As Mouser said, there's a lot of things you have to consider before picking a starting language.

I'd recommend C#, it has very clean syntax, you can do a lot of things fast, has great documentation (with regards to the .net framework, for the most part anyway), great guides on how to tackle common tasks and it does all this decently quickly. However, you're pretty much tied to windows since most of the .net framework isn't crossplatform. Otherwise I'd look at some of the prominent scripting languages like Python. While Python definitely has its own quirks and problems, there are a shitton of UI frameworks (Something that definitely speeds up the presentation side of things) out there and libraries to take advantage of.

I'd assume you're talking about one of the X-men movies.

Slightly obscure, but memorable danish movie:

Bankteller foils robbery with a squash racket, only to have his girlfriend leave him. Our hero then reunites with his long lost brother to rekindle their brotherly bond.

Ah, right. Should probably have mentioned the inability to actually quit the game.