Banshee looked like someone right out of central casting in 2011. Some of the hairstyles also looked way too modern for 1962, particularly the males. It seemed very out of place and unexplained (how did he even get a nuclear-powered submarine?). Sebastian Shaw’s submarine was way too slick and tricked out to be in the 1960s. While I do enjoy historical fiction, I do not like it when the technology does not match up with the time period.
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I still don’t understand why she was there, if for no other reason than to stand around looking pretty and reminding us that she was on Mad Men – a TV series that took place in the 1960s like First Class. The weakest empty vessel was January Jones as Emma Frost. Jennifer Lawrence, who was coming into prominence around the time this film was released, was the strongest of the group. I didn’t care about them, and they just seemed like empty vessels used to propel the plot forward. Unlike the two central characters, most of the other characters were not interesting or had little development. Logan didn’t need any more time or say anything else. It was a short and sweet joke to the audience and I loved it. Hugh Jackman’s cameo as Wolverine was clever. In First Class, it’s not as broad as those films, but still very effective. We saw this in Kick-Ass, which was released before this film, and he refined it in last year’s Kingsman: The Secret Service. He makes the violence “hurt,” for lack of a better word.
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With his camera angles, frame speed and sound effects, he has a unique way of making violence that would usually be lost in the noise of an action movie piercing and memorable. I’m a big fan of director Matthew Vaughn’s peculiar brand of frenetic action. It’s a far cry from the sleek, almost Apple-like Cerebro of the earlier films, and it’s wonderful. There are refrigerator-sized consoles and wires everywhere. It truly looks like something Hank McCoy patched together from then-current technology. My favorite piece of historical fiction in the film was the 1960s version of Cerebro – Xavier’s supercomputer capable of detecting any mutant on earth. Still, it was fun to see the actual news coverage and President Kennedy’s October 22 address to the nation embedded within the narrative. It was an interesting twist on the event, albeit a very fanciful one. This movie revolves around the machinations that brought about the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. I love historical fiction – a different look at a well-known, real-life event. Hank McCoy’s initial physical appearance was also a very clever nod, as his original form in 1963 was decidedly less blue, as in this film. I appreciated all the subtle throwbacks to the original 1963 X-Men comic, particularly the final film costumes with a yellow and blue color scheme. And Fassbender is exceptional at displaying Magneto’s rage without being over-the-top. McAvoy is great at maintaining calm, even though the audience can see that he wants to say more to Erik.
The quiet scenes between the two are the best one can see them slowly getting ideologically irked by one another. They really make the film worth watching. It reflects a similar conflict of ideologies in a real historical struggle against bigotry, as well as the spiritual truth about what part of a person truly matters.īoth James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are wonderful in this movie as Professor X and Magneto, respectively. The growing conflict between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr is what keeps this movie interesting. One can still see the remnants of this plan as Erik’s story is clearly at the center of the plot. It’s based in part on a story for a proposed X-Men Origins film about Magneto. In an effort to keep the franchise going after the not-so-great The Last Stand, 20th Century Fox opted to do a prequel – a tongue-in-cheek look at the origins of the Xavier’s group of strange heroes. The movie didn’t grab me like it should have. X-Men: First Class was a step in the right direction for this venerable superhero series when it was released.
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