Post by Omen on Jun 9, 2011 16:15:17 GMT -5
I saw it...
I saaaaawww it...
Nah - Nah - Na - Nah - Naaa!!!
Short and Sweet:
Marvel Comics Entertainment steps up to the plate to bring us a story of one of their most deeply entrenched franchises while balancing the happiness of their true fans. The result..?
Very Well done!
Comic book movies struggle to survive on screen because of the classic dilemma between Fans and Movie-Watchers. Movie-Watchers care about the most popular characters and plots while Fans are driven by the intricate details that can only be validated by dictating forgotten story arcs and comic book issue numbers.
X-Men handled this VERY well by approaching it with enough of the relatable truths found in comics while delivering 'sensible' truths onscreen. For example, the Mystique and Beast relationship...
This is HERESY to a fan!! They had NOTHING to do with each other... buuuuttt, this crap made PERFECT sense in the movie!! COOL!! Mystique and Professor X... same thing.
This was pulled off SO well, until NO ONE asked about a runaway blue girl ending up in the home of another mutant and NOT one parent was shown. COOL!!
Magneto stole the show!! And the only good mutant to kick-the-can was the Brother (as expected). Heck, we even heard some murmuring in the audience when it happened. The way I figured it was justified was that this was done as one of those 'oldie' movies and back then all the Black people died first in horror movies.
Overall, it was a pretty-good movie to see and well worth a minute of your time as well as the price of two of today's current comic books!
Core Concept: 8 (they did a great job showing the conflict between both sides of the mutant struggle)
Worldbuilding: 6 (world rules and limitations were pushed a tad bit far in some cases, but the era was right on. Remember, during the Bay of Pigs incident, racism was a dark theme throughout this nation and they chose to limit it to mutants only while having the arrogant redneck Havok hate on Beast more than the Black-guy, Darwin... hell, they totally ignored that he was Black the entire movement, except for the dialog by Sebatian Shaw in which the camera focused on Darwin's face when he said the word 'SLAVE'.)
Character Development: 8 (The main two actors, Magneto and Professor X, were PERFECT!!! The rest were pretty good also. The conflict was handled fairly well, but there was a GREAT opportunity lost by choosing NOT to address Magneto's Jewish heritage, Angel's non-White race, and Darwin being Black.)
Presentation: 7 (Once again, this was GREAT... but they were slightly inconsistent with the grit that was introduced in the beginning with the Nazi and Concentration camp stuff. They introduced a lot of dismal grays, earth tones, and dried shadows. By the end, Beast strolled into the hangar with 'glow-in-the-dark' blue fur that was puuuurfectly clean after destroying the lab all night. Heck, I wouldn't be able to get bubble-gum out of my hair in one night.)
Overall it gets a whopping...
I saaaaawww it...
Nah - Nah - Na - Nah - Naaa!!!
Short and Sweet:
Marvel Comics Entertainment steps up to the plate to bring us a story of one of their most deeply entrenched franchises while balancing the happiness of their true fans. The result..?
Very Well done!
Comic book movies struggle to survive on screen because of the classic dilemma between Fans and Movie-Watchers. Movie-Watchers care about the most popular characters and plots while Fans are driven by the intricate details that can only be validated by dictating forgotten story arcs and comic book issue numbers.
X-Men handled this VERY well by approaching it with enough of the relatable truths found in comics while delivering 'sensible' truths onscreen. For example, the Mystique and Beast relationship...
This is HERESY to a fan!! They had NOTHING to do with each other... buuuuttt, this crap made PERFECT sense in the movie!! COOL!! Mystique and Professor X... same thing.
This was pulled off SO well, until NO ONE asked about a runaway blue girl ending up in the home of another mutant and NOT one parent was shown. COOL!!
Magneto stole the show!! And the only good mutant to kick-the-can was the Brother (as expected). Heck, we even heard some murmuring in the audience when it happened. The way I figured it was justified was that this was done as one of those 'oldie' movies and back then all the Black people died first in horror movies.
Overall, it was a pretty-good movie to see and well worth a minute of your time as well as the price of two of today's current comic books!
Core Concept: 8 (they did a great job showing the conflict between both sides of the mutant struggle)
Worldbuilding: 6 (world rules and limitations were pushed a tad bit far in some cases, but the era was right on. Remember, during the Bay of Pigs incident, racism was a dark theme throughout this nation and they chose to limit it to mutants only while having the arrogant redneck Havok hate on Beast more than the Black-guy, Darwin... hell, they totally ignored that he was Black the entire movement, except for the dialog by Sebatian Shaw in which the camera focused on Darwin's face when he said the word 'SLAVE'.)
Character Development: 8 (The main two actors, Magneto and Professor X, were PERFECT!!! The rest were pretty good also. The conflict was handled fairly well, but there was a GREAT opportunity lost by choosing NOT to address Magneto's Jewish heritage, Angel's non-White race, and Darwin being Black.)
Presentation: 7 (Once again, this was GREAT... but they were slightly inconsistent with the grit that was introduced in the beginning with the Nazi and Concentration camp stuff. They introduced a lot of dismal grays, earth tones, and dried shadows. By the end, Beast strolled into the hangar with 'glow-in-the-dark' blue fur that was puuuurfectly clean after destroying the lab all night. Heck, I wouldn't be able to get bubble-gum out of my hair in one night.)
Overall it gets a whopping...
