X-Men First Class (2011)

[runningman]

Re: X-Men First Class (2011)

ya I know but in the comics Charles Xavier was born in NYC and went to Harvard. The new Charles Xavier went to Oxford.. I don't know why they did that.

It is like when they tried to make Green Lantern a black guy... you can't change something that is already something.

[feather]

Re: X-Men First Class (2011)

X-Men First Class is like an alternate origin hence the slightly different story and characters, they don't go with the timeline of the original X-Men.

The black Green Lantern is John Stewart, just another character in the Green Lantern series. They didn't actually turn a white character to a black character. Original Green Lantern is still Hal Jordan.

But they did turn Nick Fury black in some of the comics and now Nick Fury in the movies is Samuel L Jackson.

[Highsteppa]

Re: X-Men First Class (2011)

I dug it for the most part - the first hour of the movie is absolutely solid, but the second half kind of starts to get a bit wonky.

Michael Fassbender should audition for James Bond if Daniel Craig steps down, he'd make an outstanding Bond given what he does with Magneto here. James MacAvoy seems to be forced to touch his forehead a lot and make like he's getting migranes, but does manage to capture a lot of the mannerisms and characteristics that Patrick Stewart brought to the Professor X character. And January Jones was fucking awful in this whenever she opened her mouth.

I was pretty impressed with how they were weaving history and the events of the Cuban Missle Crisis into the whole story - Matthew Vaughn did a great job here and even managed to evoke some reminders to why he's got a bright future ahead of him with how he pulled out some of his old tricks that he used in Layer Cake.

It's a decent summer superhero film. Not the best, but it certainly makes up for the shitty X3 sequel and how they ruined a lot of the characters.

[Corven]

Re: X-Men First Class (2011)

i thought this was the best X-men 'sequel' apart from the first film

[feather]

Re: X-Men First Class (2011)

I heard January Jones sucked.

[res0nat0r]

Re: X-Men First Class (2011)

^yeah she wasn't great. but her standing around in her underwear was.

[ravichayal2]

Re: X-Men First Class (2011)

X-Men First Class (2011) movie is on of my favorite in

X-Men Series

[demonAfro]

Re: X-Men First Class (2011)

Enjoyed it quite a bit, yep.

As for the whole Oxford/Harvard thing, imo it made no difference at all The only thing that irked me was that he seemed to become a professor in the US sense of the word at a UK institution, hmm. And McAvoy was okay but, of course, nothing compared to the commanding stage presence of Stewart and McKellen.

Apart from that, all good fun.