Just came back from X-Men: First Class.

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

I just came back from X-Men: First Class. Here are my thoughts on the movie.

My opinion of it is...mixed.

WARNING!!!

AHEAD BE SPOILERS!!!

Comments

[myniamh]

Fox doesn't have a great reputation for female characters in films. One executive is quoted as saying they weren't going to do any more female lead movies because the two movies that did in one year with female leads (The Brave one and another I can't remember) didn't do massively well. They did OK, just not smashingly. Sif is fantastic in Thor as well, she is in all the fights/scenes the Warriors Three are in.

I did like a lot of how female characters were in the movies, I like Mystique in all the films she has been in. But she is a villain, she's allowed to have competence and great fight scenes. Lady Deathstrike is the same, great fight but I suspect that was because Wolverine was in it. Angel in FC has a great scene where she does aerial battle with Banshee and Shadowcat in X3 fights Juggernaut. There are tiny scenes where you can just about see how bad arse the other characters are, Jean and Storm have a few but there are way too many lines where Jean is told she can't. They'd have to get a really good writer to do better than first class, and it isn't bad but it could have done far, far better where Emma was concerned.

[yaseen101]

Man, I want to meet an Executive one day that doesn't pull that line.

I'm glad to hear about the state of female characters in First Class and Thor. It makes me all the more interested in checking them out. :)