I'll be honest - the jury is very much still out on this film, given the trailer. X-Men: First Class certainly looks full of potential, but so have a lot of films over the last decade that turned out to underwhelm. Time will tell.
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I have to respectfully disagree. I think X-Men: First Class looks like a steaming mound of rhino excrement served up on a bed of infected toenails. The original series of X-Men films, of which I'm not really a fan either, didn't really give us any reason to want to know these characters in a younger context--or at all.
While I feel like Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan did a good job acting their parts, those performances are really only one of the few reasons to re-visit those films. Taking that away and giving us collegiate counterparts is kind of the antithesis of a next logical step as far as keeping audience interest. Again, in my opinion.
There are things that translate well from medium to medium, and things that don't. I have fully accepted that comic books are one of the latter category. And I'm not even talking from a purist's angle, in that I'm not concerned with fudging origin stories, settings, costume design, etcetera, in the interest of a good fun flick. I'm talking from a quality of viewing angle.
Boring, CG-heavy, and maudlin approach to a comic book that, if you actually go back and read, isn't really that interesting of a story anyway.
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