X-Men First Class

[mrteufel]

I don't know why I didn't see this at the cinema. Maybe I was burned out on Xmen, after the series had gone so far downhill; not to mention the Wolverine movie

Comments

[jack_ryder]

Ha - was discussing this with a friend on Friday - I still haven't seen it.

Will have to rectify that soon.

[murasaki_1966]

Put it on the list.

[heron61]

It's also one of very, very few supers movies where a female hero has her own plot arc and isn't either a victim, arm-candy, or both. That said, the fact that the movie entirely ignored the US civil rights strugge going on at the same time was problematic, but including it would have been problematic in a different way. From my POV, it was quite a good film.

[mrteufel]

Well... the plight of mutants is supposed to stand in for race relations (as well as other forms of discrimination). If you include a literal depiction of (one of) the thing(s) you are symbolising, the the metaphor becomes redundant.