Xmen First Class

And this weeks Friday night movie has been....Xmen First Class!

 Original image located here. Accessed 20th February 2015

Well seeing I've watched the Animated series all the way through it was somewhat natural to go to this. So my thoughts? This is difficult to assess because it's a prequel and like any prequel we all know what's going to happen but the real strength in the movie is daring us, the audience, that it won't. And to that end the movie is a success. The action is exciting, the James Bond-inspirations are great and there's some solid moments of character development.  Plus we have Charles Xavier as a womanizer and I find that utterly hilarious XD

Oh we also have President Michael Dugan in it too (a cookie if you get that reference)

Tropic Thunder

And this weeks Friday night movie has been....Tropic Thunder!

Original image located here. Accessed 13th February 2015

In a way this movie surprised me: I thought it was going to be completely stupid but as it turned out, it was a riot. Okay so it may have been stupid in places but there's some moments of pure gold in here - chief among them being the acting turns done by Robert Downey Jr (!) and Tom Cruise (!!!!).