@Omegastick: That was really touching. Thank you.
I wish they would havr used the 80's hardass punker Storm characterization. She's on my top 5 coolest superheroes ever list. And that's without her powers.
I know. I wasn't even thinking of that, but I miss leader, will-beat-the-crap-out-of-you, scared of small spaces, used-to-be-a-goddess Storm. She was
so cool. And that's even without the mohawking and stuff.
I also hate what they did with Callisto in the third movie. Another favourite. Why do they always fuck with the great characters?
I don't remember Callisto. This is possibly because I hated the third movie so much that I have repressed it entirely, other than vague memories of the dude who played Miles in Lost being Random Spiky Mutant B.
The one that pissed me off was that they basically threw Sabertooth in because he's a staple of the series, but they didn't do
anything with him at all. Kind of like what happened with Gambit.
Just rewatched the second one, though, and oh my goodness--so good. I could watch Wolverine stabbing things all day. That, and Nightcrawler bamfing all over the place. Pretty much the only moment when I got annoyed was in hearing that Colossus had lost his accent.
On the other hand, everything else more than made up for it <3 Now I just have to go and rewatch the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Maybe the next couple, too, if only for the entertaining action sequences and nice music.
as in the vagina dentata phobia (Rogue, Mystique)?
Rogue I get, kinda, but could you explain how Mystique is this in the first movie? In the second it's pretty obvious, I mean, but in the first one I'm not so sure. Or maybe we have different definitions? Because I realise she has a "woman sexuality is threatening" thing going, is that what you mean?
Ah, Rogue's is pretty much a direct translation, and for me Mystique's is ... well, it's basically that all of her "characterization" is her pressing up against someone or other. As the only "evil" female character, this is so stereotypical it hurts. The good woman keeps her sexuality away from men, and the bad woman exploits and revels in it.
I'm using a loose definition here, but in any case I felt that both characters sort of exploited a "fear of the toothed vagina" phenomenon. You don't know if the person you're attracted to is actually that person or not. You don't know if the kiss will send you into a coma. A woman's sexuality is unknowable, incomprehensible, elusive, dangerous.
And, of course... in both movies, Mystique is the only woman who initiates kisses, and all the "good" women are shown stifling attraction and refusing advances--usually for the good of some man somewhere, and not for themselves.
Naturally, a feminist reading of X-Men is pretty absurd, and there are complexities to the plot that I have ignored in favor of considering the surface interactions of a few symbols. All the same, I can't deny that there were a few things that really jumped out at me while I was watching, so I'm posting here.
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