X-Men: First ClassFollow

I meant where J would have gotten the idea that Beast was Nightcrawler's dad. I won't complain about getting comic book plot summaries though. ^_^

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I've never bothered to follow the comics so, aside from some inconsistencies with the earlier movies (which I ignored under the notion that this movie was basically a reboot), I had no reason to get all nerd-ragey about canon.

Though it was good times. The two lead actos, who I am too lazy to look up, carried each scene they were in and did a fantastic job. Prof. X was played well as a cocky young adult without the wisdom and weight of experience versus if they tried to just make a young Patrick Stewart. The friendship between the two seemed genuine and both were played with good qualities and faults.

Wasn't as impressed with the slate of bad guys. Kevin Bacon did a pretty good job but his character was never really "believable". I mean, sadistic **** doctor was easy enough to accept but his "modern" goals never really rung true and he felt more like a guy just doin' stuff for the hell of it than anyone driven by some sort of conviction. January Jones could have picked something better than a pseudo-1960s period piece to try and convince me that I wasn't watching Betty Draper in lingerie. Or, you know, maybe if she had some sort of acting range. Who knows. I don't think the others even had speaking parts.

The other mutants were largely okay. Mystique did a good job of conveying her angst that no one was going to want to date a lumpy blue girl unless she disguised herself. Beast was pretty good. Havoc was okay. Angel and Banshee just seemed silly, especially after Angel got her wings sheared in the ending fight. When she sided with Magneto, I just thought "Yay, now you have a girl who can buzz around in small circles and spit golfballs of fire."

Overall though, it was fun, the pacing worked for me and I had a good time throughout. Haven't seen Green Lantern yet but I enjoyed X-Men: FC more than I did Thor.

Edited, Jun 23rd 2011 4:33pm by Jophiel

what?

But I have seen transformers already and no X-men can top that.

As has been pointed out, it is more or less accepted that every time a comic is translated to a new medium the backstory will be re-written. Comics to novels to cartoons to movies, each has played fast and loose with the back story and even added or removed or merged characters. This is basically an "any time we find it convenient" kinda thing. That said, I see no problem with it. as Stan has said many times, each of the mediums is a new thing. The movies are "based" on the x-men comics, not slaved to them.

All of that said, I found all of them good (except maybe Origins: Wolverine but only because Logan IS my favorite character and I did not like what they changed) and thought First Class was the best of them.

And yes, I have been an X-Men reader/collector for a long time.