X-MEN: FIRST CLASS: Birth of a Nation

I guess X-MEN: FIRST CLASS was set in the ‘60s to better reflect Matthew Vaughn’s thoughtless patriarchal identification, because it damn sure wasn’t about civil rights, the Cold War, liberation, or the Holocaust, weighty abstracts whittled into icons, the better for Vaughn to pretend his film has some deep, world-historical meaning

Jun 14, 2011 | Categories:Action, Blog, Brandon Nowalk, Fantasy, Reviews, Science Fiction, Sequels | Tags: 2011, comic, film review, James McAvoy, january jones, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Vaughn, michael fassbender, superhero, X-Men, X-Men: First Class | 7 Comments »