[artenotreah]

new still:

[lYVgWWcP]

so i saw this. you could tell what was rushed (hello horrible CGI opening scenes) and the story is, its okay. mostly michael fassbender and kevin bacon save this film for me. the climax is silliness though. silliness.

[77Dinaartickire]

michael fassbender

michael fassbender michael fassbender Yyyyyyyes.

(And I just figured out he's only a year older than me. And we lived in the same state in Germany at the same time. IT WAS MEANT TO BE.)

[lYVgWWcP]

i agree strongly with your summary of the best parts jp.

[IamRobot]

I loved it! I thought they went a more darker route than the previous X-Men which were a little cartoony.

[11Pecepebra]

Starting in Auschwitz? Yeah, that's darker.

Mixed positive here. Fassbender's gonna be a huge fucking star. His scenes with McAvoy were the best in the movie. Bacon was a first-rate villain. The film looked great and moved along very well. And silly as the climax was, I found it most entertaining.

It would have been nice to see Jennifer Lawrence get to do more actual acting, since she does that very well. But she does have nice chemistry with Hoult (on and off screen, from what I understand), and she looks great in 60s miniskirts. Other characters could have been better fleshed out. (Especially poor Zoe Kravitz. Why did her character make that choice?) And some of the dialogue was pretty clunky.

Overall, though, a B+ summer film, and I'd see the next in the series based on this.

[lYVgWWcP]

i agree about the zoe kravitz/angel character. like....what? and given the path of darwin, i think they couldve done without. and also agreed, jennifer lawrence is a better actress than that role.

[freeringtonesioo]

Starting in Auschwitz? Yeah, that's darker.

The very first X-Men movie started in Auschwitz too.

[11Pecepebra]

Your memory is better than mine, Helen.

Fox: agreed about Darwin.

[tomsmuidh]

It was ok, I guess... I loved the 60's setting and Fassbender was not only handsome but did a very cool magneto. Bacon had quite a good German accent but as a badguy was left rather undeveloped. The Nazi-angle was much more interesting than the cold war angle.
All in all I found it rather, ehm, tame. I thought this was going to do to Xmen what the Batman Begins did to the Batman franchise so I expected something grittier. Even when Darwin dies (Token black guy being killed first lolz) it has very very little impact and he's forgotten after 30 seconds.

The middle act was rather boring, with the whole recruiting and training routine. I kept thinking about Team America's Montage scene.
And I was expecting a few bigger action setpieces. Sure, flying submarine crashes are cool and all, but the ending left me underwhelmed.

[lYVgWWcP]

The Nazi-angle was much more interesting than the cold war angle.

absolutely. the fassbender argentina scene reminded me i really should purchase inglorious basterds...

[77Dinaartickire]

i really should purchase inglorious basterds...

Yes. YES! Til Schweiger and Michael Fassbender, two hot Germans (well, one hot German and one hot half-German) together in one movie? *fans self*

[lYVgWWcP]

oh. most obvious taglines ever. also shitty photoshop on fassbenders shot? this promo material screams rushed-out summer shit.

[I9dydJrX]

meh, the posters aren't outstanding, but they're not shyte either. two factors alone will have me there opening night: january jones as emma frost & matthew "kick-ass" vaughn directing. 'nuff said.

[AlissBart]

I don't like prequels, never liked them. I'm disappointed that the X-men series went in this direction

[smazibummigue]

I actually really, really enjoyed the film. Though there was--yet again--the problem of having too many characters (and so too little character development), the major players did wonderful jobs. McAvoy and Fassbender were both stupendous--each managed to capture the essence of their icons without drowning in the legacy of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Quite a feat, if you ask me. I wish Jennifer Lawrence had had more meat to dig into, esp. considering her absolutely incandescent performance in Winter's Bone, but here's hoping that she'll have juicier work in the next films (sounds like the main cast has been optioned already for two more). Same for the boy who played Beast: he was good here, but I think could have done more with more time (he was also great in A Single Man).

I think the historical revision worked really well for the movie; with the Holocaust and the Cold War bookending the movie, it had a weight to it that perhaps X3 (and Wolverine, which was just a mess) was missing out on. The swinging 60s worked well for these kids - J Lawrence, in particular, looked stunning in the period outfits. It was also hilarious seeing Prof X being a naughty rake. I thought the finale was riveting, even though it seems like many others found it underwhelming. Besides the opening segment (young Erik's rage; metal flying everywhere in that lab), the special effects were great.

All in all, a fantastic summer movie: had both the fluff and the heft. Definitely looking forward to where they take the series next.

[AlissBart]

I almost forgot there was a dedicated thread.

I had zero expectations, I watched just because I've loved the other x-men movies and wanted to see what they made with this.
I found myself liking it mre than I would have expected.

The thing I don't like in prequels are inconsistencies with previous productions.
In the x-men trilogy we see a walking middle age Prof. X with Magneto going to a young Jean Grey's home.
I don't have a clue about the original comics story so I don't have anything to complain about readaptations but I would have liked to consider this movie an integration of the storyline the first three but I saw that it's not possible unless in future movies they'll find a way to explain this inconsistency.

[NanoKakadze]

More promo pics...

[Timoxari]

They really are quite awful.

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