Friday, May 23, 2014

Dazzling Ensemble

Respected WSJ movie critic Joe Morgenstern gushes over a new comic-book-based action flick [bold added]:
the X-Men ensemble—Mr. Jackman, Ms. Lawrence and, among others, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart—constitute the finest repertory company in all of contemporary moviedom.
The longish review ends with "Everything is of a piece, and it's dazzling."

In the 1960's shy social misfits were embarrassed to admit that they read Spiderman, the Fantastic Four, and X-Men. 50 years later nerd culture has won over Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Hollywood. The last shall be first, indeed.

Ensemble acting is well and good, but it can always be made better with explosions and time travel...

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