{"id":6788,"date":"2011-06-04T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2011-06-04T23:04:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T06:04:58","slug":"x-men-first-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/06\/04\/x-men-first-class\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men: First Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to see X-Men: First Class with the Tapias. Overall a pretty good and entertaining movie but for me there were a few moments that seemed to drag on a bit. The evolution of, and relationship between, the Professor Xavier and Derek (Magneto) characters I thought was handled very well. Loved the two surprise cameos but was disappointed that there wasn&#8217;t any surprise after the credits.\u00a0The big action scenes were very well done and the special effects were of course flawless.\u00a0There also seemed to be a lot of attractive women in skivvies in this movie. Those parts didn&#8217;t drag.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"570\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pacsworlds.com\\\/blogs\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/04\\\/x-men-first-class\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:21460605}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 570px; height: 401px;\" data-original-width=\"570\" data-original-height=\"401\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 299px; height: 401px;\" data-original-width=\"299\" data-original-height=\"401\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Theater02-06-04-11-lo-res.jpg?ssl=1\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"lightbox[6788]\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"295\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"197\"> <img data-attachment-id=\"6790\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Theater02-06-04-11-lo-res.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1307186459&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Theater02 06-04-11 lo-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Theater02-06-04-11-lo-res.jpg?fit=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Theater02-06-04-11-lo-res.jpg?fit=570%2C380&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Theater02-06-04-11-lo-res.jpg?w=295&#038;h=197&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" data-original-width=\"295\" data-original-height=\"197\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Theater02 06-04-11 lo-res\" alt=\"Theater02 06-04-11 lo-res\" style=\"width: 295px; 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Overall a pretty good and entertaining movie but for me there were a few moments that seemed to drag on a bit. The evolution of, and relationship between, the Professor Xavier and Derek (Magneto) characters I thought was handled very well. Loved the two surprise cameos &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/06\/04\/x-men-first-class\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[50,59],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-1Lu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8680,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/09\/17\/dinner-and-an-x-show\/","url_meta":{"origin":6788,"position":0},"title":"Dinner And An X-Show","date":"September 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Finished off my full Balboa Park day with a stop at Starbucks and a giant, delicious shredded beef chimichanga from Colima's Mexican Food while watching X-Men: First Class on DVD at the Tapias' house. I really liked the movie the first time I saw it in the theater and actually\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Colimas-Dinner01-09-17-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7928,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/08\/06\/outdoor-movie-night-for-three\/","url_meta":{"origin":6788,"position":1},"title":"Outdoor Movie Night For Three","date":"August 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Setup a small outdoor movie theater in the Tapias' backyard patio complete with hanging chairs, projector and drape-screen to watch\u00a0the\u00a0movie \"Rio.\" \u00a0The movie looked fantastic with amazing animation, but at times\u00a0the\u00a0main characters seemed flat and uninteresting, had poor dialogue and overall it was pretty predictable. Some of the main characters\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Movie-Night01-08-06-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11065,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/01\/19\/starting-with-sdnhm\/","url_meta":{"origin":6788,"position":2},"title":"Starting With SDNHM","date":"January 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a really good day today, which started with a couple of hours spent at the San Diego Natural History Museum. The main reason for my visit was to watch Sharks 3D, the final 3D movie they have that I needed to see. While some of the shots were truly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Balboa Park&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10723,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/12\/31\/so-long-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":6788,"position":3},"title":"So Long, 2011","date":"December 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"So my last day of the year started out innocently enough, with me finishing up some uninteresting, non-blog-worthy tasks. That was until I went down to Sylvia and Rodrigo's house in fog-encased Chula Vista. We watched a couple of episodes of \"Mad Men,\" and then had pizza for dinner while\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Eve01-12-31-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11773,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/01\/pizza-cookies-and-hugo\/","url_meta":{"origin":6788,"position":4},"title":"Pizza, Cookies And Hugo","date":"March 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Had an intimate chat-with-lunch gathering at the Tapias with both Rodrigo and Sylvia, as well as with Randy who braved the drive down from Orange County just to hang out with us. Our gathering began with picking up a deliciously large combo pizza from the newly remodeled outdoor food area\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Pizza-Cookies01-03-01-12-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10070,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/12\/03\/day-two-of-tapia-christmas-decorating\/","url_meta":{"origin":6788,"position":5},"title":"Day Two Of Tapia Christmas Decorating","date":"December 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The second day of helping the Tapias decorate the outside of their house for Christmas crucially began with a delicious scrambled eggs and bacon breakfast, after which Sylvia got busy with drawing, cutting out, painting and decorating some larger candy-canes and gingerbread men to place at the front of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Christmas&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Xmas-Decorating01-12-03-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6793,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}