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Don't Look: Two New 'X-Men: First Class' Posters to Ruin Your Day

by Alex Billington
March 8, 2011
Source: Facebook

A few weeks ago, we featured some impressive character posters for Fox's X-Men: First Class, directed by Matthew Vaughn, starring James McAvoy as Charles Xavier and Michael Fassbender as Magneto. It's obvious Fox's marketing is focusing on how these are younger versions of the same guys from Bryan Singer's trilogy, and it's worked well so far - until now. Yes, these are real posters, they came from the official X-Men Facebook and they're atrocious. I think the comment from "Erik" on Facebook says it best: "You guys should be embarrassed. This is pure amateur." Please, Fox, redeem yourselves and release amazing X-Men posters!

If you dare wish to see either of these posters bigger, you can click on them for larger versions on Facebook.

Before Charles Xavier (McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr (Fassbender) took the names Professor X & Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time, even working together as friends.

X-Men: First Class is directed by British director Matthew Vaughn, of Layer Cake, Stardust and Kick-Ass. Bryan Singer, director of X-Men 1 and 2, is producing and wrote the story. The screenplay was written by quite a few writers, including Josh Schwartz ("Gossip Girl" & "Chuck"), Jamie Moss (Street Kings), Ashley Miller ("Fringe", Thor), Zack Stentz, and finally Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass). Marv Films & 20th Century Fox are bringing X-Men: First Class to theaters everywhere on June 3rd this summer. Watch the first trailer.

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Rops

Posterfail.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1778864445 Takit Sombatnan

WROST POSTER EVER MADE!!
Anonymous

hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! those are terrible!!!!!
Nick S.

would have been better if magneto was a stick figure and they just used the handicapped sign for prof. x with the caption reading "whatever..."

Swiftest2007

lmao! thank you for putting this. it made me laugh really hard!

Hun

Are you freakin' kidding me? College interns would've done a better job.
Mr.Big

We get it Fox, James McAvoy is Charles Xavier and Michael Fassbender is Magneto.. Goodness.
http://www.facebook.com/skittles.is.sam Samuel Lee Smith

It looks like someone vomited over the blank poster and the marketing department said "Hey this is art"
http://www.facebook.com/danielvutran Daniel Vu Tran

WATLOLOLOOOLOLOLOLOLOLO
Anonymous

so this means the movie will suck this much too right?
Desraider

These posters look like shit.... just stating the obvious.
Guest

"The Rite" posters used similar embedding of a face. Could be the same creators.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9emWB_rrMt0 Crapola

Are they pregnant? That's it, They give birth to their future selves.
jedibilly

Right in their crotches! Looks like they're getting head! Fail! Ha Ha ha Ha Haaaa!
Liyan

Why?!?!!
ZZZ

Sadly, it seems almost 1,000 people already "like" them..
dave

if, like me, you've seen the trailer and are excited for this movie, these posters would nearly make you not want to see it
http://twitter.com/dunnyone Steven

Very sexy is nice. They should have rather photo-shopped the new actors heads onto the bodies of the old actors for an even BETTERER effect.
Manuel

Probably 1 adamantium bullet in the spine was the cause of Prof. X wheel chair issue.
ponkacho

Fu... my eyes... blood ... pain... !!!
BinaryChaos

They redeemed themselves with the first official trailer now this crap. Epic fail... Gonna wait on the reviews before I step foot in a theatre to see this...
Holla

Calm down people. Its a poster. Its not the end of the world.
Lamar

Their not the worst posters I've seen; their just....pointless. These are younger versions of Prof. X and Magneto. We get it.
equustel

They would've been perfect with just the silhouettes. Take away those horribly manipped faces!!! Mine eyes!
DarkPassenger29

Quuuaid... turn on the reactoooor.....
SapphireD910

They did it wrong! Oh man... if you look closely, Magneto seems a little slanted. I'm also really put off by Jame's face having a big white mark in it. They couldn't at least place his face more in the chest area? I'm surprised these got printed. They could have either done the outlines, or the faces on black backgrounds. But combining the two looks pretty bad.
http://www.genoshadesign.com daneforst

As a graphic designer who would love nothing more in life than to design movie posters and a huge X-men fan, these truly make me upset on a primal level. I can say in all seriousness that these are probably the worst posters for a studio movie I have ever seen. I am shocked. I want so badly to design a REAL poster for this movie. Please, please, please let me do it. I promise no floating heads. Why has no one considered a "throw back" 60's-style poster for this movie? Wasted opportunity on a cosmic scale.
Rattplatt

haha so poor. trailer looked good though.
George Caltsoudas

It's just so bizarre that their faces are appearing where their crotches are.
Risk

I'm not sure I follow. This is a joke right?
shalnark

they have to do it in order to have a razy award
Dan W

This movie has fail written all over it anyway
Joe

Ohi get it now... its a PREQUEL! Oh well this shitty poster helps explain everything! Now i can finally put my retarded helmet back on!
JohnnyBoy

Someone in the marketing department just got a pink slip for giving the go-ahead on this crap.
Shawn

WHY WHY WHY??? WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS TO A POSTER? I must pray right now to the comic book gods. They messed up a poster. Dear lord almighty why would they do this to us...... For f**ks sake it's a poster. Get over it people.
http://twitter.com/Nielsen700 M.K. Nielsen

This has to be a joke.
Armeetapus16

I'm gonna guess the amount of time it took for them to make those posters in photoshop is the same amount of time it took for me to type out this comment then hit refresh to see if it posted
Jackson

If they couldn't handle two posters, how can they handle hundreds of thousands of frames in a movie? Not looking forward to it.
Anonymous

What a ripoff!!! They stole that brilliant design from this original work of art: http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/6774/blackswanc.jpg

Lukass2006

Best ever

http://www.facebook.com/people/Abelardo-Gutierrez-Chavez/640091706 Abelardo Gutierrez Chavez

I would've done it better with paint
film fan 84

Them posters remind me of the poster for "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li" for some reason and look how that film turned out.
Nate

If you think you can do better then prove it! LOL!!! Man, these posters are Hideous! I'm a graphic designer, could I get this person's job?
Mrjzn

The trailer was ass and these posters are the hole. Horrible.
eye spy

What a pile of goat shit! I would rather wear my own ass as a hat than see these posters again.
eye spy

Next poster should be a picture of an ass with the desigers face on it.
I hate your POSTER

Epic fail
Jasonmd2020

Oh I get it now! Prof X is in a wheelchair because he splintered all his leg bones kicking the shit outta whoever came up with those posters!
Anonymous

Oh I love having my face...in my crotch and they say only dogs can do it HA! we have showed them haven't we?...Charles? CHARLES? oh Charles it looks like your drooling...Oh that's just not right!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3UDJOGISZL63RCFDMJNPOJEDFY PyroDark

This doesn't hurt my faith in this movie, just in the graphic designer handling their advertising. I still don't know all that Adobe can do , but Seriously I could have whipped this up in 15 minutes using paintbrush.
Lukass2006

that designer really knows his stuff... I mean, lasso and feathering is a pretty hard thing to tackle... *sigh these posters look like something made for a Tv version of Knocked Up starring the mutants. Matthew Vaughn, I still believe in you...
Josveta

SO SHIT
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Danger/100000822465362 Tyler Danger

Ugh...
David Banner

Looks more like a temp poster, would take 1 min to make those, pass them along to the art department with the tag: "Something like this, this is the idea, now just make it look good". Grade: F for FAIL. But....these are just 2 of many, so maybe the movie issnt lost yet
Anonymous

I have better crotch pix than this rubbish.
http://twitter.com/A5J4DX A5J4DX

saw these all i got to say is wtf lame lame lame!
Slow Yur Role

i dont see anything wrong with this poster