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[roga]

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.

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[goseaward]

Banshee: I am a Weeeeasleeeeey!

LOL, I know, right?

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

And then there was the holding onto one another! And being willing to experience sad memories together! I mean, I have to say I didn't find it that slashy, but it so COULD be.

Meanwhile, I managed to not pick up that the guy playing Hank was the kid from About A Boy! Mind blown. Also, I feel really old now D:

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Oh, and you know what was really distracting? The lingerie was not period lingerie, but like a modern pastiche of it. Not that I thought almost any of the costumes were particularly period, although I liked them (there was one nice period moment though, Magneto and Xavier sitting on steps somewhere and Xavier was in kind of staid upper-class stuff and Magneto was in a black turtleneck with open jacket and it was just...not only good costuming, but I thought it illustrated their differences really well).

[roga]

Hee, the Hank kid was very cute in an overly Clark Kentish sort of way.

And being willing to experience sad memories together!

LOL, I have to say you may be slightly exaggerating Magneto's level of consent like. It was more like:

Charles: *invades Eric's mind and snoops through his most personal memories* Thank you for sharing that with me.

I noticed the clothes too, lol. Especially since we're so used to seeing January Jones in actual 1960s outfits, that it glares when her clothes (or underclothes) are contemporary. Also everyone's sweatshirts when they were training; it definitely had a 90s feel, all in all.

Hahaha, I loved the steps part. They were sitting on the front steps of the Lincoln Memorial, apparently on the ONE DAY of the year when ALL TOURISTS decided to forsake Washington DC...

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:D

Fair point about the consent--I was thinking more of the aftermath when they ~processed things, but yeah, the leadup was kind of skeevy :(

And yeah, sweatshirts, and wasn't Raven in a spaghetti-strap tank top when Magneto did the thing with the barbell? VERY period, lol.

[beege22]

>Angel: I am not white and therefore I shall defect.

Is it possible that Angel was deliberately written as the defector because, as a black woman and a mutant in the 60's she was measurably the most disenfranchised and thus more likely to find Shaw's ideology appealing?

Sidebar: Everyone keeps going on about Fassbender as Magneto, and yes, he was excellent, but it's James McAvoy who really impressed me. I didn't see anything from Fassbender that I didn't more or less expect from a young Magneto, but I thought McAvoy did a fantastic job portraying Xavier as a young, immature a sex-pest while capturing the qualities that will one day make him Professor X.