Let's talk about X-Men First Class!
First off, thanks to babettew54 for seeing it with me!!! I had so much fun with you, girlfriend! We jumped out our seats a lot, 'pecially when Hugh Jackman and Sam Lane came onto the screen. *grins*
K, analysis!
Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy totally rocked the movie for me. And in a completely heterosexual way, too. Let's appreciate the value of a lifelong best friend, even though I know this movie will produce a lot of slash fic, I'd like to validate how beautiful their friendship is, and how moved I was by it. Their scenes, their connection, they moved me.
So rock on for the power of friendship between Charles and Erik. I cried when Xavier pulled Erik out of the water and Erik said, "I thought I was alone," and Xavier replied, "You're not alone, I'll help you." Jesus. Isn't that all any of us wants to hear? *sighs*
I also cried when they were on the beach, and Erik fires the missiles and the vibrate struggle between hope and rage, and then once Charles is shot, it becoming desperation and regret.
Magneto is such a fascinating character because as my friend says, he isn't "full tilt nuts", everything he says is completely within the realm of sanity, he just isn't seeking the peace or resolution that Charles is. He isn't even seeking the power that Sebastian is. So you have to give the man some credit. You can't prove him totally wrong. He doesn't point the gun first, and he always has a valid reason and justification. I'm not bleeding sympathy for the people he murders, and I'm a pretty big softy.
So Magneto, I understand totally.
Charles, totally understand him too.
That is the brilliance of their story.
Why is Kevin Bacon so good at playing a completely meglo-maniacle son of a bitch? Geez.
January Jones doesn't have the ovaries to play Emma Frost, I'm sorry. Greatest female character after Rogue, but she didn't own the fire. She didn't suck like some people I won't mention, but she plain doesn't have the juice.
Other than that, utter genius.
This may be my favorite film of the universe. I'll probably always watch the first one more because I love my Hugh, Anna, Ian, Patrick, James, and even Halle, Rebecca, and others, but this one was in some ways, more authentic. It was beautiful.
Big happy face.
K, analysis!
Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy totally rocked the movie for me. And in a completely heterosexual way, too. Let's appreciate the value of a lifelong best friend, even though I know this movie will produce a lot of slash fic, I'd like to validate how beautiful their friendship is, and how moved I was by it. Their scenes, their connection, they moved me.
So rock on for the power of friendship between Charles and Erik. I cried when Xavier pulled Erik out of the water and Erik said, "I thought I was alone," and Xavier replied, "You're not alone, I'll help you." Jesus. Isn't that all any of us wants to hear? *sighs*
I also cried when they were on the beach, and Erik fires the missiles and the vibrate struggle between hope and rage, and then once Charles is shot, it becoming desperation and regret.
Magneto is such a fascinating character because as my friend says, he isn't "full tilt nuts", everything he says is completely within the realm of sanity, he just isn't seeking the peace or resolution that Charles is. He isn't even seeking the power that Sebastian is. So you have to give the man some credit. You can't prove him totally wrong. He doesn't point the gun first, and he always has a valid reason and justification. I'm not bleeding sympathy for the people he murders, and I'm a pretty big softy.
So Magneto, I understand totally.
Charles, totally understand him too.
That is the brilliance of their story.
Why is Kevin Bacon so good at playing a completely meglo-maniacle son of a bitch? Geez.
January Jones doesn't have the ovaries to play Emma Frost, I'm sorry. Greatest female character after Rogue, but she didn't own the fire. She didn't suck like some people I won't mention, but she plain doesn't have the juice.
Other than that, utter genius.
This may be my favorite film of the universe. I'll probably always watch the first one more because I love my Hugh, Anna, Ian, Patrick, James, and even Halle, Rebecca, and others, but this one was in some ways, more authentic. It was beautiful.
Big happy face.