User blog comment:Samurai legend1/unnessary boycott for xmen first class/@comment-4026101-20110528041032

I think the reason most people are boycotting this is because of the title. The X-men have been going for more than 50 years and during those years EVERYBODY that new of the x-men knew that the term FIRST CLASS refers to Chuck as an adult teaching his first students ( Cyclops, Jean Grey, Angel, Beast and Iceman.

Remember this is what the first class has been for more than 50 years!!! That means 50 years worth of fans are going to be expecting to see Chuck as an adult teaching Cyclops, Jean Grey, Angel, Beast and Iceman. Their is even a comic called X-men first class with only these characters in it.

If they had named it something like X-men Genesis that would not have been as misleading as this title. Add that to the fact that they have added Havok ( famously know as Cyclop's little brother ) in it as an adult among MANY other inaccurate parts and your going to get a lot of unhappy campers.

You are also incorrect in your statement that marvel do not own the rights to the x-men anymore. The license out the rights to Fox and others but those rights have an expiry date and now that marvel have their own film studio doing so well I'd imagine that Fox will not be allowed to renew their license when it expires.

Most normal people can understand if some things need to be changed for the films. But those changes need to be made for the better. I've said it 100's of times. If they had stuck closer to the source material this franchise would have been bigger than Star Wars. Remember, It's been going for the last 50 years for a reason. The X-men and Spiderman are the only reason that Marvel comics is here today.