: Loved the first two X-Men movies, but didn't enjoy the third one as much. This looks like it might be a return to form, though. It certainly has an interesting concept and because it's a new take on the team, there probably isn't the pressure on the director to out-do what has come before it. So instead of totally stupid things like surfing the Golden Gate Bridge across the bay, we get flying submarines, which feels a little more within the realm of the X-Men universe.

Will probably wait until it hits Netflix

: This one was obviously made for hardcore X-Men fans---a group I do not count myself among. Don't get me wrong--I'll watch just about every comic-book movie put to market, but I don't really have the time and energy to invest into reading up on their stories. I saw maybe five characters I recognized, and besides the Prof & , I don't really care about their origin stories. I know there'll be a more mass-market trailer that introduces the principal characters in a way that a comic book-culture plebian like myself (who found all four X-Men movies of the last decades passable) can understand, but for now I'll probably watch this one a few times to understand exactly what the hell is going on.

: Something like "cautious optimism" met with "cautious skepticism." For a while there it seemed like we were hearing a new First Class casting update every damn week, which worried me then that it would become another case of too many cooks/mutants in the kitchen -- read: X-Men 3, or the last hour of Origins: Wolverine. But then again, I didn't care for the Kick-Ass comics, but thought Matthew Vaughn did a fantastic job with the movie adaptation. Here's hoping First Class works towards curing the X-Men film's horrible case of convoluted prequel-itis.

Drinking the haterade