Love me some Bacon!!!

Kevin Bacon, that is!!!!  I LOVE that Kevin Bacon shows up in the most unlikely roles in movies!  He could be in EVERY movie and I'd never get tired of him!  He's not drop-dead gorgeous like my number 1 Hottie Gerard Butler, but he has a smile that makes you want to just grab him and run away with him to a deserted island!!! 

I got Samuel out of school early again today (3rd time in 3 weeks on Friday--so sue me) and we went to see X-Men: First Class.  I had NO expectations for this movie.  I've seen all the other X-Men movies; I liked them all ok (especially Wolverine--who doesn't LOVE to see Hugh Jackman on screen?!?!), but I have never been a true X-Men fan.  But Samuel wanted to see it, so we did. 

I knew nothing about it except that it was about how the X-Men got started, so everyone, including Charles Xavier would be younger.  I had no idea who was playing the roles, what the story was about....I was totally "blind" going in.

So the movie starts.  I'm enjoying my kid's sized popcorn, doing my best to behave myself for Samuel's sake.  (You know how I can get during a movie.)  Of course, I didn't expect to have any reactions, so I wasn't too worried about the strength of my voice.  I was actually getting ready to have a nice nap.

But I got interested in the story.  And there was this one actor whose face kept haunting me.  I knew I knew who he was, but I couldn't place him.  All of a sudden, at a tense moment in the story, it hit me, "That's Kevin Bacon!"  Yes, I practically shouted it out loud during the movie in the theater.  I apologized out loud and the folks around me just laughed and told me not to worry about it.

Of course, from that moment on, I was engrossed in the story!  I mean, it's KEVIN BACON!!!!  He's brilliant!  One of these days, he's finally going to play a role that puts him on the map where he deserves to be.  Of course, he already is.  I mean, come on, 6-Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a real game that really works more often than not!!!!  Who doesn't know who Kevin Bacon is?!  But I mean as as the IT man---THE go-to man of all movie-dom.

I'm even disappointed that they're doing a re-make of Footloose because I love Kevin Bacon as the lead.  I've always said that the only real reason for a remake of Footloose would be so Kevin could do his own dancing in the warehouse dancing scene!!!!!!  Other than that, you can't mess with close to perfection!!!!

The man is a genius!  I wish I could say that I've seen EVERYTHING Kevin Bacon has ever been in, but that's not so.  But everything I have ever seen him in, he's awesome!!!!  He's also pretty awesome in The River Wild.  I think it's time I add some of the Kevin Bacon movies that I've never seen to my Netflix list......!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about the rest of the movie X-Men:  First Class?  What about it?  If you like the X-Men, you'll like this movie.  I just want MORE Bacon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!