New X-Men: First Class TV Spot Hits!

This movie is looking more promising, I still hate Fox but their choice in Matthew Vaughn seems, intelligent

These are not the X-Men these are the X-Men...Moronic LOL.

I am so tried of seeing these dopey commercials for the X-Men. These are a slap in the face of every true comic book fan. In the newest spot I saw, one of the S-Men (S is short for Singer;P) goofs on the suits they are wearing. The only things that look like they came form X-Men comic are being put down by Singer again! Not only that the blackbird gets destroyed. Seriously, if you love the X-men, please do not go and see this movie, help it fail.

I love X Men. I will see this movie in theatres.

It looks too good to pass up.

Does anybody think that at bit on 0:15 (Azazel teleporting out, holding hands with a bald guy who cant walk) shows us Xavier in x-men proper style? Could show that he's changed by the end of the film maybe.

I'm a comic fan and I want to see this movie. Unlike some here I can easily separate the comic medium from the film medium and appreciate you can't do every film adaptation exactly like the comic, especially with something like X-Men. People don't age in comics, the stories can attach themselves to tons of other related comics and read over long periods for zero pence if you have time to stand around in a comic shop or have a buddy sad enough to buy EVERYTHING!

Film takes years to make 2 hours of story, actors age, audiences loose interest. The two mediums are not suited to make all comic book readers dreams come true especially if the history is as diverse as X-Men.

If we went back to the year 2000, first X men film, you have a choice to introduce the world to an X-Men movie and you're in Bryan Singers place with a meagre $70 million budget! Do you..?

1: Choose the original team members only (Beast, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Iceman) Knowing that they are not as popular as the current team or the Team from the 80's with Wolverine?

2: Chose a combination of popular characters that represent the spirit of the comic so your movie stands a chance of making some box office!

Die-hard comic fan would choose option 1 and his film would be the last X-movie ever made. Option 2 would at least give you a chance of further representing the spirit of the comic and their characters on screen in future sequels and prequels regardless of exact continuity. The other problem you have is the history of change within these constantly mutating characters. For example, doing Rogue onscreen, do you...?

1: Present her in the all powerful indestructible, flying, super strength she stole from Ms Marvel.

2: Present her with just her mutant ability?

Naturally comic book die-hard would choose option 1 becasue that's the Rogue he knows and loves but the budget won't allow for that version, he's also have to explain who Ms Marvel is and How Rogues possess her powers permanently as well as her natural mutant ability. That's a lot for the audience to swallow and his budget of $70 million won't quite cover it. He'd have to cut her from the movie. Option 2 at least give you a chance to represent the nature of being a mutant and the character within a decent adaptation of the comics spirit.

So die-hards can complain all they want about First Class not being what they read etc etc, they have limited understanding about how hard the dilemma film makers with their limited time and finance can actually pull something worthwhile to represent a comic with so much history of material that's contradictory and always changing with alternate histories, alternate characters and insane costume designs. Four movies in ten years is the reality and that's not enough to tell 50 years of monthly comics and their various extra titles worth of varied tales accurately in any simple way for the average cinema-goer!

Yay! (: love to see the new Angel clip :D

and some Magneto/Mystique scenes! :D

I reckon Xavier will be bald by the end of this movie. There's a scene where he uses cerebro for the first time & it's clearly hurting him,
so I speculate that his hair follicles are damaged by cerebro disabling him from growing hair.
It would make sense.

@Lestat74 You said it better than anyone & I was touched to see just how much X-Men can mean for the minorities to which these metaphors are aimed.

PS. I particularly enjoyed the very last sentence. ;) That was fantastic.

I haven't hated on this movie, in fact I think it looks rather good despite the odd mingling of characters, but this preview made me laugh last night. The wife and I were watching tv, keep in mind she likes the X-movies but knows nothing of the comics, and when this came on with baby Mystique and Xavier she said: "Oh look! They made a parody!"

@Nephillim "normal people"?
so gay people are 'abnormal'?

You can't "speak out against" a metaphor. The metaphor has always been there, it's up to you to notice or ignore it.
Of course, ironically, it's people like you who make X-Men a metaphor for gay people. If gays were fully accepted as reputable members of society, the metaphor would fall down because the X-Men are still feared & hated.

Also it's typical of someone being backed into a corner to try & claim they are the victim. (like how Christians now claim they are being persecuted by Atheists)

Consider this: The reason you don't like the idea of it being a gay metaphor, is because you are homophobic.
Why else would it be? Enlighten me.

For the record, I'm a straight man. So you can't speak for all straight people, because I CAN "dig the whole gay metaphor".

What does gay rights have to do with this movie? Well, besides the fact that, in the X-Men comics, the topics are very much similar to what we're discussing.

I think we take stuff too seriously. Who knows? Regardless, I've got a fancast coming up very soon for the real X-Men: First Class, so stay tuned.

@MTL - At the time of his coming out, Northstar was a member of Alpha Flight, but I get what you're saying.

@ valerieghost

that is so true!

@suspencesmith as a gay man I'm bombarded every day by heterosexual images and blatant sexuality aimed only at straight men; I have to ask, and I don't mean this as anything more than just a question, do you also take issue with straight sexuality being thrown in the public's face?

I'm not even a fan, and this looks awesome to me.