Why The X-Men: First Class Images May Mean Trouble For The Movie

“incomprehensible mess, while completely ignoring or destroying any character development from the first two films”

I had no problem following the third movie. “Incomprehensible” is invalid. And how did it destroy the character development of the first two? The only characters that were previously fleshed out were Professor X, Wolverine, and Magento. The others were one-dimensional.

He may not have had a reason why they were but he had proof that it was good, you have not told us yet what made it bad (exept for opinions…”Utter Garbage”) Have you even read the comics? They were epic just like X3 (and X-Men Origins, bits and peices)… Read all of the comics and see if any of them didn’t have epic action..

Did you know if Bryan Singer did the movie, he was considering casting Sigourney Weaver as Emma Frost(free fact of the day), and Magneto and Xavier aren’t exactly young… I don’t really see anything that wrong with the comtinuity. One more comment: It think that it was a good choice to leave out Scott, Storm or Jean Grey.They should save them for the next First Class if they make a sequel.

Let`s all calm down and think… this movie could have fallen into the able hands of someone like, say, Joel Shumaher or the bloke who`s directed the old Captain America from the end of the 80`s.
Don`t forget the hype and buzz of Snakes on the Plane and what it`s turned into.
X-Men reboot deserves its chance – and it is up to us only to give it.

What was that plot? I remember there being the gathering of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, The Mutant Cure, and The Rise of Dark Phoenix. Wildly different concepts jammed together to try to get as much action as possible. The ending fight was trite and ridiculous…there was no heroism in the movie. It was awful. Wolverine was OK for the beginning then that Deadpool thing showed up and the reactor and Jean Luc Picard’s ghost (or something) just an awful ending to a movie that was only mildly entertaining. If you are entertained by explosions and action, and that is all you need, I am willing to bet you’ll grow out of that! In the meantime I’d like to see FOX try to tell a story and be less sensational. Perhaps win an Oscar, the story of the X-Men could be told at that level. They just want your money though and don’t care how bad the movie is.

Disney is doing what to the X-Men franchise to kill it? I admire your effort to find conspiracies where they don’t exist, and I mean that in the most pleasant way a back handed compliment can be.

i know that ”SUPERHEROES MOVIES ” are yous adaptations of the original sources (comics) and i will never expect to be full exact with all the details and that the writers take that as a scapegoat to do whatever they want with the characters but WOLVERINE ORIGINS WAS CRAP CRAP CRA CRAP and i have to say only one word to prove my point ”’DEADPOOL”

love the character being reading for almost 10 years and i was ANGRY AS HELL when i walk out of the theater

maybe this will not be as bad as that CRAP , but im sure i will not be as successful as X1 and X2 , that costumes looks like a cheap cosplay
maybe if january jones show more SKIN .will ve succesful but then KIDS wont be allowed to see the movie and little kids are the only ones who just see the movie to see it , and give a crap about truthful fact in characters history LIKE YOU KNOW ”DRAGON BALL EVOLUTION”
the WORSE CRAP since BATMAN & ROBIN

lolol there were logic problems in X3 and total mishandling of Scott & the professor. Thats my biggest beef with it.
Otherwise X3 was THE BEST of the 3.
1 & 2 were not only BORING but hardly faithful to the convoluted comics.

The real problem in adapting anything X related is that ALL the x books since the early 1980s are a gigantic CONVOLUTED nonsensical MESS.
Endless numbers of 1 dimentional characters that have overlapping origins & alternate timelines.

Dont get me wrong- i loved the JIM LEE ERA of X books but technically its all been a pile of fanboy shit since Jean Grey died. ( 31 yrs ago)

Uh, Charli, I’m not a lawyer specializing in entertainment law and copyright, but I suspect someone WOULD try and stop me from refilming the entire X-trilogy and releasing it.

I love these tools whose only response is ‘oh yeah, well could YOU do it better?’ — we’re talking about movies, and hence, art — so you, and I, and eeeeverybody else is entitled to like or dislike whatever we want, and then tell the world what we think. You don’t like that, Charli, then consider moving to North Korea.

Cyclops was freakin’ KILLED—him being a whiny brat was the least of his problems.

Wait, who are you calling a moron? Me or the writer of the article? Because the comparison with Austin Powers isn’t mine.

I honestly think The Wolverine will be the best one of all. Darren Aronofsky directing Hugh Jackman in a movie based on the best Wolverine storyline ever (the Claremont/Miller Japan one)? Fuck yes.

Just a point of clarification for anyone asking, “Why can’t they have the original five X-Men?”

If you’ll recall, Ice Man joined the X-Men in X-Men: United. Angel showed up for the first time in Last Stand.

How are they supposed to tell an origin story with the five original X-Men when the film franchise’s continuity has already nullified that option?

The stills for this film are not what is troubling me (and by troubling me, I mean BARELY troubling me, because come on, we’re talking about a movie here). Rather, the link to the other article about the reshoots as well as Vaughn’s own worries are what is troubling me.

Realistically speaking here, First Class has nothing to lose. Sure, Last Stand and Wolverine Origins were financially successful, but the bar has been drastically lowered. Hopefully Vaughn and his screenwriter won’t get trampled by the board room mentality of the studio and he’ll compromise only when he must. Film-by-committee is never a good way to go, which was all too apparent with the last two films (as well as Spider-Man 3 with Sony demanding Raimi throw Venom into the mix).

Pardon my rudeness, but this article is idiotic. It could all be edited down to a single sentence: “The X-Men First Class images may mean trouble for the movie because in my opinion they are bad. Love, Graeme McMillan”

I don’t like Vaughn as a director, it is already clear that he made it big riding Guy Ritchie’s coat tails. His movies are inane trite and he butchered Stardust, one of the best fantasy novels ever written. First Class could have been good, but these photos looks like a lot of bad choices are being made at a lot of levels.

I think this movie looks just fine and could possibly be the best X-movie we’ve gotten yet (though that wouldn’t be too hard to do). The first image doesn’t look like Austin Powers either; if it did, at least Kevin Bacon would be wearing some floral print or groovy colors. Admittedly, at first I wasn’t interested in a ’60s piece but now I am.

After all these years, I’m not much of an X-Men fan at all. Way too much overexposure, and don’t get me started on how absolutely boring I find Wolverine to be – and I used to love him back when he first appeared!

However, these pictures look fine to me and, quite frankly, I think that you are reading way, way too much into very, very little. But I guess that is what the internet is for – take virtually no information and then ramp it up in an echo chamber until it takes on a life of its own.

X-Men 3 and Wolverine wre as terrible as we fanboys made the out to be.

How shocking, a character from a movie set in the sixties dresses like other characters in movies set in the sixties. Of all the characters Emma will be the one at the height of fashion.

Emma Frost is one of my least favourite characters but I will watch this because its X Men

That is because fanboys (even though I can be one at times) only are concerned with matching costumes (which look ridiculous when translated to reality), eye candy and seeing the silliness of the books translated to screen, which is usually disastrous with the exception of Spider man (1 & 2) and Batman (Begins and Dark Knight) which were beautifully executed. X3′s best features were Juggernaut, Madrox and the Sentinel scene in the Danger Room. I didn’t like Dark Phoenix being cut to a club meeting in the woods and on a bridge, the Cyclops death was unnecessary and Angel being a kid instead of an original XMan was a total failure. They retconned Beast into the script and the same should have been done for Warren. I will pray for Marvel with this one because it seems as if they have lost total control of their franchise.

Well, let’s see: the murder of Cyclops led to the interminable Logan/Jean pairing, which is just crap on every level – and apparently led to Wolverine, of all people, becoming the leader of the X-Men (because, you know, a loose cannon with knives in his hands is the PERFECT candidate for a leadership position). In fact, the film as a whole was focused even more on Wolverine than the first two put together, because clearly we needed more one-note stabby-stabby action. The scenes were muddled and stitched together with all the skill of a butcher trying to do needlework (the scene with the Golden Gate bridge randomly changes from day to night and back again with *no explanation whatsoever*), the killing of Xavier was undone with a pointless post-credits scene that kneecapped the movie’s big plot development (as did Magneto being hinted at getting his powers back). Characters were thrown at the screen with such rapidity that they were rarely even given names, instead often being vaporised or otherwise disposed of without even getting a single line of dialogue. Vinnie Jones used the idiotic internet meme “I’M THE JUGGERNAUT, BITCH!” in his dialogue. The whole Phoenix plot basically ignored the hints laid down in the previous two movies about Jean’s increasing powers being down to the machine Magneto built in the first one (see Jean’s reaction differing from her team-mates) and essentially stated that the Jean we’d got to know in the first two films was actually a fake personality draped over Jean’s real personality – and said real personality was in fact an insane all-powerful monster. Angel is introduced as if he’s going to be a big character (as the film’s trailers suggested), only for him to show up for a very short amount of time, bugger off, then fly back for a bit and then go away again.The film is an unpardonable crime against cinema, and the only really good thing about it is Kelsey Grammer’s Beast..

Singer probably was so into Jackman that he couldn’t resist. (wink wink).
I thought he did a pretty good job, for a basketball player height having Wolverine.

I feveryone pays attention, it seems that Scott, Jean and Storm are out because one would assume (with a full head of hair Xavier) that they were too young and irrelevant during the timing of this piece. Now, if only they can get around to explaining why EMMA is a grown woman in the 60′s and a teenager in her unnecessary appearance as Silver Fox sister (??????) in Wolverine (which was supposed to be circa 70′s-80′s), then maybe I would even bother to give them my hard-earned money to see more ACTION PACKED crap. I ado agree with you on Incredible Hulk, Michael. The Ang Lee version ruined it for the second one.