X-Men First Class

[Fez]

Saw this yesterday.

Christ that was good.

As in near Dark Knight good.

January Jones and Jennifer Lawrence in the same film while the whole film's structure reflected that of the civil rights movement and it fit together into the X-Men canon with surgical precision. The final moments you can almost hear the screws tightening on all the series.

Anyone else seen it or am I the only one who's seen film of the year?

[Nemo]

I LOVED it. It was absolutely brilliant. Major fan of the x-men series and i really hope this isnt the last (although it would certainly end on a high).

Having done GCSE history i had a much larger appreciation as well for the cold war references. Enjoyed pretty much everything about it, and i gotta say, the devil fella was probably my favourite.

[Neversoft]

Saw it last week and loved it. Far better than The Dark Knight.

It was heartbreaking when Charles lost his legs, I was dreading it the whole film. Also, I loved the Magneto slow-mo coin sequence at the end and Wolverine's cameo.


it fit together into the X-Men canon with surgical precision

Actually, it didn't. Emma Frost is a lot older in First Class than she is in Origins and Cyclops is Havocs older brother, yet in Origins (which is set at least twenty years after First Class) he is in his teens, while Havoc is in his teens in First Class. There are a few other minor inaccuracies, too. I attended a panel by the writers of X-Men: First Class and they were asked about this and acknowledged the flaws in continuity.

[Chris]

I thought it was the bext x-men film. It gave me a huge insight and answered a lot of my questions from the other films! :D

[Shar]

I really want to watch it now :(
I'm going to try to some time this week :)

[Paracme]

Meh, I still prefered X-Men 2. It was awesome though. I saw it twice on release day and I'm still quoting it.

[The Don]

I thought it was the best x-men film yet, apparently, it's the start of a new trilogy, so i'm looking forward to the next 2. I'm glad it wasn't all about wolverine as well, and I agree with neem, the devil mutant was the highlight for me, I didn't know that him and raven were Night crawlers parents until a friend told me :P it was funny how they killed the token black guy off first as well, especially seeing as his power made him pretty much death proof haha.

[Nemo]

Saw it last week and loved it. Far better than The Dark Knight.

It was heartbreaking when Charles lost his legs, I was dreading it the whole film. Also, I loved the Magneto slow-mo coin sequence at the end and Wolverine's cameo.



Actually, it didn't. Emma Frost is a lot older in First Class than she is in Origins and Cyclops is Havocs older brother, yet in Origins (which is set at least twenty years after First Class) he is in his teens, while Havoc is in his teens in First Class. There are a few other minor inaccuracies, too. I attended a panel by the writers of X-Men: First Class and they were asked about this and acknowledged the flaws in continuity.
Yeah i noticed a few too, for example
in the, i believe, third film when the xavier and magneto go and visit jean for the first time, xavier is walking but is his old, bald self. Yet in this one he's young and cannot walk (at the end obviously) so.... yeah. That didnt make much sense.

[David]

I'm guessing this is highly recommended to see? As I've not yet went to see it :$

[Zeptis]

I saw it yesterday aswell it was pretty good, it didn't fail to disappoint, this was my first x-men movie and I was sad to see Raven got with magnito since he is a meani poopoo head. I hope they make another soon.

[simplymagic]

Saw it on release day, never seen an xmen movie, my mate is a right nerd so I agreed to it. I really enjoyed it, what better place to start on a franchise than a prequel. Although there is one thing i dont get and this might be a spoiler but because its a prequel i dunno.

Why did raven move to the villains side after. I mean i know she was a villain in trailers for other films but it the development wasn't really good in the scene which is did. What was her reasoning? Her oldest mate was loosing his legs and she went to the other side while it happened like kicking him while he is down. Now i'm thinking about it, it might be because he hated the way she looked in her blue normal form and magnito (w.e his name is) thought she looked beauitful the way she is?

Btw i got teary eyed at the end because i thought he was going to die because i havent seen the sequels. lol :')

[Lost_Addict]

Simply amazing film. I'm fairly sure Xmen Origins: Wolverine 2 is confirmed aswell as Xmen Origins: Storm

[Neversoft]

Saw it on release day, never seen an xmen movie, my mate is a right nerd so I agreed to it. I really enjoyed it, what better place to start on a franchise than a prequel. Although there is one thing i dont get and this might be a spoiler but because its a prequel i dunno.

Why did raven move to the villains side after. I mean i know she was a villain in trailers for other films but it the development wasn't really good in the scene which is did. What was her reasoning? Her oldest mate was loosing his legs and she went to the other side while it happened like kicking him while he is down. Now i'm thinking about it, it might be because he hated the way she looked in her blue normal form and magnito (w.e his name is) thought she looked beauitful the way she is?

Btw i got teary eyed at the end because i thought he was going to die because i havent seen the sequels. lol :')

She went to Magneto's side because he accepted her in her true form and ecouraged her to embrace her mutation, while Charles preferred her as a human. The development was good, throughout the whole film she was battling with herself to try and open up to her mutation and she finally found salvation and acceptance in the form of Magneto. She wasn't 'kicking Charles while he was down' as you put it, if you remember Charles actually told her to join Magneto.

[simplymagic]

She went to Magneto's side because he accepted her in her true form and ecouraged her to embrace her mutation, while Charles preferred her as a human. The development was good, throughout the whole film she was battling with herself to try and open up to her mutation and she finally found salvation and acceptance in the form of Magneto. She wasn't 'kicking Charles while he was down' as you put it, if you remember Charles actually told her to join Magneto.

O tru tru. Can't remember him saying that, got a bit emotional by then lol. Raven is my fav character <3

[Fez]

Saw it last week and loved it. Far better than The Dark Knight.

It was heartbreaking when Charles lost his legs, I was dreading it the whole film. Also, I loved the Magneto slow-mo coin sequence at the end and Wolverine's cameo.



Actually, it didn't. Emma Frost is a lot older in First Class than she is in Origins and Cyclops is Havocs older brother, yet in Origins (which is set at least twenty years after First Class) he is in his teens, while Havoc is in his teens in First Class. There are a few other minor inaccuracies, too. I attended a panel by the writers of X-Men: First Class and they were asked about this and acknowledged the flaws in continuity.

Well that probably means the events of Origins didn't happen.

And I for one absolutely support that.

Same with the bits about Last Stand not really happening. The movie is so good because it deletes two horrible ones.

[Neversoft]

Well that probably means the events of Origins didn't happen.

And I for one absolutely support that.

Same with the bits about Last Stand not really happening. The movie is so good because it deletes two horrible ones.

The writers... acknowledged... the flaws... I was there. I heard them say it. Origins is canon, it is an official X-Men film, the events of Origins did happen.

[Fez]

The writers... acknowledged... the flaws... I was there. I heard them say it. Origins is canon, it is an official X-Men film, the events of Origins did happen.

Well that's disappointing, good to know they're totally fine if Last Stand doesn't exist.

I say that, like the Star Wars prequels, Origins and Last Stand never ever happened.

Besides, at the end of the day, the film still falls into neat canon for the most part and pulls of the job of setting stuff up.