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HI!
I finally went to see Xmen.
I managed to be totally unspoiled for the movie--which wasn't all that hard since the extent of my internet usage for the last month has been sorta checking my email on my phone.
I will admit that my natural inclinations make me sympathetic to Magneto's message so this movie was pretty much pandering to ME PERSONALLY, which was very enjoyable, I must say! I heard a review (unspoilery) where the reviewer thought the film failed because at the end of the day one is not resoundingly on Xavier's side and the message that Magneto is a terrorist is "lost" to a certain extent.
To which I respond: you missed the point, dude. The whole POINT is that Magneto's views are understandable in the light of how mutants are treated in the Marvel universe AND that while Xavier's heart is in the right place, he's also arrogant and blind to the fact that he's a (mostly) benign dictator--as observed by him wiping people's memories and listening in to people's thoughts with no permission. Neither one of them is perfect nor ideal. Xavier's the "good guy" because the story's mostly about him and his hooligan children and not about the freedom fighters who are trying to liberate mutants from the oppression of small minded humans <--- the spin works in both directions.
I was oddly conflicted about the looming beastification of Hank because of how dreamy he was as a human, which was a VERY ODD FEELING, INDEED, MY STARS AND GARTERS! You just gotta embrace the cheese when it comes to Beast, because come on, and I do so happily. BRING THE CHEESE...
...which brings me to the blinged out, be-caped Magneto at the end. YES MORE OF THAT. I figured out what it is about MF that's always niggled, he reminds me of a young Viggo. That is not a complaint. The scene where Erik and Charles are kicking it on the steps was like a sartorial wet dream, DAMN! The matching boots/jacket combo was a star turn.
I'm sure someone somewhere has some deep thoughts about identity politics and the Cold War, but I am here for the nicely tailored slacks and a smoking hot Magneto. HELL YEAHS. There was a plot and stuff and things exploded, but James McAvoy in period clothes being a morally ambivalent Charles Xavier, what more do you need? THEN you add in all the rest of it. There's a gay buddy montage! And super powers!
January Jones needs to go away already, the only really sour note. Am I really the only person who thinks she can't act?
Can we discuss the multilingual porn at the beginning of the film? RRRRRRRRRRRROOWWWWRRRRRRRRRRR.
Ok, I will toddle off to look at pictures of Michael Fassbender.
It will surprise absolutely no one that I killed another computer. Well, the cat did it this time, but the end result was the same.
I finally went to see Xmen.
I managed to be totally unspoiled for the movie--which wasn't all that hard since the extent of my internet usage for the last month has been sorta checking my email on my phone.
I will admit that my natural inclinations make me sympathetic to Magneto's message so this movie was pretty much pandering to ME PERSONALLY, which was very enjoyable, I must say! I heard a review (unspoilery) where the reviewer thought the film failed because at the end of the day one is not resoundingly on Xavier's side and the message that Magneto is a terrorist is "lost" to a certain extent.
To which I respond: you missed the point, dude. The whole POINT is that Magneto's views are understandable in the light of how mutants are treated in the Marvel universe AND that while Xavier's heart is in the right place, he's also arrogant and blind to the fact that he's a (mostly) benign dictator--as observed by him wiping people's memories and listening in to people's thoughts with no permission. Neither one of them is perfect nor ideal. Xavier's the "good guy" because the story's mostly about him and his hooligan children and not about the freedom fighters who are trying to liberate mutants from the oppression of small minded humans <--- the spin works in both directions.
I was oddly conflicted about the looming beastification of Hank because of how dreamy he was as a human, which was a VERY ODD FEELING, INDEED, MY STARS AND GARTERS! You just gotta embrace the cheese when it comes to Beast, because come on, and I do so happily. BRING THE CHEESE...
...which brings me to the blinged out, be-caped Magneto at the end. YES MORE OF THAT. I figured out what it is about MF that's always niggled, he reminds me of a young Viggo. That is not a complaint. The scene where Erik and Charles are kicking it on the steps was like a sartorial wet dream, DAMN! The matching boots/jacket combo was a star turn.
I'm sure someone somewhere has some deep thoughts about identity politics and the Cold War, but I am here for the nicely tailored slacks and a smoking hot Magneto. HELL YEAHS. There was a plot and stuff and things exploded, but James McAvoy in period clothes being a morally ambivalent Charles Xavier, what more do you need? THEN you add in all the rest of it. There's a gay buddy montage! And super powers!
January Jones needs to go away already, the only really sour note. Am I really the only person who thinks she can't act?
Can we discuss the multilingual porn at the beginning of the film? RRRRRRRRRRRROOWWWWRRRRRRRRRRR.
Ok, I will toddle off to look at pictures of Michael Fassbender.
It will surprise absolutely no one that I killed another computer. Well, the cat did it this time, but the end result was the same.