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If the Awesomeness of X-Men: First Class Is Inversely Proportional To How Awful Their Poster Campaign Has Been, It Will be the Best Movie of 2011

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (29)

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(Source: Empire Magazine)









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Comments

Halloween flashmob.

Posted by: sars at April 19, 2011 11:58 AM

So Emma Frost had a cape, huh? You do know what happen to superheroes with capes, right?

Oh, how Mad Men fans will rejoice.

Posted by: Holly at April 19, 2011 11:59 AM

Man, you ain't kidding. That is one ugly poster. It's gotta be the same company that made that horribad Source Code poster. Same nasty washed out blue-grays and shit-yellows. It's like the Pantone color predictions came out and the designers have been told they MUST use them.

Posted by: Protoguy at April 19, 2011 12:07 PM

I can't look away from Mystique's Elephant Man hairline and comb-over. It's uncanny.

Posted by: Kballs at April 19, 2011 12:08 PM

How the hell does this photoshopped crap get the green light? Or is everyone actually bobbleheads in real life?

Posted by: Paultera at April 19, 2011 12:08 PM

Posted by: Protoguy at April 19, 2011 12:11 PM

Mystique has a skullet and is that Will Ferrel as James Bond on the right?

Posted by: Paultera at April 19, 2011 12:13 PM

I loved Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone, and I think she's an extremely talented actress. But I just don't like her in this Xmen movie. I have been thinking this for some time, but now I'm going to finally say it:

SHE HAS A BIG FOREHEAD!

Maybe it's because her head is full of her mad acting skillz, but geez louise she just looks terrible in the makeup and wig up there. Does no one see that?

Posted by: mswas at April 19, 2011 12:15 PM

Does no one see that?

Well of course Kballs did.

Posted by: mswas at April 19, 2011 12:16 PM

To paraphrase Jean-Paul Jean-Paul: "Why Dutch tilt? WHY!".

Posted by: Groundloop at April 19, 2011 12:26 PM

Magneto's rockin' the chinos, yo.

Posted by: Barry at April 19, 2011 1:00 PM

Starting to look like The League of Extraordinarily Douchey Gentleman.

I hear Mystique's powers include echolocating her prey.

Posted by: Protoguy at April 19, 2011 1:08 PM

It looks like their heads were added in post-production.

Posted by: Keith at April 19, 2011 1:14 PM

X-Men: Photoshopped Class

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at April 19, 2011 1:22 PM

You know they say most movie folk have huge heads (tee hee)that is why they look good on the big screen. Really.

Posted by: George at April 19, 2011 2:30 PM

why is it most of them look confused and lost. like they woke up in a disco roller rink with no doors?

Posted by: idleprimate at April 19, 2011 2:48 PM

Mystique with ....clothes? What the fuck man? What the fuck. This just ain't right. And seriously why take this mediocre blond for Emma Frost. Amber Heard would have done a far better job and she is still just as cheap

Posted by: YesPlease at April 19, 2011 3:22 PM

my total lack of interest just got lacker.

Posted by: logan at April 19, 2011 3:28 PM

dorky.

Posted by: gp at April 19, 2011 3:34 PM

jennifer lawrence's pose is not awkward at all. nope. not one bit.

@YesPlease

I see your Amber Heard and raise you Alice Eve. sighhhhhh. i dun care how bad her acting will be, i just want to see her filling out what's left of a costume in here: http://www.majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03a/emma_frost_1.jpg

is that too much to ask for?

Posted by: haplo at April 19, 2011 5:05 PM

I think they were trying to mimic the posters of the previous X-Men trilogy (i remember The Last Stand and X2 having the same look/theme) but what a colossal failure!

and i'm actually excited to see what January Jones does with Emma Frost. You just KNOW that it will either be a hit or a miss. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND.

Posted by: Derreck at April 19, 2011 5:08 PM

The awesomeness of the movie would have to be directly proportional to how awful the posters are for the movie to be great. That, or the quality of the movie would have to be inversely proportional to the quality of the posters.

Posted by: Todd at April 19, 2011 5:23 PM

Nice catch, Todd.

Posted by: Sian at April 19, 2011 5:35 PM

Goddammit Todd, I was going to say that. My first asshole reason for commenting in ages, and you stole it from me...

Posted by: SaBrina at April 19, 2011 7:26 PM

How the fuck can a trailer look so good and the rest of the marketing look so incredibly stupid? Why do you set the movie during the Cuban Missile Crisis and then release posters that look like something from (an incredibly lame) 2020? God Fox are idiots.

Posted by: Dave at April 19, 2011 7:30 PM

That weird-ass, shiny, black, off-to-the-side haircut Mystique's sporting, along with her questionably high-collared wardrobe choice, reminds me of Gary Oldman's character in The Fifth Element.

FUG.

Posted by: MM at April 19, 2011 9:02 PM

"I see your Amber Heard and raise you Alice Eve."

Rosamund Pike.

Posted by: Corvus at April 20, 2011 12:35 AM

I didn't know Xavier was pigeon-toed. God, they all look so awkward. Is Beast . . . texting?

Posted by: Lauren at April 20, 2011 10:57 PM

I second the 'wtf good are suspenders if they're sewed on?'

Posted by: Protoguy at April 21, 2011 2:24 AM