Days of Future Past Have you seen X-Men: First Class? Post here!

[danoyse]

So anyone seen it more than once yet? I'm going 2nd time tonight!

I almost saw it again this afternoon after seeing it this morning.

If I don't see it again Sunday, I'm definitely seeing it again after work on Monday.

My sister and brother-in-law really want to see it, so I volunteered to babysit my nephew so they can go.

 

[Ipodman]

Yes indeed, first time was media screening. I caught much more the second time around.

I'm also going with friends at the weekend, that will the third time.

Haha nice... I'm aiming for at least 3 times for myself...

 

[X-Maniac]

The not too distant future to me means the future. Sometime after the present. But, I think trying to make this fit into continuity is futile. Just enjoy the film for what it was: a solid X-Men film that is about Xavier and Magneto before they became the men they are now. Vaughn clearly wasn't all that concerned with continuity in making this. There are many issues with the continuity of this film and the others. But, who cares?

I, personally, don't care about the continuity 'issues'. But a lot of the more narrow-thinking, obsessional fanboys seem to be totally hung up on it. i spotted an editorial on the-site-that-cannot-be-named in which commenters tore it apart on continuity grounds and just could not get past it.

 

[danoyse]

I forgot all about that! Was there a towers shot in X1? That could also mean 2001 itself.

Yep. You can't even really get around it, they're pretty prominent in the shot. They even talk about it in the X1 commentary track, since Bryan Singer is from NJ and was still pretty shaken up about the whole thing.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I, personally, don't care about the continuity 'issues'. But a lot of the more narrow-thinking, obsessional fanboys seem to be totally hung up on it. i spotted an editorial on the-site-that-cannot-be-named in which commenters tore it apart on continuity grounds and just could not get past it.

If it ruins it for some people, then it is their loss. This was a good movie. Far better than anything FOX has done with Marvel properties. I am just going to enjoy it.

Yep. You can't even really get around it, they're pretty prominent in the shot. They even talk about it in the X1 commentary track, since Bryan Singer is from NJ and was still pretty shaken up about the whole thing.

Well...then around 2001 is when X1 takes place! That would be not too distant future from 2000.

 

[X-Maniac]

I almost saw it again this afternoon after seeing it this morning.

If I don't see it again Sunday, I'm definitely seeing it again after work on Monday.

My sister and brother-in-law really want to see it, so I volunteered to babysit my nephew so they can go.

Because a lot is going on in the story, a second screening is good because you can be prepared for stuff, like the Cerebro cameos etc.

 

[Rac]

What was the point of having Tony Curran and Bendan Fehr in the movie ? They were extra in the movie basically !

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05...nd-influence-on-the-difficult-shoot-and-more/

I think people with one line are just as important as people with a thousand lines. It takes one bad delivery to take you out of a film, so if I can get away with casting great actors in smaller roles, I’ll take it. With Flemyng, I had to ******** him that in the sequel he’d have a much bigger role.

 

[danoyse]

Because a lot is going on in the story, a second screening is good because you can be prepared for stuff, like the Cerebro cameos etc.

Exactly...I only caught one of those cameos the first time around.

My dad liked it so much he wants to see it again too.

 

[DeanJ2009]

I don't care. But a lot of the more narrow-thinking, obsessional fanboys seem to be totally hung up on it. i spotted an editorial on the-site-that-cannot-be-named in which commenters tore it apart on continuity grounds and just could not get past it.

The general public, the ones who make the difference in weather or not these movies get made also couldn't give a flying f**k about this. People need to just relax a bit more at these types of film.

I've noticed alot of criticism along the lines of Erik and Charles should have been friends and the end of this film, that would have confused the general public! Sequel or no sequel planned you can't let the gen-pop leave the theatre confused and they would if that movie had of ended with Charles and Erik still best buds. In a sequel they can go back and forth and have thier friendship grow in one respect and disitegrate in another.

Yes fanboys want things spread out over several films but it's just not realistic, unless the films are written(and more ofthen than not filmed) at the same time it's for the best the just concentrate on making one good movie and seeing if the general public decide that it's a franchise worth investing in. if you hold back thinking that you will save things for later films you are more than likely not going to make it to those later films.

 

[X-Maniac]

Exactly...I only caught one of those cameos the first time around.

My dad liked it so much he wants to see it again too.

And it seems less kinetic and choppy at the start as well when you see it again. At the media screening, i was sat next to a very short woman in the main Odeon Leicester Square venue (which doesn't have a steep slope to the seating, so it's harder to see), and so this woman kept leaping up on her feet to read the subtitles and it made the film seem more jerky because she kept jumping up and down...I had to ignore her to concentrate on it!

 

[Ipodman]

Yea kids will probably have trouble following the subtitles...

 

[jacobed]

More Azazel in the sequel. Hell yes he was such a bad ass in this movie.

 

[Ipodman]

Yea did he even say anything... he was like some kind of silent killer like deal...

Sequel would be great... I rather have second class than X4 and 5

 

[craigdbfan]

Azazel had more lines than Riptide who didn't literally say a word in the entire film.

Riptide was badass.

 

[X-Maniac]

I'd like more from the henchmen in next movie, just some dialogue explaining their motivations, don't need their life story...

 

[danoyse]

And it seems less kinetic and choppy at the start as well when you see it again. At the media screening, i was sat next to a very short woman in the main Odeon Leicester Square venue (which doesn't have a steep slope to the seating, so it's harder to see), and so this woman kept leaping up on her feet to read the subtitles and it made the film seem more jerky because she kept jumping up and down...I had to ignore her to concentrate on it!

I know that theater! Never been inside, but for some reason I remember that Tropic Thunder was playing there the last time I was in London.

When I saw Wolverine at the AMC Empire 25 in NYC, a guy got up and started yelling 5 minutes into the movie because he didn't like the rat on Liev Schreiber's shoulder. He walked out muttering out loud "That guy's got a ****in' rat on his shoulder!!" And he never came back.

 

[Spider-Fan]

He didn't miss much. Wolverine was awful.

 

[Ipodman]

Azazel had more lines than Riptide who didn't literally say a word in the entire film.

Riptide was badass.

Really? I didn't remember Azazel saying anything... Riptide's power was cool...

 

[akfj]

Yea kids will probably have trouble following the subtitles...

There was a little kid a couple seats away from me who couldn't sit still throughout the entire movie, but whenever there were subtitles on the screen he would actually pay attention and read them out. Weird.

 

[craigdbfan]

@Ipodman Yes, really.

He had a couple of lines. When they were in the sub and a couple other parts.

 

[danoyse]

He didn't miss much. Wolverine was awful.

He wasn't the only one who walked out of that show.

Although...I didn't hate Wolverine. It's not a good movie, by any stretch of the imagination, but I didn't hate it.

 

[Ipodman]

There was a little kid a couple seats away from me who couldn't sit still throughout the entire movie, but whenever there were subtitles on the screen he would actually pay attention and read them out. Weird.

Haha maybe kids find it intriguing that words are appearing on screen...

 

[akfj]

Haha maybe kids find it intriguing that words are appearing on screen...

I was thinking that maybe he would have preferred the book version.

 

[Spider-Fan]

He wasn't the only one who walked out of that show.

Although...I didn't hate Wolverine. It's not a good movie, by any stretch of the imagination, but I didn't hate it.

I still want my money back from it

Wolverine was a big reason I almost waited several weeks to see First Class. The reviews for it got me to the theater tonight, and not in 2-3 weeks.

 

[The Sage]

Great, really great.

I love how the movie tied into the first two movies. The Magneto/Mystique relationship was established, the way the Brotherhood of Mutants is setup, it does leave the door open for Mystique and Azazel to potentially sire Nightcrawler.

Michael Fassbender man...wow. Magneto was off the chain. Xavier too, McAvoy was good.

Some of it felt a little rushed, mainly the training scenes. But quite a bit was packed in so it didn't affect me.

Loved it. Worth seeing once, and worth seeing a second time.