After Twentieth Century Fox brought in Brett Ratner to kill off the X-Men franchise a few years ago, we did our due diligence. We showed up at the theater for X-Men: Last Stand. We suffered through the service, paid our respects and left thinking, after that, we wouldn’t be seeing the X-Men again.
But it made money. So it couldn’t die.
So then we got the not quite an X-Men film, Wolverine: Origins. So we went back to the theater to be assaulted by lots of explosions, lots of action, a cliche story, Liev Schreiber doing a shorter but still pretty cool Sabertooth, and the producers/writers wiping their collective asses with the source material (really!!!?? Deadpool!!??). So we left the theater with mixed feelings, but mainly anger. Anger and the flimsy hope that if they were going to keep doing these things, they would at least take the time to do them right.
Which brings us to the present and X-Men: First Class. It’s a prequel/reboot taking the story back to the early days of mutants in the 60′s, when Professor Xavier and Magneto were friends and just starting the School for Gifted Youngsters. They have brought in Matthew Vaughn of “Kick Ass” fame to help breathe some life into the production.
Will it be better than the last two? That remains to be seen, but the new trailer doesn’t seem to have that cheesy, over the top feeling we got from the previous two films, so here’s hoping. Check it out and let us know what you think
