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 can understand people not loving Magneto themselves, but how can anyone miss the fact that no matter how you cut it, he's a fascinating character?
And I agree the movie was trying to be too many things at once, but one thing that kept it from being a jumbled mess (*coughX3cough*) was the strength of the central narrative of the Charles and Erik relationship.
The shades of grey in the movie (with the exception of Shaw, who's more of a plot device than a character) were definitely one of my favourite aspects of this.
It's early days, apparently they haven't learned how to communicate via words yet...
That's bound to change once Claremont gets his hands on them! *g* Seriously though, Charles was kind of hilariously bad at all non-telepathic communication.
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.
There's a charming naivete about Charles in this that I imagine will be somewhat tempered in the sequels. I agree that him letting Raven go is a major shifting point.
And the team is ridiculously random. Banshee and Beast are the only obvious choices, though part of me enjoyed the highly unlikely character interactions.
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I can understand people not loving Magneto themselves, but how can anyone miss the fact that no matter how you cut it, he's a fascinating character?
And I agree the movie was trying to be too many things at once, but one thing that kept it from being a jumbled mess (*coughX3cough*) was the strength of the central narrative of the Charles and Erik relationship.
The shades of grey in the movie (with the exception of Shaw, who's more of a plot device than a character) were definitely one of my favourite aspects of this.
It's early days, apparently they haven't learned how to communicate via words yet...
That's bound to change once Claremont gets his hands on them! *g* Seriously though, Charles was kind of hilariously bad at all non-telepathic communication.
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.
There's a charming naivete about Charles in this that I imagine will be somewhat tempered in the sequels. I agree that him letting Raven go is a major shifting point.
And the team is ridiculously random. Banshee and Beast are the only obvious choices, though part of me enjoyed the highly unlikely character interactions.