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First Class was very good. Well the actors made it good though Hollywood keeps wanting to use lame second bit mutants in their movies to show how cool they are that they can use ancillary characters.
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I suspect part of that has to do with the mess of who owns what license. But I've read that both Disney, with the Marvel characters it has access to, and and the company (Time Warner?) that owns DC, are both open to making use of any and all characters available to them.
For that matter, Iron Man, wasn't the most likely character to choose for a movie franchise, and I don't think anyone would argue it hasn't worked out well.
I like seeing a lot of the minor players, at least when I know who they are. I have no idea who the badguys Loki lead into New York were. Some kind of Skrull spinoff or something. But I was pretty excited to see Thanos at the end.
Of course I don't stop being annoyed by how they use, or don't Gwen Stacey in Spiderman movies. And, oh lets save Kitty Pryde til the end of X-men and through Rogue in there with a different origin. Meh.