X-Men: First Class

[settiai]

This post could also be titled: No, really, don't ask why I'm awake at 5:00am. *headdesk* I fell asleep for, like, twenty minutes. Then I woke up. And was wide awake. This was around, oh, 3:00am. Have I mentioned lately that insomnia sucks? Because it really, really, really does.

Anyway, yes. I finally (finally, finally) watched X-Men: First Class

Comments

[slavelabour]

*points at girl_wonder* THAT right there. This is what fandom has been going on about since the film and it's a good point. I did wonder if it was done on purpose (along with the one good poc getting bumped off) but it actually made me more sympathetic to Magneto.

I don't even know. Film canon is always so weird compared to comic canon.

[settiai]

Hmm. If it was done on purpose, that's definitely something to think about. Though, sadly, I kind of suspect it wasn't.

[tartary_lamb]

I adored the movie, no question, but that and a few thousand other things kind of made me boggle. (That's right, Charles. Wipe Moira's mind! Then the CIA won't be able to find you... in your own house. Where you live. *facepalm*)

But yeah, I was totally thrown by Darwin's death. I wasn't that familiar with him from the original canon, but given his stated ability set it made little sense in context.

I'll be over here with the fix-it fic, tyvm.

[settiai]

Yeah, that part kind of made me go o_O a bit too. Because, yeah. :-/

In the comics, Darwin has spontaneously teleported in order to survive. If his powers can do that? I suspect a little explosion wouldn't really be enough to kill him.

[deathisyourart]

I like Darwin and refuse to believe that he is dead. REFUSE! *stomps foot*

I was surprised to see Angel included, since the actual first class had Warren Worthingon III. I don't know why Marvel allows for several characters in the same verse to have the same nickname, but I digress... if they wanted to up the female quotient, that's awesome and all, but choosing to use a relatively recent and young character with the same nick as a character that was there... seems like an odd way to go.

I also kept looking for Moira's accent and then remembering that in this version you can have any accent you want. :P

[deathisyourart]

And I went off topic there a little without ever making my point.

I thought that Darwin's death was a foreshadowing device. Shaw thought that because nuclear energy brought about the mutations that lead to the "mutants" and their powers, and because of his own ability to use and not be harmed by all that energy, that all mutant-kind would survive the nuclear war he was planning. Darwin's death, for me, showed that no matter how quickly you can adapt or mutate you can't survive a nuclear war, and Shaw's plan (as well as those missiles aimed at the beach at the end) would get everybody killed.

[settiai]

... huh. I hadn't thought about it being foreshadowing, but that would make some sense.

[tartary_lamb]

I remember reading somewhere that "Angel Salvadore" is her given name and that -- in the comics, anyway, which I admittedly haven't read -- her nickname is "Tempest" (though that wasn't used in the film).

Which is, frankly, more appropriate for Riptide, though he's never actually named or given a single speaking line. So there's that. Um.

[stunt_muppet]

You know, I didn't know who Darwin was at the time, but I did remember being pissed off that the movie established a fairly good theme of privilege, power, the failures of the charity-case model, exclusion, racism/ablism, integration et al...and then promptly offed the only black guy. You were doing so well there, movie.

[settiai]

Yeah. :-/

[aliasagent]

I wish I had more people who talked X-Men on my flist. Do you know any communities and stuff that are active?

I loved the movie like woah but I did find it incredibly bizarre that Darwin died and pretty much all people on Xavier's camp towards the end were white men. I thought the movie, for a summer blockbuster, did a fairly decent job talking about privilege with the mutant powers but ignored other significant types of privilege that they never addressed. They went from sort of fairly displaying the fair point of both sides (Xavier's and Erik's) to making this big jump 'oh Magneto's the villain now', which I didn't really think was that fun.

I have no idea if this comment made any sense but in advance I apologize :P

[settiai]

I haven't had time to really start looking for communities yet because of my work schedule, but I'll let you know what I find. :)