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X-Men: First Class
Holy awesome movie, Batman. As we were leaving the theater I turned to my friend and said, "I want to see that again." Just fantastic.

OMG. Could the Charles/Erik have been any more obvious? My goodness. I need some recs. Like, right now. Please, if you have any, toss them my way. :-)

Leverage
Yay!!!!!! Leverage is back!!!!!

I LOVED the season premiere. It may have been the best episode of Leverage yet. Everyone was in top form and nothing felt really forced or out of place.

Parker made my cry. A lot. That scene in the cave with Eliot where she was all, "I want to do the right thing!" Oh, Parker. She's grown so much since the pilot. It's really fantastic to see.

The season arc that they set-up also seems promising. I think we all knew at some point the bad guys they've gone after would try and track them down to get their own back. It'll be interesting to see who it ends up being (or possibly more than one?) and what the team does to escape it. Will they be moving out of Boston? *shrug*

Falling Skies
I'm quite impressed, I must say at this point. It definitely has my attention. I like the fact that it kind of started off in the middle of the story. The aliens are already here and have pretty well conquered us. A lot of previous series always just dealt with the arrival and taken it from there. This whole trying to figure out how to move on and survive is an interesting way to go. And Colin is a total bad ass, which I love. :-)

White Collar, Burn Notice & Suits
Lumping all the USA shows in one. :-)

Loving White Collar so far. The Peter/Neal is totally epic and the boys looked so hot in their tuxes this week. The Nazi art is providing a nice conflict. I wonder if Neal is ever going to tell Peter about it or not. Part of me wants him to, part of me doesn't. I guess we'll find out.

So, Michael's pretty much back in his old job. Though, I'm fairly certain his contact/handler guy is up to something. Not the office dude, the guy that he's in the field with whose name I cannot remember at the moment. Not sure about the Jesse development. I guess we'll have to see how they handle it.

I'm enjoying the new show Suits. Mostly casually, at this point. There seems to be potential for a lot of redundant storylines at the moment (yes, he's a pothead, etc). But it's nice to see Gina Torres back on TV. She's pretty kick ass. So, I'll give this one a few more eps before making up my mind for sure.

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I've got some links or some stuff I've read for X-Men, most of them are AUs though because that seems to be where I've been headed first. Do you still want the links?

Sure! I'll take anything, really. :-)

AU listings: http://swing-set13.livejournal.com/105194.html

Erik and Charles on a road trip: http://striped-fic.livejournal.com/39846.html

College AU: http://gyzym.livejournal.com/101616.html

That's what I've got at the moment.

Of the comic book movies I've seen recently (Thor, X-Men: First Class, and Green Lantern) I have to say that X-Men: First Class was absolutely top notch the best one of them.

I liked when Eliot told Parker that climbing a mountain was different than climbing a building, "You don't see avalanches on buildings, do you?" "No, but that would be awesome!"

Liking Falling Skies and Suits as well. Agree they could easily fall into a rut, but they both have some potential.

Have not seen Thor or Green Latern. Though reviews for both are telling me I'm not missing much. I'll probably rent Green Latern when it comes to DVD just for the Ryan Reynolds in a (fake) spandex suit appeal. He's totally on my list....

Dude. That would be awesome. Oh!! And the Hardison/Parker!! It's like really official now. That makes me happy. :-)

Thor was decent enough. It was probably a little too heady but I strongly suspect that being due to Kenneth Branagh helming the project. He's an excellent Shakespearean director, and you could see elements of that in Thor, but that may not have been the best way to portray the story. It's still worth watching. Chris Hemsworth is going to return for a Thor 2 but Branagh won't be. The best reason for seeing Thor is for its relationship with the other Avenger movies and especially next year's Joss Whedon directed The Avengers. All that's left is Captain America.

Green Lantern was far better than I was prepared for. It's a nice fluffy, fun superhero flick. The CGI, especially while on Oa or in space, was evident and a little too much, but there probably wasn't too much that could be done about it. DC superheroes as a whole are probably too fantasy-based to be translated to the big screen with any justice. (Except for Batman because he's more human, and possibly Green Arrow, but that project has been in limbo for ages.) Still, the movie was fun and not a complete waste of time. Especially if you want to see Reynolds in nothing but tight underwear.

Branagh was definitely one of the big draws to Thor for me. His Hamlet is AMAZING. And, I had forgotten about The Avengers relationship. Yeah, I'll definitely have to see that one at some point.

Green Latern is now saved in my Netflix queue for whenever it's released. :-)

Personally I really enjoyed Branagh's interpretation. The Shakespearian viewpoint worked for the story that it was. But I can fully understand that it wouldn't go over as well with a comic book crowd. Plus, where there is Branagh, there is a Patrick Doyle score, which was truly phenomenal. Compared to First Class or the first Iron Man, Thor wasn't the best film, but it is definitely worth watching. Plus, Jeremy Renner cameos as Hawkeye and he's supposed to be back in a major way in The Avengers.

I have two weeks left to decide if I want to scrounge up a business suit so I can apply for an extras role for The Avengers. I can't believe so much hotness is coming here to my hometown. I'm kind of petrified by it.

Excellent! I think there's a second run theater around here somewhere. Perhaps I shall see if it's there or coming there.

DO IT!!! That would be awesome!!!!

I heard x-men was terrible, but I'm more likely to trust you then random reviewers. And as proof of how slash has re-wired my brain, I was watching the other movies (fx had a marathon) and I was like "yes, they need to have many proper British babies together." Teehee.

And I'm liking falling skies too. The direction the relationships are going to go in are kind of painfully obvious, but other than that, it's awesome. The aliens are creepy, and the whole harness thing has me interested. And of course, how awesome is Colin? And surprise, he cooks.

One completely random thing that bothers me is that the blonde girl looks soooo familiar. I've seen her in something, like, recently, but I looked up her imdb and there was nothing that made me go 'ah-HA!' Oh well.

Where did you hear X-Men was terrible? Everyone is saying it's fantastic and they're all very right! Seriously, go see it. Sooooooooooo awesome.

I'm not so worried about the relationship stuff in Falling Skies. Nothing's seeming forced or coming out of nowhere yet, so. *shrugs* I'm fine with everything at the moment.

You know, I don't even know! But those movies have been getting steadily worse, so my hopes aren't super high. But on the other hand, james mcavoy...so...yeah...

I'm not saying I'm upset about falling skies, I'm just good at guessing where it's going.

FWIW, First Class truly wipes the palate clean of the atrocity that was X-Men 3. I think it's even better than X2 and I really liked X2. And James McAvoy is terribly handsome. And Michael Fassbender is terribly handsome. And together they are terribly handsome. And... yeah.

Yeah, those are the 2 reasons I plan on seeing it eventually. :)

Here's another vote for X-Men 1st Class being FAR from terrible. It was really really really good.

Plus, the Logan cameo was priceless!!

OMG! The Logan cameo was phenomenal. So unexpected and just spot on. LOL

I love El wanting to get the prom picture. They posed together. :D Love the shameless slashy moments in White Collar.

I think his name is max. You're talking about Grant Show, right? It was a good ep. I love when Madeline has more of a role. Sharon's great.

Michael and Fi moving in together. Yay!

I love El. She's awesome. And they just feed right into it. Fantastic. :-)

Max! Yes, that's him. I read that Madeline is going to be more prominent this whole season, really. That seems promising to me. :-)

Leverage: I found the season opener to kind of 'meh' but I did love the scene with Parker and Elliot as well. And tonight's episode had my 'Firefly' geek squeeing with Elliot looking like Badger ^-^

Falling Skies: I agree with you, I love how they opened it up- just put you in the middle and you had to listen to figure out what happened. And I have to admit that I didn't recognize Colin until tonight's episode, he looks so different! LOL

White Collar: yes, they did look awesome in the tux's! And during the "fight" I wonder how much of what they said both of them had been wanting to say to the other since day one (if that makes any sense) ;)

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