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lotesseSo I enjoyed large chunks of X-Men: First Class. Truly, the slash was with this one. But the more I think about them, the more three things about it really bother me:
1. Whhhhy the dead bro walking/evil oversexed Latina fail? Whhhhhhyyy?!
2. The repeated failures of historicization. Emma Frost? I don't know where you get your lingerie, but that's not really what bras looked like in the 1960s. The makeup had the wrong textures - all those wet/glossed mouths! - and the fashion was vaguely 60s-inflected but I'm wondering what fabrics they used because the weight/motion seems subtly off to me. This sounds v. picky, but is linked, imo, to problems that others have noted in the film's inability to so much as mention the Civil Rights Movement.
3. It turns out that Michael Fassbender is a wife-beater. That sound you just heard? His sexy evaporating in the heat of my rage. Screw you, asshat.
1. Whhhhy the dead bro walking/evil oversexed Latina fail? Whhhhhhyyy?!
2. The repeated failures of historicization. Emma Frost? I don't know where you get your lingerie, but that's not really what bras looked like in the 1960s. The makeup had the wrong textures - all those wet/glossed mouths! - and the fashion was vaguely 60s-inflected but I'm wondering what fabrics they used because the weight/motion seems subtly off to me. This sounds v. picky, but is linked, imo, to problems that others have noted in the film's inability to so much as mention the Civil Rights Movement.
3. It turns out that Michael Fassbender is a wife-beater. That sound you just heard? His sexy evaporating in the heat of my rage. Screw you, asshat.
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Date: 2011-06-09 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-10 01:51 am (UTC)3. This is why I'm glad as far as movieverse goes, the original X-movies are so very powerful in my headspace. Erik will always be Ian McKellen to me.