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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.
Reader Feedback - 57 Comments
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Posterfail.
Rops on Mar 9, 2011
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hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! those are terrible!!!!!
Anonymous on Mar 9, 2011
4
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..."
Nick S. on Mar 9, 2011
5
lmao! thank you for putting this. it made me laugh really hard!
Swiftest2007 on Mar 9, 2011
6
Are you freakin' kidding me? College interns would've done a better job. 🙁
Hun on Mar 9, 2011
7
We get it Fox, James McAvoy is Charles Xavier and Michael Fassbender is Magneto.. Goodness.
Mr.Big on Mar 9, 2011
8
It looks like someone vomited over the blank poster and the marketing department said "Hey this is art"
Samuel Lee Smith on Mar 9, 2011
10
so this means the movie will suck this much too right?
Anonymous on Mar 9, 2011
11
These posters look like shit.... just stating the obvious.
Desraider on Mar 9, 2011
12
"The Rite" posters used similar embedding of a face. Could be the same creators.
Guest on Mar 9, 2011
14
Right in their crotches! Looks like they're getting head! Fail! Ha Ha ha Ha Haaaa!
jedibilly on Mar 9, 2011
15
Why?!?!!
Liyan on Mar 9, 2011
16
Sadly, it seems almost 1,000 people already "like" them..
ZZZ on Mar 9, 2011
17
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
dave on Mar 9, 2011
18
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.
Steven on Mar 9, 2011
19
Probably 1 adamantium bullet in the spine was the cause of Prof. X wheel chair issue.
Manuel on Mar 9, 2011
20
Fu... my eyes... blood ... pain... !!!
ponkacho on Mar 9, 2011
21
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...
BinaryChaos on Mar 9, 2011
22
Calm down people. Its a poster. Its not the end of the world.
Holla on Mar 9, 2011
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Their not the worst posters I've seen; their just....pointless. These are younger versions of Prof. X and Magneto. We get it.
Lamar on Mar 9, 2011
24
They would've been perfect with just the silhouettes. Take away those horribly manipped faces!!! Mine eyes!
equustel on Mar 9, 2011
25
Quuuaid... turn on the reactoooor.....
DarkPassenger29 on Mar 9, 2011
26
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.
SapphireD910 on Mar 9, 2011
27
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.
daneforst on Mar 9, 2011
28
haha so poor. trailer looked good though.
Rattplatt on Mar 9, 2011
29
It's just so bizarre that their faces are appearing where their crotches are.
George Caltsoudas on Mar 9, 2011
30
I'm not sure I follow. This is a joke right?
Risk on Mar 9, 2011
31
they have to do it in order to have a razy award
shalnark on Mar 9, 2011
32
This movie has fail written all over it anyway
Dan W on Mar 9, 2011
33
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!
Joe on Mar 9, 2011
34
Someone in the marketing department just got a pink slip for giving the go-ahead on this crap.
JohnnyBoy on Mar 9, 2011
35
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.
Shawn on Mar 9, 2011
37
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 😛
Armeetapus16 on Mar 9, 2011
38
If they couldn't handle two posters, how can they handle hundreds of thousands of frames in a movie? Not looking forward to it.
Jackson on Mar 9, 2011
39
What a ripoff!!! They stole that brilliant design from this original work of art: http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/6774/blackswanc.jpg
Anonymous on Mar 9, 2011
40
Best ever
Lukass2006 on Mar 10, 2011
42
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.
film fan 84 on Mar 9, 2011
43
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?
Nate on Mar 9, 2011
44
The trailer was ass and these posters are the hole. Horrible.
Mrjzn on Mar 9, 2011
45
What a pile of goat shit! I would rather wear my own ass as a hat than see these posters again.
eye spy on Mar 9, 2011
46
Next poster should be a picture of an ass with the desigers face on it.
eye spy on Mar 9, 2011
47
Epic fail
I hate your POSTER on Mar 9, 2011
48
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!
Jasonmd2020 on Mar 9, 2011
49
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!
Anonymous on Mar 10, 2011
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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.
PyroDark on Mar 10, 2011
51
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...
Lukass2006 on Mar 10, 2011
52
SO SHIT
Josveta on Mar 10, 2011
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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 🙂
David Banner on Mar 12, 2011
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I have better crotch pix than this rubbish.
Anonymous on Mar 13, 2011
56
saw these all i got to say is wtf lame lame lame!
A5J4DX on Mar 13, 2011
57
i dont see anything wrong with this poster
Slow Yur Role on Mar 16, 2011
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