X-Men First Class Review: I Told You So

X-Men First Class Review: I Told You So

WARNING:SPOILERS! I do not suggest paying full price to see this movie

Review Opinion
By GoblinBomber - Jun 06, 2011 05:06 PM EST
Filed Under: X-Men: First Class

We can all agree that "X-Men First Class" was something special. Whether that's a good special or a bad special is entirely based off different aspects and taste. I'm not one to judge a movie off of the trailers and pictures, but I already had speculations that First Class was going to disappoint me. Needless to say it did. I'm not saying that it was a bad movie, I'm saying that I was PERSONALLY upset with the outcome. Some have decided to completely trash the movie, because those handful of people were assuming that First Class was a reboot, and they shouldn't be reviewing the movie at all if that's what they thought, apparently they didn't look into the movie too much, but still have the audacity to critique it with such hatred. If it WAS a reboot, then why did we see the same Magneto gate scene, and why did we have a Hugh Jackman cameo? I don't care what anyone says, they can go ahead and call it a reboot, but I can also say that The Hulk is yellow, just because I said it, and you just read it on an article online, doesn't make it true.

Again, I'm not saying that it was a bad movie, but it was far from good. I went in with the mindset that I was going to walk out of the movie un-wowed. Their were so many plot holes, and so many characters that were unconnected. Such as Scott Summers and Alex Summers: NO RELATION, Mystique and Azazel: NO RELATION, but I expected that considering they did the same thing in X3 with Charles and Juggernaut.



I was pretty bummed out with Beast in the movie. They way they portrayed him was almost identical to the way the portrayed The Thing, in the first Fantastic 4, with all the moping around and the huge distraught. I want to see Beast reciting Shakespeare and different philosophies. Walking on the roof and always making the best out of the worst situations. His fighting scene was one of the dopest parts of the film, but as soon as it was through we got sad Beast again.



The biggest upset for me was seeing Charles go through all the trouble to get this group of playful rapscallions together and tell them that there is going to be some serious training, and then one corny training montage scene afterwards, the once rowdy young adults are a devoted vigorous force ready to take on a nuclear war. The same way Charles could party like a young frat boy, then go to wanting to save human kind from war.



The movie did have some good come out of it though, for me the saving grace of the whole film was Magneto, and actually showing the origin of young Eric, seeing Emma Frost in her skimpy white costume was a fruitful delight, and the Wolverine cameo wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I actually got a good laugh out of it. I know if someone introduced themselves as Charles Xavier and I turned around to see Mr. Tumnus instead of Patrick Stewart, I'd tell 'em to [frick] off too.



You're gonna have those who loved it, those who hated it, or those like me, who appreciate the fact that Marvel came out with another movie to watch. Appreciate what you get, and no matter what happens...nothing will be as bad as X3. Thanks for reading, and I'll have another article up next week. Thumbs Up!

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ComicBrooks
ComicBrooks - 6/6/2011, 6:20 PM
Nice review i liked the film. As i will say in my review I saw the film as a stand alone or even a requel. Either way it was a fun movie.
Ghostt
Ghostt - 6/6/2011, 8:09 PM
nice review. I was starting to think the world had gone mad because everyone liked this disaster of a movie.
TesDaGreat
TesDaGreat - 6/7/2011, 7:44 AM
First Class was a smart and good film! It is a reboot, because it doesnt go along with the rest of the x-men movies!
TesDaGreat
TesDaGreat - 6/7/2011, 7:44 AM
haljordan2814
haljordan2814 - 6/7/2011, 9:17 AM
My wife and I went to see this yesterday, and I have to say, it wasn't as bad as everyone said it would be. While if I was a die hard X-Men fan, I might say differently due to all the continuity issues (Havoc, Cerebro, etc.). Magneto and Xavier, who this movie focused on, were both great. Enough so to make up for the distractions of Sebastian Whoever, Angel, and the few other "time fillers" in this Magneto story. Ok, so it's no X2, but in my opinion it ranked right below X2, and possibly above Wolverine Origins. Oh, and as a comics outsider, my wife even liked it more than Thor (more real, better story). I think this movie possibly had a goal of interesting non comic fans, which meant sacrificing some continuity. Overall, First Class is definitely worth seeing though.
Spook
Spook - 6/7/2011, 10:24 AM
I thought this movie was overall pretty good, but there was definitely to many flaws to consider this one of the best CBM's ever. Which is what alot of people are claiming. First off, why did they even call it first class. It should have been titled X-Men Fox Class. Or X-Men Origins, Xavier/Erik edition. Besides those two and maybe Shaw, the movie lacked alot.
djohnpi
djohnpi - 6/7/2011, 11:02 AM
This movie was made for people who don't know comic book history. As far as this being better than THOR you better think again.
BlackLanternJake
BlackLanternJake - 6/7/2011, 8:57 PM
I'll explain more in my own review, but January Jones RUINED this flick!!! Her acting was worse than Halle Barre's as Storm and that's saying something! Her acting was so bad that it actually sucked the life out of everyone around her whenever she was in the same room. It's appropriate her character could turn into diamond, because JJ's acting range was about the same as a lump of diamond! The fact that she was great eyecandy did not distract me from the face-palmingly bad performance she put on.

I now feel better about Blake Lively in the Green Lantern movie, if only because her performance couldn't possibly be more putrid than January Jones' acting.
LP4
LP4 - 6/7/2011, 11:52 PM
This was better than Thor. Better action and story. Yeah it deviated from the comics more than Thor did but damn. I left the theater after seeing 'First Class' with a HUGE smile on my face. It felt epic.

I left seeing Thor and I felt 'cheated' in a way. lol
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