They seem fine - the blurb on the HuffPo indicates that initial pre-screening reviews are coming in hot.
Of all of the trailers, January Jones/Emma Frost seems the most flat - her line is meant to be delivered with chilling intelligence and power; with her I just get a flat, emotionless read. She may look like EF, but not much more. Why didn’t they get someone like Tricia Helfer??
I’m excited. This movie sliped by my notice even with all of the talk about summer super hero movies. The previews look good to me. I don’t expect much from my super hero movies though.
I’m no fan of any comic books but I did like the first X-Men. Haven’t watched any of the others, though I think I saw the last half of the Wolverine origin one and thought it was pretty good.
Anyway, with that in mind, am I mistaken or does it seem like this new film takes place too far ahead in time? In the first film Magneto is seen as a boy during the holocaust (i.e. the early 40’s). In this latest film he looks like he’s maybe in his mid-twenties which would make it the 1950’s, early 60’s at most. But isn’t the military hardware shown newer than that? An SR-71 and what looks like a huge boomer (an SSBN)?
The events of the movie are in 1961 or 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The SR-71’s predecessor, the A-12 first flew in 1962 and SSBNs were already in use in the 50s.
The film takes place in 1963, according to the IMDB. From the same source, the actor playing Magneto is 34 - which is just about the right age for someone who was a pre-teen or early teen during the Holocaust.
Ian McKellan, on the other hand, was born in 1939, a year before the Holocaust started, making him as much as a decade too young for the role in the first film.
Of course, Magneto is a mutant, so it doesn’t really matter if the numbers match up or not - he doesn’t necessarily age at the same rate as a normal human.
I’m surprised that they use Azazel, one of the lowest points of X-Men history (and it has plenty of those).
I’m also a bit disappointed that they combine the sixties AND the Hellfire Club. The Hellfire Club works far better as a modern menace, a very good counterpoint to Magneto’s open war with humanity. They kind of burned the idea for me, for any appearances of the Club in a modern timeline.
The X-Jet isn’t actually an SR-71; it just looks like one. It, and most of the rest of the team’s high tech, was made by a mutant named Forge, whose power is a superhuman skill with technology (sort of like Iron Man). So you’d expect it to be ahead of the technology of the US military.
Not saddening at all. Most of what I know about comic books is through osmosis from hanging out with other nerds. It’s no shame to be corrected by a genuine expert.
I’ll probably see the movie also, in spite of the fact that Emma Frost and the secondary mutation abominations are included.
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