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Originally Posted by ChuckSass

You're a mess, If you haven't read the comics in 20 years you have no pot to piss in. If you had, you'd know Angel Salvadore is the winged girl, and if it wasn;t for the STUPID X3 we wouldn't have had to make First Class to salvage the X-Franchise.
Fassbender is a far better actor than everyone in the previous films. You're just trolling and want to have the unpopular opinion. Would you also like a PBR?


Anyways back on topic, The X-Men hot toys are long overdue but look outstanding! It looks just like James MacAvoy Catwoman's pose is awkward but they all look AMAZING. They are a little to Barbie-esque for me, but damn these things are the crème de la crème.

I'm a mess? why? Because I actually have standards? I have a film history and production background... you? LOL The worse X-Men comics I read in the 80's were EASILY better than First Class. The X-Men saturday morning cartoons were better than First Class. Fassbender was good in Inglorious Basterds, but he is no where NEAR the caliber of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Brian Cox...

Take the scene from X-Men, with Stewart and McKellen playing chess. Now substitute that version of Prof X & Magneto with the First Class versions. FC version of Magneto wouldn't play the game to checkmate. He'd get pissy 1/3 of the way into the game and toss the board. IN THE MOVIE-UNIVERSE Xavier and Magneto shared a dream, they differed in tactics to achieve that dream. Xavier wanted to quietly integrate mutants with humanity, Magneto wants to integrate with Mutants as the superior race. First Class threw that all out the window. Magneto didn't honestly care about any of Charles' ideals. He used him for resources. The scene with the bullet at the end was completely unrealistic, because NOTHING Magneto said or did proved for a second ANY kind of real friendship, especially not like the one seen in X1, X2, and X3. The men loved each other as brothers. Magneto genuinely looked resigned and prepared for the loss when he reconfigured Cerebro in X2, and thought that Charles would die because of it. In X3, when Phoenix vaporized Xavier, Magneto was shocked and pained. You could see it on his face when he confronts Pyro about his comments.

NOTHING in that relationship was found in X-Men First Class. There was no dimensions to any of the characters. It was worse than Watchmen. They took two compelling characters, and a psychological drama that could have been fantastic, and tossed it aside for a cheap action flick.

Also, believe it or not, it DOES MATTER that I didn't have a clue who Angel Savatore is. I, like 99.9% of movie-goers, DON'T READ the comics, and remember X-Men from the older comics or cartoons. The job of the movie people is to entertain me with a bit of nostalgia, and a compelling story. Bug-Girl was neither. She was there PURELY for TNA, and even on that front, she failed miserably. Look at the best Comics movies right now... The Paramount/Marvel films and Dark Knight trilogy... they borrow heavily from classic stories. They don't try to completely re-invent the wheel. Most of the characters have personality, and you can see them existing outside of the film. XM-FC doesn't achieve that, in my opinion. XM-FC felt more like a Paul W.S. Anderson film than a Matthew Vaughn film.

How am I trolling? I'm not the one calling people a mess, and trying to control people's opinions. I merely voiced my opinion, which also validated another opinion in the thread, and YOU are the one degrading people and name-calling (a sure sign to a weak argument, and NEVER a good tactic in a debate).