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

[Norris]

Why not ignore the others as well and start fresh? Why be bogged down by decisions made in previous versions? They would've been better off pulling a Nolan and starting from scrap.

Because Bryan Singer is the producer?

 

[figmentPez]

Trailer is out:

 

[Norris]

To quote my friend and friendly neighborhood comic book guy "hip-hip-hooray for saving the franchise".

 

[Steve]

At 1:25 in the trailer there is a red guy with a tail that teleports a guy out of a room similar to Nightcrawler. Who is that individual? Also trailer looks fantastic.

 

[Norris]

At 1:25 in the trailer there is a red guy with a tail that teleports a guy out of a room similar to Nightcrawler. Who is that individual? Also trailer looks fantastic.

That is Azazel, Nightcrawler's dad. In those two quick cuts, he is already 10x less moronic than his comic book counterpart was.

http://marvel.com/universe/Azazel_(mutant)

 

[Tress]

Eh, I wasn't impressed. Personally I'll wait for reviews. As someone else already pointed out, the trailer for X-Men 3 looked good too - and we know how that turned out.

 

[Gryfter]

Meh

 

[fade]

I'm usually a stickler for book accuracy. With COMICS however, it's okay if they mess with times and ages as long as they get the spirit right. This looks pretty accurate in that regard so far. Like others said, X-Men was always whiny.

 

[Covar]

They're borrowing from Chuck Austen's run on the title. Clearly a good sign...

 

[Norris]

Theatrical trailer came out today. This flick continues to look more and more promising.

 

[fade]

I still wish guys with superpowers would stop whining about them. I mean the x-men kind of have a reason, but still.

 

[MindDetective]

Having superpowers makes a person lonely.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Having superpowers makes a person lonely.

But on the bright side, you get to meet hot chicks in spandex...

 

[Jiarn]

Theatrical trailer came out today. This flick continues to look more and more promising.

It really doesn't.....

 

[Norris]

They have released character specific trailers for Havok, Banshee, and Beast.

 

[fade]

I was hoping to see Banshee get run over by the Blackbird.

 

[SpecialKO]

This might be uncharitable, but I hate the music in the trailer so much, it completely fails to sell me on the visuals...
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The character-specific ones are better.

 

[Norris]

This is the best character trailer yet:

 

[Philosopher B.]

As much as I want to bone Michael Fassbender, that doesn't really entice me. Like, at all.

 

[Hailey Knight]

I'd written this off entirely, but these character-centered trailers make me want to see it.

 

[Gryfter]

Still meh.

 

[Steve]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_first_class/

A few early reviews are in and they are glowing. This could be the best film of the franchise. The more I see/read on this film the more excited I get. The focus on this film are the characters and the powers take a back seat. The best review yet states this is not a good super hero movie, it's a good movie period. Hopefully Hollywood will take note.

 

[Jiarn]

Hollywood took note just fine, it was called "Marvel Productions Studio" self-produced films. It's Sony/Fox that can't get the hint.

 

[Hailey Knight]

But this is a Fox film that's doing it.

 

[Norris]

Hollywood took note just fine, it was called "Marvel Productions Studio" self-produced films. It's Sony/Fox that can't get the hint.

Except this is a Fox movie, as ecushion said. And I'd say the first two X-Men films were pretty good movies as well.

 

[Tress]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/x_men_first_class/

A few early reviews are in and they are glowing. This could be the best film of the franchise. The more I see/read on this film the more excited I get. The focus on this film are the characters and the powers take a back seat. The best review yet states this is not a good super hero movie, it's a good movie period. Hopefully Hollywood will take note.

This wouldn't be the first time that early reviews come in positive, only to get overtaken by a flood of negative reviews. I'm not saying that is necessarily going to happen, just that early reviews can't be relied upon as accurate predictors.

 

[evilmike]

The reviews continue to skew favorably. It's 80+ / 8- now.

 

[Overflight]

...this just comes to show you that the only way to make a good X-MEN movie is to have Wolverine show up as little as possible (I haven't seen the movie but I heard he has a cameo). Because otherwise it just turns into a Wolverine movie.

FINALLY Hollywood figured this out.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I can't wait to see this movie and make fun of January Jones ruthlessly

 

[TheBrew]

I can't wait to see this movie and have fun with January Jones fappingly

That's how I would have phrased it.

 

[Adam]

Going tonight with the wife. Going out for indian food first so my mutant power can take full effect in the middle of the movie.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Going tonight with the wife. Going out for indian food first so my mutant power can take full effect in the middle of the movie.

Flatulence Boy sounds more like a Legion of Superheroes power.

 

[Adam]

 

[Steve]

Rotten Tomato audience reviews are coming in at a respectable 88% while critics are at 87%. Hopefully I can catch it this weekend.

 

[klew]

I feel it is certainly the best in the franchise. It really felt like the Origins: Magneto film they had proposed, then turned it into more of an ensemble show.