I kept telling my SO, that for all it's faults, X-men : First Class got the intense, life changing, first love/soul mate (in the sense of intellectual and emotional, not yet physical) that the comics tended to ... well. Basically, when Professor X and Magneto tell others of how they came to know each other, it's with the careful distance of time, and wanting to protect each other (in terms of say, motives, et al) in front of others. They will spark off each other and have arguments when alone, but they tend to defend each other when it comes to others.
In the comics, you got the feeling that what they had was life changing, but the movie really felt as if it were ripping the curtains back on their relationship. You weren't only shown why, but you felt why and how it bled from off the screen.
Like, I grew up with X-men. I always saw Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr (Max Eisenhardt!) as elder statesmen of the X-men universe, and that despite the chasm that exists between them, there was a lot resigned anger there. The movie actually brought forth the notion of loss in their relationship though, and I think it's made me look at Charles and Erik differently. As in, of course they cared for each other. Of course, despite their other loves, their children, etc, at the end of the day, all roads for them lead back to each other.
The strange thing is, I can't imagine either of them saying, "I wish I knew how to quit you."
Which is why Ultimatum pissed me off something fierce. I was like, "Loeb, stop scribing and get thee to theraphy - Magneto wouldn't have done that."
I read these comics the first time around
I kept telling my SO, that for all it's faults, X-men : First Class got the intense, life changing, first love/soul mate (in the sense of intellectual and emotional, not yet physical) that the comics tended to ... well. Basically, when Professor X and Magneto tell others of how they came to know each other, it's with the careful distance of time, and wanting to protect each other (in terms of say, motives, et al) in front of others. They will spark off each other and have arguments when alone, but they tend to defend each other when it comes to others.
In the comics, you got the feeling that what they had was life changing, but the movie really felt as if it were ripping the curtains back on their relationship. You weren't only shown why, but you felt why and how it bled from off the screen.
Like, I grew up with X-men. I always saw Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr (Max Eisenhardt!) as elder statesmen of the X-men universe, and that despite the chasm that exists between them, there was a lot resigned anger there. The movie actually brought forth the notion of loss in their relationship though, and I think it's made me look at Charles and Erik differently. As in, of course they cared for each other. Of course, despite their other loves, their children, etc, at the end of the day, all roads for them lead back to each other.
The strange thing is, I can't imagine either of them saying, "I wish I knew how to quit you."
Which is why Ultimatum pissed me off something fierce. I was like, "Loeb, stop scribing and get thee to theraphy - Magneto wouldn't have done that."