X Men - Days of Future Past

I am not a big comic book fan or as "my kids" called them : graphic novels.  Nope, a comic book is still a comic book!  My idea was and remains Sad Sack and Beetle Bailey, my two favorites from my childhood and how I wish my mother had not thrown my completed collection of Sad Sacks away when I was off to college!  Oh well, add those to my marbles and stamp collection which also disappeared in my absence.  Sigh ...

So, I put off seeing this one due to lack of interest in the subject matter, plus I am one of those rare men whom really finds nothing interesting in the spray painted body of Jennifer Lawrence.  Sorry dear, I know everyone thinks you are hot, but it is what is on the inside that makes you hot, not the packaging.  So, yeah, no interest.

But it was at the dollar theater and movies make me at least believe I am not alone in this world, so one particularly bad day last week for me, I succumbed and went to see it.

The movie was actually much better than I expected.  It was entertaining - meaning it has no basis in reality, no matter how hard they tried to make it seem reasonable.

Usual cast of characters, plot sends Wolverine back in time to try and stop blue girl from killing someone, whose death causes the extinction of the mutants.  Yawn .....

For me it was a hoot to see someone playing Richard Nixon.  I liked the man in real life and he was at least nice to me when I met him in 1972.  Even gave me an appointment to the Coast Guard Academy, as a favor to father (whom knew quite well) - too bad I flunked the physical - sigh.

If you have not seen it, it might be worth your while, if your town has a dollar theater or you can borrow the disc from one of your friends.  Certainly, I would not have dropped $10 or even $14, as the first run movies run around here cost!  Eepah!  Add popcorn and a soda and you just added $15 to the price tag of your movie - and you have to have both!

2014 has been a bit of a dismal statement for movies it seems.  Lots of rehashing of older material both last year and this year.  Edge of Tomorrow was probably the best I have seen this year.