I loved it too, don't get me wrong, I've seen it twice already, but I was actually a little disappointed. I blame the tremendous trailer, I was expecting a lot of gravitas in the Dark Knight direction, and it didn't exactly go there.
There were all these random things that kept jarring, Kevin Bacon completely hamming it up, which was fun, but felt odd against Fassbender's bleak drama, January Jones being completely dreadful (and gah, the diamond CGI was an eyesore), the occasional dumb pun like Charles joking about going bald. And the big action in the end was both bizarre as a concept (Mutants in the Cuban missile crisis, lifting submarines out of the water, my head) and I don't know, was the CGI bad, was the whole thing badly shot and edited, it really felt rather free of tension, until Charles got shot, and things got interesting again.
I think the lighthearted and serious elements blended better in X1 and X2 as they were both more toned down, and the script flowed better, here they kind of worked against each other. But nevertheless, the heart of the story was the relationship between Charles and Erik, and that was brilliantly developed and acted.
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Date: 2011-06-23 12:14 am (UTC)There were all these random things that kept jarring, Kevin Bacon completely hamming it up, which was fun, but felt odd against Fassbender's bleak drama, January Jones being completely dreadful (and gah, the diamond CGI was an eyesore), the occasional dumb pun like Charles joking about going bald. And the big action in the end was both bizarre as a concept (Mutants in the Cuban missile crisis, lifting submarines out of the water, my head) and I don't know, was the CGI bad, was the whole thing badly shot and edited, it really felt rather free of tension, until Charles got shot, and things got interesting again.
I think the lighthearted and serious elements blended better in X1 and X2 as they were both more toned down, and the script flowed better, here they kind of worked against each other. But nevertheless, the heart of the story was the relationship between Charles and Erik, and that was brilliantly developed and acted.