James McAvoy shaved his head to play Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class. Then he found out this is a prequel set before Xavier goes bald. He wore hair extensions for the first month of filming.
That is the kind of movie this is. Shot in anamorphic to look like a 1960s James Bond film, set during the Cuban Missile Crisis, with McAvoy and Michael Fassbender building a friendship you know ends badly. Jennifer Lawrence is here before Hunger Games, in eight hours of Mystique makeup every day.
Matthew Vaughn declared he had never worked under such time pressure. They had about three weeks to finish post production before the premiere. You would not know it.
People on Backlot are watching it again this month. It plays differently now that you know where everyone ends up.
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