Teg, I hate to be a jerk
Well you seem to have a lot of practice in it.
Disliking something because it's popular is dumb. I don't even know if First Class
is popular. I never checked Rotten Tomatoes, other peoples' reviews, IMDB, Wikipedia, or any of my usual go-to sources for these things. I went to the thater because I was bored, picked an action movie because I was in the mood for one, and went with X-Men because I don't think I care about Pirates Of The Caribbean anymore. Having no outside opinion of a movie going in is about as far from "it's popular now it sucks" as one can get.
And besides that,
I thought it was pretty good for a superhero movie. The opening was
really good. Most of Magneto's story was
really good. It's just that as it goes on it gets more and more bogged down by
Comics Lore, and trying to work with
Comics Lore is like trying to ghost write for fifty different people who all had completely different and contradictory really stupid ideas.
Basically: It started out as a great movie and ended as a mediocre movie and just kind of balanced out to "well it was okay I guess".
Don't act like you didn't cringe when you heard Charles and Code Name Mary Sue
make absolutely certain you understood where the name "X-Men" comes from.also citizen kane is pretty awesome