Newly Released X-Men: First Class TV Spots!

Don't need to see the video, I see the TV spots all the time, on TV.

Can't wait to see it..

@PuyGuy Yeah, one problem though. Magneto in First Class sure as hell can't take on Green Lantern in his movie.

All I saw Magneto do is taking on submarines and nuclear missiles. Green Lantern is taking on an intergalatic being that represents fear itself, whos very pressence can lead to the end of many worlds.

Power ring greater than freakin magnetism (unless its the comic book version, then Maganeto might stand a chance).

Sorry but Green Lantern is a silly superhero, he's the equivalent of Aladin with a genie in a lamp. He has a ring that makes big green constructs of anything he can imagine which just leads to a series of corny green objects of varying sizes being tediously summoned like that really bad Spiderman cartoon from the 70's where his web kept making silly objects in a fight. Worse still its impervious to yellow, a blooming colour for crissakes!! And the whole charging up with the alien green lamp and saying the corny oath just seals the cheesiness of the whole concept. GL fanboys only can swallow this level of corny superhero, he really is for less mature minded comic fans and very young children. I doubt he's gonna impress the average adult to regress their basic plausibility of this genre to the level needed to let the corny elements of the Green Lantern wash over them.

Back to X-Men First Class and let's clear something up that's very misunderstood here. This movie is not rebooting anything nor is it out of continuity with the rest of the series.

The one thing die-hard fans of the comic don't or probably will never understand about these movies is the necessity to treat the entire adaptation as a homage based representation as opposed to a check-listed direct re-enactment. Fanboys only want the latter, the latter unfortunately doesn't make for a film anyone else would spend money on watching nor does it present itself as a quality narrative to use as a plotline.

Comics don't have budgets movies do, and the finance involved in comic production is no way near as foundation creating as the finances involved in movie making. You can afford for a comic to flop and just reboot it again with little loss to continuity of your dollar with a simple silly time altering story the average fanboy will gladly swallow week in week out. Average mature cinema-goers are not that gullible. This is why the first X-men film had a really low budget and didn't start with just the original five characters. Those Characters where never popular, their comic got cancelled and X-men only found mass popularity when the team with Wolverine was introduced. This is why the first film was based around Wolverine.

The entie X-Men comic timline is a contrived mass of stories that cannot easily be adapted into a sensible story to follow for a visual medium like film. Especially the stories involving time-travel, you end up with the kind of mess the Terminator films have gotten themselves into an losing audiences interest just like they did. So rather than just follow every character, every event and every ability to the exact way its been in the comics. These films have to take that source material and recreate it in a more easily digestible form for the general public.

This is why you can have Emma Frost in this new movie and Emma aka Kayla Silverfox's sister in the Wolverine movie yet be different characters homage-inspired by the same source. This is why you have Rogue but not with the Ms Marvel Powers flying everywhere and being invulnerable, they don't have the budget to explain her evil past and the character of Ms Marvel to justify her having two powers so they're forced to go with her natural ability. This is why you can have Banshee and Havok in the X-men before Scot and Jean becasue are not following the timeline, yet giving the characters some level of representation otherwise they simply would not be able to fit the vastness of the characters available in the short amount of films made with such small budgets.

Sure its easy to moan about nothing being the way it is in the comics, but these are two different world and regardless of all the CGI possibilities in the world, actors, performances, set designs, costume designs and screenplay writing all cost lots of money and Studio execs are only going to bet so much of their cash on a movie no matter how much fans it thinks it has! Be glad you got something on screen paying homage by representing the comic you love, you could have nothing!

Yeah but some Superheroes are way easier to make plausible than others and in both Batman and Wolverine's cases, that's exactly what they did to make the movie versions more palatable. Batman doesn't wear Super-person type underpants in the movie nor does Wolverine, Batman wears an armour plated suit to fight crime and Wolverine at the most wears a utility jumpsuit if not his own clothes! All the silly stuff from the comics like yellow and blue garish colours, twin pointy boots with pointy masks etc or Batman in underwear with a bright sign on his chest etc is all left where it belongs, in the comics.

Green Lantern makes no effort to make any of its corny cheese plausible, therefore it stands a great chance of being another expensive flop! But if they aim it at the Ben-10 kids generation and if they accept it, then it could be a minor hit.

X-men animated never had the original First Class. One later episode of Wolverine&the X-men did show the first class but that was it. I don't understand why the movies get so much hate, yet the animated shows get lots of love.
If Synger made crappy X-men movies than they probably would reboot it