just for his kind of  feet!   No matter what, his funny-looking shoes would really stick-out like a pair of "sore thumbs"--or should  that be a pair of  "sore big toes"?  And how did Hank get through P. E. class in his school years without anybody noticing his feet while he and his classmates were in the locker room shower?  Why were the metal  statue and the cement & steel bunker on fire?  None of  the agents had the presence of mind to stand with his back against a wall while under attack from Azazel ( Jason Flemyng ).  Once again, here's yet another  movie in which  only the black good guy, Darwin ( Edi Gathegi ), gets killed!  Dr. Hank McCoy  groped the mannequin's left nipple--I take it "Dr. Genius" didn't go out on dates that much.  Charles tried to talk some sense into Eric by telling him that  "... killing ... won't bring you peace."  But didn't Charles blow-up a boat-load of  innocent  Russian commie sailors ( who were all supposedly dead even though their captain was just unconscious ) ...?  Charles is such a bloody hypocrite!  Why did none of  the battleships pick-up the X-Men's plane on their radar?  Banshee ( Caleb Landry Jones ), from my understanding, is a glider, not a flyer.  Banshee uses his voice to achieve thrust and lift.  Banshee, then, should neither  be able to glide into the air from the ground without a running start nor glide-up from underwater without mechanical aid.  So, how did Banshee get out of  the water and go gliding again?  Making a giant transmitter dish pivot around is one thing, lifting a submarine out of  the water is quite another:  He would have needed a solid base to stand on while lifting the submarine into the air!  And, No ... a plane's landing gear doesn't fit the bill of  "solid base".  Why did Shaw float in the air in a "cross" pose even though he hardly had any metal object on his person?  Shaw's buttons looked like they  were made out of  plastic, he didn't wear a watch, and I didn't notice any ring on either hand; the only metal object he might have had on him was his pants' zipper and probably a belt buckle--assuming, of course,   that his pants were of  the "zipper"  kind and that he wore a belt.  Soon after Eric donned the helmet, he floated down to the ground but--excuse me--he couldn't have floated down to the ground because THE HELMET DIDN'T HAVE A CHIN STRAP TO KEEP IT IN PLACE AND FLOAT HIM  IN THE AIR  WITH;  and the metal parts on his uniform should have pulled-up his bodyweight but they looked flushed with the fabric instead of  against it!  ( This is exactly what happens when Hollywood spends millions of   dollars on a blockbuster movie without hiring my services as Cine-Man! )  Once Eric reversed the projectiles' trajectories, the self-propelled projectiles should have been  set on their courses with no further "will-power" guidance from him--think of  the back-and-forth volleys in the game of  tennis or  badminton.  So, the projectiles shouldn't have stalled and flown erratically no matter how much of a beating Eric got from Charles.  And those projectiles that exploded in mid-air amidst the others should have scattered shrapnels all over  and damaged the nearby  projectiles in the process!  And why did the missiles run out of  fuel so soon?  ( I've heard of  short-range missiles, but this is ridiculous! Short range missiles have a range between 43 miles to 430 miles. )  The ships' target was less than 20 miles away so the missiles had more than enough fuel for the "round-trip".    If  Charles became paralyzed from the waist down, why did his right foot move?  And, later on, Charles' legs were positioned farther apart.  ( Bad acting! Bad editing!  Bad directing! )

fyi:  If there ever is a mutant who is exactly like Mystique, I will marry her right-quick!  Think about it, if I behave nicely, she can be any woman that I want her to be--and I can think of  about a thousand different women that I would like her to be.  Of course, if I don't behave nicely, she can turn herself into one big, ugly and hairy guy that I don't want to have a sexual fantasy with ( Just the thought of it makes me cringe and makes me wanna puke. )!  You can be sure that I'll be on my very best behavior around her.  But she better not turn herself  into my "identical twin" while we're being intimate because that will just be too damn sick and kinky for me!

Mystique is my one-and-only favorite X-Men character--ever!
( As played by Rebecca Romijn, of  course )
;o)

word of  advice:  You are, in your own way, special.

tidbits: While I watched this movie, some bitch seated behind me had her legs crossed and was repeatedly tapping the back of  my seat with the tip of  her shoe.  Finally, I couldn't stand the bitch's rudeness and inconsideration any longer.  So, I turned around and looked at her as I said,  Do you mind not hitting the back of  my chair?  The bitch got the message.  But I had half a cup of soda left and ready to be splashed at her just in case she refused to  comply.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:  The Vallejo crowd is the rudest, most inconsiderate and most irresponsible crowd that I've had the displeasure of  encountering!  And that's saying a lot!

And speaking of bitch ....

I finally caught-up with the daughter of  Hector's neighbor in Oakland, CA.  You know, the bitch who backed into my car then took-off.  I went to Hector's place last Tuesday, the 31st of  May.  And her black Toyota 4Runner was there at the curb with a tell-tale dent on the left corner of its rear bumper's cover which was an exact match to the dent on the left quarter panel of  my white Geo Metro!  I knocked at their door and told the woman to come out and see the damage she did to my car two weeks ago.  She refused to come down. Instead, she said, "Call da cops.  I call my insu-lance  all-lady."

I called Oakland PD.  But the dispatcher asked me why I didn't report the hit-and-run right away when it happened.  Well, a hit-and-run is only reported if  the guilty party is unknown.  But I had a very strong suspicion of  who was responsible for it.  Which is why I didn't report it right away  because I wanted to confront the bitch first!

And that bitch was just about 4'8" tall in high heels!  No wonder she hit my car:  She probably couldn't even see over the steering wheel without having to sit on a booster seat first!  Maybe she should also get eyelid surgery to make her eyes bigger so that she can see where she is going--the streets of  Oakland, CA, would be all the more safer for it!

A word to the wise:  People who drive big vehicles are just overcompensating for an under-endowment!  This is a case in point.

Then, I called my insurance adjuster to give her the bitch's vehicle make and model plus its license plate number.  My insurance adjuster said that she'll contact the responsible party by mail and let me know of  any new developments.  And I hope that the bitch's insurance will take care of my car's damage because I wouldn't want to pay for something that was not my fault in the first place!

By the way, the damage to her Toyota 4Runner's plastic bumper cover was more extensive than the damage to my Geo Metro's sheet metal quarter panel!

After I hung-up the 'phone, Hector said, "Take both of  my swords and go next door and threaten the chinita.  I said,  I'd better not.  She might know Kung Fu.  And his son, Ismael, said, "Yeah, she'll beat the crap out of  you and slam your head against her SUV's bumper."  And I said, And you'll probably have it down on film, upload it to YouTube and make millions at the expense of  my dignity!  We all laughed.

2nd tidbits:  I went to see this for a second time because I wanted to double-check whether or not Stan Lee has a cameo appearance in this movie.  He does not.  Also, because I was distracted by some bitch the first time that I went to see this movie, I decided to see it again just to check on my findings.

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