Get your shit together, Marvel.

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Jonah Hill is losing weight "to be healthier." I called it. If it's really to be healthy, good on him, but it really just makes me hate Hollywood. You don't need to be a size 2 to be healthy.

Anyway, yesterday I saw X-Men: First Class. I didn't want to see it and some of you know how I am really not a fan of James McAvoy or Fassbender (good actors, but the fangirls have killed them for me over the years). I knew they would destroy continuity as they have been with every X-Men movie so far. From what I can recall, X2 may have been the most faithful of them all. I know I had "nerdy rage," as squoctobird says, over the first and third films and completely dismissed the Wolverine movie (the PS3 game, though, is awesomeee!), and didn't pay attention to anything surrounding this movie at all. But it was supposed to be a day out with some friends and I decided I'd go. It ended up just being me and one friend who showed up, saw the movie and then went our separate ways. But whatever, it was a night I wasn't sitting at home.

But I do have some faults with this movie too:


• Havok is Cyclops' younger brother. In the movieverse he's now thirty years older (some say he's supposed to be Cyclops' father in the movieverse? BUT WHAT ABOUT CORSAIR.)
• Emma Frost turns into diamond. Diamond is the hardest substance on Earth. When someone walks into a room, she turns diamond in defense. HOW CAN YOU CHOKE/TIE-UP DIAMOND WITH GOLD.
• In X3: Last Stand there's a flashback where an older Charles and Erik meet Jean Grey as a child. Erik wasn't Magneto yet.
• I don't know much about this Angel Salvadore, but way to confuse people with Warren's Angel.
• Way to retcon the Blackbird and Cerebro's origins... again.
• Also wtf retcon on Charles and Erik's friendship origins.
• Charles was totally bald by the time he entered college.
• Nazi Sebastian Shaw, what.
• Mystique is probably a LOT older than even Charles.

• Let's just ignore how the very first class of X-Men was Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Angel and Beast. And how Mystique wasn't an X-Man until recently. Or how Azazel isn't a part of the Hellfire Club and Riptide is a Marauder.


• Hank/Raven? Really?
• Also, REALLY CREEPY ERIK/RAVEN DNW. AT LEAST KEEP HER AS REBECCA FOR THAT ONE MOMENT. WTF, MATTHEW VAUGHN.
• That moment when Erik mentions the word "slave" and they cut to Darwin. -_-
• Is the idea that Hank accidentally grabbed the serum for Raven and it overreacted, or was he just going to turn blue anyway?
• Har har at Logan, and Doctor Jekyll references.
• I lol'd at my audience because half of them were like, "OMG, he killed Charles!" NO, YOU FOOLS.
• OH HEY ORORO <33
• No Stan Lee :(
• Fuck, there were some slashy lines/moments for Charles/Erik and their bromance is pretty much legendary but I'll be over in my corner, ignoring those fangirls and rolling in the non-existant Havok/Darwin. I know I wasn't the only one who saw it, but we're being overshadowed by the Charles/Erik.


But the movie itself, once you put all of that aside, was really good! I wasn't invested in the characters and didn't really care but I didn't feel like it dragged and hit all the plot points when it needed to and tied itself up nicely.

I also just saw Super, which was really dark and The Green Hornet which was more entertaining than I expected. I've been on a movie bender lately, but I haven't been impressed with the majority of them. It just makes me want to keep going and hopefully find a new movie to put among my favorites. But so far, no dice. :/

Comments

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I just tend to take X-Men more seriously because they are my favorite team of superheroes. I never have as many problems with other superhero movies--I probably gloss over the inaccuracies in others--but I know too much about the X-Men for me to let every little thing pass by.