Huh, interesting. With regards to the second point, I really felt it was about Mystique, and her choice, and was really pleased with that; I think that was one of the first things I said to theweaselking when we walked out of the theatre. Charles was basically there to relay the message and to be on probation as not-a-controlling-asshole and when he did that, he was a decent secondary character.
(With, admittedly, a line about bad acid that made me crack up.)
With regards to the first point: I disagree about the gratuity of the violence; I think the point is to establish that the situation as it exists is horrible, and untenable, and that horrible deaths is an effective way to do that. I will grant cheap, but I will argue gratuitous.
I do think it was heavier than anyone would reasonably expect for a PG-13 movie. I will note that up until this moment, I had not considered the movie's rating in the slightest. (I'm not saying people shouldn't consider it! I'm saying that I haven't had to look at movie ratings in years, only notice in passing that a movie has an R rating if I notice that it has (1) a red-band trailer that (2) I am seeing right now, and then promptly forget it.)
So going in as someone who was completely oblivious of the movie's rating and had gone in expecting to see a movie that was going to establish "this is the horrible genocidal future", I was unsurprised ETA: and felt it was doing exactly what I expected in the visual language of the genre.
I would have been happy with another or a different attempt to establish it, but I understand why they didn't go with that.
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Date: 2014-05-28 01:55 pm (UTC)(With, admittedly, a line about bad acid that made me crack up.)
With regards to the first point: I disagree about the gratuity of the violence; I think the point is to establish that the situation as it exists is horrible, and untenable, and that horrible deaths is an effective way to do that. I will grant cheap, but I will argue gratuitous.
I do think it was heavier than anyone would reasonably expect for a PG-13 movie. I will note that up until this moment, I had not considered the movie's rating in the slightest. (I'm not saying people shouldn't consider it! I'm saying that I haven't had to look at movie ratings in years, only notice in passing that a movie has an R rating if I notice that it has (1) a red-band trailer that (2) I am seeing right now, and then promptly forget it.)
So going in as someone who was completely oblivious of the movie's rating and had gone in expecting to see a movie that was going to establish "this is the horrible genocidal future", I was unsurprised ETA: and felt it was doing exactly what I expected in the visual language of the genre.
I would have been happy with another or a different attempt to establish it, but I understand why they didn't go with that.