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st_aurafinaWe went to see the movie again today - that's twice in two weeks, you have no idea how amazing that is. That's how much I love this fandom, people. I will sit in a car for eight hours, for a total of four hours of entertainment.
(And thenlilacsigil had lots of fun at the prosthodontist. She went in for a crown, she came out needing dental surgery.I guess they thought we needed a little excitement in our lives again. *sighs*)
But at least we saw the movie!
The really, really bad stuff: big and massive fail on behalf of the POC characters. Wow, seriously? Kill the black guy? The one who can evolve to survive? And they did it in a very nasty way - Darwin didn't get a chance to fight back, he just kind of stood there while Shaw killed him. Very nasty and very unimaginative and I really expected better.
But otherwise? That was groovy! Very groovy!
People spoke their native languages and didn't slip into awkwardly accented English for the sake of the viewers. No country was the woah bad evil country, just run by miserably misinformed and manipulated governments. I liked the history (even though I know it's only a capsule history presented for the best story), I liked the globe trotting, I liked the sets. Actually, the sets were awesome on this - half the time I was picking out old sets (They used the same house for the school yay! The hallway where Charles has his hallucination with Jason, yay!) and half the time I was cracking up because of how very mod things were. Shaw's boat! Emma's wardrobe!
Could have done without the surprise!dentistry, though. (My brain immediately said "Where were the trigger warnings on this?" Which tells you how deeply I had sunk into the story.)
And that's some gleeful fucking with canon. It makes my little brain work and work to try and fit it all in, but it's not possible. (I mean, Alex Summers could be Scott's dad, I guess? That's an interesting dynamic, anyway.)
I kind of love the brother/sister relationship with Charles and Raven. I loved that ten year old Charles would give a complete (blue) stranger everything in his house. I love that he still sees her as a little kid, and that she has to keep poking and prodding him to see her otherwise, and that eventually she just leaves. I think the Raven arc of the movie gels the best with the X1/X2 stories. She's so much more cynical later. So much happiness about Raven. So much unhappiness about Emma. (So much confusion about Moira!)
Emma was a disappointment, which makes me sad. I tried and tried and tried to like her, but she was just dull. I'm a huge Emma fan. It makes me sad to see January Jones phoning it in with a bored expression on her face. (And granted, it wasn't a huge part, and she didn't have that much to do, but actors with fewer lines still made me love them.)
I wish there was a way for the recruiting/training sequence to go on and on and on. Basically, if the whole movie was recruiting and training, I would have been happy. The second time we saw it, I was pretty much ready to go home once they were heading off to Cuba.
I could never have imagined Charles Xavier as a puckish little guy who wants to give the whole world a big hug, but MacAvoy pulled it off. Charles without his gravitas. It was heartbreaking to mentally jump forward and think of older!Charles and how he used to bounce and beam and giggle and hug people. I am totally sold on that. The same goes for Erik. The Charles and Erik show was awesome, and I want there to be a hundred fics where they go on missions together.
There was some seriously bad science in this movie. I mean, seriously. I don't think they had a science editor or a fact checker or anything like that. Ouch. It made Henry's ass-holish story seem even more implausible. And don't get me started on the spinal injury, omg. A month later, Charles is going to be flat on his back, strapped into a halo, with a hole in his skull to relieve pressure on his spine, while they're still assessing level of function and degree of damage. And that's in the sixties. (I understand handwaving details, but did nobody check on this stuff? I can handle that nobody knows first aid, and that they're bouncing Charles around like a beach ball. It's getting a bit nasty when the handwaving is so you can romanticise his disability.)
But over all, I'm a happy fangirl - there's new canon, there's new (to movieverse) characters. There were lovely little shout-outs to the older fans - Stryker, someone I presume is Storm's mother in the Cerebro montage, heterochromia (what was that, even? Was it a signature thing? Was it meant to be Jason's mother? Anyway, I loved it.) Basically, the movie had me gleeing out for days.
Other X-Men things:
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And now? I'm going to prowl the kink memes, see if there's something there that sparks off some ideas.
(And then
lilacsigil had lots of fun at the prosthodontist. She went in for a crown, she came out needing dental surgery.I guess they thought we needed a little excitement in our lives again. *sighs*) But at least we saw the movie!
The really, really bad stuff: big and massive fail on behalf of the POC characters. Wow, seriously? Kill the black guy? The one who can evolve to survive? And they did it in a very nasty way - Darwin didn't get a chance to fight back, he just kind of stood there while Shaw killed him. Very nasty and very unimaginative and I really expected better.
But otherwise? That was groovy! Very groovy!
People spoke their native languages and didn't slip into awkwardly accented English for the sake of the viewers. No country was the woah bad evil country, just run by miserably misinformed and manipulated governments. I liked the history (even though I know it's only a capsule history presented for the best story), I liked the globe trotting, I liked the sets. Actually, the sets were awesome on this - half the time I was picking out old sets (They used the same house for the school yay! The hallway where Charles has his hallucination with Jason, yay!) and half the time I was cracking up because of how very mod things were. Shaw's boat! Emma's wardrobe!
Could have done without the surprise!dentistry, though. (My brain immediately said "Where were the trigger warnings on this?" Which tells you how deeply I had sunk into the story.)
And that's some gleeful fucking with canon. It makes my little brain work and work to try and fit it all in, but it's not possible. (I mean, Alex Summers could be Scott's dad, I guess? That's an interesting dynamic, anyway.)
I kind of love the brother/sister relationship with Charles and Raven. I loved that ten year old Charles would give a complete (blue) stranger everything in his house. I love that he still sees her as a little kid, and that she has to keep poking and prodding him to see her otherwise, and that eventually she just leaves. I think the Raven arc of the movie gels the best with the X1/X2 stories. She's so much more cynical later. So much happiness about Raven. So much unhappiness about Emma. (So much confusion about Moira!)
Emma was a disappointment, which makes me sad. I tried and tried and tried to like her, but she was just dull. I'm a huge Emma fan. It makes me sad to see January Jones phoning it in with a bored expression on her face. (And granted, it wasn't a huge part, and she didn't have that much to do, but actors with fewer lines still made me love them.)
I wish there was a way for the recruiting/training sequence to go on and on and on. Basically, if the whole movie was recruiting and training, I would have been happy. The second time we saw it, I was pretty much ready to go home once they were heading off to Cuba.
I could never have imagined Charles Xavier as a puckish little guy who wants to give the whole world a big hug, but MacAvoy pulled it off. Charles without his gravitas. It was heartbreaking to mentally jump forward and think of older!Charles and how he used to bounce and beam and giggle and hug people. I am totally sold on that. The same goes for Erik. The Charles and Erik show was awesome, and I want there to be a hundred fics where they go on missions together.
There was some seriously bad science in this movie. I mean, seriously. I don't think they had a science editor or a fact checker or anything like that. Ouch. It made Henry's ass-holish story seem even more implausible. And don't get me started on the spinal injury, omg. A month later, Charles is going to be flat on his back, strapped into a halo, with a hole in his skull to relieve pressure on his spine, while they're still assessing level of function and degree of damage. And that's in the sixties. (I understand handwaving details, but did nobody check on this stuff? I can handle that nobody knows first aid, and that they're bouncing Charles around like a beach ball. It's getting a bit nasty when the handwaving is so you can romanticise his disability.)
But over all, I'm a happy fangirl - there's new canon, there's new (to movieverse) characters. There were lovely little shout-outs to the older fans - Stryker, someone I presume is Storm's mother in the Cerebro montage, heterochromia (what was that, even? Was it a signature thing? Was it meant to be Jason's mother? Anyway, I loved it.) Basically, the movie had me gleeing out for days.
Other X-Men things:
Go sign up for
xmmficathon! This was my first ficathon ever. Back in the day. By which I mean, 2006. But go sign up - you can write for any movieverse, you have an option to nominate crossovers with other Marvel fandoms, and to bring in comicsverse characters if you want. This is a super fun exchange, and I'm very fond of it. Sign-ups are here. Did you know there's a newsletter that is relevant to your interests?
comicstore_news and its dreamwidth feed, comicstore_news_feed. I've been editing this newsletter since back in the day. It's for DC and Marvel fandom, and we link fic, meta, graphics, and pretty much anything else.marina has posted this: Erik Lehnsherr and the Holocaust - I think it's a great post, I think it's also a great resource if you're considering writing this part of Erik's life, and you want to do it respectfully. And now? I'm going to prowl the kink memes, see if there's something there that sparks off some ideas.