I've got a blog, what the hell do I write about?

So I've spent the past few days musing over the topic for my next blog posting.  I started with politics/economics but wasn't planning on specialising.  Becoming a Canberra/Spring St commentator wasn't really what I had in mind.  My hope had been to write on numerous topics in an informative manner and maybe get the readers thinking.

Some of the topics I've considered (mainly since they are currently in the news) are organ transplants, a review of the new X-Men movie, more on the carbon dioxide tax or perhaps a great rant on the never-ending encroachment into our lives of the government.  No doubt I'll tackle these in the next week or two when the health is a wee bit better and I can do any necessary research.

Tonight I'll give you a quick review of the X-Men: First Class movie and ask that if there's a topic you think might be good for a Bushnell Report please add it in the comments.

I saw X-Men last night at Village Glen Waverley.  I was ripped off to the tune of $18 to sit in a 15 year old cinema lacking a digital projector.  This did make the original news footage from the 60s used in the film look authentic!

Points go to the cast for dealing with an average script quite well.  Kevin Bacon has a good future playing the bad guy as he steals the show in First Class.  Rose Byrne is excellent.  I have to wait for the credits in every movie to know it's her.

Without giving away too much story, the film is set in the time of the cu ban missile crisis.  Some of the digital effects used make you forget this at times.  The film covers the key points of the X-Men back story: the friendship of Xavier and Lensherr and its failure, the early involvement of the dark side of the US government and the introduction of other key characters.

Most of the key plot holes can be explained away by mutant powers, but the key fact that Lensherr and Xavier are well known to the CIA and treated as hostile at the end of the movie can't be.  Prequels can't cause story anomalies like this.  For this reason plus a couple that I won't mention: 6/10.

More on Monday...