okay, this is so much worse than that little thor thing this summer
Can't. Stop. Reading X-Men fanfiction. What is going on? Once again, an obsession has snuck up on me. I really didn't like the movie that much. It's taken months for me to decide, "Oh, hey, I kind of really, really love these characters."
And actually, the more I like the characters and the general storyline, the more I kind of dislike all of the movies, including the recent one. Or, not dislike, but love while finding them to be severely flawed. Mostly, I just find it really annoying that they rushed everything so much with this movie. Charles and Erik only get to be friends for like, a month or something, before Erik snaps and wanders off to become a supervillain. COME ON. In the first three movies, they talk like people who had a nasty divorce after being married half their lives. Why couldn't we have a slow buildup showing that? They're already planning a sequel, but there's nowhere really new to go if Magneto is already Magneto. It'll just be more of the first trilogy but with younger, sexy actors. Lame. LAME.
Would have been much more fun to have kept Erik and Charles together, establishing their school and shit and making plans to Change The World for the better, have that continue into at least a second movie, before their big split -- which should have gotten its own movie, really. Why try to squeeze in introducing these characters and having them make plans AND showing all those plans fall apart IN THE SAME MOVIE? They must have anticipated that if they did it right, people would want a sequel (or even if they didn't do it right, because they didn't, and they do -- there will be a sequel).
I mean. I think I'd be totally fine with it all if maybe, instead of Erik and Charles having that talk about who was on whose side while Charles lay paralyzed in his arms, Charles had been passed out or groaning in agony and Erik and thrown off the helmet and been like "OMG HOLY SHIT. HEY YOU, DEMON-DUDE, POOF US TO A HOSPITAL IMMEDIATELY. WE CAN DISCUSS MY LATENT TERRORIST TENDENCIES AT SOME LATER, UNSPECIFIED POINT IN TIME." And then, you know. They'd have had another movie to develop everything that much more.
It just. It's all got so much unfulfilled potential. That's why I wasn't struck with obsession and interest immediately upon watching "First Class." I liked it, but I wanted to love it, and I couldn't because it felt like something was missing. Which is, of course, what fanfiction is for, but I didn't bother looking at that. Until now. And boy, have I fallen down that rabbit hole now. You can probably expect a big rec list from me soon. It's that bad.
And actually, the more I like the characters and the general storyline, the more I kind of dislike all of the movies, including the recent one. Or, not dislike, but love while finding them to be severely flawed. Mostly, I just find it really annoying that they rushed everything so much with this movie. Charles and Erik only get to be friends for like, a month or something, before Erik snaps and wanders off to become a supervillain. COME ON. In the first three movies, they talk like people who had a nasty divorce after being married half their lives. Why couldn't we have a slow buildup showing that? They're already planning a sequel, but there's nowhere really new to go if Magneto is already Magneto. It'll just be more of the first trilogy but with younger, sexy actors. Lame. LAME.
Would have been much more fun to have kept Erik and Charles together, establishing their school and shit and making plans to Change The World for the better, have that continue into at least a second movie, before their big split -- which should have gotten its own movie, really. Why try to squeeze in introducing these characters and having them make plans AND showing all those plans fall apart IN THE SAME MOVIE? They must have anticipated that if they did it right, people would want a sequel (or even if they didn't do it right, because they didn't, and they do -- there will be a sequel).
I mean. I think I'd be totally fine with it all if maybe, instead of Erik and Charles having that talk about who was on whose side while Charles lay paralyzed in his arms, Charles had been passed out or groaning in agony and Erik and thrown off the helmet and been like "OMG HOLY SHIT. HEY YOU, DEMON-DUDE, POOF US TO A HOSPITAL IMMEDIATELY. WE CAN DISCUSS MY LATENT TERRORIST TENDENCIES AT SOME LATER, UNSPECIFIED POINT IN TIME." And then, you know. They'd have had another movie to develop everything that much more.
It just. It's all got so much unfulfilled potential. That's why I wasn't struck with obsession and interest immediately upon watching "First Class." I liked it, but I wanted to love it, and I couldn't because it felt like something was missing. Which is, of course, what fanfiction is for, but I didn't bother looking at that. Until now. And boy, have I fallen down that rabbit hole now. You can probably expect a big rec list from me soon. It's that bad.