{"id":32213,"date":"2013-01-15T21:48:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T04:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/film-review-x-men-2000.html"},"modified":"2013-01-15T21:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T04:48:01","slug":"film-review-x-men-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/film-review-x-men-2000.html","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: &quot;X-Men&quot; (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also boggling that this movie is as old as my daughter. Halle Berry still is awful in her role (and in how its portrayed), but overall it&#39;s a decent amount of fun. Katherine enjoyed it quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com\/assets\/resized\/film-poster\/2\/7\/7\/2\/3\/27723-x-men-0-150-0-222-crop.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/x-men-2000\/'>Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605 review of X-Men (2000) on Letterboxd.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe first of the X-Men movies, I actually enjoyed this more, now, than I did when it came out. Perhaps that&#8217;s because of lowered expectations. I _expected_ Storm to talk in a really stilted fashion an&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/gR4EuFVw3NK' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also boggling that this movie is as old as my daughter. Halle Berry still is awful in her role (and in how its portrayed), but overall it&#39;s a decent amount of fun. Katherine enjoyed it quite a bit. Embedded Link Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605 review of X-Men (2000) on Letterboxd.com The first of the X-Men movies, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/15\/film-review-x-men-2000.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Film Review: &quot;X-Men&quot; (2000)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32653,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/movie-review-x-men-first-class.html","url_meta":{"origin":32213,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;X-Men: First Class&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Feb-13 10:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't appear to have written a review the first time I watched this, but watching it again with Kay this evening made me remember why I liked the first 90% of it so much, and the last 10% ... well, still a fair amount but not quite so much.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32767,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/movie-review-x-men-origins-wolverine-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":32213,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;X-Men Origins: Wolverine&quot; (2009)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Mar-13 8:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This turned out to be a lot more enjoyable than I'd expected. 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