Certainly overdue, but with Nat on vacation during an X-Men film release, it’s tough to keep up! How does free love and mutually assured distruction get along with a prequel/reboot of the X-Men franchise? Well, the killer casting and promise of a cameo or two made First Class have some initial excitement to off-set the fear of making this movie in a short 10-months… Doesn’t seem like very long until you consider that’s how long we have to wait for another episode of Game of Thrones!
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Great movie. A- grade It was fun, action packed and never seemed to stall. Fassbender was amazing as Magneto. I also enjoyed the rest of the cast especially the actor that played Hank McCoy. Can’t wait for the sequel.
Wow! Are you a Game of Thrones Fan? My God the writing was awesome! Being cajoled to watch it by a serious fan of the books, I watched it and fell in love. Now there is some serious writing going on with that series which brings me to the abyssmal writing in a couple of the summer movies I have paid money to watch. Why can’t they get the TV writers for Spartacus, or BSG or GoT, or True Blood to write for the movies! Gosh it’s the same genre! Fantasy!! I swear when they killed the only black person in X Men I wanted to picket in front of the studio. I know these films are trying to appeal to a certain fan base but the box office numbers denote not even that strategy is working. I could go on an entire rant about the psychological damage the decisions the directors make have on those young black children who go to watch these films when they reinforce stereotypes – the only black man sacrifices himself for the good of his white counterparts. It’s like the green (sic?) shirt syndrome in Star Trek! LOL. But that would have been alright if the movie had made sense. The mutants have been ordered to a secret compound and all of a sudden they are on a boat chasing Kevin Bacon. Gosh I love James McAvoy but his constant temple rubbing was giving even me a headache!
I thought I would hate Thor from what I saw of the trailers, but I really found it delightful and amusing. Again a controversy about Idris Elba but at least they put a brother in the movie and gave him a good job albeit the gate keeper. (sigh) And after paying money to see X-Men I wasn’t going to make the same mistake so I previewed Super 8. Thank God I did! That was really bad. I didn’t get the whimsy of a Steven Spielberg movie. What I got was a cheap imitation and the locket at the end of the move felt disingenuous. We had a good laugh when the alien said enough of this shit, I am packing up and leaving without even waving goodbye! Seriously we were yelling at the TV – I don’t blame you! And uh, hmmm, do I have to mention the brother sacrificed his life to save the alien? Hahahahaha.
I hope it gets better. Don’t look like ti though. I am gonna preview Green Lantern after your brief Twitter comments about it Matt. Let’s hope Harry Potter gets it right!
Also a fan of Game of Thrones on HBO?? I loved it, I’m so sad it’s gone already. Will you review the season/finale?
I LOVED Game of Thrones! Nat still needs to catch up to the finale, but I devoured that show. Well done, HBO!
If she gets through it, we might just post a review!
~Matt
Actually X-Men 3 had something after the credits… (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyr3thlXg5o&feature=related) Sorry about the bad quality…but that is the clip. Moira is in it…you know, the FBI agent who fell in love with Charles in First Class. Why is she a doctor? Who knows, I hope that one day these questions will be answered.
So X class goes back to the basics with introductions and caring about the characters, rather than just throwing a bunch of mutants into a movie and kicking up the action. I really enjoyed the dialogue and approach to these characters. However, I would still like to see the franchise continue is present times as well as first class.
Does anyone think that a cable/apocalypse storyline could help to reboot the present times x-men…kind of the way star trek reworked the time-line so they could do their own thing? If Cable went back into time to before Jean Grey was killed in the X2, maybe the franchise could keep going and they could actually do the Dark Phoenix Sage right! What do guys think?
I do want to see more first class films, but I also long for the return of the current ones as well. I want it all!
What a great review
I loved the movie, it was better than X-MEN 2,3 and the awful Wolverine.
Green Lantern – some people I know went seeing that movie and they said it sucked.
I actually believe that this movie is a reboot. It contradicts the other two movies in various ways: Charles Xavier walking while he’s bald (X-men 3, when he and and Magneto recruit Jean grey; and in the Wolverine movie, when Xavier rescues the children (including Scott summers) in the jet) and the following facts: the contribution of magneto bulding cerebro along Xavier and the frienship of Xavier and Magneto until they reach their 50′s.
On the other hand, the movie keeps in touch with some details that you guys mentioned in the video.
Nevertheless, great review.
I have been looking for a site to confirm that this movie in fact is a reboot.
Great Review! One point though: First class completely broke continuity with X-Men 3 (which is okay in my book) to the point of them not fitting into the same universe anymore:
Remember the flashbacks in X3 of Charles and Eric meeting Jeane Grey for the first time? I think that was set in the early 80s, in any case after the 60s and Charles could still walk. Also, Charles and Eric were still working together.
Matt already mentioned that there were breaks with continuity, but that one really makes it impossible for X-Men 3 and First class to coexist without being alternate universes. ANother major thing is that Striker is already an old man in First Class. From the trailers I had assumed that Oliver Platt would be Striker, which would have been a great casting choice in my opinion, since he’s a great fit for a younger version of the older Striker from X2.
Never mind the Stryker comment, seems that that was William Strykers Dad (William Stryker Sr.) in First Class, so that’s that.
Only the fact that “Racer’s” origin story was changed remains unsolveable.
Hi Matt and Nat and everyone,
Thanks for this. I am glad they got it right with this film and I can’t wait to see it.
Game of Thrones was amazing. I only hope they film all seven books (although book six and seven still have to be published). All the great TV demonstrates clearly that many good writers are working there and not on films. I don’t blame them – the chance to develop characters over many seasons, to put many characters in situations and bring a world to life. Hubby and I have just loved Spartacus, LOST (except the last season of course), Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, Justified, of course Caprica and BSG) and are currently loving Deadwood.
FANEXPO in Toronto in August looks awesome – Shatner, Sackoff, many others. I am so excited!!! Matt and Nat and others, are u going?? We should all do lunch!