More X-Men First Class pictures revealed

In what seems like a rush to try and overshadow the horrid little promotion picture that was released yesterday, a coffee table book's worth were thrown up on the internet today. And they look terrible. Wait, hold on these ones actually look pretty good!

It's an actual picture of people really standing in the same place together! It's magical isn't it? Matthew Vaughn spoke to Slashfilm about it too, saying "When I found out, I said, what the fuck is this shit, and Fox is running around trying to figure out what happened as well. I agree. It’s like a bad photoshop, which maybe it was by someone. It didn't reflect the movie." And as I expected, the costumes feature less that the previous picture would have you believe. "Also, by the way, those costumes are hardly in the movie. The main costumes are like these cool 60’s James Bond…"

What follows are tiny versions of the pictures and the teaser poster that you can see in full at Totalfilm.

And now? It actually looks classy! Well done guys, good quick work!

Carl England

P.S. There's a higher resolution version of the one released yesterday... but that's better left forgotten, me thinks.

X-Men First Class cast picture arrives

As reported at Den of Geek, the first image has been released by Marvel for the upcoming X-Men First Class film. And it looks terrible.

It's all shiny PVC and ugly looking make up, and while I understand it's just the first shot of the cast and there will be many, many more before the film is released on the 2nd of June, first impressions are always important. Not only is this leaving way too much in the dark (quite literally) but Emma Frost looks all wrong, Magneto looks completely the opposite of the presence which he is in the X-men trilogy and Azazel looks like the devil from Human Giant. (If you haven't seen it, it's a sketch comedy show, with the Devil sporting some of the most ridiculously awful make up possible.

Not to mention Nicholas Hoult as Beast? Unless your going to CGI the fuck out of him, you really need someone with a broad frame to carry the Beast's ungainly features, and he is stick thin! Also, Mystique looks in her late teens, so if they are going to try and pull off the storyline which see's her and Azazel get it on to create Nightcrawler, it's going to cause some raised eyebrows. Not least for the age gap between the two actors which is 24 years, which engulfs the 20 years Jennifer Lawrence has spent living. Creepy.

On the good side however, the costumes look a bit more like the comics, instead of the slightly dreary garb the teams were made to wear in the trilogy. However, I have only just found out that Moira MacTaggert is in this one and I am dreading hearing the accent they give her, because it has been terrible in the cartoon and the games. She better not be saying "Och aye the noo" or any of that shite, or heads will roll. ROLL, I TELL THEE.

Carl England

I'm coming back, I promise!

I know it must be an obligatory thing for every blog to have at some point, but this is a genuine promise to return to this thing with full speed on. When I started it I had very few ideas and was hoping that making this happen would spark my imagination. The internet is very deceptive that way, and my 250ish Stumble's will agree with that.

However, I have begun work on a few ideas that have been knocking around my skull and I'm pretty proud of the one that has finally come to fruition tonight, with ridiculously terrible awesome photoshop animation at it's core. It's set to become a weekly thing for Carlmageddon so you'll at least see one thing per week from me.

I'm hoping to have everything set to go by the start of February, so fingers crossed I can stop procrastinating long enough to type some coherent thoughts down!

Also, the photo of Nick Cage is because I've been watching quite a bit of his filmography recently, and with the aid of my Lovefilm, this shall continue!

Back soon,

Carl England