X-Men

[fredericks]

Watched X-Men: First Class this evening. I caught a lot of positive reviews from fans and so was expecting a better movie than I found myself sitting through. The plague of bad acting (I'm looking at you, January Jones and Zoe Kravitz), heavy-handed writing (the invention of the code names was pretty lazy writing, fo serious), the weird choices for X-history revision (I was never a fan of the newer Emma Frost, and what was with the whole Mystique/Xavier thing?) and the occasional shoddy CGI aside, it wasn't a bottle of Awesomesauce, but it did make for a fun film experience. And Erik/Xavier? Shyeah, I'm on that boat. No doubt, homies. The guy who played Erik rocked that turtleneck, blazer, and shades look like no one's bidness. Caliente!

Comments

[utopiantrunks.livejournal.com]

but then they kill off the token black guy

That really ticked me off.

Especially since he was getting slashy with Alex.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Josh tells me Darwin really did die in the comics. But I somehow doubt he died before he'd even gotten his chance to be tested in combat.

And why do they get to hide behind "We're being true to the comics!" when they changed so many other things around?

I understand someone had to die in that scene, but did it really have to be the token black guy?

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

And not only did he die, but they played the mournful strings and dragged his death scene out. We barely knew anything about the guy besides he drove a cab before Prof X and Magneto recruited him and he had a vague adaptation power...that obviously wasn't all that effective. Token or no, I didn't care that he'd died.

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He'd been in basically one scene. The viewer didn't even know who he was. His attempt to save Angel was noble, and all, but that was barely a blip on the screen, compared to all the time spent exploring Erik's, Raven's and Charles's angst.

[utopiantrunks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. As long as you're changing stuff, avoid the damn cliche! :(