Charles and X-men

[demeter918]

Now that the moment of unabashed fangirling is done and passed, lets go take a look at the things that bothered me.

This is a better-worded, better-written, and more articulate piece about X-men and superhero movies/comics in general!

Alexander Chee's critique of the American superhero comics>

( spoilers for X-men: First Class and creaky attempts at meta )

Comments

[shahrizai]

But does *everything* have to be meaningful and socially aware? Superhero comic books (not like Sandman or Sin City) are like Cosmo for teen dudes. Is it so wrong for superheroes to be more worried about a physical threat like global nuclear destruction than civil rights?

I think I'm just burned out over everything in fandom needing to be politically correct. I haven't seen First Class yet, but Erik has his own issues with anti-semitism, but because it isn't fandom's current trendy issue everyone overlooks that.

[demeter918]

You have a point; I think there's a really thin line between being politically correct and a strong desire to address every flaw a comic series will have

[redbrunja]

Charles rather than Erik, because Erik is the obvious side to not root for. But how do we, when we see the naivete and relative innocence that almost gets everyone killed? How, when we watch the opening scenes and never, at any point, feel an ounce of sympathy for the people Erik kills in revenge? Sometimes, the movie seemed to be be confused by itself, which is actually kind of funny, when I think about it.

Clearly, I was watching this wrong because my favorite parts of the movie where Erik getting revenge and I ended the movie going, "I'm team Magneto!"