One Classy Trailer

[Robyrt]

Pluses: The Hellfire Club is a great villain for this movie, as unlike most X-Men villains, Shaw doesn't have a personal stake in the Erik vs. Charles fight. It also means you get to use interesting characters like Morrison's Emma.

Minuses: Nowhere near enough character interaction in this trailer. I don't come to see X-Men for the special effects; I can get those in 50 other movies coming out in the next two years.

Also, many of the X-Men's lesser characters are ignored for a reason: Their concepts are dumb. Darwin is basically a walking deus ex machina, Azazel is a comic-booky mess, and Mr. Sinister is straight out of bad fanfiction.

 

[Karma168]

Just reading that made my mind melt from trying to unravel all the continuity. How do people keep up with all the convoluted back stories and different versions?

As for the film; haven't decided if i want to see it yet, last one didn't seem that interesting and this one hasn't piqued my interest either. Probably wait to see what bob says about it.

 

[Brett Alex]

I am not looking forward to a movie that'll likely paint the Cuban Missile Crisis as some bizarre fiction where the Soviets were horrible aggressors. I know there's a big predilection to romanticize Kennedy and everything he was involved with, but seeing such recent history fall into the land of "extraordinary myth" so soon irks me.

One of the characters you just saw can teleport by travelling through hell.

It's already bizarre fiction. No one is going to argue a new theory about the Cuban missile crisis and cite First Class as evidence. Even in pub discussions, saying "the soviets were actually bad guys according to First Clas-" is going to sound bollocks, cause it was also the movie with the guy shooting lasers from his chest.

 

[Rocketboy13]

I think Oliver Platt's "The Man in Black" might also be the Shadow King.

Just reading that made my mind melt from trying to unravel all the continuity. How do people keep up with all the convoluted back stories and different versions?

As for the film; haven't decided if i want to see it yet, last one didn't seem that interesting and this one hasn't piqued my interest either. Probably wait to see what bob says about it.

You aren't required to. That is the thing about continuity, if you enjoy it, then embrace it, if you don't, just enjoy the movie and acknowledge that there is some greater depth that you probably don't want to bother with. This movie is such a big reboot that you don't need to have even seen the first movies, so you don't need to know any of this.

 

[Talvrae]

00:55 Lensher and Xavier meet with Zoe Kravitz as teenage mutant Angel Salvadore - first big onscreen confirmation for fans that they're playing fast and loose with the timeline, bringing modern characters into this 60s-set story. I have no issue with that - different version, different continuity, etc.

And yes, you saw the fly-wings correctly: Angel is essentially a person-sized Faerie.

I was pretty sure it was Pixie but you might be right on that one

 

[VanillaBean]

A movie about the Starjammers would be the coolest thing ever. Also I really hope this mysterious man in black turns out to be the shadow king, THAT WOULD BE TOO AWESOME!!!!

 

[saejox]

when i watch it i was like "meh, i'll check if its good when it comes".
but you are, "omg he is in it, beast love !?!, NIGHTCRAWLEEER!! "

 

[Serenegoose]

I have a question, shouldn't take too long to answer, but I'm confused about the movie continuity. If this is taking place when Magneto and Prof X are young, shouldn't -all the other- Xmen, basically be not born yet/4-5 years old? What am I getting wrong here?

 

[snfonseka]

The trailer is good. We have to wait and see whether the movie is good.

 

[MB202]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Cyclops's dad is an intergalactic space pirate with a crew of aliens?! HOT DAMN, if that were in the movie, my ticket would be good as sold!

 

[RTR]

I can't believe it took me 2 hours to GET the title

 

[NeoShinGundam]

Mr. Sinister? Whoa, that'd be a REAL trip!

 

[CosmicSpiral]

I have a question, shouldn't take too long to answer, but I'm confused about the movie continuity. If this is taking place when Magneto and Prof X are young, shouldn't -all the other- Xmen, basically be not born yet/4-5 years old? What am I getting wrong here?

They're ignoring comic continuity for this reboot.

 

[RA92]

How was the SR71 hovering? ~.^

 

[duchaked]

I enjoyed Wolverine...
but I didn't like X3
okay well time has made it easier to stomach and I can still enjoy it for some of its stuff (can't say the same for Transformers 2)
and overall I like the series a lot

but yeah First Class...time to bring it all back again
(cuz initially I was eh that they were making a movie just about Wolverine...but then I started really liking the character in 08-09)

 

[Nurb]

But I'm tired of reboots!

We finally get past introductions of characters so there could potentially be a whole movie focusing on whatever the plot is instead of spending 3/4 of the film bringing everyone up to speed on all the introductions.

Now instead of just moving forward with the existing story, or going from X2 even, we have to see ANOOOOTHER reboot re-introducing the characters pulled from abercrombie and fitch catalogues so they can cash in on that Twilight money. Same goes for spiderman and being forced to see a WHOLE MOVIE of the highschool version

 

[370999]

As X-men is my fav comic franchise I'm looking forward to this. Anyone think we are going to see the American government aact like dicks due to needing a reason for Magento to go bad? The Cuban Missile crisis is not where I would expect they would of set it, but it could be good. As long as it is as good as X2 I'll be happy. If not I'll still watch it.

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

I wasn't exactly sure if I liked the idea of doing an X-Men prequel film, but it looks like Matthew Vaughn is being ambitious with it, which I like (then again, this is a guy who made a passable film out of Kick-Ass, so I shouldn't be surprised that this is looking good). At the very least, the alternate history superheroics can deliver some interesting visuals, sort of like the Watchmen film, but hopefully not crap.

Two worries I have though:

1) Dumbing down the Cuban Missile Crisis to make it seem like either the U.S. or the Russians were the sole aggressors. Fox would be doing the film (and the source material) a disservice if they did that.

2) While I'm not going to worry about how this film lines up with the continuity of the last three, because let's face it, that part's not going to work (and doesn't matter all that much anyway), I am worried about the way they're trying to make it both a reboot and a prequel. Mostly because they run the risk of convoluting the storyline the way the comics have (take Azazel for instance, a character I could really do without. If they're going for that whole "Hey, that's where Nightcrawler came from" angle, then it's going to just make the whole thing messy). As much as I like Bryan Singer's films, I'd rather just let Vaughn run wild with the movie and just stick with the end point of Xavier and Lensherr's idealogical split, and not try to explain everything else related to the first three.

Apart from that, I have a tiny bit of hope this will be good.

 

[Jumwa]

One of the characters you just saw can teleport by travelling through hell.

It's already bizarre fiction. No one is going to argue a new theory about the Cuban missile crisis and cite First Class as evidence. Even in pub discussions, saying "the soviets were actually bad guys according to First Clas-" is going to sound bollocks, cause it was also the movie with the guy shooting lasers from his chest.

I certainly wasn't arguing that the movie was about to be cited in academic paper as a source. However, the Cuban Missile Crisis is already steeped in falsehoods across not just popular culture. So I can't help but feel it's just another bit of reinforcing the myth of Kennedy standing up to those evil Soviets and their Machiavellian plans.

So it's not that the movie is introducing new myths, it just seems to be continuing with the same old myths.

I'd like to believe that the further we get away from events the more capable we'd be of looking at them rationally and objectively, rather than emotionally.

 

[V TheSystem V]

X1 was great, but was improved upon GREATLY in X2. X3 was pretty dire, but was still kinda fun (but why kill Patrick Stewart?!). Am I one of the only people who enjoyed Wolverine? Even if Deadpool wasn't in it for long. Ryan Reynolds, if given more time, would have been awesome as Deadpool.

This film looks good, will be seeing it when it's out, but my expectations won't be high like my expectations for Captain America, Thor, Green Lantern and Dark Knight Rises. Saying that, if Dark Knight Rises meets my expectations (after Dark Knight became my favourite film ever) it could be the Citizen Kane of comic book movies.