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veronica_rich) wrote2011-07-28 06:27 pm
veronica_rich) wrote2011-07-28 06:27 pm
blast and damn
Okay, I need some fannish love here (albeit perhaps temporarily). Anyone else like "X-Men: First Class" a LOT?
Also, I picked up on sale yesterday at the used DVD store a couple of other McAvoy movies I didn't have - "Atonement" and "The Last King of Scotland." I'd intended to getting around to seeing the latter someday anyway for Forrest Whitaker, so I might as well enjoy two actors as one, I suppose. (I've already had a borderline-unhealthy love for "Wanted" the last couple of years. It's concentrated, processed action-flick cheese, but damn if it's not still fun to watch for the great performers in the middle of all of it.)
Also, I have to say it - I don't give a flying fig who celebrity men date or marry. I don't particularly care if some woman is skinnier than me, or younger or cuter - it has no bearing on my life (especially famous women). But I admit, you watch enough actors hook up with young models and other leggy, ethereally-beautiful women, it's very hard to come across someone like McAvoy and NOT like him for being married to a woman 9 years older (two years older than me!) who looks like a regular person, albeit a pretty one. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crevette will appreciate a celeb like this this, and she knows why. Libraries! *G*)
(For the record, I have no clue what The Barrie's wife looks like, nor do I go looking...)
Also, I picked up on sale yesterday at the used DVD store a couple of other McAvoy movies I didn't have - "Atonement" and "The Last King of Scotland." I'd intended to getting around to seeing the latter someday anyway for Forrest Whitaker, so I might as well enjoy two actors as one, I suppose. (I've already had a borderline-unhealthy love for "Wanted" the last couple of years. It's concentrated, processed action-flick cheese, but damn if it's not still fun to watch for the great performers in the middle of all of it.)
Also, I have to say it - I don't give a flying fig who celebrity men date or marry. I don't particularly care if some woman is skinnier than me, or younger or cuter - it has no bearing on my life (especially famous women). But I admit, you watch enough actors hook up with young models and other leggy, ethereally-beautiful women, it's very hard to come across someone like McAvoy and NOT like him for being married to a woman 9 years older (two years older than me!) who looks like a regular person, albeit a pretty one. (
crevette will appreciate a celeb like this this, and she knows why. Libraries! *G*)(For the record, I have no clue what The Barrie's wife looks like, nor do I go looking...)
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And, unlike some films that I've heard accused of such, this film deserves it, wants it, even.
Unlike a lot of those other movies, there are actual females on the XMFC writing staff, so I'd say it's entirely intentional. I think it's a deliberate nod to the fact it's set in 1962 - and it's dealing with government power bases, which are still mostly a patriarchy. I find it interesting Erik is supposed to be "the bad one" but he seems pretty egalitarian when it comes to women, whereas "the good one" Charles can be a condescending dick to his sister (although to be fair, I think he likes beautiful women and that's how he sees the world - he doesn't understand why Raven would want not to be conventionally beautiful. There are 2 sequels planned to this, and it'll be interesting to see how Charles changes his mind - if he does - about this kind of thing based on his own physical limitations in society's eyes with the wheelchair).
Now I have an urge to see his wife in something. She's sort of adorable, the photo I've seen anyway. *G*