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Beautiful Freaks: X-Men: First Class Character Trailers

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (15)

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June 3rd is going to be an interesting day. It’s going to be the day when we learn whether or not Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class is a pile of revisionist, money-grabbing crap… or a savvy, interesting and well-portrayed bit of retconned cleverness. At this point, I’m leaning towards the latter — but only slightly.

In any event, Fox has released a series of brief character vignettes, and they’re actually quite good. Particularly fun was the one on Banshee, though their depiction of the burgeoning romance between Mystique and Beast is also somewhat interesting — even if it’s completely divergent from the comics. Anyway, here are the four that have come out so far:

Alex Summers, aka Havok:

Sean Cassidy, aka Banshee:

Henry “Hank” McCoy, aka Beast:

Raven Darkholme, aka Mystique:









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Comments

I read money-grabbing crap as "monkey-grabbing crap" and thought it was a delightful metaphor for a film so awful that simians would hurl feces. And then I remembered Santino and my Monday got just a little brighter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santino_(chimpanzee)

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at May 9, 2011 10:41 AM

This movie is going to TANK. No stars, no popular X-men, not following the X-men comics at all = TANK

Posted by: logan at May 9, 2011 11:32 AM

Considering what a flaming bag of dog poo this could be, it's looking quite good.

Posted by: idiosynchronic at May 9, 2011 11:40 AM

OKAY, FINE FINE FINE! I finally found my give-a-shit for this movie. You know, apart from FASSBENDER. These are bad-ass.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at May 9, 2011 12:01 PM

Lmao. You all are a bunch of fickle, turncoat motherfuckers. This movie will tank( its fighting two insanely popular movies), and it has no Wolverine. Consider this movie one of the final nails in the coffin for this franchise.

Posted by: Illuminatus at May 9, 2011 12:44 PM

Here is why I'm glad these exist. A) I know nothing of the X-Men franchise that isn't in the first movies (bite me, nerdier nerds), and every time someone has mentioned Banshee I thought it was the naked chick with wings. Now I know, and now I'm interested. B) That Beast clip is many varietals of awesome.

I will see this. I will like this. I enjoy crap movies all the time. It is kind of liberating, actually.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at May 9, 2011 1:09 PM

I could see this movie being really awesome. I like that's it's retro, that it fleshes out an interesting back-story and it looks like it's taking a canon in an interesting directions. The talent that's involved and the trailers so far have been extremely pleasing. It won't be a perfect movie, but I think it might be a refreshing one. And besides, considering how totally disappointing X3 and the Wolverine movie were, this movie can only BE better.

Posted by: Sassafrass Green at May 9, 2011 1:26 PM

This is studio-speak for: "We're not exactly sorry for completely fucking up the first 3 and, therefore, the entire 'world' of the latter X-men, so we'll try to get it right with this one, although it will probably do the same thing with its subsequent installments. Give us your money."

Posted by: Recondite at May 9, 2011 1:34 PM

One thing, FASSBENDER!, and also, MCAVOY!
I'm definitely going to see this.

Posted by: Sunburn at May 9, 2011 2:03 PM

Apart from the fact that the Beast-reflection in that glass looked quite a lot like a particularly angry Na'vi, I love this. All of this.

And how I wished I had had that Mini-Mystique-costume on Halloween of the past...

Posted by: Rooks at May 9, 2011 2:35 PM

Sassafrass Green
fuck you too

Posted by: greg at May 9, 2011 5:33 PM

i quite enjoyed those. the movie? we'll have to wait and see.

Posted by: splinter at May 9, 2011 6:02 PM

"Lmao. You all are a bunch of fickle, turncoat motherfuckers. This movie will tank( its fighting two insanely popular movies), and it has no Wolverine."

The Wolverine movie was a shitpile. The absence of Wolverine is a selling point for me, not a weakness.

Posted by: Craig at May 9, 2011 7:59 PM

thank you for dat Craig. Ppl need to take their tongue out of Wolverine's ass already.

It's called X-Men for a reason.

Posted by: haplo at May 10, 2011 12:43 AM

@Craig I'm simply stating the fact that because of the lack of Wolverine, there is no way people are going to flock to this shitpile.

I'm a huge comics fan and I can't fucking stand that hairy Aussie playing Wolvie.

Posted by: Illuminatus at May 10, 2011 2:57 AM