It actually worked so much better for me than Dark Knight, but it could be because I have a much stronger emotional connections to Charles and Erik than I do to Bruce Wayne.
Like I said, Kevin Bacon really didn't work for me, though the Cuban missile crisis kind of did in an odd way. I think because this was an origin story, and those books started off in the sixties, where concerns like the Cold War were pretty common in superhero comics (and there were hilarious plotlines like Iron Man fighting Commies).
I loved X1 and X2 (though the less said about X3, the better), but I adored this one on a whole other level, despite the other two featured more of my favourite characters.
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 08:10 am (UTC)Like I said, Kevin Bacon really didn't work for me, though the Cuban missile crisis kind of did in an odd way. I think because this was an origin story, and those books started off in the sixties, where concerns like the Cold War were pretty common in superhero comics (and there were hilarious plotlines like Iron Man fighting Commies).
I loved X1 and X2 (though the less said about X3, the better), but I adored this one on a whole other level, despite the other two featured more of my favourite characters.
But nevertheless, the heart of the story was the relationship between Charles and Erik, and that was brilliantly developed and acted.
We can agree on that much!