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Originally Posted by Alienweirdo

I heard it was a film that helped set up X-men and X2, but ignored the events of X3 and XO:W hence the appearance of Emma Frost in both.

I loved X-men First Class, made me love the franchise again after the abhorrent mess that was X3 and the offensive rubbish that was Origins...

Continuity-wise, it was horrible and screwed up everything - and it really didn't have to do that at all. I can only assume the writers were too lazy to care what the other 4 movies had done. (To be fair, there were already problems.) It might have been better off to be a reboot, but it might not have gotten the attention it did otherwise.

As a movie on its own merits, it was really well done - and certainly better than a number of other superhero movies done recently. The acting was quite nice, and while several characters were somewhat pointless, it was fun seeing them on screen.