X-Men First Class-Rank The Performances

[jakefury]

This is not a thread to bash the movie for differences in power sets from the comics or whether or not the movie was 100% canon compared to the comics. This is simply a thread for the Ledgers (that's us) to rank the performances of the actors and actresses and the characters they portrayed. I'll begin by highlighting the major characters and how well I thought they were brought to the proverbial silver screen.

-Magneto: (9.0) Nearly flawless performance, he was my personal highlight of the movie.
-Professor X: (7.5) Good but not great IMO.
-Emma Frost: (6.5) I was surprised she wasn't more involved. This affected my opinion of her. I definitely don't think her character and background was developed fully.
-Sebastian Shaw: (7.0) Bacon did the character justice.
-Beast: (7.5) I thought he was one of the pleasant surprises.
-Moira McTaggert: (6.5) I thought she was done well, albeit in a different role than I expected.
-Mystique: (7.5) Another pleasant surprise, I didn't expect much for the character judging from the previews.

Incompletes:I don't think I can rate the following performances based on lack of involvement or actual speaking parts.
Havok
Banshee
Darwin
Azazel
Riptide

Thoughts,smart remarks, agree or disagree?

[ckal]

Michael Fassbender was amazing.
James McAvoy was really great.
Kevin Bacon was great.

[Erik-El]

I am moving this to general movie chat.

[ckal]

You must input your opinion.

[Erik-El]

-Magneto: (10) I thought his performance was the best thing about the movie. I found nothing wrong with adult Magneto. Child Magneto was a little weak but other than that, perfect. Absolute scene stealer the whole time.

-Professor X: (9) He did very well in this movie. I found him very engaging, believable and funny.

-Emma Frost: (4) I felt she was a very weak character for how much she was in the film. Anyone can play a emotionless robot. I also took issue with how badly her diamond form was nerfed. Her durability was useless.

-Sebastian Shaw: (7) I agree that Bacon did the character justice. Very bad villain. I even thought his power change was cool.

-Beast: (7) Beast's personal weakness was well displayed in my opinion.

-Moira McTaggert: (7) Very nicely done.

-Mystique: (8) I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of depth she had in the film. She was not up there with Magneto but it was more than I expected.

-Havok: (5) He was not a very likable character and I thought his hola-hoop power was kind of silly.

-Banshee: (6) Not really a lot of screen time but I thought he was pretty funny.

-Darwin: (5) Snoozefest as far as characters go. I felt nothing when he died.

-Azazel: (6) Not too much to the character but I thought he looked pretty bad ass.

-Riptide: (6) Another guy that looked pretty cool but absolutely zero character development.

-Angel: (5) I am not too sure she was even needed in this movie. She served no purpose and her character was as thin as her wings.

[ckal]

I said to my brother after the movie: "Did you notice how Riptide didn't even say one word?"

Lol now that I think about it, was Riptide's name even mentioned? Maybe once?


And yeah Fassbender and McAvoy were on just about the same level. I loved both of the characters and their relationship played out very well and it was believable.

[Power NeXus]

Jun 5, 2011 23:26:26 GMT -5 ckal said:

I said to my brother after the movie: "Did you notice how Riptide didn't even say one word?"

Lol now that I think about it, was Riptide's name even mentioned? Maybe once?

Yup.

In the credits.




I don't think he should even be considered Riptide. He is never mentioned by name, and his powers aren't even the same as in the comics.