Modern Movie Monday: Man of Steel (2013)
Plot Summary
As the planet of Krypton crumbles, General Zod (Michael Shannon)
stages a coup as concerned leader Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and his wife
send their infant son Kal-El (Henry Cavill) to a distant world called Earth. While the
young child travels through space with an object containing the DNA of
his home planet, General Zod and his cohorts are sentenced to an
eternity in a black-hole prison. Named Clark and raised by kindly
farmers Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent (Diane Lane),
young Kal-El lives in fear of what might happen should his neighbors
learn about his extraterrestrial origins, eventually exploring the world
in search of himself. In time, Clark's travels take him to a frozen
tundra, where the American government has discovered an 18,000-year-old
anomaly buried deep in the ice. Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane (Amy Adams)
has just come to investigate when, after venturing out with her camera,
she has a profound encounter with Clark. Convinced that his presence on
Earth is proof of life on other planets, Lois finds her attempt to
publish the story thwarted by her boss Perry White (Laurence Fishburne),
who rejects it outright. Later, the airwaves are hijacked by General
Zod, who threatens to obliterate the human race if they fail to hand
over Kal-El within 24 hours. Forced to embrace his otherworldly origins
for the first time in his life, Clark Kent dons the special suit from
Krypton and prepares to take a stand against an enemy far more powerful
than any he's ever known.
(Delayed) Modern Movie Monday: The Wolverine (2013)
Plot Summary
Logan (Hugh Jackman) has become a hermit, living in the woods alone and haunted by
nightmares of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen). One day, Yukio, (Rila Fukushima) who is
skilled with a samurai sword, visits Logan and tells him that her master, the powerful businessman Yashida, (Hal Yamanouchi) is dying and wants to see
him for the last time. Yashida was a Japanese soldier that
Logan saved the life of in Nagasaki in World War II. Logan travels
Japan with Yukio and the moribund Yashida offers mortality to Logan but Logan does not accept the offer. While
sleeping, Logan has a weird dream involving Yashida's doctor Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova) and soon
Yashida dies. Logan stays for the funeral and the Yakuza tries to abduct
Yashida's granddaughter Mariko (Tao Okamoto) during the ceremony. Logan saves and escapes with Mariko, but he is shot and does not heal from the wounds. Logan
protects Mariko and tries to find out what has happened to him.
X-Men First Class (2011)
Plot Summary
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and
Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first
time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends,
working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop
the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift
between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's
Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.
X-Men Oriigns: Wolverine (2009)
Plot Summary
Two mutant brothers, Logan and Victor, born 200 years ago, suffer
childhood trauma and have only each other to depend on. Basically,
they're fighters and killers, living from war to war through U.S.
history. In modern times, a U.S. colonel, Stryker, recruits them and
other mutants as commandos. Logan quits and becomes a logger, falling in
love with a local teacher. When Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker's crew,
the colonel sends the murderous Victor. Logan now wants revenge.
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Plot Summary
When a private laboratory supported by the government finds the cure for
the mutants, using the DNA of a powerful boy, the mutants have the
option of giving up their powers and become human, but their society
split. Magneto opposes and decides to join a force to fight against the
government and kill the mutant boy. Meanwhile, Jean Grey resurrects
uncontrolled by Xavier and with the personality of the powerful Dark
Phoenix. She destroys Cyclops and Professor Charles Xavier, and allies
to the evil forces of Magneto, making them almost invincible.
X-2: X-Men United (2003)
Plot Summary
After the events on Liberty Island, everyone at Xavier's School for
Gifted Youngsters is settling in. Magneto (Ian McKellen) is locked up in a plastic
cell, Rogue (Anna Paquin) and Bobby Drake (Shawn Ashmore) have finally gotten together, and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)
has set off to find his origins. But it won't stay quiet for long. After
a mutant attack on the President, everyone starts to fear any type of
mutant. William Stryker, (Brian Cox) a military man cum scientist who plans to stop all mutants, takes over the
school, causing Wolverine and his team of mutants to go into hiding.
Stryker has managed to capture Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and will use him to create another
version of Cerebro. Wolverine and the team must now team up with their
enemy, Magneto, to stop Stryker before it's too late
X-Men (2000)
Plot Summary
In the near future, when children are being born with a special X-factor
in their genes, giving them special powers and making them mutants, the
seeds of a new Holocaust are being sown by Senator Robert Kelly. (Bruce Davison) The
situation brings into opposition the fellow mutants and former friends,
Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, (Ian McKellen) and Professor Charles Xavier. (Patrick Stewart) While
Xavier wants a peaceful means of stopping the hatred toward mutants,
Magneto seeks to even things out with a machine that would speed up the
mutation process in all humans, making everyone equal. To stop Magneto,
Xavier brings together a special group of mutants called "X-Men" to stop
him. In the meantime, two mysterious mutants emerge: Logan, (Hugh Jackman) a powerful
and aggressive mutant with no past, no memories, and a young girl named
Rogue. (Anna Paquin) Their quests for identities eventually land them in the sights of
Xavier and Magneto, but for what purpose?
