I'm really surprised X-Men 1st Class has done as well as it did, let alone get the positive reviews it did.

1. It was boring.

2. The cast: Who was in it? Seriously. Who? Outside of Kevin Bacon, can anyone think of 2 or more movies anyone in the cast was in?

3. Acting: While McAvoy, Fassbender and Kevin Bacon were all excellent, everyone else was bland. Jennifer Lawrence (the most attractive woman in the cast) was hidden under makeup the entire time, and January Jones has the talent of a wooden plank. Which just made everyone completely forgettable.


And Thor:
I liked Thor well enough, but wow, it had probably 1/10th the action Green Lantern did.
Seriously. 2 minutes of Thor (in costume) in action on Earth. TWO. MINUTES.
I certainly did not expect a Thor movie in which Thor stood around and talked all the damned time.

'Reading' / 'Reading soon' stack: DC/Vertigo - ArtOps, Batgirl, Gotham Academy, Gotham by Midnight, Injustice; Marvel - Allred's Silver Surfer; Other - Abe Sapien, Descender, Fight Club 2, Goon, Mind MGMT, Southern Bastards