"Face it: This is going to be good"
You know IGN, if you're trying to win over skeptics, being a wise-@$$ is the WRONG way to do it.
Yes, everyone with an IQ higher than their shoe size has been sour on this flick from the moment Vaughn's name was attached, and the prodcution images and publicity stills made things even worse.
That's Vaughn and Fox's fault, not ours. I know he's one of your fave directors, but you also loved Kick-Ass because it wasn't a "typical" comic book movie. Remember how you praised him for that?
But now he's gone and made a "typical" comic book movie --worse, a prequel, which is an anti-climatic movie in and of itself-- and not only do you not complain you defy thinking people not to like it.
You can't bully us into liking this crap pile and you definitely can't defy anyone into spending money on it.
NOW FACE THAT!
How many X-Men movies are going to feature Magneto as the main villain? Jesus, this is exactly what killed the Superman movies --Lex Luthor overdose. Constantly forcing on us an already tired character who wore out his welcome 3 movies ago!
You're clearly trying to talk yourselves into thinking this won't be a bomb. When's the last time --hell, ANYTIME!!!!-- that you guys have posted an item on a movie/tv show/video game and been reduced to having to say "face it, this is going to be good?"
This project has been in trouble from the jump. The screenplay was written by the same talentless chumps who wrote Kick-Ass --which you guys loved to death, and which tells us everything we need to know about your "tastes."
There's nothing about it that says original (who here doesn't know Magneto's background, or that Vaughn will try to inject some sort of love-triangle as the basis for xavier/Erik going their separate ways?) or quality.
The "character" scenes in this flick are the same, old, stale scenes from the first X-Men movie, except the characters are 50 years younger in this flick.
BTW, that would make Magneto about 92 years old in real terms and Xavier about 87. So much for "continuity."
We can all see that Vaughn's screwed the pooch again, like he always does! That is unless you're going to tell me that Stardust or Kick-Ass were "good." Oh, I forgot. You ALREADY did that!
You backed a loser who's turned in nothing but crappy work his entire "career", and this movie will be no different. I can predict right now it will be the LOWEST gossing of all the X-films and will most likely hasten Fox's finally dropping the X-franchise, which at least will give it back to Marvel so we have a chance of seeing some good X-movies in our lifetime.
That being the case I suppose I should thank Vaughn, but I won't.
Now, IGN, face THAT!