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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbHykKUfTM

Want to really rip it and hate it, but god damn it... damn it all to hell

(youtube might pull it from what I read on the comments - get it while it's still hot)

Looks like a buddy movie to me. Of the quality of Revenge of the Sith

Hot damn that looked promising.

Too many hopes dashed for me to get excited yet though.

Yep, I'm reading beyond the effects to see the potential for serious suck. For instance as the leads. All I can see is Obi wank Kenobi yelling to Anikant "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THE CHOSEN ONE!"

The exchange between the two of them at the end of the trailer was written far better than anything Lucas wrote in the prequels. Can't judge the entire movie from teaser trailer and that one exchange alone, but I liked it well enough to go from ambivalent to interested.

Well. Swab me if that doesn't look like it has some potential. Be curious to see if they get the period look right, though.

Director is Matt Vaughn, he of Kick-Ass and Layer Cake. I have faith in his ability to tell a good story. Trailer looks good.

This is all you need to know:

(http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/x-men-first-class-kevin-bacon-sebastian-shaw-emma-frost.jpg)

Hmm, where's his swashbuckling shirt and why is she wearing clothes, instead of just a corset, knickers and thigh highs ?

Am I misremembering this story which influenced my growing up so ?

She was very scantily clad in the trailer - just a bra and knickers by the looks of it.

YAY

So with Kevin in this type of movie, are we now at 5 degrees?  :why_so_serious:

Kevin Bacon is Sebastian Shaw? 

I'm in.

Prequels as a rule suck.

... but I'll still go and see this.

It has a Hoverjet plane in the 1960s (which the US government somehow forgot existed in Xmen 2) and you are worried about whether they will have the period look right?  :oh_i_see:

 :facepalm:

I'm all for seeing someone else take a stab at Magneto.  I think Ian McKellen is a great actor, but always hated him as Magneto.

Looks awesome. Cant figure out how I missed or didnt see some woman in nickers in the trailer that someone else saw. Must watch again.

It's very brief, right as she's icing over.  I had to pause the trailer to see it, so Drac has better eyes than I do.

I can't see the trailer at work, but I'm still in just for this alone

I assume if it's Emma Frost she is turning into diamond. Sorry, it was bugging me.

Looks.. well.. interesting.

Feels a little odd to have some of the Original X-Men without Cyclops there, but then I guess he was in the new movies due to the timeless, ageless nature of comic books. How old is he now in the comics? 35? maybe 40?

Can you even tell with all the myriad timelines?

Comics don't do canon well in my experience.

That's the exact reason it's hard for me to read mainstream comics anymore. You almost have to pretend that nothing is canon since everything eventually gets retconned anyways.

Comics are soap operas for geeks.  At least soap operas have to move on, though, because actors age and die.   When you run into the wall of trying to keep iconic characters around for 100+ years, it's all going to get stupid and remain that way.

All-Star Superman. Case closed. It's not the age (or agelessness) of the characters that's the problem, it's the unimaginative writers trying too hard to keep fanboys happy with "continuity".

He pulled in Jane Goldman to write the script, who also scripted "Kick-Ass".

This was good.

I'd say 'miraculous' since I almost forgot about the abortion that was x-men 3 for an hour or two.

Good god Ironwood.  I wrote off this movie ages ago as likely sucking, and you made me go look at the reviews.  They're literally through the roof.  53 reviews, all but one is positive, and it's still a few days before release.

Really?  Now you might have me go spend 30$ to buy a ticket.

Purists may find nits to pick, but this is ME talking :

This was a good, enjoyable and fun film, well played.  The cameo was genius.

Go See It.

I suspect one day they'll have a boxed set :  X-Men First Class, X-Men and X-Men 2.

It'll be glorious.

Shutupshutupshutup, it doesn't exist, it was awful.

Maybe, maybe not.  I believe there is a roumor of some sort going around that that First Class may be part 1 of an X-Men beginnings trilogy.

I was going for my own joke, but thanks for playing.

I will say that I'd eagerly see a second prequel one.  I liked it.

Just saw this last night, enjoyed it. Loved the style to it, felt a bit like a 60s bond film. I think it was deliberate, judging by the end credits.

Zoe Kravitz eye-banged me in the East Village last weekend. That said, she's reason enough to see the flick.

Not so much.  I thought Angel was the weakest character in it and was pretty devoid of interest.

I really did like what they did to Mystique though.

That must have hurt.

The part that hurt was Steve Jobs leaping out of the shadows to collect royalties.

Nah. It's in my contract that I get to keep any eye-banging royalties. Steve only gets to jump me in line at the cafeteria.

Whoa...banshee is....  :uhrr:
And Angel is fucked up. Who cast this bitch into the set? Seriously?!

Everything else is great. They had a bit of miss with the castings at some part. But overall, some didn't get a fair fleshing up in their character.

What was wrong with Banshee?  Other then the fact that I occasionally kept getting the mental image of one of the Weasley kids somehow ending up in an X-Men movie, I thought Banshee was ok.

Saw this tonight and thought it was very well done.  I really enjoyed the setting, the story, acting...pretty much everything.

I would agree that Angle was probably one of the weakest characters (though she is hot as hell).  I thought Banshee was fine....

I eagerly await Ronald Reagans X-men!   :awesome_for_real:

I thought this kicked serious ass. Fassbender was great. Unfortunately it didn't open particularly well so who knows what the future holds.

Supremely entertaining and with a solid plot, but weakened by uninspired direction and as clumsy script. Scenes with the CIA and various militaries were especially goofy, and even a touch of deft character development could have made several bit players (and the world they lived in) feel a lot more real. Plenty of wow moments, though, and other than January Jones' Emma Frost everybody was well cast.

Worth seeing on the big screen.

Just saw it. I loved every second. I especially appreciate the fact that the action sequences we're all UP CLOSE SHAKY CAM AND INTENSE!!! We could see what the hell they were doing. Agree w/Teleku, those points kinda stood out. However...

Opening of $56m this weekend. Nothing to sneeze at, but the smallest opening since the original opened with 54 eleven years ago, and even the Wolverine movie opened to 85. Thor opened to 65. All of these are making nice money, Thor is up to 400+ worldwide for example, but still...

I'll be keeping an eye on Green Lantern and Captain America. I have a sneaking suspicion that the great early 21st century superhero movie glut might be coasting a little at this point. Avengers next year will be the one to watch. With all the work Marvel is doing to lead into it, a Hulk-scale "turned a profit but meh" disappointment would be major.

As far as Captain America goes, neither Joe Johnston nor Chris Evans have particularly stellar bodies of work.  If it flops, I don't think it will be any sort of statement on comic book movies as a whole aside from possibly souring peoples anticipation of the Avengers a bit.

Saw XMFC yesterday and enjoyed it.  Good script that tied a lot of the lore into it.  Great acting by the leads, not so much some of the secondaries.  JJ has done some good acting in Mad Men, but she was weak here.  I really like the 60's vibe and Charles saying "Groovy!" was weird.  It was less a reboot than a prequel so I was thankful for that. 

But I liked Thor better and it's not even the best X-Men movie (X2).  The weak box office is a bad sign. 

If I had a major gripe it would be not enough X-Men fighting at the end.  Would have liked to see Shaw fight more and I have never heard of Riptide, or maybe I've forgotten. 

A really solid superhero movie.

I'd say it's because the X-men brand is so hurt from the last movie and a half* that they had a lot of negative backlog to overcome.  Shit's expensive, there's a recession and gas is over the top.  Personally, I'd rather spend cash on movies that don't come from a shitty franchise and see this on DVD.


* The ending of 2 was so lame it still begets "wtf" conversations.

One of the Marauders (around 1986), the story that actually got me in to collecting comics.

(responding to bolded sentence) - I did as well.  It's weird, I felt like XMFC was probably a better-crafted movie, but I enjoyed Thor more.  I go to these movies to see the title-character(s) kick ass, I guess I just didn't feel like that happened here (except, maybe, for Magneto).  As much as folks didn't like the tacked-on romance in Thor, I think it very definitely supplied the "lol, Thor's kickin ASS" moments.

I'd suspect that it being set as a prequel and with unrecognisable characters probably didn't help either.

It also doesn't contain Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, or
I felt it blew away both the previous X-men movies and Thor, personally.

Edit: better late than never?

I would have spoilered that what you did there.

I see what you did there.

On the weak opening: I had not heard of it before this thread (or anywhere outside of this thread), nor have I seen a single bit of advertising for it.

You're watching the wrong shows.  I saw tons of ads leading-up to release.  Most were on Fox, of course, but they were also some during CBS's Monday lineup and during (of course) Big Bang Theory.

That's true, I haven't had cable tv for two months now :)

I never liked Ian Mckellen as Magneto at all but I really liked Michael Fassbender.

Wife and I saw this opening weekend and enjoyed it.  It's really sad to think that Xmen:Last Stand did almost twice the opening weekend gross if the numbers I Googled were right.  First Class was much, much better movie then X3.

Saw this tonight, I thought it was really good. At least as good as the first X-Men, if not better.

Havent seen this yet. Work has been nuts. Up till 3am last night and back up at 7am this morning.
I am going to try to catch it this weekend before seeing Green Lantern.

Mojo editorial out this week saying the same thing basically:
http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3188&p=.htm

These movies aren't flopping, but they aren't doing the ridiculous numbers that make such large gambles worthwhile.

What do we have next summer? Dark Knight Rises, Avengers, Spider-Man reboot? I always tell myself I'm going to go and watch some of these but I don't think I've been to the movies in about a year.

I know I'll see Dark Knight Rises in the theater but that's probably it.

I saw it today. Liked it.

Emma Frost fell totally flat in this one, in my opinion.  She's supposed to be imposing and regal, even as she's walking around in an absurd almost-naked getup.  In First Class she was a boring errand girl.  Not even a tiny smidgen of gravity to her.

Have you seen some of the latest incarnations of Emma Frost?  Was reading a stand alone book in Chapters the other day, and they had Emma in her typical bondage queen getup, but half the time she needed to make a psychic connection to someone she ran around kissing or licking them.

Saw it. Loved it.
Almost on par with the Ironman movie but not quite that good.
Definitely better than nearly every X-men movie that came before it.

Saw it. It was OK. Some of the casting was solid, other parts not so well.

The story, meh, though my expectations were lower.

Entertaining, worth the $8.

I saw this over the weekend and I thought it was fantastic.  Best Xmen movie imo.

Setting it in the 60's was a genius move IMO.  Hope they have more tangles with the Hellfire Club.

It really was very well done. About the only thing that didn't quite make sense to me was Magneto suddenly deciding that a cape and other garish costumery was how he should look. The helmet made sense, the rest seemed odd in terms of how the character was written.