'X-Men: First Class' Thread

Janson wrote:X1 was just awful. Sabretooth was basically a prop.

Janson wrote: Why the hell did Rogue go to Canada?

Janson wrote: What happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? It croaks? No? Same thing that happens to everything else? Really?!

Janson wrote:
The yellow spandex line just pissed me right the fuck off, nowhere in the comics is it ever said that the costumes are made of spandex, they are either colored leather, silk or that material Reed made. And so many more things that it would take me forever to name all the crap that was wrong with that movie.

dude.....seriously? that...was the most fanboy-ish, nonsense statment i've ever heard in my life. i know you're better than that, come on son.

colossus1979 wrote:


dude.....seriously? that...was the most fanboy-ish, nonsense statment i've ever heard in my life. i know you're better than that, come on son.

Janson wrote:Red what was your biggest beef with X3?

my BIGGEST beef with x-3....is that it even exists. the first part of the movieis the flashback of mags and prof. x meeting jean in an almost "dumbledore metting tom riddle" scene which gives a good insight into her phoenix alter-ego. they fast track back to the present time, life goes on as usual in the mansion i suppose...regular school classes, and a danger room session for the "x-men in training" which is fine. but then cyclops who'd been riddled with guilt and depression over jeans death.....decides to throw a healing crack at wolvy, not shave and go on a bike ride to canada because he hears voices. then for no reason he just eyebeams the water and sees the phoenix cocoon then she comes out and vaporizes him. then there's the cure storyline in general, using leech's dna to make a mutant cure was i guess clever, but as far as i know they never used that kid in the comic to do anything but hang out with franklin richards and artie. the cure story has been mishandled tragically here, they could have gone with the astonshing story, without causing any confusion. the whole "jean drunk with power." deal they've done to death, only this time they kill prof.x and cyclops in a assinine situation that only furthers the fact that the people in charge know nothing about the comic. angel was mishandled in general, they misnamed quill...kid omega psychic...quill....spiky guy.... callisto,arclight, all the morlocks in general were another footnote of awful. they expect everyone who wacted the movie, to play that stupid video game so they don't even mention kurt wagner in at any point or where he went. (i played the game and that sucked too.) they turn all the potential strong women characters (rogue/kitty) all whiny and tear ridden over iceman....which is so rediculous especially on kitty's part. (COLOSSUS HELLO!) they make beast talk "un"beast like, what i mean is that....basically he talks in the most drawn out super intelligent way possible....THEN when he's confused everyone enough, he dumbs it down, like reed, and tony, and a few others. juggernaught....done with that sentence. i can get over the fact he's not introduced as xavier's half brother (begrudgingly) i can get over the stupid "i'm the juggernaught bitch!" line...i can even get over the fact he's a mutant even when I KNOW how he got his powers (crimson gem yadda yadda) what i can't get over is that, for all his power, his anger, his "unstoppable fury"....a white wall does him in. that was just taking all the canon of cain marko and wiping your ass with it. mystique was abused as a character bryan singer spent 2 movies trying to build up, they dropped the ball entirely on the 2 storylines they tried to meld. rattner is the biggest comic movie criminal since joel shumacher. if i had 3 more days some booze and a steady supply of diabetes meds and sugar free food i could go on.

Janson wrote:

What? You liked that line? You liked the bondage gear they wore? Every other comic movie at least tried to get the costumes right. And come on aren't we all fanboys (and girls) here? Opinions are like assholes everyone has one and everybody's is unique.

i was mostly playing with that statement, just givin ya a little shit. the costumes weren't great, but i mean at the time they were working in the dark. they tried to get a unique look which failed.....but it could have been way worse. i thought the line was funny, because it's almost a given that although very colorful and spandex looking ...i know the comic costumes weren't spandex. as for being a fanboy....i'm in my house on a sunday afternoon having a now couple hour debate on x-men movies......enough said.

Rath99 wrote:I thought the fact that X3 was garbage was a universal truth?

Tomer Soiker wrote:
Colossus: Surely there was no point for his death, but I thought it was done well otherwise. I was shocked to see Charles disintegrated like that.

colossus1979 wrote: they make beast talk "un"beast like, what i mean is that....basically he talks in the most drawn out super intelligent way possible....THEN when he's confused everyone enough, he dumbs it down, like reed, and tony, and a few others.

Janson wrote:Where's TENIME? I know he has a soft spot for X3 as well.

superdoug wrote:



I'd say that was a legitimate beef, had Beast not been written like that since his inception. If you go back and re-read the X-Men comics with the original team (as written by Lee), you'll see that often Beast would make some super-scientific statement only to have to repeat it and dumb it down for Bobby and Warren.

I agree with the rest of your assessment, but that statement needed to be addressed. Beast has, as long as I can remember, been guilty of using super-language and then having to repeat it in more simple terms (or, in a lot of cases, someone else will translate).

Exactly, i wanted so much to hear him prattle on for like 2 minutes, have no clue what the hell he said, then for him to look and say something like "twist the knob." or some such thing and just laugh because i was too dumb to get it...like i do when i read the comic.

colossus1979 wrote:kevin bacon atm

Silent K wrote:I'm surprised it took this long to get K-Bake in a superhero movie. The man is a legend.

I support the Kevin Bacon comeback.

Bigtymin504 wrote:Also, Jennifer Lawrence cast as Mystique.

http://heatvision.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/07/winters-bone-star-cast-as-mystique-in-xmen-first-class.html

jaydee74 wrote:

Silent K wrote:I'm surprised it took this long to get K-Bake in a superhero movie. The man is a legend.

I support the Kevin Bacon comeback.

Is this really a Kevin Bacon comeback? I didn't know he been away that long.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000102/