thread for anticipating X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Fassbender, McAvoy, Bacon, dir. Vaughn), i guess.

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matthew vaughn (Layer Cake, Kick-Ass, Stardust) directing prequel-y movie about young xavier (mcavoy) and magneto (fassbender) and kevin bacon, possibly/hopefully set in swinging london; most of the x-men in it are nobodies, for continuity reasons

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http://i52.tinypic.com/mcynuv.jpg <-- money shot
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cumming this summer

forgot the imdb link

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270798/

plz say Kevin Bacon is playing himself

here's the trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQb192-CPQ

(hes playing sebastian shaw)

oh that's kind of awesome

two more stills

http://i.imgur.com/viwEL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/FAgE5.jpg

gonna suck

How does this guy possibly hope to follow in the footsteps of the great Brett Ratner?

They should call this "X-Men: Orange and Teal."

I almost started this thread until I realized that this movie is going to be terrible.

Also the mutant makeup photos here look very uhhhhhhhhh, and January Jones looks like she's modeling for the VS catalog rather than dressed as Emma Frost. I realizing the corset-and-hooker-boots costume that she originally wore in the comics might be distracting, but c'mon, guys.

Eh, ignore those makeup photos. Apparently those images are fakes and Matthew Vaughan is right pissed about it.

Nicholas Hoult looks like the dude equivalent of the sexy librarian in that picture.

guys professor x is bald! he was born bald, never grew hair and remained bald. what a disaster.

He's over 18, right? I hope Chris Hansen is not reading this thread. xp

So Xavier is like a hairless cat?

exactly

It makes sense, those hairless cats always have this knowing look like they are reading your mind.

ACTUALLY losing his hair was a byproduct of his mutation as a teenager

Remember when the first X-Men costumes were leaked out, and people freaked out? But those Singer movies were fine. I like Matthew Vaughan OK, but I can't imagine this bringing anything to the table. They should just aim for a "Secret Wars" finale to all these super-hero movies and get it over with. "The Avengers!" "Spider-Man!" "X-Men!" "Fantastic Four!" Together at last! (They can throw Batman in there, too, just to see if anyone's paying attention).

xpost ha, yeah was just kidding. just that prof x w/ hair is kinda like ... umm wolverine w/o sideburns

I can imagine Kevin Bacon reading the script... "Wait, so I get to be a controlling asshole and perv over the ladies, including January Jones? I'm in!"

well look at that, rose byrne

Nice ascot. xp

http://comicsmedia.ign.com/comics/image/article/627/627277/babes64lastbracket_1122662279-000.jpg

that is the most perplexing bracket ever

like, Fairchild over Jean? really?

FYI, I believe it was the Hottest Female Comic Book Character competition, c. 2005.

I think they have a lot of weird choices there.

I mean, in the context of considering it weird, but still considering it a reasonable thing to rank female comic characters for hotness.

OK, this whole enterprise is fucked.

It was a reader's poll somewhere. Comic book readers who would vote on hottest character=weird.

I love love love Grant Morrison's version of Emma Frost, but I don't expect the movie version to be anything like that.

You know, the "hottest woman" or "hottest actress" thing in real life is still pretty creepy, but with fictional characters, it's a whole new ballgame.

No corset & boots is kinda a deal-breaker for me.

this can't be any lamer than Wolverine

incorrect

Rose Byrne!

awww yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbHykKUfTM

Incongruous soundtrack choice. Should have gone for The Dave Clark Five or something

is that supposed to be a red nightcrawler?

If it's early X-Men, it'd probably be the Vanisher.

it's Azazel

BOOOOOO

They're young, they're hot, they're hip and brooding. They're the Gen-X Men!

lol except no one says "Gen X" anymore

It's a period piece.

Okay, nobody said it back in the 50s and 60s either.

Ah, but don't you see? It's about the roots of Gen X. The roots ... of the Gen-X-Men!

jesus
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god, i can't stop laughing at that. what the hell is going on!!!! it looks like he's pooping out his face

I paid $2 to see this at a second-run theater

In NYC this requires a time portal set to 1987.

Ha, no, she came off a super-styling naive junior agent who adds nothing to the intrigue or action, which is what made her so hilarious!

She's like Ramond Burr in Godzilla, just occasionally providing narrative color for those unable to follow the plot and action.

Can't argue with any of that.

I mean, finding the mutants montage, training montage, black guy dies first ...

Gosh.

I'm sure he's not dead and turning into cinders was some sort of adaptation we don't yet understand! At least that will be the case if they make another movie.

Mopey beast getting his feet made fun of 100 times!

I also love how the training sequence - and the costume designing/tailoring sequence, I guess - takes place literally as the Cuban missile crisis is in progress.

You are really spending a lot of time on this.

You might hate this more than my friend hated Thor!

Truth be told, I'm watching it right now, so it's basically live blogging.

Rose Byrne just poked her head out of a window and yelled "Hey! The President's about to make his address!!"

She's like Ramond Burr in Godzilla,

read this as "Raymond Burr as Godzilla"

I'd see that movie.

OMG, Beast! I can't imagine anyone seeing his furry CGI introduction, $2 theatre or no, and reacting with anything less than a good giggle.

Ray Wise! Michael Ironside! Wait a minute, this is a b-movie. My bad.

I quite liked this movie.

Also Jennifer Lawrence, man oh man

I totally enjoyed this. Best since X-Men 2 imo.

Beast looks like the dad in "Teen Wolf:"

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID15166/images/teen_wolfs_dad.JPG

McAvoy is only two years younger than Fassbender, but Fassbender in this movie always looks like he's babysitting a bunch of kids.

"near across the board incredulously bad acting (save Bacon)"
i heard bacon's german was terrible.
which is a shame because german bacon is fantastic -- wackity smackity doooo!

And I know Fassbender has claimed he used of his Irish accent on purpose, there's really no reason Magneto's accent should be the least bit Irish, let alone as Irish as it is at the end.

There's a great tradition of British theater actors doing ridiculous or entertaining sci-fi/fantasy parts.

is prof x now canonically british because of patrick stewart, or did that predate the singer movies?

Every time I look at this thread title I want to go back in time and somehow make a Fassbinder directed X-Men flick happen.

X-MEN: MAGNETO EATS THE SOUL

Always thought Prof. X was just supposed to have a generally fancy-pants accent, due to his fancy-pants upbringing. But no question Patrick Stewart did a definitive job.

BERLIN ALEX-MENDERPLATZ

lol thank you Phil D. you get my vision

phoenix and her friends

in a year with 13 mutants

I'm actually pretty proud of "Berlin AleX-Menderplatz."

Just saw this. Not particularly good (really, it's not), but it was great to see a continuous stream of nonsense being thrown at the screen just cuz it had the barest modicum of success in another medium. "Let's use this, why not?" A breath of fresh air from other superhero movies, both better and worse ones, just cuz it foregoes the trad. heroic narrative of lone hero, the community from which he always stand apart, the girl, all pretty paint-by-numbers by this point, and at bottom is about changing the status quo rather than affirming it. Maybe the other X-Men movies were like this - I forget.

ALSO: Magneto is right!

i'd say as weak as the characterization is overall, the martin/malcolm fulcrum is rendered better and more palpable here than any of the other movies and i daresay any of the comic stories i remember, (mckellan's air of not actually giving a shit was the right decision obv. but necessarily undercut the very_serious_ideas, in the comics the magneto/x divide became a pretty tired exercise by oh 1972 i'm guessing).

The Magneto/Xavier as King/X allegory didn't happen in the comics until the 1980s, when Chris Claremont decided to make Magneto into a sympathetic character. Before that he was stereotypical villain. And after that it didn't long before Magneto was running the school, while Xavier was in outer space. That, I think, was the true missed opportunity: Claremont could have made Magneto into a charismatic activist leader who manages to get the students behind his "X" ideas. But instead at this point Magneto had mellowed out so much he basically was just another Xavier. Even Morrison's New X-Men, despite hinting at this, never really got to do a "Magneto is right" story, as Morrison wanted to make Magneto a full villain again. So I guess you're right, AFAIK there never has been a properly explored "King/X" story in X-Men, where both sides would have an equal point, instead of Magneto's view always being the wrong one.

yeah i wasn't sure how far that went back, by the time i was reading it was just one of those fallback tropes that made your eyes glaze over (started reading late 80's, went back-issuing into the late 70's byrne stuff) but you also get to the point about the robustness of the argument. it's a matter of setting the table correctly wrt magneto's hardships + rage whereas most stories i'm privy to there's a vague sense of his politics being a (somewhat unconscious) vessel for his innate arrogance/chauvinism, and it's not that the erik of this movie couldn't logically become those other versions of magneto but it's crucial that those early dots are connected for any of it to resonate and this movie does a good job of it.

i do remember magneto's stint leading the x-men, the friction having less to do w/ philosophy than with magneto's past atrocities iirc. professor x in space another boredom inducer i probably tuned out this period pretty bad, morlock massacre is my formative xmen story pretty much, an oasis of action before claremont era winded down and he decided to go all in on the ponderousness.

Interestingly enough, having an ideological divide between two factions is going to be the point of the immediate future of X-Men stories. I'm not sure if it's a sign of the times or of the writers that both sides are militant at this point, it's just a matter of terms they disagree on.

holy christ that IS Kevin Bacon

Yup. He's fantastically cadaverous here. I mean, that's been his thing for the past decade or so, but here he just rocks it.

I know this was covered upthread, but I can't tell if the sartorial mismatches are intentional anachronisms or what. The scene with the mutant kids becoming bros looked like a Williamsburg lounge (Nicholas Hoult's sweater, specs, and malnourished mien were the hints).

i heard bacon's german was terrible.
which is a shame because german bacon is fantastic -- wackity smackity doooo!

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:03 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

lol.

Would watch a "Magneto: Nazi Hunter" movie.

― in no way more ancient than fucking space (latebloomer), Saturday, June 4, 2011 10:12 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man this would have been so much better

not that this wasnt entertaining

loved the mod submarine, bacon owned in this

january jones perfectly cast too

nah, she was crap

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/52/Whitequeenbolton.png/180px-Whitequeenbolton.png

january jones is crap, that character was crap, perfect casting

this is one of my favorite things about the property tbh, and i love that there's all these essentially useless mutants. it makes sense when you think about it! some muties win the genetic lottery, some of them are Leech.

Goddamn, you know how many times I've shouted "can you at least give Cypher a gun or something?!"

BTW, "Magneto: Nazi Hunter" cannot be overemphasized enough.

Just saw this, it was quite entertaining! Lots to hate about this movie but lots to like. It was kind of odd at the end when Professor X is all "Noooo! Don't do it!". You'd think you could get a pass for killing the Nazi who killed your mom.