Days of Future Past Worst moments in 'X-men: First Class'

[By your Command]

And that's why the little Erik scene shouldn't have happened, they should have just cut with Shaw asking for Erik to be brought to him.

 

[piccolo]

He did kill them on purpose. The only way it could have been more clear is if he said out loud, "Hey movie crowd, i'm killing these german soldiers on purpose, if it wasn't obvious by the way the camera focuses on me giving them death-glares as their skulls are crushed in". I'm just guessing the writers didn't think that was necessary.

Not only that, but apparently adolescent Erik, after seeing his mother die and being so distraught he destroys everything around him and kills two germans, still has the maturity and presence of mind to think "well, better not kill the guy who pulled the trigger, then i'll really be in trouble!" haha

He's a jew boy in a nazi concentration camp, who's just murdered 2 german soldiers. Guess what. As far as he's concerned, things can't get any worse.

 

[psyonic]

I didn't like:

Darwin's supposed death
Riptide having no lines
Emma Frost actually sitting in her lingerie while mentally seducing the Russian General (her actual self should have been clothed)
No psychic battle between Emma and Charles, or rather Emma not putting up a fight while Charles read her mind
Emma should have said "dear" instead of "sugar" to Charles
Angel's acid looked like fireballs in the final battle

Overall I really liked it, I can't wait until the DVD comes out ..

 

[Loganbabe]

I also can understand Magneto leaving (He didn't know Xavier too long) but Mystique leaving at THAT moment was just a huge faux pas and wtf moment

Even with Magneto it was incoherent. It looked as if he was just mad that Charles wouldn't follow him in his vendetta against humanity. He just went "Yo, take care of him" and "Brothers let's go". And abandoned the man who risked his own life quite a few times for him.
I felt so bad for Charles, I kid you not.

 

[Deaths Head II]

Was Angel spitting acid or was it fireballs? I mean it creates explosions in the water at the end and even when she used it in the beginning it looked very firey more then acidy.

 

[SuperT]

I thought Magneto left because, you know, he just killed a man and not only that but almost destroyed an entire fleet of American and Russian ships.

Professor X and everyone else had to have gotten off that island somehow and if it was the authorities, they would taken Magneto in with them. That's why I assumed he left at that time.

 

[By your Command]

Professor X and everyone else had to have gotten off that island somehow and if it was the authorities, they would taken Magneto in with them. That's why I assumed he left at that time.

I haven't really thought about this, how did they got off the island?

 

[BestGirl]

I haven't really thought about this, how did they got off the island?

If Charles was able to remain conscious he probably mind controlled someone to take them back to the US.

 

[By your Command]

If Charles was able to remain conscious he probably mind controlled someone to take them back to the US.

That was pretty good.

 

[piccolo]

Was Angel spitting acid or was it fireballs? I mean it creates explosions in the water at the end and even when she used it in the beginning it looked very firey more then acidy.

Maybe acid strong enough to create fire? Don't know. Everything about Angel was bad.

 

[psyonic]

Was Angel spitting acid or was it fireballs? I mean it creates explosions in the water at the end and even when she used it in the beginning it looked very firey more then acidy.

It's supposed to be acid but it looked like fire balls.

 

[JonRed99]

If Charles was able to remain conscious he probably mind controlled someone to take them back to the US.

Or Moira. I mean, she is a CIA agent. :/

 

[By your Command]

Or Moira. I mean, she is a CIA agent. :/

Not that one, they were trying to kill everyone on that beach, collateral damage Moira included.

 

[psyonic]

Maybe acid strong enough to create fire? Don't know. Everything about Angel was bad.

I liked the scene where her wings first emerged on screen but her whole defection was rushed but a character with her background, making money by dancing, I can see her wanting a better life for herself living like a "queen". In one of the behind the scenes clip where they approach the Russian General, she reminded me of Selene in her shawl. I would have accepted her as the Black Queen in the movies incarnation of the Hellfire club.

 

[JonRed99]

Not that one, they were trying to kill everyone on that beach, collateral damage Moira included.

Oh, then obviously Banshee flew all of them out of there.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

It was intentionally meant to be tongue in cheek. I didn't really get it until I saw it a second time.

The effect probably didn't work for everyone.

It sure didn't work for me.

Someone in another thread posted that the first half of the movie, they didn't really know what they thought quite yet. During my midnight showing, I was feeling the same way. I hadn't yet taken it all in.

But when that scene came on, it completely took me out of the element. I've talked about how Vaughn tried too hard to make a gritty 60's spy flick, and when I'm watching an X-Men movie I wanna feel like I'm watching an X-Men movie, not a 60's spy flick, and this scene was the absolute worst offender. I rolled my eyes the entire time. It was scenes like this that were the reason I came back with my initial response to the movie, about how I was disappointed. These types of scenes were sprinkled throughout the movie, and on my first viewing really killed the feel I had of watching an amazing X-Men movie.

That scene was the one scene that has consistently gotten negative reactions from the audiences in my theatres. This scene has caused the most snickering and groans from my audiences of any other moment in the film. I didn't groan. I just facepalmed and rolled my eyes.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

that's not the point. The kid's reaction was totally unrealistic.

A man just killed your mother. You will most likely:
- rage and try to hit the guy (you know you probably won't hurt him but just like punching a wall it will let the frustration and anger out)
- you will surely not stay still as the murderer puts his arm around you ("you just killed my mother, get the F away from me")





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Dude, it was a concentration camp. I'm sure that people watched beloved family members get executed right in front of them ALL THE TIME there. How the hell can you say how someone in that position - completely kidnapped from their homes, to be enslaved and slaughtered, should react when you've never gone through anything close to that? Especially when the people in charge have ULTIMATE power over you? Especially when it's a kid. A kid who, in a fictional universe, has absolutely no grasp of the power he has. I don't think he even knows how he moved the gate, since he obviously couldn't move the coin, and he had his moment of "getting out his frustration" with his display of power.

That scene made perfect sense for me.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

The thing about the codenames is that, they just weren't really needed. Nobody had them, there was no precedent, it wasn't like they'd been reading superhero comic books either. They just randomly came up with codenames. And some of them I couldn't buy kids coming up with. Havok? A bunch of teenagers aren't going to call a guy who shoots fire bursts Havok...i'd believe Whamy-Kablamy man over that.

And yeah, glad you guys see my gripe with the Mags as a kid scene. Didn't even try to hurt him, then stood there while he did and said all that stuff. I'm sitting there like "you did just see this guy put your mother down like an animal, right?".

Havok was actually one of the more natural codenames for me. They didn't called him Havok cuz he shot "fire bursts", they called him Havok because of the damn destruction he caused. He was causing havoc, thus, they called him "Havok". Makes sense to me. And I hated that scene. But that and "Beast" were the 2 names that worked for me.

 

[Nokio]

Charles Always putting his hand to his head when he used his power. Enough already, we get he has mental powers

Darwin's death

No battle between Emma and Charles. Charles is obviously the most powerful telepath but not to show it was a miss for me.

Fassbender's Irish accent surfacing at the end. That was really poor post production work. Someone really should have caught that.

Riptide with no lines, seriously??? it wasn't like he was one of the soldiers on the ship or backup CIA
agents.

A humorless Beast.

Beast looking like Teen Wolf

The poor portrayal of the Hellfire Club.

Shaw is Sinister and Magneto now.

 

[Nokio]

The horrible CGI when the Sub is crashing on the island.

 

[El Payaso]

And Beast's first reveal in his blue hairy form in the hangar (not the transformation, the transformation was good). It looked very cheesy to me and overall I just don't think the Beast makeup in this worked.

Yeah, that was bad. Not only the make-up looked really fake but everyone's reaction was 'oh, okay. So let's get on the plane.' Didn't work.

 

[DieSmiling]

There weren't any moments in the movie specifically that I hated too much.

The biggest problem with it was that it couldn't decide if it was in continuity with the previous movies or not. The "loose prequel" just doesn't work. Make it a reboot or a prequel.

Like, I'm sorry, but the whole idea of the Xavier/Mystique relationship was awful. There was ZERO connection or interaction between them in the previous movies, and now we're supposed to buy that they're surrogate siblings? It seemed so forced.

 

[Darthkush]

I didn't like Moira getting mindwiped. I didn't see the point of it. I know why Xavier did it but I didn't feel it was justified. I think she could've been trusted.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

There weren't any moments in the movie specifically that I hated too much.

The biggest problem with it was that it couldn't decide if it was in continuity with the previous movies or not. The "loose prequel" just doesn't work. Make it a reboot or a prequel.

Like, I'm sorry, but the whole idea of the Xavier/Mystique relationship was awful. There was ZERO connection or interaction between them in the previous movies, and now we're supposed to buy that they're surrogate siblings? It seemed so forced.

That's exactly why I wasn't a fan of the creative direction for them to have a relationship like that. It felt like the Xavier and Raven relationship was stronger than the Xavier and Erik relationship.

BUT... it was very well done I thought, so I was able to buy into it and accept it. And given that there's going to be a gap of 30-40 years between X-Men: First Class and X-Men, and I know from personal experience how sibling relationships can deteriorate due to ideology, I can actually buy the Charles & Raven dynamic in X-Men: First Class becoming what it is in the X-Men trilogy.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Sure there were worse moments in the film but I could care less and not over generalize them. I enjoyed the movie for what it was and I recently watched X-Men and yeah there were some worse moments in it too but I still like both X1 and X2.