New Promo Shots from "X-Men: First Class"

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@Li3n

@Li3n

Adammon said:
Who, Shaw? I think his power was used pretty....constantly.
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Well i was thinking of it being more of a thing for ppl that know x-men lore, and everyone else would be like "no way he could survive that" and you could chuckle at their lack of knowledge...

Seeing it tonight btw.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Yeah, that was a missed opportunity to show off his power just so they could have him play with a grenade...

Also, why didn't anyone say they gave him Bishop's power... kinda disappointing imo, because if they just let him have super-strength and an nigh invulnerability to dmg it would have made it more interesting... especially since Erik couldn't hurt him either way.

Aslo, anyone else disappointed by the way
Mags killed him... i would have much preferred if he just shoved the coin down his throat, leaving him to choke to death... with Mags watching him slowly expire...
 
Adam

Adam

@Li3n said:
Yeah, that was a missed opportunity to show off his power just so they could have him play with a grenade...

Also, why didn't anyone say they gave him Bishop's power... kinda disappointing imo, because if they just let him have super-strength and an nigh invulnerability to dmg it would have made it more interesting...

Aslo, anyone else disappointed by the way
Mags killed him... i would have much preferred if he just shoved the coin down his throat, leaving him to choke to death... with Mags watching him slowly expire...
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That would make more sense. The coin shouldn't have done what it did if it was the actual Sebastian Shaw power. At any rate, Kevin Bacon did a surprisingly good job.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Bishop's power is also passive as i recall...
i guess in the film they just wanted us to assume Shaw had to be using it on purpose... which was kinda lame because it means Charles allowed him to get murdered.
 
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Jiarn

He didn't "allow him", he wanted to truly believe his friend would not "go there".
Which is also why he didn't stop the military from firing the missles. He believed they were better than that till it was too late
 
Adam

Adam

Jiarn said:
Or they were showing it in slow motion.
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I like to think it was done slowly just to torture the poor bastard.

An interesting characterization that came out of this movie: Professor X is kind of a naive douche. Which is actually more in line with the comics than the St Xavier that Singer's original movies portrayed him as.
 
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sixpackshaker said:
He did it slowly so it would actually damage him.
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The problem is that Prof X can't see Erik doing what he is doing. X can't stop the coin and he can't stop Erik (with the helmet on) Making time go "normal" would end up killing Erik (possible) so it is the lesser of two evil. As for the missiles, once fired, X is powerless to control it (well this can be debatable since it depends how much power he can output to really stop all those missiles) that is just my opinion and limited X-Men knowledge :)
 
Adam

Adam

I really liked the way they handled the rockets after they were fired. Each time Magneto lost his concentration, some of them dropped off - a war of attrition so to speak.

The more I think about the movie, the more I'm impressed by it. Unlike The Last Stand, it just seems like they actually tried this time around.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Jiarn said:
Or they were showing it in slow motion.
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Then his counting would have not been heard in real time...

Chibibar said:
The problem is that Prof X can't see Erik doing what he is doing.
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Considering that he felt it happening i'll assume he at least knew enough to make an informed choice...

sixpackshaker said:
He did it slowly so it would actually damage him.
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Good point... i though about that too, but if so i would have preferred a little bit of resistance at the start, even very slow, it's still plenty of kinetic energy... but the whole scene was kinda weaker CGI then the rest imo...
 
Norris

Norris

Vis-a-vis Charles' choice at the end:
He was in Shaw's mind. He likely knew how much power Shaw had absorbed and how he planned to use it. He also could probably tell just how easily Shaw could kill Erik (the only reason he wasn't dead already was because Shaw liked him). He doesn't want Erik to be killed, there's no way his team can stand against Shaw and the Hellfire club if he gets the helmet back, Shaw has the power on hand to start a nuclear war, and more than one way to do so. Charles is kind of between a rock and a hard place - free Shaw, get Erik killed, and possibly fail to avert nuclear war or let Erik kill Shaw and go down a dark road. The latter is less immediately risky, hence choosing it.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Yes, he still held him down while he was murdered slowly...

But really, his mind couldn't work faster then Shaw's hands taking the helmet... doubtful. And not being able to even make Shaw move etc... those type of things always annoy me...
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I gathered from the film that Xavier's not quite fully developed his powers yet either. He's not yet the world's most telepath, the uber-psychic we know he later becomes.
 
Green_Lantern

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Watched today and freaking loved it. Biggest surprise: Xavier and Mystique brother-sister relationship, if anyone had told me that before the film I would say "fuck those idiot writters", but once on screen I felt it was interesting dinamic. That said, how the fuck did Charles explained her to his parents? did he brainwashed them for ten years????
 
Jay

Jay

Just watched it, my feedback.

- I loved it. Great movie and great acting by the main cast except one.

- Mr. Bacon's German was so bad I though he was originally playing a mentally impaired man. Still liked his rendition of Shaw.

- Great buildup to the story, the score was very good, especially in the final sequences. Mystique was built up very well along with Beast during his "error".

- The Wolverine cameo had me in a laughing fit. Best deployment of the PG-13 single-use eff-bomb I have ever seen.

- I officially prefer the 2nd gen x-men to the first... give me a non-emo Rogue and a sly Gambit and Jay would be pleased.

- Magneto's powers were awesome.

- "What is that sound?" So that's the sound a CIA agent makes after being dropped from 200 feet into the air to his death? Goddamn, I want to be that guy and destroy an entire civilization that way.

- I'd tap the shit out of January Jones.... fucken amazing to look at, had the perfect look but every time she opened her mouth and tried to act.... for fuck's sake. HORRIBLE
 
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