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X-Men, First Class
Jun. 15th, 2011 04:34 pmSo, er, yes. It's been a week full of major and minor irritations. Among the minor irritations: the sudden realization that I had not, after all, kept my promise to say lots of interesting things about X-Men: First Class. Or even a lot of dull things about X-Men: First Class.
Let's get the important stuff out of the way: yes, I had fun with the film, even though it is not exactly good in many places and is unquestionably and oddly sexist in almost all of its places, has some disability fail at the end, and inexplicably never allows its main couple to just make out already. Mind you, since the film is set in the 1940s and the 1960s, some sexism is to be expected. What's odd, though, is that's not the sexism the film is depicting. Equally oddly, the only non-sexist male in the film is one of the bad guys. The good guys…yeah. And we probably shouldn't get into the equally odd racial and political stuff.
But, and this is important, things blew up!
Anyway. If you want a deep, thoughtful take on the film, try Abigail Nussbaum, who gave this film considerably more intellectual attention than I did. If you want to realize just how hilariously tragic the lives of the X-Men are, try io9's sad summary of their lives. And if you want snark, just keep reading below the cut.
( Mutants on snark! )
Let's get the important stuff out of the way: yes, I had fun with the film, even though it is not exactly good in many places and is unquestionably and oddly sexist in almost all of its places, has some disability fail at the end, and inexplicably never allows its main couple to just make out already. Mind you, since the film is set in the 1940s and the 1960s, some sexism is to be expected. What's odd, though, is that's not the sexism the film is depicting. Equally oddly, the only non-sexist male in the film is one of the bad guys. The good guys…yeah. And we probably shouldn't get into the equally odd racial and political stuff.
But, and this is important, things blew up!
Anyway. If you want a deep, thoughtful take on the film, try Abigail Nussbaum, who gave this film considerably more intellectual attention than I did. If you want to realize just how hilariously tragic the lives of the X-Men are, try io9's sad summary of their lives. And if you want snark, just keep reading below the cut.
( Mutants on snark! )
