X-Men First Class (SPOILERS, I'm sure)

Kinda surprised there wasn't a thread for this--at least not one that I could find-.

So, just watched this, and surprisingly, I liked it.

Certainly it wasn't without fault, but as a reboot of the franchise, I didn't find the plot holes I've seen in many superhero films, nor the out of character decisions. I thought it worked reasonably well.

* Kevin Bacon...man, that's good villainny.

* I liked the bull session among the newly recruited mutants, and I'm expecting Darwin to pop up again sometime fully whole.

* I was sad that Raven and Hank never really hooked up.

* I liked recasting Angel as a woman--a dangerous woman.

* Really, the thing that worked best in the movie was that everyone's decisions made sense given the characterizations within the movie. I bought Angel going to the dark side. I bought Erik killing Shaw--I mean, c'mon, how couldn't you? I bought Emma as someone who played the middle for her best outcome, I bought the humans, heck I even bought into Shaw's megalomania.

Okay, feeling stupid here, but who was the mutant creating tornadoes?

Emerkeith Davyjack said:

It does seem odd that , well , the hubbub over DC's revamping understandably commanded loads of attention here , but Thor pretty quickly got and still continues to get luv from the peeps here...First , is Marvel kind of downplaying attention to X-MEN: FIRST CLASS the movie because it wasn't made under Marvel Studios' aspices but ( I suppose ) under the same contract Fox signed to make the earlier X-flix ?

I remember that Marvel regained the Fantastic Four rights from Fox ( Was the 2nd movie a particular BO disappointment for their not to be the " usual " third ??? ) but I think?? , as a variant on DC's rushing another Superman movie into production to get one out before the iegel lawsuit really begins to take effect , Fox has to produce an X-filck every few-dot years to keep the rights and this was three years after the Wolverine one ?

Also , was there some , perhaps , lack of prestiege from the film being based on , at least in the title , what I understand to be a " non-Marvel Universe/616 " title , sort of an Adventures title if not officially deemed that ???

I've never opened a copy , but isn't XMFC the comic-book an " other " version of the Xes where the most popular latter-day mutants , like Wolverine and either Jubilee or Rogue or both of them , are in the line-up ?????

I moved this post here because I saw no need for a second thread.

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Cavaliere (moderator emeritus) June 5, 2011 at 10:58pm

I had to look that up, too. It's Riptide of the Marauders.

The woman Angel in the movie is an established Marvel character, not a Hollywood re-casting. Angel Salvadore

It's disappointing that Oliver Platt's character wasn't given an actual name. It should have, of course, been Fred Duncan.
Pencho15 June 5, 2011 at 11:30pm

It was a fantastic film.
Mike Williams June 6, 2011 at 3:07am

Having seen it yesterday, I agree entirely - just makes you wonder what X-Men: Last Stand would have been liek if Vaughn had not walked away.

The bit that got the biggest reaction in the cinema was the 30 second cameo - you know the one I mean.
Jason Marconnet (Pint sized mod) June 6, 2011 at 5:23am

The 30 second cameo Mike's talking about was great. I didn't even know it was going to be in the film. The audience loved it.

The film it was was great. I enjoyed all the performances. My only complaint was that it had a lot of set up of getting the characters where they needed to be. But that wasn't that bad.

I've got to run but I'll have a bit more later.

If you haven't seen it yet, check it out.
Randy Jackson June 6, 2011 at 11:34am

Yeah, I found out it was Riptide shortly after I posted this. I didn't make the association because I thought his powers worked differently.
Mike Parnell June 6, 2011 at 9:27pm

I am working on a review of it, but I really, really liked this movie.

I noticed that when Magneto presented Shaw, he was held him up in cruciform. I thought it that was interesting presentation of this death.
Jason Marconnet (Pint sized mod) June 7, 2011 at 6:44am

I noticed that too. That was very interesting.

I liked the movie, a lot. While this took place in the 60s it had the same emotional feel as the first two films.

One thing that this film and the other X-films do well is showcasing the mutants power. Each character gets a spolight and we see them display the powers in a different way. Each time it's pretty cool.

One other thing that I think these films do is they showcase strong female characters. Not many damsels in distress here.
Mike Parnell said:

I noticed that when Magneto presented Shaw, he was held him up in cruciform. I thought it that was interesting presentation of this death.
Emerkeith Davyjack June 7, 2011 at 4:33pm

...Haah , I'm writing this before reading beyond th' first para , I , too , was gonna start one , I still will start a non-spoiler one , I saw it last nite & liked it loads...
Emerkeith Davyjack June 7, 2011 at 4:47pm

...A review I read in advance made me anticipate the Wolvie cameo .

Though Stan Lee was still a credited producer , perhaps ( As I said elsewhere . ) it not being a Marvel Studios full-D production made him stay away - and I saw no creators' credit for Stan and Jack , though the New York Times' (!!) review gave them one in the info box of their review .
PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod June 7, 2011 at 6:36pm

Emerkeith Davyjack said:

It does seem odd that , well , the hubbub over DC's revamping understandably commanded loads of attention here , but Thor pretty quickly got and still continues to get luv from the peeps here...First , is Marvel kind of downplaying attention to X-MEN: FIRST CLASS the movie because it wasn't made under Marvel Studios' aspices but ( I suppose ) under the same contract Fox signed to make the earlier X-flix ?

I remember that Marvel regained the Fantastic Four rights from Fox ( Was the 2nd movie a particular BO disappointment for their not to be the " usual " third ??? ) but I think?? , as a variant on DC's rushing another Superman movie into production to get one out before the iegel lawsuit really begins to take effect , Fox has to produce an X-filck every few-dot years to keep the rights and this was three years after the Wolverine one ?

Also , was there some , perhaps , lack of prestiege from the film being based on , at least in the title , what I understand to be a " non-Marvel Universe/616 " title , sort of an Adventures title if not officially deemed that ???

I've never opened a copy , but isn't XMFC the comic-book an " other " version of the Xes where the most popular latter-day mutants , like Wolverine and either Jubilee or Rogue or both of them , are in the line-up ?????

I moved this post here because I saw no need for a second thread.

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