X-Men: First Class. It sucked.
It was pretty hilarious though. Other than the acting (McAvoy, Fassbender, and Bacon [to a lesser extent] were all great), it was a godawful movie. I got some chuckles though; especially seeing how bad Beast looked. I kept waiting for him to start howling and playing basketball.
My friends and I would laugh every single time it started playing the ominous music behind Erik and Raven's speechifying. "If I were you, I wouldn't change a thing." DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN. Man, he's so evil.
What a crappy movie. I'm genuinely shocked that it's getting such praise.
It's like the movie was both too much and too little at the same time. It was too much in the sense that they threw everything at the wall; all kinds of characters, powers, motivations, war plots, etc. But so little of it stuck, and what it ended up seeming like was a veritable checklist: we have to make sure we explain Cerebro, we have to explain why Raven goes with Erik, why Xavier's in a wheelchair, why Erik has the helmet, etc. None of it seemed necessary, and some of the mutants they chose were, quite frankly, ridiculous. I guess it was mostly Darwin and Angel that I had a beef with, but Azazel was stupid too (but then again, if Nightcrawler wasn't so well known, I'd probably think he was dumb as well).
For the most part, the actors were good enough to carry it, but the script was pretty awful. The story moved far too fast; the movie never really felt like a movie. It was pretty much montage climax montage climax montage. I wouldn't say you get to know any character very well at all, certainly not enough to like ANY of them except perhaps Xavier, and I'd still say 95% of that was due to McAvoy's fantastic acting. Patrick Stewart should be proud.
Everything was rushed; same problem with X-Men: The Last Stand. I'd say this is barely better. A two star movie at the absolute most.
You know, after seeing all the reviews of First Class, I was eager to see it, but now that I have, I'd have to agree with most of this.
Magneto probably comes off the best out of this movie as it paints him as someone doing bad things with good intentions.
With First Class, Magneto was obviously supposed to fill the role that Wolverine did in the other films as the "go it alone" bad ass type who learns the value of teamwork and friendship, and other than the scenes where he's using his powers for stuff like levitating submarines, there's little difference between them in terms of writing.
Xavier was pretty decent, but Austin Powers kept doing a happy dance inside my head every time he started calling things "groovy" >:[
Mystique was... well... pretty much a younger version of Mystique from the other movies in terms of looks, which means more red oil slick hair and almost boobs, but they seemed to use her shape shifting less than in the rest of the movies, where she was more bad ass (still waiting for the "glue bits of rubber over actress' boobs" job opening o_o).
Moira MacTaggart goes from being a
SCOTTISH geneticist with a mutant son, to being an American (played by an Australian) CIA agent, despite the fact that she's clearly back to her usual medical faffing in canonically later films (though I'll avoid ranting about Last Stand and how Prof. X wouldn't have his voice in another man's body... BLARGH!).
January Jones as Emma Frost... Well, at least she looks decent enough, but they could have easily used a cardboard cut out and saved some cash.
Also, Magneto can damage her diamond form with generic bits of hollow metal from a bed... WTF?
Emma Frost's diamond form is supposed to be nigh on indestructible unless she's hit between the eyes with a diamond or something harder such as adamantium, so strangling her wouldn't cause her neck to crack :/
Beast was one of the good things about Last Stand as it was pretty much like transplanting Beast from the cartoon into live action.
In Last Stand, he lacks most of his physical attributes prior to turning blue (didn't McCoy have enlarged hands and slightly longer arms as well as he was supposed to be more ape like, becoming more feline later on) and his enhanced form didn't sit with me as well as his more human form from Last Stand.
Also, with First Class being a prequel to the other X-Men movies, it kind of screws up as McCoy is shown in his human guise in X2: X-Men United, but I'll get to that later.
Also, a general Beast question: If he's such a genius, why did McCoy never test out his cure before using it on himself?
That's like inventing a cure for cancer, using it, and then complaining when it turns everyone into flesh eating monsters.
Banshee and Angel Salvadore (
NOT the mutant code named Angel) are only in it so that they can include aerial combat scenes and panty shots (seriously, Salvadore starts as a stripper, MacTaggart strips off to get into the Hell Fire Club, Emma Frost's outfit is basically a bra and stockings and Mystique does what she's done in all the X-Men movies and decides she doesn't need clothes at all as a few strategically placed scales will do).
Darwin... Now I actually laughed at Darwin.
Darwin was black and the first X-Man to die... I know that shouldn't be funny, but with his power being
evolution, I could only think "I've seen this movie and the black guy dies first!"... Yeah, I'm going to hell for watching David Duchovny movies.
Havok was only in First Class because they wanted to use Cyclops without actually using Cyclops.
Both Havok and Cyclops have the same sort of powers (technically, Havok fires plasma instead of concussive energy, but he usually uses his powers for the same effect) and both need some kind of bolt on piece of equipment to use their powers properly (Cyclops constantly fires massive eye beams of death without his visor while Havok just looks more retarded using his powers in the movie without his power management guff).
In First Class, Beast designs both the Blackbird and Cerebro, but in X-Men, Xavier says that Magneto helped him to build them without so much as a mention of Beast.
Xavier trying to recruit Wolverine adds another plot hole as this is apparently not present in the other X-Men movies where Xavier doesn't seem to know anyrthing about Logan \ James Howitt prior to the X-Men rescuing him and Rogue.
As mentioned, Beast being blue in this movie causes a plot issue with X2, where he's shown in his human form in a cameo on a TV.
In a case of bad writing, as pointed out by Empire, Beast's serum is designed to make mutants look normal without removing their powers, but his powers in the movie basically require that he keeps his monkey feet.
Magneto pulls a sub out of the water while hanging off of the landing gear of the Blackbird, but I'm pretty sure that unless he was levitating the plane as well, it's engines wouldn't allow it to carry so much weight.
Were First Class a full on reboot, the plot issues wouldn't bother me, but it's supposed to be a prequel to X-Men and X2: X-Men United (1, Manchester City: nil... sorry).
From what I've read, Singer wanted to do a reboot, but Fox wanted a prequel, so it ended up being somewhere in the middle and it just doesn't work for me and it ends up more confusing than a reboot would be (Fox wanted a prequel as they thought a reboot would confuse fans... Because comic book fans can't handle reboots, even if we are on about the 90th incarnation of the X-Men for no real reason, unlike DC which devotes entire series to explaining what the hell is going on with Power Girls tits stopping her from being destroyed along with the rest of her universe or whatever).
Also, I am not dead... yet.
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