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X-Men: First Class. I loved the first X-Men movie, and every subsequent movie in the franchise less and less, so I was coming into this with the lowest expectations possible. My enjoyment, therefore, is not necessarily an indicator of the quality of the movie? However: I really enjoyed it.
Basically this is how I saw the movie:
Xavier: I am a douchenozzle!
Magneto: I am a hot and kickass motherfucker.
Raven: I am shy and precious and reminiscent of Rebecca from Brothers and Sisters! (Obviously this is because I haven't yet seen Winter's Bone.)
Emma Frost: I am Betty Draper with less clothes and no motivation other than... being attracted to Shaw?
Angel: I am not white and therefore I shall defect.
Darwin: I am black and therefore dead.
Banshee: I am a Weeeeasleeeeey!
Alex Summers: I am a MAN. SEE MY CHEST ORGASMS.
Oliver Platt: LOL
Wolverine: LOLOLOLOL
Moira: Damn, I have to remember who she was in the comics.
Shaw: I am Kevin Bacon.
...did I get everyone?
Man. It was an enjoyable film though. The effects in the X-Men films have always been awesome, and although most of the humor in this one was unintentional, there were some actually funny parts. And most of all, Michael Fassbender really kicked ass as Magneto. Like. Yeah. A lot. And it's very gratifying on the one hand to see such a kickass character who is both strong and physical and talented and sexy and supposed to be all these things and also very pointedly Jewish. On the other hand, some of his lines screamed "allegory for the State of Israel" at me ("You are my creator"; "Never again"), and that kind of jarred because those were like the only parts of the movie that were like that. But maybe that's just me.
ANYWAY. Magneto is infinitely more appealing to me now than he was in the other three films/comics/wherever else I saw him, and he and James Bond should be BFFs forever. I even forgive the movie for not having Eric and Xavier meet for the first time in Haifa, 1964, because let's face it, a first meeting that includes one guy hugging another from behind in the water and whispering "Just let go" is... pretty adequate as first meetings go. (Even if Xavier is a douchenozzle.)
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Basically this is how I saw the movie:
Xavier: I am a douchenozzle!
Magneto: I am a hot and kickass motherfucker.
Raven: I am shy and precious and reminiscent of Rebecca from Brothers and Sisters! (Obviously this is because I haven't yet seen Winter's Bone.)
Emma Frost: I am Betty Draper with less clothes and no motivation other than... being attracted to Shaw?
Angel: I am not white and therefore I shall defect.
Darwin: I am black and therefore dead.
Banshee: I am a Weeeeasleeeeey!
Alex Summers: I am a MAN. SEE MY CHEST ORGASMS.
Oliver Platt: LOL
Wolverine: LOLOLOLOL
Moira: Damn, I have to remember who she was in the comics.
Shaw: I am Kevin Bacon.
...did I get everyone?
Man. It was an enjoyable film though. The effects in the X-Men films have always been awesome, and although most of the humor in this one was unintentional, there were some actually funny parts. And most of all, Michael Fassbender really kicked ass as Magneto. Like. Yeah. A lot. And it's very gratifying on the one hand to see such a kickass character who is both strong and physical and talented and sexy and supposed to be all these things and also very pointedly Jewish. On the other hand, some of his lines screamed "allegory for the State of Israel" at me ("You are my creator"; "Never again"), and that kind of jarred because those were like the only parts of the movie that were like that. But maybe that's just me.
ANYWAY. Magneto is infinitely more appealing to me now than he was in the other three films/comics/wherever else I saw him, and he and James Bond should be BFFs forever. I even forgive the movie for not having Eric and Xavier meet for the first time in Haifa, 1964, because let's face it, a first meeting that includes one guy hugging another from behind in the water and whispering "Just let go" is... pretty adequate as first meetings go. (Even if Xavier is a douchenozzle.)
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