First Class Is In Session

First Cap, then Spidey, now those no good mutant X-Men.  Everyone's showing off their silver screen superheroes this week, so we now have a picture from X-Men: First Class.  It's a bit weird actually.  The first picture for First Class came out on the day of my first classes for this semester.  Is that a good sign?  Well judging by this picture, probably not...

In addition to Xavier and Magneto (front right and left, respectively), we have a mix of new and old characters characters like Mystique, Emma Frost, Havok and the villainous Azazel.  My gut reaction was these look bloody ridiculous, and I couldn't stop thinking Adam West as Batman for a few minutes.  But with some time, I've started warming up to them.  Mystique looks a little flat, and I don't know what the hell is going on with Beast. But the highlight here is clearly January Jones, in the most unpractical outfit ever conceived by man.  That is a bathing suit.  With a cape.  I know that's exactly what she wore in the comics, but is she really going to have that on for the whole movie?  Can you imagine her holding a conversation in that thing, and expecting to be taken remotely seriously?

But we do have some interesting stuff here.  Out of the entire cast, it's Michael Fassbender as a young Magneto that I'm looking forward to.  If this movie can reexamine what makes the villain so incredibly compelling, then it will be worth the ticket price.  Fassbender just feels like a strong fit, and after seeing him in Inglorious Basterds I'm hoping he'll do us comic fans proud.