X-Men First Class was just the perfect summer superhero movie I was craving!

[Zeze]

The movie was super great, but it pushed all the right buttons of a solid superhero movie I've been craving since Iron Man 1.

I've always loved X-men saga because of it's 'mature' take on story- the in-depth backstory for all each characters, the complex friendship-enemy relationship between Xavier and Magneto, the social commentary about discrimination, etc...

It's far more appealing to me than plain vanilla good vs evil superhero like Superman.

A special mention goes out to Michael Fassbender's performance as Magneto. He conveyed some very strong emotions in the scenes he was realizing his power with the help of Xavier. Not just sorrow, anger, and pain, but also grace and serenity whenever he maxed his powers

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(moving sat dish / submarine)

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There is one plot hole that bothered me:

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X-FC establishes that mutants are the new result of nuclear testing....but Wolverine is a mutant that lived way before the invention of nuclear weapons and dated all the way from Civil War. He's just a natural freak?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2167630 Original thread on this subject.

 

[Soundmanred]

I've heard of this movie.

 

[HAL9000]

Spoiler

X-FC establishes that mutants are the new result of nuclear testing....but Wolverine is a mutant that lived way before the invention nuclear weapons and dated all the way from Civil War. He's just a natural freak?

Actually

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they established that nuclear testing accelerated the mutation of humanity, it wasn't the result of it, it would have happened naturally anyway. On a side note, radiation was around before nuclear weapons.

 

[busydude]

There is one plot hole that bothered me:

Spoiler

X-FC establishes that mutants are the new result of nuclear testing....but Wolverine is a mutant that lived way before the invention of nuclear weapons and dated all the way from Civil War. He's just a natural freak?

I think you missed the basic plot.

 

[Zeze]

Actually

Spoiler

they established that nuclear testing accelerated the mutation of humanity, it wasn't the result of it, it would have happened naturally anyway. On a side note, radiation was around before nuclear weapons.

Nice avatar change. Me likes, you silly brit.

 

[Zeze]

I think you missed the basic plot.

Looks like I failed indeed.

 

[Soundmanred]

This is where I've heard of it:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2167630

 

[HAL9000]

Nice avatar change. Me likes, you silly brit.

Thank you kindly, you silly yank.