@whitemage: LOL, I was fortunate enough to avoid ALL of the power piece videos, tv spots and featurettes before seeing the movie(and I think that helped to some degree). It was totally ridiculous that they decided to spoil the whole movie just so they could get more people in the theater to see it, when they knew all of the future characters had very VERY limited roles to begin with. I learned my lesson when they pulled the same stunt for X3's ad campaign. The viral ad campaign sites that i came across were actually pretty insightful about what went down in between the past to future timelines and how it led up to that point. What i find most disappointing about these viral sites are that none of the content in them are actually explored to any significant degree in the movie), I know you probably don't want to see anything more about the movie, but these were pretty cool and helped fill in some gaps before I went in to see it.
http://www.25moments.com/#!/moments
http://www.thebentbullet.com/#!/home
http://www.trask-industries.com/#/about
The first one goes over 25 moments throughout history that led to the apocalyptic future; the second one explores Magneto's imprisonment and their version of Kennedy's assassination conspiracy; and the last one explores the technological advancements of trask industries(none of which was explored in the movie). A lot of that content could have really expanded the quality of the movie and given it some much needed exposition. It should've definitely been around 3 hours...
LMAO! at Jennifer Lawrence Mystique deciding to change her fighting style to Eddy Gordo's(I know all about Tekken :p). I also picked that up when i seen it the first time. It was definitely a massive step back from the First Class movie in terms of her appearance, but that may have been due to Jlaw complaining about the makeup process breaking her skin out or something(always some silly excuse). I think they decided to go with entirely new aesthetics and a body suit, and it really showed in this one. Rebecca's version was definitely the superior Mystique in terms of appearance, fighting abilities and being a capable and intelligent strategist.
Also great points about Singer getting rid of the people he didn't work with before. I hadn't noticed that before but he definitely worked with the Beast Actor and only allowed for a cameo role for Havok that was rather utterly pointless. I didn't much care for Emma, but there definitely should've been a significant explanation for her death. She has diamond form and telepathy. Not easy to overcome someone that powerful, and should not have been thrown under the bus in a throwaway line. I liked Banshee, Tempest and Azazel. It would've been nice to see a flash back of their death. They talk a little bit about it on the bent bullet site.
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