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X-Men First Class
14 years ago
So late last night CreepKnight, Mirth* and myself had nothing to do. CreepKnight, in his infinite wisdom, suggested catching the midnight premiere of X-Men First Class. I was... weary. I had sat through each of the original three X-Men movies and grew progressively sick of each until the third did nothing but rape by brain and leaving they terribly taste of creative violation sloshing around in the back of my mouth**.
I hated the leather. I despised Halle Berry. I grew disgusted with the focus being on Wolverine and Wolverine alone and the short end of the stick given to the rest of the characters. There are no words to describe how much disdain I had for every single bit of overdramatic, cheesy, unnatural dialogue they crammed into those movies.
I love the X-Men. I have since CreepKnight introduced me to the old Fox cartoon back in the early 90's. But I also despise the X-Men. Because for every fantastic X-Men related thing, there's a horrible thing. For every 90's animated series, and Wolverine and the X-Men, there's an X-Men Evolution. For every Age of Apocalypse, there's a Secret Invasion or Civil War tie-in. For every Grant Morrison's run of New X-Men, there's a stint of Uncanny X-men by Chuck Austen***.
So you can understand my trepidation of going into a movie that,from my perspective anyway, seems to be a prequel to the shitty movies that progressively devolved into utter tripe.
But apparently, but every shitty run of Marvel film adaptions, there's also a nugget of pure, unrelenting joy. Because X-Men First Class was an X-Men movie done right. It took everything the trilogy did wrong, fixed it, and apologized for it by being AWESOME.
Its basically a reboot. And that's possibly the best part. Outside of a few elements, it might as well have absolutely nothing to do with the other movies. And that's fantastic! That's just the tip of iceberg of goodness too.
They story is solid and well told. its not a shitty comic book type story. There's actual plot to sink your teeth into. The actors in this were amazing. The actual range that they showed blew me away. I never would have expected to see multiple characters in a movie like this being able to showcase a range of of emotions and personality traits without it being melodramatic or forced. There were no moments akin to "You know what happens to a toad when its struck by lightning*****?
It was just fun. That's what it was. And it actually brought my opinion of Hollywood up quite a few notches after years of me despising the film industry and refusing to go to the theater on the basis of I refuse to pay for yet another piece of overproduced, script that executives wiped their asses with, 3-D added in post production to ruin the entire film, garbage******.
This is a movie that not only should be seen, but that people should pay to see. Especially those people that actually lament comic adaptations not being good enough. Hollywood should be rewarded when it actually does things that aren't godawful. They need to be shown evidence that audiences can appreciate a movie that love and talent and skill was put into. Not just 3 hours of Michael Bay jerking himself off to explosions and lingering shots on military equipment. That they WANT good movies.
That's enough out of me. I have drawing to do.
You are all loved.
*If you don't know who CreepKnight and Mirth are then you haven't bothered to look at any of the Voodoo Walrus stuff I've ever posted or visited VoodooWalrus.com and you really, really should. Seriously. VoodooWalrus.com folks. Its the best webcomic you're not reading.
**Now that I think about it, that may have simply been bile back there.
****Horrible, out of context, and incorrect duplicated Bible verses, in MY X-Men? Its more likely than you think!
***** FUCKYOUHALLEBERRYFUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYYOUANOLDTREESTUMPCOULDHAVEMADEABETTERSTORMTHANYOURSCRAWNYASS
******To be perfectly fair, I didn't pay to see this. Mirth paid for me. But you know what? I'd totally pay to see it again.
I hated the leather. I despised Halle Berry. I grew disgusted with the focus being on Wolverine and Wolverine alone and the short end of the stick given to the rest of the characters. There are no words to describe how much disdain I had for every single bit of overdramatic, cheesy, unnatural dialogue they crammed into those movies.
I love the X-Men. I have since CreepKnight introduced me to the old Fox cartoon back in the early 90's. But I also despise the X-Men. Because for every fantastic X-Men related thing, there's a horrible thing. For every 90's animated series, and Wolverine and the X-Men, there's an X-Men Evolution. For every Age of Apocalypse, there's a Secret Invasion or Civil War tie-in. For every Grant Morrison's run of New X-Men, there's a stint of Uncanny X-men by Chuck Austen***.
So you can understand my trepidation of going into a movie that,from my perspective anyway, seems to be a prequel to the shitty movies that progressively devolved into utter tripe.
But apparently, but every shitty run of Marvel film adaptions, there's also a nugget of pure, unrelenting joy. Because X-Men First Class was an X-Men movie done right. It took everything the trilogy did wrong, fixed it, and apologized for it by being AWESOME.
Its basically a reboot. And that's possibly the best part. Outside of a few elements, it might as well have absolutely nothing to do with the other movies. And that's fantastic! That's just the tip of iceberg of goodness too.
They story is solid and well told. its not a shitty comic book type story. There's actual plot to sink your teeth into. The actors in this were amazing. The actual range that they showed blew me away. I never would have expected to see multiple characters in a movie like this being able to showcase a range of of emotions and personality traits without it being melodramatic or forced. There were no moments akin to "You know what happens to a toad when its struck by lightning*****?
It was just fun. That's what it was. And it actually brought my opinion of Hollywood up quite a few notches after years of me despising the film industry and refusing to go to the theater on the basis of I refuse to pay for yet another piece of overproduced, script that executives wiped their asses with, 3-D added in post production to ruin the entire film, garbage******.
This is a movie that not only should be seen, but that people should pay to see. Especially those people that actually lament comic adaptations not being good enough. Hollywood should be rewarded when it actually does things that aren't godawful. They need to be shown evidence that audiences can appreciate a movie that love and talent and skill was put into. Not just 3 hours of Michael Bay jerking himself off to explosions and lingering shots on military equipment. That they WANT good movies.
That's enough out of me. I have drawing to do.
You are all loved.
*If you don't know who CreepKnight and Mirth are then you haven't bothered to look at any of the Voodoo Walrus stuff I've ever posted or visited VoodooWalrus.com and you really, really should. Seriously. VoodooWalrus.com folks. Its the best webcomic you're not reading.
**Now that I think about it, that may have simply been bile back there.
****Horrible, out of context, and incorrect duplicated Bible verses, in MY X-Men? Its more likely than you think!
***** FUCKYOUHALLEBERRYFUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYYOUANOLDTREESTUMPCOULDHAVEMADEABETTERSTORMTHANYOURSCRAWNYASS
******To be perfectly fair, I didn't pay to see this. Mirth paid for me. But you know what? I'd totally pay to see it again.
And yeah, my first reaction as soon as the credits started rolling was "Okay so yeah, some of the continuity's a little borked, but that's how you do an X-Men movie RIGHT."