• In the trailer it looked like Emma Frost may have a Basic Instinct scene!?!

• Weird that Alex (Havoc) is in it and Scott (Cyclops) isn't considering Scott was the first x-man. But then again franchises don't seem too concerned with continuity. Look at Emma being older here in the 1960′s when she was a young girl in X-Men Origins which is set years later. I actually like that they put Angel in it. Quite obscure but that's the neat part. They are branching out of the obvious and standard choices. Its too soon to say whether this will be good or bad but the trailer looks pretty cool. There are a lot of little things to excite you here: "Cat Beast", Magneto's awesome new helmet, Magneto raising the Leningrad from the ocean, Emma Frost, Azazel and Mystique (bringing in some family history for Nightcrawler), and the potentially done right relationship between Charles and Erik. I have hopes that this will be a solid movie.

• I disagree. Morrison was the first person to do anything remotely interesting with the entire X-Franchise since "God Loves, Man Kills." I do however agree that this movie probably does not look even "sneak-in" worthy.

• There is obviously more than "an iota of continuity" between this film and previous films (including Wolverine): Or else Emma wouldn't have the same Bedazzlered "dimond" skin that she had in Wolverine. And Mistique wouldn't have the exact same terrible design and transformation effect that she had in the prior films. There is continuity: it may not be particularly good continuity, but it is there nonetheless.

• This looks...well as awful as my screenname reads. Fox should never have been allowed near anything marvel had.

• HERE! HERE! Drives me nuts when Hollywood crap like this! Lets keep the story fictional, at the same time keeping everything within the time period accurate (makes it seem more real). Hell, some made up Hollywood aircraft would have been better than the SR-71. Of course Keeping it in the style of of the times. Something like an F-104 Starfighter, or an F-4 Phantom with a modified cockpit (which would be a little ahead of its time also). Helps make the story more believable and draws you in. Dear Hollywood not all lovers of fiction are brainless 12 year-olds who stop to watch this movie because their folks took away their X-box.

• Its FIRST CLASS with really no first class this movie should be called X-MEN: FIST ASS! Seriously fuck Fox.... we need this back at MARVEL STUDIOS, Fox can't even keep to their own twisted movie-verse, F them : P CAP, GL and THOR will blow this sh1t away :)

• That's because Fox is doing a cheap cash-in on the film rights they won't relinquish, rather than letting Marvel Studios have the X-Men back so they can be done properly AND mixed into Marvel Movie Universe continuity. - If Marvel Studios got the film rights to the mutants back, we might see a version of the Avengers some day that features Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, and Beast. - Unfortunately, as long as Fox keeps squeezing the juice out of this franchise, the X-Men will be alone in their own universe without any other superheroes, and no real guidance or restrictions from Marvel in regards to story, character changes, and casting.

• Grant Morrison fucking ruined the X-Men. Cat-Beast, Diamond Emma Frost. Etc. -- And they're using his run as the basis for this cheap cash-in and rights-holding flick? - I won't even bother to sneak in.

• Some definite win right there.

• Another clusterFOX

• For all those bemoaning the Cuban Missile Crisis aspect of this, I suggest going back and reading the very first issue of the X-Men comics. Magneto basically causes the very same thing to happen, attacking and taking control of a missile base and threatening to fire nukes at the US. The X-Men must stop him. Based on this trailer, it looks to me like the Hellfire Club will be the ones who are actually manipulating the events around the Crisis and causing it to occur; the X-Men must stop them. So, they clearly aren't doing that original story verbatim, but using it as inspiration just as the original comic used the real life event for its inspiration. Basically, the idea has come full circle. Now back to your regularly scheduled hate-athon.

• THats nobody's business but the Turks...

• Way to go, Fox. Everyone else is FINALLY starting to move out of the "Every Franchise Must Have an Explicit Origin Story Movie" phase, and you jokers go and make a damn prequel "first story." Good job, slackjaws. Note, I'm not bitching because this doesn't fit into the XMen continuity. I'm bitching about it because I'm sick to death of origin stories.

• I'm digging the aesthetics of the trailer. Doesn't look goofy, or overly serious. It feels... Adult. The costume tights as sweats is brilliant.

• BAWWWWWWWW TRAILER ISN'T EXACTLY LIKE MY NERD IMAGINATION/SELECTIVE CONTINUITY I PERSONALLY FOLLOW IN THE FUCKED UP CONTINUITY OF THE COMICS BAWWWWWWWWWWWWW Oh my god every fucking time, THIS HAPPENS. I for one liked it, haters gonna hate. I think the casting choice for Xavier looks a little... weird, but I'll bite. Badass mofo for Magneto, so I don't mind that one.

• Why not? Why can't theyjust have funwith components of history but keep the fact that they had anything to do with it a secret. Ya know like dr. Who, quantum leap, call of duty black ops? They toyed with secretive events. I think the trailer fucking rocks and you can goddamn garrentee that one or more x-men is going to die. It just seems a lot more serious. Plus I want to see hank mckoy transform into beast.

• I think it looks like it'll be an decent movie. Plus, the cast's great.

• i too am a huge fan of the comics as well. i've read all 500+ issues of uncanny x-men. while the inaccuracies bother me if this is supposed to have ties to the original x-men films then i am sorely disappointed. that being said i like teh trailer. there were a few things that did upset me greatly. the emma frost being old thing bothered me. i like the addition of mainly characters that werent in the previous films. now the downside is most of these characters aren't "first class" x-men so that means the film will mainly focus on xavier and magneto. and that im okay with. i love magneto hes soooo awesome

• I still want to see this movie, but that quote is horrendous. Is he *trying* to drive away all the nerds? They already want to destroy the Twitards for messing up Comic-con that one year (and blame them for SDCC's overloaded attendance ever since).

• yeah, the trailer lost me. or maybe its because im really sleepy.

• The Blackbird is a little out of place for 1962. Of course, repurposing things into the past seems to be what this movie's all about. Look, I don't know why we're excited about superhero movies anymore. We like our superheroes because we like what our comic writers do for them. At best, a movie can get right what our comics already accomplished.

• That makes me want to avoid the movie like the plague. Also I disagree with the '60s style being reflected in their clothes and hair. That scene of watching Kennedy's speech looked like a bunch of people today had somehow timewarped in a TV from the '60s.

• I love that people are complaining about the continuity in the movies, considering that the X-Men comics have one of the most notoriously fucked-up continuities in all of comicdom. Just sayin'. Also, I liked the trailer. I had zero hope for this movie actually being good, but it might be worthwhile after all.

• I forgot this was set in the 60s, but still, I'm oddly uninterested.

• I was thinking the same thing....Beast has aged remarkably well. But hey if they put it down to his mutant powers how can we argue?

• Wait, who the fuck was the red guy towards the end? Someone related to Nightcrawler? I'm not well-versed in the X-Men comics so pardon my ignorance.

• So Azazel is in this and has Nightcrawler's powers. He's Nightcrawler's father. Will they try to say that the Emma Frost in this movie is the mother of the Emma Frost in the Wolverine movie?

• I'm not as bothered by her secondary mutation as I am by the fact that she already appeared in XMO:Wolverine. There is no forsight - or indeed hindsight - with these movies.

• So are they making Havok out to be Scotts father instead of little brother? that's just weird... Trailer isn't bad, or good...I'm completely still on the fence about it.

• I like it. The inconsistency of the films matches the incongruency of the comics perfectly. Not a huge X-Men fan.

• I certainly hear the similarities between the two, but it is only similar in one part. There is enough different between the two that I wouldn't get too hung up on it. Nevertheless, thanks for reminding me of the Perry Mason theme, I don't think I've heard that in over 15 years.

• Slightly underwhelmed. And what's with the cheap use of old movie footage? I did like Beasts new look(though it 's so much more feline than Kelsey Grammer Beast. This a prequel or what?)

• found this quote online, now i refuse to see this movie... scroll to last sentance... "Director Matthew Vaughn told Entertainment Weekly that the 1960s setting makes this film like "X-Men meets [James] Bond, with a little bit of 'Thirteen Days' thrown in." It's clear in the trailer that the style of the '60s is everywhere in the movie, from the character's regular clothes to their X-Men uniforms, which copy the blue-and-yellow color scheme from the original comic books. Obviously, there is a lot of action in the movie, but Vaughn insists there's more to it than that. He said, "It's got a lot of teenage angst. The 'Twilight' girls will like it."

• That is fantastic!

• When does the first Class Arrive?

• LOL I actually am serious.

• I dunno, but the Perry Mason theme is pretty f*cking amazing.

• Don't know if it was Beast or Azazel flying the plane, but god DAMN he looks HORRIBLE

• Mmm ... James McAvoy.

• So, from what we saw of him in X3, assuming both this movie and that one are in the same continuity, Beast was about...60, 65 years old in the present day? Assuming they let a teenager fly a supersonic VTOL prototype under combat conditions? Yeah...I'm just going to peg this one as a straight out "reimagining" and not trouble my head any further.

• I love the X-Men. I really do. I've enjoyed MOST of the comics I've read (*COUGHKIRKMAN'SULTIMATECOUGH!*), I've loved the cartoons, and the first two movies. So really, when the guy who did Kick-Ass is playing in that universe, I can't help but be excited. And this trailer certainly helped my excitement a lot more than the stills we saw earlier. However, that a capella cover blows the trailer out of the water.

• Not impressed, nor disappointed by this trailer On the other topic at hand, Powerglove for X-Men cover! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNLL_lxL-bQ

• Alls I'm saying is you watch Spider-Man and you go "Hey! That's the Spidey I remember from the comics!". You watch Iron Man and you go "Hey that's the Shell-Head I remember from the comics!" and from the looks of it, I'll probably say something similar for Thor and Cap. But then you watch X-Men and you go, "Ehh...Hmmm. Well, it's kinda X-Men...". Spidey, Cap, Thor and Iron Man all have Regular and Ultimates continuities too. It's really not that confusing. The Ultimate X-Men starts with a slightly altered First Class, but the core characters are there. This First Class in the movie is a random hodge-podge of characters from the first three movies, relatively small time characters from the comics, and other known but certainly not original X-Men characters. Maybe it will be a good movie...but I've hoped that about every one they've made thus far. And this one looks in no way different from those.

• By the Dutch. There's a clue in it being New <i>Amsterdam</i>.

• Yeah Fassy Sassbender does that..God what a fox.

• Mutant liberation... Is in the past? Stalled? Dead? Anyway, the trailer looked better than all the stills we've seen so far. And it looks put together somewhat better than what I expect the actual film to be. I'll have to see more before I decide to invest $8 - $10 in this venture, seemingly to nowhere's ville.

• Kevin Bacon!!!!!!

• and Istanbul was once Constantinople!

• Which was founded as "New Amsterdam" by the British.

• So I guess, thanks to the previous films, Charles Xavier is now officially British? Horseshit. And while I love me some Patrick Stewart in most things, I still believe he was mostly cast as the Professor because he is familiar to the general public as a bald guy who can act (not that those films gave him much chance to prove that). I always felt a much better choice would have been Michael Ironside.

• Second that.

• I got halfway through and stopped watching because it looks like some kind of joke. Beast is flying a plane? Why? Is he some ace fighter pilot? Mystique is in bed? Okay I guess. But where are their origins. It'd be like if Wolverine Origins was just a plain old Wolverine movie where he solves the Cuban Missile Crisis. That, of course, being my biggest issue with the movie. Random shots of non-mutants watching a crappy TV, and then JFK talking over scenes of random shots of Mutants... what? There's nothing there. It's a real event, in the past, that was not solved by mutants or some exciting plane battle. Why the hell are they shoehorning mutants in? And what's with the JFK voiceover? It wasn't even being voiced over anything!! Captain America in the past I buy. That's his origins. But what the hell is this?

• It's nice to see a Magneto who doesn't look like a strong breeze might blow him over. And I say that as a McKellen fan.

• Om nom fucking nom, was what my brain and other bits said to Sassafass.

• This trailer gives me hope, it might just be a fresh new start and a interesting re-take on the classic story. Just like the X-Men: First Class comics were. It's only slightly distracting that the movie does in no way resemble the rebooted comic. Adding yet another continuity to write fanfiction of... J/K BFF.

• i got a watchmen vibe from it, too.

• thad,i'm pretty sure you're being sarcastic. i thought before posting that the continuity might not really matter because this is, indeed, a fictional setting...so i agree with you. but, they shouldn't be injecting real world events into the film with the intent of portraying some sort of time-line.

• Who needs her telepathy skillz when you already have Professor X and Jean Grey on the team?

• I am honored. I can't tell you how much I hope you're serious.

• I liked it. I'm shocked. Much better than the train wreck I figured it would be after X3 and Wolverine.

• Watching both those youtube vids at the same time improves both. But it still needs more Wolverine. And Patrick Stewart. Also Ian McKellan. And maybe a Kelsey Grammer cameo.

• Also, people don't have superpowers! Ugh, when will movies, TV, and comics get this right? People can't turn into anything or do anything with their minds. Sheesh!

• Two questions: 1) Why does Professor Xavier look like Julian Assange after dying his hair? 2) Is this X-Men or Watchmen?

• I watched Inglorious Basterds this weekend and ogled him in your honour. Confused my wife, but I just told her it was for a good cause.

• That looked much better than I thought it would.

• Dude, the COMICS themselves don't even give a shit about continuity anymore. Plus they got the Ultimate universe, the regular one, the Zombie one... it's exhausting. I think you just need to take it easy and not worry about that stuff too much. Maybe the movie might even be fun for all we know.

• This looks as mediocre as every other X-Movie so far. It barely resembles anything I recognize from the comics. Has no kind of comprehensible continuity in the Marvel Universe. Meh... I'll watch it. Like I did the others. Because there's always some aspect of them I like, just because I love X-Men. But the x-movies, in comparison to EVERY OTHER MARVEL FILM they've been pumping out, are just lame by comparison.

• Would it have killed them if the characters at LEAST wore their hair in ordinary 1960s style, not carefully coiffed according to 2011 standards? Would it have been such a horrible thing to dress them like ordinary people from the period? Did anybody working on this movie even live in the '60s? Or barring that, watch am ovie made during then? Or ANYTHING?

• Agreed. I just want a good movie. Don't get the "they got this wrong or that wrong" mentality. Who cares? I just want a good movie, dammit!

• Yeah! The SR 71 black bird the X-men had was a decommissioned and modified one in the 90s. Meanwhile the USAF didn't have the REAL blackbird until years after the missile crisis. Plus the SR 71 doesn't work that way!! The X-men comic's use of it even in their 90s comics was pure cartoony fiction. To have them using in 1962 doesn't make a lick of sense. If the movie is trying to be all historical and realistic, don't use the X-men's freaking blackbird! Stop trying to have both the most cartoony aspects of the comics and also try to act like some serious historical drama. It doesn't work!

• I suppose diamond skin *is* more showy and flashy than telepathy. Grmph.

• They're trying to fool people into thinking he's Cyclops. Though it sure beats me why it can't be Cyclops in the first place, dammit. This movie is so stupid.

• I don't mind the story of her -secondary- mutation, especially within the context of the story, but Hollywood seems to think the diamond skin is her primary mutant ability.

• You apparently haven't seen the trailer for Jane Eyre (2011). He seriously misses the mark.

• Their sr-71 either already has VTOL like it did in the comics or Magneto is rocking the bejeesus out of his powers in the scene shown. I won't cause them grief for the jet, if I have to call it "stolen experimental" or whatever. The speech might just have to be a flub.

• Yeah, the continuity is all screwed up, but so is the comics', but this is hands down the first trailer for one of this summer's superhero flicks that genuinely got me excited.

• Why does Magneto need a 1911 pistol when they're all watching President Kennedy's address? That strikes me as beyond odd. I do like how their "training uniforms" are just sweats, like a brand new school would most likely use.

• the first flight of the sr-71 blackbird was in 1964 and that particular speech by kennedy was in '62. now, unless they claim that to be an A-12, they've kinda done some shoddy research. how many other time-line flubs will this movie have?

• That what that was? Confused the crap outa me.

• Did I just see Xavier and Magneto getting a private striptease from Angel Salvadore (0:56)? Obviously, this is at the Hellfire Club and she must be a dancer there, but still.

• I want more Rose Byrne but I like it

• Havok's energy blasts are the wrong color. And that's pretty much all I got to say.

• And Charles Xavier was born in New York.

• I'm fairly certain this will be in continuity with the first two X-Men movies and not so much The Last Stand and Wolverine, which is just fine with me. It also seems to fit with what we know of Singer's ideas for an older Emma Frost in his unmade X-Men 3. I'm what you'd call a hardcore X-Men fan, but I'm also a perfectly reasonable human being who understands that this is not the comics - it's the movies. They can change whatever they like, as long as the film itself is good.

• Yes but he's also Sir Patrick Stewart, can't compare someone to him.

• Michael Fassbender was the only thing I was paying attention to. the man can do no wrong.

• Also, Kevin Bacon still looks wonderfully pimping. He hangs around in a tux with bikini-clad hotties and guys who dress just like him.

• Dude, Patrick Stewart is English.

• FASSBENDER! Okay I'll be in my bunk... I can't even judge the trailer like a normal person, his pretty face shows up and I can't even think straight. That's how I roll people.

• Hm, I kinda like the trailer, although I wish they had left Emma as a pure telepath, and not with that weird diamond skin thing. I never liked that story.

• Okay... no only is Azazel a pretty much universally fan hated character... but he also looks awful. And why the hell do we have to have Morrison's diamond form second mutation of Emma Frost? The CGI looks awful. The power isn't even that big a part of the character! http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8728/xmenfirstclassazazelemm.jpg

• Wow. Pleasantly surprised by that trailer. Not only is the movie clearly going to feature January Jones in a bikini (swoon) but the whole thing actually looks pretty.... good. I won't get my hopes up until we hear more, but I'm definitely more excited about this now.

• James MacAvoy's accent disturbs me. Is Xavier British, now?

• Matthew Vaughn is the director.

• Here's my reaction to the trailer http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/816/xmenfirstclassbeast.jpg

• Yeah. It does look and make sense better than I thought. Then again with all the casting and rumors, I have very very low expectations. And seeing that didn't raise them enough to want to see it.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbHykKUfTM Better Than I expected.

• Wow. Amazing how they're taking stuff from Morrison's X-men run and the 90s X-men, then shove it into the 1960s original X-men comics and time frame. I dunno. Sure, Batman Begins was a reboot which an amalgam of different eras. Yet.. I just don't know if it will work with a team like this by completely changing characters. At least Begins had the proper characters. Here they swapped in Morrisons Angel from the 2000s, not to mention a number of others, into the 1960s first class. Oh and Azazel. I see him, but I still can't belive they're taking one of the worst X-men runs in a decade and putting it into this film!

• bada bing! Get it while you can http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/125985-the-x-men-first-class-trailer

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