The trailer and other materials from X-Men: First Class have definitely turned me around from my formerly negative opinion, but… well, damn man… the fuck?
This is an example of one of those pictures that looks like it was composed in photoshop, even though it may not have been. I think. Either that or it’s a serious embarrassment. Something about the reflective lighting on McAvoy’s face and his weirdly rim-lit hair makes him look low-res and snipped from a differently compressed image, while Fassbender’s contorted pose along with the less-than-dramatic angle on his fuckin’ shit up hand does no justice to the large-scale badassery that is probably happening in the reverse of this shot.
Just… damn. I know it’s a throwaway Facebook tease still, but do better Fox.
Let me know if you agree- maybe there’s something I’m not seeing…
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Are you guys serious with this? Seriously, you’re looking at a generic promotional still image and analyzing it for flaws in the minor details? Oh my god, what has the Internet wrought? Is this what we’ve come to? I don’t know how much farther us movie fanboys can sink if we’re going to analyze the lighting on someone’s cheeks in a single promo photo and then waste our time bitching about it. Holy lord. This is hardly the kind of thing that stands out without poring over it with a fine-tooth comb for something to bitch about. It’s just a pic pulled from a shoot and it’s out of context like most promotional pics. Seriously; it’s fine. It’s just a generic promotional still. Not great, not bad, just a picture. It’s fine. I don’t care. And neither should anyone, really.
I have to agree. Given that this is a still frame from the movie, and not a still photo, I’m not expecting it to stand for itself. Of course, maybe they could’ve picked a better still that looked better taken out of context, but I think that anyone who looks at this picture *will* understand the context. After all, the sequence this was taken from is in the trailer.
Virtually every still photo you ever see in the promotional materials for a film is a still photo, not a frame. Pulling frames from actual footage would make for blurry, grainy, terrible promo photos most of the time.
Also, chill your shit. It literally took each of you longer to write your take-down of the article than it actually took to write the article. Promise. The photo was going to get covered regardless, and it looks like shit, so here we are.
Every image from this film screams amateur hour. The posters were fucking horrible, the stills don’t inspire confidence. Everything has been rushed and badly thought out. Mathew Vaughn has a fucking disaster on his hands.
Oh. c’mon. Over-analyzing things like this is why the internet exists.
I once read a 5,000 word article about how they pulled-off a single sequence in Citizen Kane. It was endlessly fascinating.
I’m glad you guys took time out from posting on seven different message boards about how wrong it is that Heimdal is black in order to tell CHUD how silly they are for doing their job.
HEIMDAL IS BLACK? Who the fuck is Heimdal and why is he black?!
Why is Heimdal black? To rape your childhood, of course. It’s what Hollywood lives for.
Geez, it seems like the asshats really come out for you, Renn.
But I do agree with you. . . McAvoy looks really weird, definitely kinda fake. And his facial expression is kinda funny. . . like he’s thinkin’: “Man, he’s *really* wreckin’ shit with that hand.”
And I also agree that not just this one, but ALL of the X-Men: FC stills have been pretty disappointing. Stills are supposed to illicit excitement for a picture, not boredom or puzzlement. However, I will say, like you, the trailer impressed me way more than I thought it was going to.
What is there to figure out? Remember the trailer scene with the submarine rising out of the ocean? This is a close-up shot of Magneto hanging onto landing gear of the blackbird and pulling the sub out of the water.
I probably overreacted and shouldn’t have been so harsh, to be fair. I like Renn’s writings a lot on here. I just… yeah. It’s still pointless. This didn’t warrant an article, or any analysis at all.
Take a look around the site. It’s obvious that this place is on a sharp downturn. They don’t seem to report on anything new or news worthy. Instead there are more and more articles on rediscovering old movies, and pointless wandering articles on irrelevant news like the X-Men photo. Devin is gone, and Nick is more interested in promoting his new “dude” site.
If this site could have a smell, it would be that of a neglected dead body rotting in a hot apartment.
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