Yes, two decades of Magneto loves feels vindicated by this movie. (Well, to my brother at least, who always finds my love for this character WTF)
I saw this movie weeks ago, but for all its obvious failures (oh, that dialog) the fact that it's basically three movies in one (great tragic romance of Charles/Erik, hammy cartoon-movie by Shaw-Frost-Cuban Missile crisis et co, and teen movie) makes it oddly enjoyable since we can just pick out the preferred narrative.
There's no one "bad-boy" in this movie as I've read a movie review term the story. BOTH Charles and Erik comes off as well-meaning but morally dubious characters. They're truly bookends of the same soul, and even Charles' rage at Erik killing Shaw seemed more like an aftereffect of having the coin go through his own head WITHOUT prior (academic) discussion not because Charles killed him. Part of his desperation to get the helmet off seem to belabour that point. It's early days, apparently they haven't learned how to communicate via words yet...And the lingering pain of Erik's test of friendship definitely had unforeseen circumstances.
I think Charles does a lot of really morally dubious things which endears me to his character, especially this young him. I can't imagine him being so comfortable with the amount of mindfuckery he engages in unless he actually practiced on (undeserving) people before the events of the film.
Just wondering about how he might've gotten his *practice* is vaguely mind-boggling and very disturbing. There's also a sense of Victorian philanthropy about him that I loved. It's still early 60s, the Progressive Era is on the cusp, Xavier is making the first move. There will be mistakes- the final divide is still very much Majority vs. All Others, but there's Raven went with Charles' blessing which could only occur if Charles begins to possess the ability to understand not to merely "know" a point other htan his own.
(The team line-up is very random though.OTOH, it means they wouldn't detract from the whole Erik-Charles-Raven narrative..)
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Date: 2011-07-04 10:57 pm (UTC)I saw this movie weeks ago, but for all its obvious failures (oh, that dialog) the fact that it's basically three movies in one (great tragic romance of Charles/Erik, hammy cartoon-movie by Shaw-Frost-Cuban Missile crisis et co, and teen movie) makes it oddly enjoyable since we can just pick out the preferred narrative.
There's no one "bad-boy" in this movie as I've read a movie review term the story. BOTH Charles and Erik comes off as well-meaning but morally dubious characters. They're truly bookends of the same soul, and even Charles' rage at Erik killing Shaw seemed more like an aftereffect of having the coin go through his own head WITHOUT prior (academic) discussion not because Charles killed him. Part of his desperation to get the helmet off seem to belabour that point. It's early days, apparently they haven't learned how to communicate via words yet...And the lingering pain of Erik's test of friendship definitely had unforeseen circumstances.
I think Charles does a lot of really morally dubious things which endears me to his character, especially this young him. I can't imagine him being so comfortable with the amount of mindfuckery he engages in unless he actually practiced on (undeserving) people before the events of the film.
Just wondering about how he might've gotten his *practice* is vaguely mind-boggling and very disturbing. There's also a sense of Victorian philanthropy about him that I loved. It's still early 60s, the Progressive Era is on the cusp, Xavier is making the first move. There will be mistakes- the final divide is still very much Majority vs. All Others, but there's Raven went with Charles' blessing which could only occur if Charles begins to possess the ability to understand not to merely "know" a point other htan his own.
(The team line-up is very random though.OTOH, it means they wouldn't detract from the whole Erik-Charles-Raven narrative..)