The trailer itself isn't half bad. Despite the stigma of the X-Men franchise at the moment due to the last two terrible movies (X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine), I am hopeful that First Class will return to the quality of the first two films. There's a lot that is, well, surprisingly interesting. First, it definitely seems like they're trying to tie this into the already established films. Second, the costumes don't look nearly as ridiculous as I thought they would. Despite the fact that they made fun of the yellow spandex in the older films, that's exactly what they've gone with for this movie. The look really works for the movie.
Unfortunately the trailer isn't very long and not much else is shown. There are some interesting scenes worthy of mention though. The first is a scene with Charles and Erik in some sort of brothel (which most are assuming to be the Hellfire Club) admiring a winged mutant. The second is what I'm assuming to be an assault on the mansion and Magneto fighting back. He forces that soldier to stab himself which was rather cool. The third and final scene is the "money shot" where Magneto lifts an entire submarine out of the ocean and is levitating it in the air. Bad. Ass.
X-Men: First Class releases on June 3rd, 2011 and will be the second Marvel film to be released this year. What's amazing to me is the fact that Marvel is releasing three films this year. There's Thor in May, X-Men in June as stated, and then Captain America in July. Marvel has been pumping these films out like no tomorrow. It's amazing that they're willing to put these films so close to each other as well. Granted, X-Men is being released so quickly because FOX would lose the rights otherwise, but even without it Thor and Cap would only be two months out from each other.
That's not even looking into the next year when The Avengers and Spider-man release. DC on the other hand, has only one film releasing this year and possibly two (but at least one) film releasing next year. Marvel in general has made more movies of their characters than DC has. For the longest time only Superman and Batman had films (and that terrible Catwoman film). Only now are they branching out with the Green Lantern film. The question is whether or not it will succeed. As Marvel must know, not all comic book characters are marketable.
According to Rotten Tomatoes many of their films rank below 50 percent. Films like Daredevil, Elektra, both Fantastic Four movies, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine all rank terribly. Other Marvel films like Spiderman 3 and X-Men: The Last Stand aren't much higher. Now that's not to say that DC hasn't screwed up in the past (the before mentioned Catwoman movie), but I feel like there's more reason to worry about a movie like Thor than something, say, The Dark Knight Rises. I may be comparing apples and oranges, but Marvel's whole Avengers plan hinges on these movies being a success.
What are your thoughts on how Marvel handles there movies compared to DC? How do you think Thor will handle both critically and financially? Which do you consider yourself a bigger fan of, movie-wise?
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