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st_aurafinaWe saw X3 today. It takes a coordinated effort to go and see a film at a cinema complex, the nearest one to us is a two hour drive.
I was feeling pretty positive about seeing the movie. I know I keep saying it, but it couldn't be as bad as Daredevil, could it? And it wasn't that bad, really, but it wasn't that good either.
I think I have a shocky reaction to major changes to canon. I was pretty damn cheerful all the way home, enjoyed talking about the movie with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lilacsigil, discussed the stupid, and the surprising (there was some!), then got home, read some reviews and kind of crashed. Woe! Woe for the fandom! Woe is me! *sob* Then I remembered something similar happening after reading The Half-Blood Prince, and took a little break from the internets.
Some hours later, I'm feeling a little better again. It wasn't great, there were moments of incredible stupidity, and huge plot holes, but there were some really good things.
Although they crammed new characters into the film, I enjoyed seeing them. I always enjoy the secondary characters, and there were some show-stealing appearances.
Kitty was clever, inventive and adaptable. And so wee, you would almost think the pixies had brought her. I liked what she brought to the movie, even if she didn't close her mouth once during the whole shoot. My god, was she catching flies? Close your mouth, girl!
Jamie was saucy and flip, and very like current X-Factor Madrox, except maybe for the robbing banks. Maybe. He didn't have to kill a dozen people to be clever and eye-catching.
Juggernaut, he was funny! Maybe adding an English accent is a formula for translating villains I haven't particularly enjoyed in the comics into memorable bad-guys in the films? (Although there was this weird little bit in the Chuck Austen run on Uncanny (it burns! it burns!) where Juggernaut was believable and human...) Anyway, it worked for Toad, and it worked for Cain.
Moira! Oh, I have such a science-heroine crush on Moira! She was hot! And smart! And may she give Charles hell for stealing her experimental vegetable man. She didn't get to do much, I know, but she was there, and she was pretty, and she was presumably smart.
And Henry was lovely, erudite, graceful, in character until the very end.
Doctor Rao was clinical and creepy, and that weird bit of compassion at the end for Warren's dad was strange but touching. I liked Leech, even though had had little to do but open his eyes wide and wonder at the world outside his window. Good acting packs a lot of pathos into small parcels. Calisto, and Kid Omega (I was calling him Quill through the movie) and Arclight were interesting outlines of characters. I liked Arclight's gender-neutral look. Even if it's the bad writing that's saved us from learning anything about them, we didn't learn anything annoying about them either. There's room to explore.
sionnain and vagabond_sal both made comment that this was a comics movie. It was very much so, filled with thoughtless and pointless violence, and punctuated with explosions. I'm teaching myself all about grammar at the moment, to further my non-leet writing skills, and I don't recall "explosion" listed with semi-colon, period and exclammation mark.
There was a weird feeling about the fight scenes, and it reminded me of the way that comic fight scences are so ridiculous, with the fighting and talking in the same panel. And the fight at Jean's parents' house, that was like the comics where one team runs into another team, and they fight for three pages, only to discover later that they were just meant to be getting together to watch some videos or something. Wasn't the point to keep the X-Men out of the house? But the Juggernaut threw Logan into the house. Then they kept fighting. The fighting was a bit like Russell Crowe's Fightin' 'Round the World! Okay, I really didn't like the fight scenes, any of them.
Sadly, there was very little smart use of mutant powers, which is something I like to see, because I like to think about how things work. Kitty, leading the Juggernaut the wrong way, and figuring how to use Leech's power against Cain, that was smart. And it was kind of cool to see that coordinated thing with the cars and the fire. Magneto and Pyro must have practised a lot. But otherwise, yeah, one on one fighting, waiting politely for your turn, that was sad. And the deathcount? Lame.
I think I'm personally okay with the out-of-character stuff, maybe because I came to the fic side of the fandom years after seeing the movies, and the characters I've been reading about are so much more than what I saw on the screen, even in the first two beautiful movies. You, authors in my flist, make me see so much more in those characters than I did in the movies, that I'm a bit more disconnected from the actual onscreen characters. *loves her flist*
Having said that, this is the first of the movies that I've seen having written fic, and it makes a difference. I've been writing a Charles/Erik past-fic that I desperately wanted to finish before I saw X3, just in case I couldn't get it finished afterwards. I didn't make it, and I've had it open on my computer since I got home from the movie, and haven't managed to get it done. Hm. Now I'm grim again.
On a more cheerful note, Charles's memorial made me throw up a little bit in my mouth. I hope there's some good "Empty Wheelchair" emo!fic. And that bronze plaque looked like one of the brass door knockers from Labyrinth. I expected it to say "One of us always lies, and one of us always tells the truth."
It wasn't that bad, it really wasn't. I think I just cared more this time.
I was feeling pretty positive about seeing the movie. I know I keep saying it, but it couldn't be as bad as Daredevil, could it? And it wasn't that bad, really, but it wasn't that good either.
I think I have a shocky reaction to major changes to canon. I was pretty damn cheerful all the way home, enjoyed talking about the movie with
lilacsigil, discussed the stupid, and the surprising (there was some!), then got home, read some reviews and kind of crashed. Woe! Woe for the fandom! Woe is me! *sob* Then I remembered something similar happening after reading The Half-Blood Prince, and took a little break from the internets. Some hours later, I'm feeling a little better again. It wasn't great, there were moments of incredible stupidity, and huge plot holes, but there were some really good things.
Although they crammed new characters into the film, I enjoyed seeing them. I always enjoy the secondary characters, and there were some show-stealing appearances.
Kitty was clever, inventive and adaptable. And so wee, you would almost think the pixies had brought her. I liked what she brought to the movie, even if she didn't close her mouth once during the whole shoot. My god, was she catching flies? Close your mouth, girl!
Jamie was saucy and flip, and very like current X-Factor Madrox, except maybe for the robbing banks. Maybe. He didn't have to kill a dozen people to be clever and eye-catching.
Juggernaut, he was funny! Maybe adding an English accent is a formula for translating villains I haven't particularly enjoyed in the comics into memorable bad-guys in the films? (Although there was this weird little bit in the Chuck Austen run on Uncanny (it burns! it burns!) where Juggernaut was believable and human...) Anyway, it worked for Toad, and it worked for Cain.
Moira! Oh, I have such a science-heroine crush on Moira! She was hot! And smart! And may she give Charles hell for stealing her experimental vegetable man. She didn't get to do much, I know, but she was there, and she was pretty, and she was presumably smart.
And Henry was lovely, erudite, graceful, in character until the very end.
Doctor Rao was clinical and creepy, and that weird bit of compassion at the end for Warren's dad was strange but touching. I liked Leech, even though had had little to do but open his eyes wide and wonder at the world outside his window. Good acting packs a lot of pathos into small parcels. Calisto, and Kid Omega (I was calling him Quill through the movie) and Arclight were interesting outlines of characters. I liked Arclight's gender-neutral look. Even if it's the bad writing that's saved us from learning anything about them, we didn't learn anything annoying about them either. There's room to explore.
sionnain and vagabond_sal both made comment that this was a comics movie. It was very much so, filled with thoughtless and pointless violence, and punctuated with explosions. I'm teaching myself all about grammar at the moment, to further my non-leet writing skills, and I don't recall "explosion" listed with semi-colon, period and exclammation mark. There was a weird feeling about the fight scenes, and it reminded me of the way that comic fight scences are so ridiculous, with the fighting and talking in the same panel. And the fight at Jean's parents' house, that was like the comics where one team runs into another team, and they fight for three pages, only to discover later that they were just meant to be getting together to watch some videos or something. Wasn't the point to keep the X-Men out of the house? But the Juggernaut threw Logan into the house. Then they kept fighting. The fighting was a bit like Russell Crowe's Fightin' 'Round the World! Okay, I really didn't like the fight scenes, any of them.
Sadly, there was very little smart use of mutant powers, which is something I like to see, because I like to think about how things work. Kitty, leading the Juggernaut the wrong way, and figuring how to use Leech's power against Cain, that was smart. And it was kind of cool to see that coordinated thing with the cars and the fire. Magneto and Pyro must have practised a lot. But otherwise, yeah, one on one fighting, waiting politely for your turn, that was sad. And the deathcount? Lame.
I think I'm personally okay with the out-of-character stuff, maybe because I came to the fic side of the fandom years after seeing the movies, and the characters I've been reading about are so much more than what I saw on the screen, even in the first two beautiful movies. You, authors in my flist, make me see so much more in those characters than I did in the movies, that I'm a bit more disconnected from the actual onscreen characters. *loves her flist*
Having said that, this is the first of the movies that I've seen having written fic, and it makes a difference. I've been writing a Charles/Erik past-fic that I desperately wanted to finish before I saw X3, just in case I couldn't get it finished afterwards. I didn't make it, and I've had it open on my computer since I got home from the movie, and haven't managed to get it done. Hm. Now I'm grim again.
On a more cheerful note, Charles's memorial made me throw up a little bit in my mouth. I hope there's some good "Empty Wheelchair" emo!fic. And that bronze plaque looked like one of the brass door knockers from Labyrinth. I expected it to say "One of us always lies, and one of us always tells the truth."
It wasn't that bad, it really wasn't. I think I just cared more this time.
