X-Men First Class
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skull_bearerNow, please understand (if you haven't already) I am a massive, MASSIVE Magneto fan-girl. He is just epicly awesome in every way, and I will happily read any comic with him in it (not necessarily buy it mind you). Always. Without fail. Even Ultimatum *shudder*.
So, seeing it with My!Erik was rather funny. I don't usually call up Erik to watch anything, ever since we went to see Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and he almost throttled me. My!Erik is of course from Past Tense so this was clear AU (although dear god I'll be working some elements in).
It was good. I'd say good as the second X-film. Like Thor, only with better plotting and more tone deaf on the minorities, which is ironic when you think about it. It was clean, clear and good. Good acting all round, good cinematography, epic soundtrack, welcome dearth of Idiot Balls, plot that made sense, the works. It was great, I loved it, go see.
Young Charles Xavier was scarily like My!Charles, but if My!Charles had stayed in Oxford instead of swanning off in my incredibly contrived plot. In fact it was weird the way they were setting up for the person he becomes later, because I kept thinking "hang on, that's not suppose to happen, Charles is supposed to be doing this that the other and staying with Erik - oh yeah, not my story. Bugger." They did a great job with him, but it made for a weird watching experience. I wasn't always on board with him, but then I'm a proud t-shirt wearing Brotherhood supporter, so that may not mean much, he was naive, and the whole 'They're just following orders' made we want to reach through the screen and slap some sense into him. Well done on using the exact words needed to make Erik blow them up, you tit.
And you are so very, very gay, and REALLY like Matt Smith's Doctor. It was sort of freakish actually.
That would make a great crossover actually, you'd have the Doctor and Magneto would be like 'So if you can travel through space and time, what do we need to blow up to stop a mutant Holocaust from happening?', and the Doctor would be like 'Well, it's all a bit of flux and confusing but if you do x, y, z - hey where're you going?' and Xavier would be like 'Look what you've done now' and the Doctor would be 'If he blows up x,y, z he'll lock you into that time continum and the mutant Holocaust will definitely happen! We need to do a,b,c instead!' and there are explosions and they stop Magneto and together they unite against the Daleks or something and save the world and then world peace and Erik and Charles make out.
Ahem.
(I would so totally watch that) Anyhoo, the film didn't have the Doctor which is just about the only way it could have been improved (short of having Erik/Charles first time sex). It did however have a very large cast which I liked because that was one thing I always loved about the comics, you could pick your lead character, unlike the films, where they shove Wolverine down your throat so hard you're shitting adamatium. The detestable runt only has one cameo in this and it's actually funny so I will withold his execution for the time being.
The cast was a bit odd because apart from Erik, Charles and arguably Hank, there aren't any other immediately recognisable characters. Jean and Scott are absent, Storm gets an extremely brief cameo, and the others are all minor characters from the comics. I'm not massively familiar with any of them so lets just say the black one dies really early on and the rest are mostly forgettable (remember this is coming from someone who was only paying half attention when Erik and Charles were not on screen).
There was a re-hash of the cure storyline actually done well, played with by Hank and Mystique, it doesn't take away powers, but it makes odd mutants look like average humans, so I can definitely see the appeal. It didn't stop me from /Nelson Munzing HAW-HAW when Beast went beast though. Loved Erik's 'You look great!' and Hank punching him. Oh Erik, you are tactless.
Emma Frost was sort of Meh. She didn't do much and she just wasn't Emma Frost for me. She was just some blond bimbo who happened to have similar powers. Emma has more presence. She should be able to wear a burlap sack and a paper bag over her head and everyone would turn to look at her the moment she came in because there's something about her that just bends everything around her. Her voice was too high as well, and too nice. She's supposed to be commanding and harsh, cold and awesome. Here she was eyecandy.
Not entirely sure about Sebastian Shaw because he seemed to have been turned into a cross between himself and Mr Sinister (are they the same? comics confuse me). He wasn't really creepy except for the Auschwitz scene (which? Really historically accurate. I was shocked. The gate scene is Birkenau, and the Shaw scene is Auschwitz main camp, shouldn't have been next to each other but the potrayl was good enough for me not to care. It was also interesting to note that Erik's mother was still alive later, so that means Erik was on the to-kill side. Wow, talk about a near one).
Anyway, loved Erik, lovelovelovelove. He started off like James Bond if Bond was a Jewish mutant and hunted Nazi war criminals, and went to the well intentioned extremist we all know and love. He didn't cross the moral event horizon at any point, which I thought worked nicely. He killed Shaw, but who cares. He would have thrown the rockets back at the ships, but they fired first. I wonder if he and Charles kinda still saw each other for years after that until the pressure between their two sides was just so much they couldn't make it work any more.
Okay, this was very rambly but then this is not a film I was watching 'normally'. I saw it for one reason and one reason alone: to see Magneto being awesome and having sexual subtext with Charles. It delivered in spades and I am happy. If you want to see a good comic book movie, this is fun and cute and not insultingly stupid. If you are a fan of Charles you'll love it too. If you like the comics, I can't vouch for the continuity but you should enjoy it. If you're only there to see Wolvierine hack up people then go and rewatch Wolvierine Origins for the thousanth time because this movie is not for you.
Everyone else, knock yourselves out.
So, seeing it with My!Erik was rather funny. I don't usually call up Erik to watch anything, ever since we went to see Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and he almost throttled me. My!Erik is of course from Past Tense so this was clear AU (although dear god I'll be working some elements in).
It was good. I'd say good as the second X-film. Like Thor, only with better plotting and more tone deaf on the minorities, which is ironic when you think about it. It was clean, clear and good. Good acting all round, good cinematography, epic soundtrack, welcome dearth of Idiot Balls, plot that made sense, the works. It was great, I loved it, go see.
Young Charles Xavier was scarily like My!Charles, but if My!Charles had stayed in Oxford instead of swanning off in my incredibly contrived plot. In fact it was weird the way they were setting up for the person he becomes later, because I kept thinking "hang on, that's not suppose to happen, Charles is supposed to be doing this that the other and staying with Erik - oh yeah, not my story. Bugger." They did a great job with him, but it made for a weird watching experience. I wasn't always on board with him, but then I'm a proud t-shirt wearing Brotherhood supporter, so that may not mean much, he was naive, and the whole 'They're just following orders' made we want to reach through the screen and slap some sense into him. Well done on using the exact words needed to make Erik blow them up, you tit.
And you are so very, very gay, and REALLY like Matt Smith's Doctor. It was sort of freakish actually.
That would make a great crossover actually, you'd have the Doctor and Magneto would be like 'So if you can travel through space and time, what do we need to blow up to stop a mutant Holocaust from happening?', and the Doctor would be like 'Well, it's all a bit of flux and confusing but if you do x, y, z - hey where're you going?' and Xavier would be like 'Look what you've done now' and the Doctor would be 'If he blows up x,y, z he'll lock you into that time continum and the mutant Holocaust will definitely happen! We need to do a,b,c instead!' and there are explosions and they stop Magneto and together they unite against the Daleks or something and save the world and then world peace and Erik and Charles make out.
Ahem.
(I would so totally watch that) Anyhoo, the film didn't have the Doctor which is just about the only way it could have been improved (short of having Erik/Charles first time sex). It did however have a very large cast which I liked because that was one thing I always loved about the comics, you could pick your lead character, unlike the films, where they shove Wolverine down your throat so hard you're shitting adamatium. The detestable runt only has one cameo in this and it's actually funny so I will withold his execution for the time being.
The cast was a bit odd because apart from Erik, Charles and arguably Hank, there aren't any other immediately recognisable characters. Jean and Scott are absent, Storm gets an extremely brief cameo, and the others are all minor characters from the comics. I'm not massively familiar with any of them so lets just say the black one dies really early on and the rest are mostly forgettable (remember this is coming from someone who was only paying half attention when Erik and Charles were not on screen).
There was a re-hash of the cure storyline actually done well, played with by Hank and Mystique, it doesn't take away powers, but it makes odd mutants look like average humans, so I can definitely see the appeal. It didn't stop me from /Nelson Munzing HAW-HAW when Beast went beast though. Loved Erik's 'You look great!' and Hank punching him. Oh Erik, you are tactless.
Emma Frost was sort of Meh. She didn't do much and she just wasn't Emma Frost for me. She was just some blond bimbo who happened to have similar powers. Emma has more presence. She should be able to wear a burlap sack and a paper bag over her head and everyone would turn to look at her the moment she came in because there's something about her that just bends everything around her. Her voice was too high as well, and too nice. She's supposed to be commanding and harsh, cold and awesome. Here she was eyecandy.
Not entirely sure about Sebastian Shaw because he seemed to have been turned into a cross between himself and Mr Sinister (are they the same? comics confuse me). He wasn't really creepy except for the Auschwitz scene (which? Really historically accurate. I was shocked. The gate scene is Birkenau, and the Shaw scene is Auschwitz main camp, shouldn't have been next to each other but the potrayl was good enough for me not to care. It was also interesting to note that Erik's mother was still alive later, so that means Erik was on the to-kill side. Wow, talk about a near one).
Anyway, loved Erik, lovelovelovelove. He started off like James Bond if Bond was a Jewish mutant and hunted Nazi war criminals, and went to the well intentioned extremist we all know and love. He didn't cross the moral event horizon at any point, which I thought worked nicely. He killed Shaw, but who cares. He would have thrown the rockets back at the ships, but they fired first. I wonder if he and Charles kinda still saw each other for years after that until the pressure between their two sides was just so much they couldn't make it work any more.
Okay, this was very rambly but then this is not a film I was watching 'normally'. I saw it for one reason and one reason alone: to see Magneto being awesome and having sexual subtext with Charles. It delivered in spades and I am happy. If you want to see a good comic book movie, this is fun and cute and not insultingly stupid. If you are a fan of Charles you'll love it too. If you like the comics, I can't vouch for the continuity but you should enjoy it. If you're only there to see Wolvierine hack up people then go and rewatch Wolvierine Origins for the thousanth time because this movie is not for you.
Everyone else, knock yourselves out.