X-Men First Class should have just been Magneto hunting Nazis

[Bor Gullet]

Doing a Magneto origin story of him hunting Nazis would have been way better.



FYI, my headcanon is that the Nazi who appears here in Inglorious Basterds escapes and ends up in the bar where Magneto kills him (same actor).




Ironically, the weakest aspect of the film is the "first class" team, whereas the strengths are the Magneto/Xavier scenes. And Kevin Bacon playing a Nazi.

 

[Torpedo Vegas]

I'll watch anything where Nazis are being hunted.

 

[LakeEarth]

First Class is one of those movies that must've been saved in editing. All reports were that it was a clusterfuck, but it somehow came together to be a pretty fun movie, treatment of its PoC characters not-withstanding.

I do agree that a Magneto: Nazi Hunter spin-off would be a good time.

 

[Platy]

X-Men Origins: Magneto

X-Men Origins: Magneto (2015) was a proposed and cancelled spin-off and prequel to the X-Men film series from 20th Century Fox. In December 2004, 20th Century Fox hired screenwriter Sheldon Turner to draft a spin-off X-Men film, and he chose to write Magneto, pitching it as "The Pianist meets...

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it almost was

 

[WascallyWabbit]

Those parts of the movie were pretty dope, that said they'd have to unveil another nazi with superpowers at some point or it would get kinda boring

 

[Pai Pai Master]

X-Men First Class should have been a lot of things it wasn't

I know people love this movie but god. Fucking can't stand it.

 

[jelly]

Totally, bacon and quicksilver are the only good moments in all three films and I'm being very generous to Bacon.

 

[BWoog]

That bar scene is simply the best X-Men related movie thing.

 

[808s & Villainy]

Nah, that part was cool, but I liked the movie we got. Plus the ending setpiece with the whole alt history Cuban Missile Crisis was awesome

 

[roflwaffles]

Yeah it's generally widely accepted that the Magneto-Xavier dynamic is what makes the movie. I still adore it, but it has its problems.

 

[NunezL]

Nah, that part was cool, but I liked the movie we got. Plus the ending setpiece with the whole alt history Cuban Missile Crisis was awesome

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Could have been in a sequel to Magneto's origin story. I would have love to see a trilogy of Xavier and Magneto's falling out

 

[just_myles]

It truly was the best parts of that movie.

 

[Garlador]

I'm all for any Nazi-hunting superheroes.

Heck, I've grown to like First Avenger far more as I've gotten older and the political climate changed.

 

[bastardly]

yeh, it was originally Magnetos origin story, too bad it just wasnt about him and then meeting charles. ill be honest, i hated the prequel soft reboots overall, theyre just bad but Fassbender was the best thing in all of them, i kind of wish they pull an M and just let him do continue with it in the MCU hopefully with a more competent team behind him

 

[RedHoodedOwl]

I still can't get over with what happened to Darwin.

 

[Bor Gullet]

I still can't get over with what happened to Darwin.

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[signal]

Every X-Men film should have been something else. An entire Egypt-era film would have made a better Apocalypse.

 

[VorpalNonsense]

I like First Class more than most X-men movies. I would have been happy to watch a presequel that expanded that quest into a whole movie.

I'm all for any Nazi-hunting superheroes.

Heck, I've grown to like First Avenger far more as I've gotten older and the political climate changed.

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First Avenger has always been way underappreciated.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

I'll watch anything where Nazis are being hunted.

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I hope Indiana Jones 5 involves Nazis who fled after WWII

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

X-Men First Class should have been a lot of things it wasn't

I know people love this movie but god. Fucking can't stand it.

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it really fucked up the timeline for the x-men movies

 

[KG]

Hunting Nazi's is always fun stuff. Those were my fav parts in that movie.

 

[AuthenticM]

Yes. Yes it should have.

 

[Video Games Are Dumb]

First Class is one of those movies that must've been saved in editing. All reports were that it was a clusterfuck, but it somehow came together to be a pretty fun movie, treatment of its PoC characters not-withstanding.

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Wow! I honestly think it was the best movie in the entire series! I had no idea it was so troubled.

 

[Paranormal Panini]

Ironically, the weakest aspect of the film is the "first class" team, whereas the strengths are the Magneto/Xavier scenes. And Kevin Bacon playing a Nazi.

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Kevin Bacon desperately trying to pronounce those German words is definitely one of the most (unintentionally) hilarious scenes in all of Marvel.
Shame they couldn't be bothered to cast someone who actually has a modicum of command of the damn language. Then it could've been a truly haunting scene. Just shooting it in English would've also been a million times better. 'Cause Kevin Bacon can act.

 

[AnansiThePersona]

Do a Magneto movie but instead it's 2020 and he's de-platforming Nazis on Twitter

 

[Uzumaki Goku]

Isn't the story that they were going to do an X-Men Origins Magneto movie? But after Wolverine was trashed, they reworked it into First Class?

 

[AliceAmber]

Best scene of the movie. So satisfying.

 

[Josh5890]

First class is my second favorite X-Men film behind DOFP.

My only real complaint was that most of the mutants were pretty much killed off screen or disappeared by the next film. They only kept X, Magneto, and Mystique :(

 

[Fushichou187]

I'll watch anything where Nazis are being hunted.

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Inglorious Bastards, but with superheroes? I'm in.

Halloween, but Michael Meyers only stalks Nazis and white supremacists? Sign me up.

Annihilation, but the The Shimmer only turns Nazis into fruit trees that regular folk can harvest and make smoothies with? Let's fucking go.

Lots of genres can benefit from a Nazi-hunting angle.

 

[Halbrand]

I'm sad First Class with Fassbender's Magneto couldn't be part of the MCU. Way more so than anything else from the X-Men movies.

 

[IDreamOfHime]

Sounds boring. How about a useless Wolverine cameo to break up the Nazi hunting? Audiences will love that.


Have him say fuck too!

 

[Transistor]

I'll watch anything where Nazis are being hunted.

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Yeah, I'm with you on this one.

 

[hydruxo]

That bar scene is still amazing. Probably my favorite X-Men scene from any of the movies.

"Blood and honor. Which would you care to shed first?"

 

[Sanctuary]

Still tied for my favorite X-Men film. But it really was mainly due to Fassbender and McAvoy.

 

[Whowasphone]

Is it weird that this is the only xmen movie I liked?

 

[Bigwombat]

Yeah should have been way more magneto heavy and less mystique themed. I wish they had cast someone else besides Lawrence;I really like her but it became her story too much in the first two movies

 

[Scullibundo]

All of people's good will from First Class comes from the 3 minutes of Nazi hunting scenes. Somehow everybody always forgets the other 2 hours of mediocrity.

 

[Jeffolation]

Why they didn't reuse Magneto's theme from this film boggles my mind. It's so god damned good.

 

[Deleted member 2145]

That bar scene is simply the best X-Men related movie thing.

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:takes generous schwill of bier:

das beste

 

[Reversed]

Under the title X-Men: Magneto (: The Origins: Etc...), because what about the rest of the First Class?

 

[Bishop89]

The only good bits in first class are the ones with Magneto.
And yes the nazi hunting scenes are fantastic

 

[HouseDragon]

The bar scene and pretty much every scene with Magneto were the standouts. But as a whole, First Class is extremely overrated to me. I just can't see the appeal among all of the other comic book movies.

 

[ryseing]

All of people's good will from First Class comes from the 3 minutes of Nazi hunting scenes. Somehow everybody always forgets the other 2 hours of mediocrity.

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If you dress anything up in a 60s style I will watch it. That's where my goodwill for First Class comes from.

 

[signal]

Why do I love comic / game / etc. nightcrawler but can't stand the movie ones?

 

[Keldroc]

The best parts of First Class are the ones lifted from the Magneto solo movie. Once it gets into the actual first class it declines significantly. Still probably the best X-Men movie that isn't Logan, though.

 

[Deleted member 17388]

I still can't get over with what happened to Darwin.

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Magneto and Xavier forming the whitest team they could

 

[Bor Gullet]

Magneto and Xavier forming the whitest team they could

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Honestly, the whiteness of the team isn't what bothers me, I bet it wasn't even deliberate by the filmmakers (though it's a bit sad considering x-men is about diversity).

It's the fact that Darwin is basically an unkillable mutant... but they kill him off anyhow? He literally has a get out of death free card. Him dying that way felt like a parody of the "black dies first" trope.

 

[UnpopularBlargh]

First class is my second favorite X-Men film behind DOFP.

My only real complaint was that most of the mutants were pretty much killed off screen or disappeared by the next film. They only kept X, Magneto, and Mystique :(

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Yup. I love both but I agree with the idea that DOFP should've been the third film in this trilogy.

Honestly, the whiteness of the team isn't what bothers me, I bet it wasn't even deliberate by the filmmakers.


It's the fact that Darwin is basically an unkillable mutant... but they kill him off anyhow? He literally has a get out of death free card. Him dying that way felt like a parody of the "black dies first" trope.

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It doesn't help that it happens in slo-mo and right after Bacon's spiel about slavery with the awkward cut to Darwin's face!

My ranking of the main-line X-Men films:
X2
DOFP
First Class
X-Men
Last Stand
Apocalypse

Also it goes without saying that Bryan Singer is a creep and total trash.

 

[Tace]

First Class is underrated imo, but Darwin's death was trash

 

[jelly]

I thought McAvoy was really crap as Xavier, it was almost a piss take. I never really liked him at all in the trilogy except his depressive state in the second one?