Grading out the X-Men Castings (thru X-Men: First Class)

When comic book movies get talked about, surprisingly, it takes a while to get around to the X-Men flicks, even if they were part of the rebirth for the genre at the box office. That’s mainly because they haven’t been all that great. X-2 aside, the others have been sprinkled with cool moments, tons of bad one liners and a lot of questionable writing. And casting. Good Lord, the casting is all over the place in the X-flicks. With the X-Men: Days of Future Past being released, the BNP crew got together and spoke on castings they loved and castings that made them temporary DC Comics fans. Job Well Done Professor X (Patrick Stewart)

Carrie – I’m probably biased as it is cause Pat doubles as my favorite Star Fleet captain BUT, in the plethora of old white dudes in the world of acting, I can picture no one else as the level headed, father figure and creator of the X-Men. Just like the chorus of that one Alicia Keys’ song: No one, No one, NOOOOO ONNNEEEEEEEEE can play Professor X bettteeerrrrrr~! Poised, obviously looking the part (Bald is Beautiful) and actually good friends in real life with Sir Ian Mckellen, Sir Patrick Stewart nailed this role. [divider type=”thin”] Professor X (James McAvoy)

William – I really wanted to put James McAvoy’s portrayal closer to the ‘meh’ column, but after some convincing from the BNP crew, I can concede that him as the arrogant and upwardly mobile Xavier is a pretty fair image. I could’ve done without that annoying head tilt every time he …