The movie wasn't that great but I guess I just needed to practice writing long indulging critical posts.
Even after the epic failure that was the 3rd movie I decided to give it a go. Although I found the whole missile crisis plot kinda ridiculous it was a decent watch. But as with the trilogy it has little to do with the comics. I think Marvel did a very smart move turning their universe into multiverse. Even the comics have a lot of discrepancies. But the movies just ignored most of the events and character backgrounds and barely two weeks into the fandom I found it unsettling.
First of all the movie title is so misleading. I translated a couple of the First Class issues and let me tell you that it was whole different class. Charlies was just directing at that point and the only member that was there at the time was Hank who still looked perfectly human.
I had to lol at the young Charlie. Who knew genetics cold be such a good way to pick up chicks? Fun fact: Due to his powers, Charles lost all of his hair by the time he graduated from high school. Guess they reckoned it wouldn't look as impressive. And Poor Sebastian Shaw had nothing to do with the Nazi. Also I didn't like Mystique. I really loved her in the trilogy actually but here she's just an insecure teen girl and this whole little touching story of Charles/Mystique/Eric is pretty lame in my book. According to the canon she should have been about 80 by that time.
My shipping radar went off at all the Charles/Eric scenes. Then again that has to be one of the oldest ships ever. Slowly but surely I get pulled into the Marvel multiverse.