DACrowe
Avenger
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Excited is too strong of a word.
But the recent EW interview with Vaughn has piqued my interest. Ever since Fox/Ratner/Rothman screwed up X3 so bad that it left a taint of failure on the Singer films I have been uninterested in this franchise. I didn't see the full Wolverine prequel movie until it was on HBO. And it also kind of sucked.
But this movie has two things going for it that I love.
1) It is set in the 1960s. During the Cuban Missile Crisis no less. We're talking Bondmania, Beatlemania and Kennedy's America. That sounds deliciously fun if executed smartly by a good director.
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2) It is directed by Matthew Vaughn, who has made three of the most entertaining movies of the last 5 years: Layer Cake, Stardust and Kick-Ass. If he can bring '60s cool to the superhero genre like how he did fantasy in Stardust and meta-humor in Kick-Ass, I am expecting a blast of a film.
I think it is destined to be a box office bomb because the GA has been burned by two bad X-Men movies and this one neither has the star of Hugh Jackman/Wolverine nor a very large marketing budget considering nobody but comic fans know it exists yet.
But if it is a fun movie it is a fun movie and is far enough removed from X3 that that embarrassment of cinema cannot really affect the overall quality of this picture.
My opinion.
But the recent EW interview with Vaughn has piqued my interest. Ever since Fox/Ratner/Rothman screwed up X3 so bad that it left a taint of failure on the Singer films I have been uninterested in this franchise. I didn't see the full Wolverine prequel movie until it was on HBO. And it also kind of sucked.
But this movie has two things going for it that I love.
1) It is set in the 1960s. During the Cuban Missile Crisis no less. We're talking Bondmania, Beatlemania and Kennedy's America. That sounds deliciously fun if executed smartly by a good director.
and
2) It is directed by Matthew Vaughn, who has made three of the most entertaining movies of the last 5 years: Layer Cake, Stardust and Kick-Ass. If he can bring '60s cool to the superhero genre like how he did fantasy in Stardust and meta-humor in Kick-Ass, I am expecting a blast of a film.
I think it is destined to be a box office bomb because the GA has been burned by two bad X-Men movies and this one neither has the star of Hugh Jackman/Wolverine nor a very large marketing budget considering nobody but comic fans know it exists yet.
But if it is a fun movie it is a fun movie and is far enough removed from X3 that that embarrassment of cinema cannot really affect the overall quality of this picture.
My opinion.