{"id":16316,"date":"2011-06-03T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=16316"},"modified":"2017-05-19T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T20:41:36","slug":"weekend-movies-jun-3-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/weekend-movies-jun-3-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Movies: ‘X-Men’ Stands Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the only movie opening wide this weekend, the new ‘X-Men’ prequel is almost a sure-fire box office winner. Currently at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> with over 80 reviews, it just might end up being the best-reviewed summer blockbuster of 2011.
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Like I said in my review<\/a>, ‘X-Men: First Class<\/strong>‘ apologetically makes up for the last two terrible ‘X-Men’ movies, ‘The Last Stand<\/a>‘ and ‘Wolverine<\/a>‘. Combining solid performances from Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence with the strong directorial work of Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass<\/a>‘) and unforgettable cool action sequences, ‘First Class’ takes the ‘X-Men’ franchise in a new, bold and refreshing direction.<\/p>\n

The only other noteworthy film opening this weekend is the dramedy ‘Beginners<\/strong>‘ starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and M\u00e9lanie Laurent. This beautiful coming-of-middle-age tale is well worth watching and expands into more markets over the next few weeks. Read my review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The last box office move this weekend is the expansion of Woody Allen’s latest comedy ‘Midnight in Paris’. I’ll have a review of that soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the only movie opening wide this weekend, the new ‘X-Men’ prequel is almost a sure-fire box office winner. Currently at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes with over 80 reviews, it just might end up being the best-reviewed summer blockbuster of 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":16318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[3050,3051,2143,2252,2217,3047,623,2941,134,1627,273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16316"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16645,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316\/revisions\/16645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}