X-Men First Class fan-vid recommendation
I watched the new X-Men movie about a week ago. I guess I feel kind of compelled to check out all the budding new fandoms popping up this summer. Not that the X-Men fandom is new by any means, but the slashy/angsty potential of a young Magneto and Professor X is pretty irresistible and has brought new blood to the fandom. There are quite a lot of excellent "X-Men: First Class" fanvids around on YouTube right now. In fact, I am primarily making this post in order to rec this one that I just found:
Breathe Me by yuna-aoki. I feel like it's probably one of the best fanvids I've ever seen. It just works. It basically gives away the entire plot of the movie, but... that's okay because it's better than the movie anyway. I mean, you're missing the other mutant characters and all the humor in the film, but eh, all that's missable. This is the heart of the story.
I just started a vid of my own a couple nights ago and the process of making it, dwelling on certain moments and trying to think like the characters, has made me like and care about the movie and characters (mostly Magneto) more and more. At first I found the movie kind of bland (in comparison to Thor -- come on, what else?); it had potential but somehow I didn't really feel any of the relationships in it. They was too much exposition in everybody's conversations, like they just kept explaining what their conflicts with each other were and what each character's main note was, and everything seemed to happen so fast. It needed more quiet, natural-feeling scenes to let you really believe that they were real people, and people who knew each other (or were getting to know each other). ...But all of that really just makes it ideal for fanfic and fanvidding. Aaand so now I like it a lot. We'll see how deep a hold this one gets in my brain.
Breathe Me by yuna-aoki. I feel like it's probably one of the best fanvids I've ever seen. It just works. It basically gives away the entire plot of the movie, but... that's okay because it's better than the movie anyway. I mean, you're missing the other mutant characters and all the humor in the film, but eh, all that's missable. This is the heart of the story.
I just started a vid of my own a couple nights ago and the process of making it, dwelling on certain moments and trying to think like the characters, has made me like and care about the movie and characters (mostly Magneto) more and more. At first I found the movie kind of bland (in comparison to Thor -- come on, what else?); it had potential but somehow I didn't really feel any of the relationships in it. They was too much exposition in everybody's conversations, like they just kept explaining what their conflicts with each other were and what each character's main note was, and everything seemed to happen so fast. It needed more quiet, natural-feeling scenes to let you really believe that they were real people, and people who knew each other (or were getting to know each other). ...But all of that really just makes it ideal for fanfic and fanvidding. Aaand so now I like it a lot. We'll see how deep a hold this one gets in my brain.