I don't know how many of you would agree with me on this, but I had a wonderful time watching X-men. It had practically everything amazing movies are made of. Above all, it had heart, struggle and a massive reservoir of determination and inspiration.If there was something I learnt and admired, it was the fact that being different is something that can be either immensely helpful or awfully destructive, and that you can choose to deal with it the way Professor Xavier dealt with it, carefully, gently, causing the least possible harm, or you could deal with it the way Magneto did, avenging the world for being unfair to him.
Professor X - wise, gentle, classy, elegant, funny, soft and sweet, he seemed too good to be true, except for his weird routine with the ladies - the discourse on mutation! His gift of telepathy was reeeeally "GROOVY"!! :D
Although Erik (Magneto) may have chosen a more rougher path, he did seem like a very good man. Despite his pain and suffering, he still had his goodness intact. I particularly admired how he thought that Raven looked best in her natural blue form. Given the sheltered life that Professor X had, they could have been brothers - they were that similar, only differing in what they wanted...and what they wanted, was in fact, a reflection of what they were given in their lives, by the people around them.(Honestly, I couldn't get my eyes off him) ;)
Charles had a security and comfort, and so, grew up to be who he was, whereas Magneto had the worst possible punishment of losing his mother to the evil Shaw, and then being Shaw's "lab rat", and growing up alone, "at the mercy of men who were merely following orders"...now, there is almost no way that that could have been nice. Although the path he chose to follow may have been brutal and rough, I think he may not be wrong entirely.
Professor X and Magneto were an absolute treat to watch. Their friendship, their leadership, their choices, and Magneto's past. At last, my question was answered as to how Charles and Erik could have been friends.
Raven was the typical best friend, but judging from her "Heterochromia" incident, I felt she had feelings for Charles initially...with Beast, their mutual attraction seemed obvious, but honestly, I loved how she finally found her happy place next to Magneto, and I loved him for saying that he wouldn't change a thing about her. The word he used to describe her was "PERFECTION". I'd challenge any lover to beat that!
Banshee's gift seemed boring at first, but the moment he started flying, I was like "Awesome!!!" His flight with the supersonic waves were just unbelievable.
Alex, with his cute dimple and boyish charm, was the last person I would have expected to have seen sitting in that prison cell. I would have loved to know how he got in there.
Darwin - I wonder how he could have "adapted" to battle - except for the hard shell, of course.
Azaizel- he looked terrifying, but his gift of vanishing and reappearing elsewhere - that was cool. Also that pointy tail - there was something"GROOVY" about it!
Emma Frost was a vision. Beauty personified...she could have easily been a fairy or a barbie doll.
Hurricane guy - I cudn't quite get his name, but that was all he did right through the movie. Made hurricanes and all other possible forms of twisters, small, big. I don't recall him even really having aything to say.
Shaw, on the other hand, the typical villain. Seemingly indestructible because of his gift. Extremely powerful, yet so evil.
Logan aka Wolverine - the first question that popped into my mind back then was this : was he really born when Charles and Erik were young? Oh yeah...he magically heals, and is indestructible, with all that "adamantium" ,therefore immortal. His true age is difficult to define. In Wolverine(the movie), he is shown to be a little boy in 1845, so I guess he might have been quite old to the world by the time Erik and Charles found him.
However, in this movie, that scene did not make sense to me at all, because the two of them have been more persuasive in other cases, so why did they just walk off when Wolverine said "-beep-"?
My only regret is that they didn't include him, although, that one scene was punctuated with an uproar of cheers, claps and whistles in all four shows that I watched in the theatre - much more than ANY of the other scenes. Good to know that I wasn't the only one who missed him :)
So I guess, "Mutant and Proud" will pretty much sum up the whole thing. Besides, the unknown isn't really something to fear and fight, not before you know what it can do - I would like to rephrase that, at least in this case, it has to be more like - what the unknown WOULD do, because, much like us, the Homo sapiens, there are good guys and bad guys in pretty much every circle: mutants, animals, you name it, and much like us, their lives are also based entirely on their choices.
