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I just saw the X-Men First Class movie yesterday, and I was absolutely blown away. It is a great movie that is definitely worth spending your hard earned money on. It’s got great performances from the two leads, an engaging storyline, and really cool action sequences.

I think I am kind of a unique fan to the X-Men series because I don’t see these films the same way I see the Spider-Man films. I am a huge Spider-Man franchise fan. I have seen the films, read the comics, read the books about the comics, bought the toys, etc, etc. But when it comes to X-Men I really wasn’t a fan until the first film came out, so I don’t know much of the mythology.

When the cartoons were coming out for these two series in the nineties I preferred seeing Spider-Man, and thought the X-Men looked a little silly, quite frankly. I never really cared for their uniforms and didn’t really know much about their powers in general. The one episode I saw was at a friend’s house around third grade. We saw it after we played some Mighty Morphing Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition. Man, that was sick.

Awesome. Anyway, back to X-Men. As soon as the first film started being advertised I was immediately intrigued by the new look. It definitely helped that Bryan Singer went for an all black look with the uniforms, as it is akin to what Tim Burton did with Batman.  The first film came out and I absolutely loved it. I naturally became a fan of Wolverine and thought he was incredibly cool. Then the second came out and solidified my fanboyism of Wolverine, and I knew I had to dress up as him for Halloween:

Then the third film came out, which was okay, I give it a lot more credit than others do. And then Origins came out. My God. That film was so damn terrible with its clunky plot, atrocious special effects, and ham fisted acting from the guy playing Stryker. The only good thing that horrible film yielded was the amazing video game. I even did the walkthrough for it a couple months ago, check out a vid right here:

Brutal huh? Wally, in celebration of First Class, even made a a top 5 best X-Men games of all time, and  Origins made it on the list. Check out the video right here:

So because of the shitty fourth film I really wasn’t expecting much from First Class, but like I said in the beginning, First Class is a great ride and I highly recommend  it. I especially enjoyed how you get to see the friendship between Charles and Erik instead of just hearing them talk about it. The two cameos in the film were also much appreciated! My complaint with it is that it kinda messes with the already messed up chronology of the films. Below is an explanation of it.

SPOLERS BELOW

-When exactly did Professor X lose his ability to walk? In First Class, he loses it by the end of the film, around the 1960’s. But in both X-Men Origins Wolverine and in the opening scene of X-Men 3 Professor X is seen walking around just fine. So according to the films he lost his ability, then gained his ability, then lost it again?

-Also, when exactly did Professor X and Magneto split ways? Again, in First Class they completely go opposite ways by the end of the film. But in the beginning of X-Men 3 both him and Magneto go on over to Jean Gray’s house as buddies to try to recruit her. Again, according to the films they went separate ways, reconciled, then broke up again.

- This is kind of minor, but still a note, Wolverine’s hair doesn’t make sense. In this film, which happens before Origins, Wolverine makes a cameo and is already sporting his Wolverine style hair. But in Origins he sports some sort of shaggy looking thing, then acquires his Wolverine style hair by X-Men. So again, according to the films he had the hairstyle, lost it, then decided to use it again.

- Speaking of spoilers, my good buddy Lasercorn who joined me in my viewing of First Class yesterday, also made a kickass 2 minute montage of Portal 2:

SPOILERS END

But as a standalone film, First Class works really well. Like I said before though, I do not know how faithful it is to the comics, but I respect the hell out of it.

And next week my friends, is E3. Ever since I bought my first EGM way back around 1997 I have wanted to go to the E3. I cannot think of a bigger convention for any other form of media in the world. I went to pick up my badge for it today and was absolutely mesmerized by just how big a convention it is. I had to walk for about 10 minutes just to go pick up my badge. There are set to be quite a few surprises at the show, probably the biggest one being the unveiling of Nintendo’s next gen console. Will it be a Wii-2? Will it be something completely different? Who knows. But we will be there to find out!

I am also excited about plenty of other upcoming games, and can’t wait to see what the publishers have to show off. I am mainly stoked to see something new for Metal Gear Solid 3DS, and anything related to Metal Gear. I found out this week about the ports, and I frankly cannot wait to play MGS2 on my PSP with Kojima’s “transfarring” technology. Hopefully this doesn’t mean I have to buy the game twice though because then that is downright silly. Another silly thing was Flitz’s top 5 list on This Week In Videogames. I talked about Yoshi this time around:

I am also extremely excited to find out more about the upcoming sequel, Uncharted 3. Uncharted is such a fantastic series, and it really is what best approximates the phrase “playing a movie” as the cutscenes are top notch bar none, and the dialogue between your characters even when they are not in a cutscene is believable, witty, and very entertaining.  And as far as the gameplay goes it has one of the slickest cover and combat systems I have seen. Perhaps they will make combat a little more complex than square square triangle, but I don’t really mind if they keep it the way it is. And just to show my excitement for that, I even did a cameo voice over for Shawn and Sohinki’s countdown, seen below:

And that’s it for me this week guys, be sure to check back next week and be checking our awesome blog over at mahalogaming.com for all of our E3 updates!