In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start world war III. SYNOPSIS:
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.
Release Date:
ox Office
Budget:
$160,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend:
$55,101,604 (USA) (5 June 2011) (3641 Screens)
Gross:
$145,688,546 (USA)
simple errors
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Magneto is riding on the X-Men's plane as it is flying close the ground, only his hair moves with the wind. None of his other clothing appears affected by the wind even though the ground speed of the plane would be very high.
Revealing mistakes: When the young Raven is in her true form, the seams of her costume are clearly visible.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Mystique emerges from the stranded submarine in the form of Sebastian Shaw he is seen to be wearing the psychic blocking helmet. This is entirely possible as the first time Mystique sees Shaw when he attacks the CIA base he is wearing the helmet and takes it off when he realizes Xavier isn't there. Since that was her first image of Shaw it is probably the image of him that stuck in her head.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In a wide shot, Charles moves his legs when lying injured on the beach, despite the fact he is newly paralyzed. It is possible for Charles to have muscle spasms in the legs still, since he was newly paralyzed within a few minutes of the camera shot.
Anachronisms: The 5 Reichsmark coin carries the year 1934, but the design with Reichsadler and Swastika was introduced after 1936.
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Erik's memory of celebrating Chanukah with his mother includes a seven-branched candelabra. In Jewish tradition, Chanukah is celebrated with an nine-branched candelabra. However, at every other time of the year, Jewish families will frequently use 2, 3 or 7 candles to celebrate the sabbath every Friday evening.
Anachronisms: Edith Piaf's "La Vie en rose" is playing on a phonograph in the concentration camp. That song was not recorded until 1946.
Anachronisms: When a map of the world is shown with ballistic missiles flying from west to east and vice versa, the two opponents were named USA and Russia. At the time this movie is supposed to take place, Russia is merely a part of the Soviet Union, so the map should read either the Cyrillic CCCP or the English USSR.
Plot holes: When standing at the shore of the island and watching the approaching missiles, all the mutants seem to have forgotten that Azazel could have easily teleported them all away.
Anachronisms: Many of the ships and weapons seen in the US and Soviet fleets did not exist in 1962 at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. For example the US flagship is the USS Iowa, but the Iowa was not in service at the time. Even if she had been, the ship was not fitted with the CIWS Gatling gun defense system until the 1980s. Amongst the collection of missiles fired at the beach are Harpoon anti ship missiles, which came into service in 1977, and Tomahawk missiles, which came into service in the late 1970s. On the Soviet side the flagship appears to be a Kresta class cruiser, a design not in service until 1967.
Anachronisms: When standing at the shore of the island and watching the approaching missiles, one of the missiles seen is a Harpoon anti-ship missile. It was not put into use in the US navy up until 1977, whereas the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in 1962.
Anachronisms: The American troops in the truck in Russia with Charles and Erik and on the ships in the American blockade near Cuba are carrying M16 Rifles, very modern looking ones at that. The M16 wasn't issued till 1963 and if the time line of the movie is accurate the Cuban Missile Crisis didn't occur until 1962 so there was no way for these troops to have access to weapons like that especially the version that they are carrying which look like the shorter M4 carbine, which definitely didn't exist then.
Factual errors: In the bar scene, Charles tells a woman she has a mutated MCR1 gene. The human melanocortin 1 receptor gene (note MC1R, not MCR1) was not cloned (discovered) until 1992.
Revealing mistakes: In the establishing scene outside the secluded Russian manor house an ostensibly Russian military helicopter lands, clearly displaying its UK Civilian Register mark of G-CHOP. The aircraft is a licence built Westland AB-47G.
Factual errors: The General in the War Room mistakenly calls upon the mobilization of the 7th Fleet to intercept Soviet ships bound for Cuba. It was the US 2nd Fleet that intercepted the Soviet ships during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The 7th Fleet is and has always been, based in the Pacific (currently stationed out of Yokosuka, Japan).
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: An SR-71 Blackbird can only hold a maximum crew of 2 in the cockpit. The scene where they are sitting in the back is actually just engines. However, despite their similar appearances, the plane we see the X-Men using here is not a Blackbird, but an early prototype of the "X-Jet" that they use in the films set later.
Factual errors: On the wall map in the conference room in Moscow there is an icon indicating the location of a nuclear power plant in the western Soviet Union. This location corresponds to the location of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Prypiat, U.S.S.R (now Ukraine). However, construction of Chernobyl did not begin until 1970, and Reactor 1 was not commissioned until 1977. When Erik is first seen as an adult the date is given as 1962, eight years before construction of Chernobyl began and fifteen years before its commissioning.
Factual errors: When Erik kills the two former Nazi officers in the cantina, one of them pulls an SS Mans Dagger. When Erik disarms him, he reads the inscription on the side of the blade that says "Blud und Ehre" (Blood and Honor). This is the motto of the Hitler Youth, not the SS. The dagger should have been inscribed with their true motto, "Mein Ehre Heisst Treue" (My Honor is Loyalty).
Revealing mistakes: When Magneto/Erik pulls out the submarine, he uses his right hand to hold on to the Jet and left hand to lift the submarine. But in the subsequent shot when Beast moves the jet towards the beach, Magneto is shown on the other side, with the holding and pulling actions swapped.
Factual errors: During the standoff between Soviet and US warships both side are flying "Jack" flags from the bows - warships do not fly these whilst underway.
Factual errors: While tracking down Shaw, Erik is seen walking towards a cabin supposedly in Villa Gesell, Argentina. In actual facts, some Nazis did took shelter in Argentina after World War II, so the fact of Eric following Shaw to a southern mountain cabin is accurate. However, the 'real' Villa Gesell is a coastal city, and it's located in Buenos Aires, far from snowy mountains.
Anachronisms: Raven, Moira, and Angel are shown wearing mini-skirts throughout the film, but the mini-skirt wasn't "invented" until 1966 by Mary Quant. While this is acceptable for the younger women, Moira, as a CIA agent, would never use one, especially at the office. In 1962-63, the fashion was tight pencil skirts.
seeds :3000+
imdb rating :5.5
story:
The tale of Conan the Cimmerian and his adventures across the continent of Hyboria on a quest to avenge the murder of his father and the slaughter of his village.
