PenBenz

X-CELLENT MOVIE (sorry - not original, but couldn't resist)!!!, Oct 10 2011

I had to see this movie in the theater when I saw the great cast. James McAvoy was x-cellent (of course), but it was SUCH a nice surprise to see Michael Fassbender in a big-budget, Hollywood movie! Of course, he's great in the events of this one and he has the right gravitas for a young Magneto. Great chemistry between him and James McAvoy makes the story believably bittersweet and enlightens your understanding of the previous X-Men movies which happen after this movie. On a side note, if you would like to see Michael Fassbender's AWESOME acting gift, check out "Hunger", an indie film about the IRA hunger strike in Margaret Thatcher's England - he's incredible in it!!!)

Chris Hemsworth body - WOW!!!, Oct 10 2011

I'd heard raves about this movie from friends and family, so to be perfectly honest, it did not live up to my expectations bases on the hype I'd heard. Still, it's a very good movie, with a great cast and good directing from Kenneth Branagh (which was another reason I bought it). Absolutely, hands-down, THE best scene of this movie is the one with a shirtless Chris Hemsworth - WOW!!!

THE PERFECT NOVEL, July 7 2006

This novel is PERFECT - character, setting, conflict, pacing, message, relevance - there is NO area in which in falls short.

I've read this book five times, and it has brought me to tears each time - the writing is that good and that fresh even on a re-read. This is the only novel Harper Lee wrote. On the one hand, it's a shame that such a gifted writer only gave us one novel. On the other, anything else she wrote would have been compared to this novel, and how do you improve perfection?