Magneto was deffo the star. I liked the authenticity of its scenes, as a movie, on the whole. 

lolwut? 

Pointless. Could have been interesting if the characters had some depth that fed into the conflict. Once the general shock of the first 1/4 of it wore off, it was a headless chicken of a film. 

like the book 

xmen first class was total crap, nearly everything in it was ripped from previous xmen movies (magneto turns the missles around like he does with bullets in xmen 1, mystique is angsty about her appearance and discrimination like in xmen 1, there is a "hot-headed" teen character with fire-powers like in xmen2, there is a cure for mutants like in xmen 3, and it's hilariously developed by beast, who later claims in xmen 3 that he's never before heard of the possibility of a cure), the plot made no sense whatsoever even in the context of mutant superpowers (lol and that takes some trying - lol a "cure" for mutant APPEARANCES that doesn't affect powers? wtf) and the one cool scene (magneto in south america) was a ripoff of a godfather II scene. nothing original whatsoever, and crap. what a mess. 

I thought it was the best of the XMen movies to date. The acting and character development was better than any of the other movies. The casting (Magneto's actor actually does pass off as a young version of his older counterpart) was good.
Seeing Mystique lean towards the darker side is fun to watch. Kevin Bacon was good. Very good infact.
Magneto turning bullets around is nowhere near as cool as him turning all of those missiles round at once.

I'll give you the stuff about Beast and the cure.

But to really get into the symantics of it is a bit rediculous. It's XMen. There is'nt a single believeable super-power or mutant character in the whole series, it's not just the film. Atleast it didnt have Halle Berry in it. Worst actor ever. 

It had Jennifer Lawrence. 

whoa wait sleepwalkr, you watched this? why? 

even worse than X3 and Wolverine :)

Mainly because it tried so hard but failed. X3 might have been the dumbest of the lot but it also has bullet like pacing and is generally fun. As for Wolverine, it had 2-3 'cool' moments whereas I didnt find any in this. Well, apart from seeing January Jones, Rose Byrne and Jennifer Lawrence in skimpy clothing.

And dont get me started on how wasted Fassbender was in this, even though he was the best thing in it. 

only one that I gave a shit about, really. 

It had Jennifer Lawrence. 

January Jones, yes 

Great film, bit of an anticlimax. The build up was good. The chick who stars in it is damn fine. The guy who plays the bad guy in Blow and Bad Boys 2, he always amuses me, but in this film he plays a straight role pretty well. 

I thought it was a competent prequel. The only thing I didn't like was Gung zvarpensg guvat ba gur fcnpr fuvc, gung freirq ab checbfr jungfbrire. Vg jnfa'g rira qrfgeblrq va gur svtug vvep. (rot13). 

Watched City of God (finally) recently. Awesome movie. Had no idea what it was about and the started to fear as I was watching it that it's popularity is based on it being a completely unrealistic stereotypical/cliche crime drama with badass characters that teen/20s-men masturbate over (Scarface, Lock Stock... those sorts of movies). But in the end it was far better. Gritty, realistic, shocking. Actually I found characters like Lil Dice much scarier than overacted cliche Tony Montana bullshit. Not that I didn't like Scarface. But City of God is far more unique. That's one part of Rio I would NEVER want to go near. 

Master Of Illusion
The other movie Clive Barker directed, alongside Hellraiser. It was quite film noir with Scott Bakula a Private Detective investigating a murder, but with magic and vengeance mixed in. The end battle was great, very Hellraiser-esque. Ultimately turned into a pretty underrated old skool horror.

Watched Creep (2004) last night. Good atmosphere and cinematography, but completely unrealistic storyline and laughable the amount of times the victims just run instead of finishing off the bad guy, who's wounded and weaponless on the ground. Shitty British horror. 

I have been to one of the favelas in Rio, its scary stuff indeed. 

Wow. Great film. Drags a bit, but it's brilliantly acted, some of the camera angles are sheer genius. The ending surprised me quite a lot. I can almost relate to it in a way, mainly because of the bad trip element. 

That film rocks. Want to see it again. 

Another film with a similar, eerie atmosphere is Session 9. It's not quite as good as Jacob's Ladder overall, but I'd say it's still very worth a watch if you haven't seen it already. 

is brilliant; real slow-burning, subtle, mysterious horror the way it should be. not one for the impatient moviegoer, mind

JL is obviously great too. the hospital trolley scene especially :0 

didnt like the ending though. Very creepy in parts though. 

but Session 9 is one of the best horror movies ever made. 

visually ravishing, operatic telling of the rise and fall of Mussolini but from the viewpoint of his unrecgnised and marginalised mistress. A little confusing if you're not faimilar with the content (at least it was for me) but if you go with it, everything sorts itself out pretty well. 

She's super hot for sure. Character development is lacking though, and some scenes/bits in the plot are just weird. Maybe that's part of the message.