X:Men: First Class

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Just saw it. Awesome. Best of the X-Men movies, in my opinion.

Anyone else see it?

[OrphanPip]

I thought it was alright, definitely better than the previous two X-men movies. I don't know what it is about all of the X-men movies, they just don't do anything for me, despite them being for the most part alright films. On the bright side, this film provides the basis for continuing the X-men franchise without having to deal with the cluster**** of X-3.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Well, I'm an X-Men fanboy (though not one of those annoying ones who are complaining about Havoc being in there because he shouldn't have even been born yet, blah blah blah) so I'm a bit biased. I even enjoyed the third one, though it was not nearly as good as the first two, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine really was a cluster****, though it did have moments of coolness.

I just found this one so well made, well-acted, and really added the human element that the previous films failed to evoke, which is what X-Men has always been about--seclusion and being an outcast (well, that and super-cool powers). I loved seeing the birth of the clash between Professor-X and Magneto, and Magneto's ending speech gave me chills, even if it was sort of cheesy. Plus, the story wasn't centered on Wolverine! Thank God!

Aside from some poor pacing in the first half-hour or so (it seemed quite rushed), I just loved the movie.

[JuniperWoolf]

When it comes to comic book movies, I can't deal with consistancy errors (exception = Batman Begins which didn't portray The Joker as killing Bruce Wayne's family), so I probably won't go see it.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Consistency errors don't bother me. Two different mediums. Plus, in both DC and Marvel, they have so many alternate universes/story lines going, it doesn't really matter. They don't keep things consistent in the comics in the first place, :lol:.

[OrphanPip]

The Havoc thing is a bit weird though, if he's in his 20s in the 60s, and Scott is in his 20s in the 90s. That's a pretty big gap between children for their parents :p.

I read one review that complained about everyone using 21st century slang and having modern hair cuts while running around in the 60s.

Edit: And January Jones should be cast in like every movie, just because of how awesome her name is.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Okay, the Havoc thing did bother me a little bit. But seeing as how this is pretty much just a partial reboot to test the waters, they'll bring in the first-stringers (or maybe just a couple) in the next movie, and I wouldn't be surprised if they brought in Havoc's bro. Disregard other trilogy, problem solved. Stilllll, I don't know why they didn't just use Chamber in place of Havoc, someone with a power almost closer to what is portrayed in the movie as Havoc's, and more obscure, which seemed to be what they were going for.

The slang didn't bother me, though. At one point, I did find myself thinking while looking at Havoc, So they had that stupid hairstyle in the 70s, too?

[Alexander III]

I saw it yesterday and I quite liked it, the best of the x-men movies by far for me. What I really liked was that it was not just a movie full of awesome 'splosions, Charles and Magneto were interesting characters and in the movie there was quite a lot of intersting thoughts which the other movies lacked.

To be honest I didn't notice the use of modern slang until it was pointed out. But I agree that the hair cuts did not fit in with the 60's, but at least they got the clothes prety darn right.

I agree with Mutatis that the film felt far to rushed, as if this was not the real film but a port-manteau of a trilogy meshed into one film.

[JuniperWoolf]

So did it have Angel, Beast, Marvel Girl, Cyclops and Iceman like from the old school 60's comics? I just saw Emma Frost in the commercial which is what irks me, but I'm not sure which "original X men" they went with. Pretty sure I saw beast.

It's not SO weird for Havoc to be there, he was a 70's character I think (as long as they don't follow the other films' timeline).

[OrphanPip]

So did it have Angel, Beast, Marvel Girl, Cyclops and Iceman like from the old school 60's comics? I just saw Emma Frost in the commercial which is what irks me, but I'm not sure which "original X men" they went with. Pretty sure I saw beast.

No they mixed x-men from the different series. The team was Xavier, Magneto, Beast, Havoc, Banshee, and Mystique. They also had two newer mutants, a female Angel and Darwin.

Shaw and Frost from the Hellfire club were the primary villains. With a silent Azazel and Riptide backing them up (they literally don't speak the entire movie).

Probably to keep continuity with the films, since Jean Gray, Cyclops and Iceman were all young in the older films. I think they must have retconned Mystique, otherwise the plot makes no sense lol.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Actually, Riptide doesn't speak, but Azazel has a few words in a pretty awesome accent.

And, as to Mystique, they solved that little problem with a quick bit of dialogue, saying her cells age twice as slowly as a normal person's.

But, what I think is going to happen is they're going to just disregard the old trilogy and bring in Cyclops, Jean Gray, and some others, I'm thinking Storm (apparently they showed her when Professor X was in Cerebro, a young black girl with white hair) and Iceman (who never did get good treatment in the trilogy, imo, and neither did Cyclops).

[JuniperWoolf]

No kidding, didn't they kill cyclops? I don't like Scott anyway, but he's been the team leader off and on for fifty years. It was a pretty weird move to just... I think Jean Grey dissolved him or something, I don't keep up with the films very well.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Yeah, they killed him in the third movie, or at least intimated as much. Maybe they were going to bring him back for a possible fourth, but I think ideas for a fourth film were scrapped when the third one was so badly received. Cyclops was just poorly treated in all three movies. The first one he uses his powers a couple times, has a few lines, and seems to be nothing more than Professor X's lapdog. The second film he's a bad guy half the time, and the third one he's killed off before the film's even halfway through. I have a friend who's favorite character has always been Cyclops, and he's still pissed, lol.