That's just it, the movie had to do certain things, it was "the first class". Hank had to turn blue, Xavier had to get his Hoveround, Cerebro had to be built, etc. The only "surprises" would have been in which order these things happened.Animavore wrote:Well I can't see how else it could've been. Sure they could've rewrote the story but, y'know, those fan bois.Gawdzilla wrote:By checklist movie I mean they had certain plot points that had to be included to tell the back story. This one didn't engage me.Animavore wrote:I don't see how it matters if it was. It was neatly told with no irrelevant fluff with great pacing. The director managed the amount of characters well considering the difficulties with having multiple characters, there were no Scarlett Johanssen's in this film (a reference to her superfluous and totally pointless character in Iron Man 2), not really.Gawdzilla wrote:Ayaan and I were meh about it. I felt it was a check-list movie, filling in the back story for people who hadn't read the comic books.Animavore wrote:I haven't met anyone who didn't like X-Men: First Class yet.
I can't think of one superhero movie which isn't a "checklist" movie. Fan bois, famously, get rather angry if certain quotas aren't filled.
BTW, did you notice how they changed JFK's speech to fit their plot?
