veronica_rich: (hillary eyebrows)
veronica_rich ([personal profile] veronica_rich) wrote2011-07-28 06:27 pm

blast and damn

Okay, I need some fannish love here (albeit perhaps temporarily). Anyone else like "X-Men: First Class" a LOT?

Also, I picked up on sale yesterday at the used DVD store a couple of other McAvoy movies I didn't have - "Atonement" and "The Last King of Scotland." I'd intended to getting around to seeing the latter someday anyway for Forrest Whitaker, so I might as well enjoy two actors as one, I suppose. (I've already had a borderline-unhealthy love for "Wanted" the last couple of years. It's concentrated, processed action-flick cheese, but damn if it's not still fun to watch for the great performers in the middle of all of it.)

Also, I have to say it - I don't give a flying fig who celebrity men date or marry. I don't particularly care if some woman is skinnier than me, or younger or cuter - it has no bearing on my life (especially famous women). But I admit, you watch enough actors hook up with young models and other leggy, ethereally-beautiful women, it's very hard to come across someone like McAvoy and NOT like him for being married to a woman 9 years older (two years older than me!) who looks like a regular person, albeit a pretty one. ([livejournal.com profile] crevette will appreciate a celeb like this this, and she knows why. Libraries! *G*)

(For the record, I have no clue what The Barrie's wife looks like, nor do I go looking...)

[identity profile] moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-29 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
I did like the movie and I love the music, but I'm happier in the first trilogy. That won't stop me from seeing the rest.

[identity profile] veronica-rich.livejournal.com 2011-07-29 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
I really liked the first two movies - my favorites were Wolverine (oh, Hugh) and Mystique. (I won't discuss the third movie, LOL.) In this one, it was Charles and Erik, with Charles edging out on top just because it's the third movie I've seen McAvoy in and liked how he played the role without having a preference for him specifically.

[identity profile] moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com 2011-07-29 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
As far as I'm concerned, the 3rd movie doesn't exist... Mystique is awesome, but my OTP is Logan and Rogue. I do like how they portrayed Charles and Erik in both movies (all three?).