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X-Men:First Class
Kugai:
I have no problem about Eric and Charles being together in this Prequel, as I am familiar with the fact that both of them worked together in early days until their split Elysiana, my point is - and I AM doing this from memory, so forgive me if I've got it mixed up - Mystique didn't hook up with the Brotherhood till after the split between Charles and Eric.
Thomas Edison:
I don't see Mystique hanging around with Charles back in the 60's being that big of a problem. If you were going to call out any point that doesn't stand up to the comic book canon, then I would have thought you would have mentioned the fact that Cyclop's younger brother, Havok, is kicking about thirty or forty years before the first X-Men film.
Fact is, the films are a completely different continuity. Singer stated that the Havok in the film universe isn't Scott Summer's brother, but some other form of relative that allows him to appear in First Class, so if that's the route they've taken I don't see why Mystique can't have been with Charles and Eric before they went their seperate ways.
Jimmy the Squid:
Especially since they establish in First Class that Mystique ages differently to other humans and even other mutants and that when she's 40 she'll still look like a teenager so when she still looks young in X-Men 1-3 it's ok because she'd be about 60 and look about 25ish.
Also it's not like the films are Earth-616 continuity so I'm ok with some departures from canon. In Ultimate X-Men, Alex Summers is Scott's older brother.
Oh, do you guys think that Emma Frost's appearance in this film negates Wolverine: Origins? I do like how the next Wolverine film is apparently going to ignore Origins completely.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 03 Jun 2011, 18:44 ---I quite liked the first X-Men film.
Ten years ago, when I was 13.
--- End quote ---
Me too. I also liked it when I rewatched it a week ago, when I was 23.
As for first class, I thought the casting was great, although the ending was a little cheesy (but not bad enough to undo the good rest of it).
(click to show/hide)By ending I mean pretty much everything post bullet to the spine.
Elysiana:
Sorry Kugai, you worded your original question kinda funny and I wasn't following.
Yeah, we didn't go into this movie expecting it to follow canon completely. Or necessarily at all. I haven't really minded that in any of the superhero movies of the last ten years, to be honest - the comics go through reboots and alternate universes all the time so I guess it's kind of cool to see a director's take on where they think the story should lead. It's not like when you have a single novel and they completely change the story; comics, especially ones with this many different versions already, are a lot more fluid and forgiving.
I loved the whole 60s thing - they had fun with the costume and set design without it being over the top "HEY LOOK GUYZ WE'RE IN THE 60S LOL!"
What's Wolverine: Origins? Is it like Highlander 2? :P
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