First Class: In or Out of Continuity?
Jun. 2nd, 2011 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteSo, I just got back from the film! (And pancakes afterwards.)
The non-spoilery version is: I adored it. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender lived up to the examples of their illustrious predecessors. It was just as slashy as James McAvoy said it would be. (Um, not that James McAvoy put it in those terms, but ...) While there were a couple of things I didn't like, I thought that it was a wonderful movie in almost every way. Did I mention it was slashy? The scene with the satellite dish damn near killed me. (You will know what I'm talking about when you see it.)
Since almost nobody else has seen it yet, I will avoid posting my spoilery speculations for a few days. However, I thought people might be interested to know how the film fits in with the previous X-Men trilogy and Wolverine. There are no specific spoilers below the cut for anything outside the trailers, just some general impressions.
It's about what everyone thought after seeing the trailers and other material: this is clearly intended to be set in the same universe, but there are some major contradictions. Since the film contains many references to the other films (including one scene that is a shot-for-shot reproduction of something from X1) it's obviously not meant as a pure reboot. It also retcons or ignores a lot of things.
The stuff we already know about from trailers is all as we thought: Emma Frost's role here contradicts what we saw in Wolverine: Origins. Hank's mutated appearance differs markedly from what we saw in X3. Moira's age is also inconsistent with that film. There are at least half a dozen other things that I spotted. It may be worth mentioning that the contradictions are spread evenly across all three films - they're not just wiping X3 and Wolverine out of continuity and keeping the first two. (In fact, one pretty important plot point from X2 gets tossed out the window.)
This didn't particularly bother me in the end, since I'm used to comics where continuity changes on a monthly basis, but it may upset some people. I'll be interested to see how they move forward if the next two movies get greenlit.
The non-spoilery version is: I adored it. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender lived up to the examples of their illustrious predecessors. It was just as slashy as James McAvoy said it would be. (Um, not that James McAvoy put it in those terms, but ...) While there were a couple of things I didn't like, I thought that it was a wonderful movie in almost every way. Did I mention it was slashy? The scene with the satellite dish damn near killed me. (You will know what I'm talking about when you see it.)
Since almost nobody else has seen it yet, I will avoid posting my spoilery speculations for a few days. However, I thought people might be interested to know how the film fits in with the previous X-Men trilogy and Wolverine. There are no specific spoilers below the cut for anything outside the trailers, just some general impressions.
It's about what everyone thought after seeing the trailers and other material: this is clearly intended to be set in the same universe, but there are some major contradictions. Since the film contains many references to the other films (including one scene that is a shot-for-shot reproduction of something from X1) it's obviously not meant as a pure reboot. It also retcons or ignores a lot of things.
The stuff we already know about from trailers is all as we thought: Emma Frost's role here contradicts what we saw in Wolverine: Origins. Hank's mutated appearance differs markedly from what we saw in X3. Moira's age is also inconsistent with that film. There are at least half a dozen other things that I spotted. It may be worth mentioning that the contradictions are spread evenly across all three films - they're not just wiping X3 and Wolverine out of continuity and keeping the first two. (In fact, one pretty important plot point from X2 gets tossed out the window.)
This didn't particularly bother me in the end, since I'm used to comics where continuity changes on a monthly basis, but it may upset some people. I'll be interested to see how they move forward if the next two movies get greenlit.
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Date: 2011-06-01 09:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-02 01:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-02 02:19 am (UTC)However, it would not hurt to double check anyway ...
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Date: 2011-06-02 02:27 am (UTC)Bah.