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potentiality_26) wrote2014-06-02 06:46 pm
potentiality_26) wrote2014-06-02 06:46 pm
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Another X-Men thought
I don't know if this constitutes a spoiler, it's just me talking about the movie I would rather have watched yesterday, but I'll put it under a cut anyway.
The future was less like the real world in the Matrix movies and more like V for Vendetta, okay? (Maybe it was and the movie was just really bad at expressing that, but anyway). The mutants get put into camps and the regular people are still living their regular lives, only in a somewhat distopian world. The sentinels patrol and catch or kill the mutants and any humans who try to help them, and at this point everyone hates the sentinels and knows the people who built them were monsters, they just can't say anything because the sentinels can smell dissent or whatever.
My point is that if one doesn't think of "Let's just go way back in time and undo our whole lives, they don't matter," as a solution, it's at least a semi-livable world. If there was a way to turn off the sentinels, everyone might still be able to build a society one day. So: Kitty and her friends have found a way to turn off the sentinels, it's just really hard to do, and really complicated, so they have a tendency to get killed in the process. Kitty would keep sending Bishop back in time, knowing what they learned the last time around, until they finally found a way to do it without any of them dying.
This would basically be the same deal as the beginning of the actual movie, and it would be pretty bleak, I'm just saying that I would have loved to watch a movie about Kitty and Bishop and co Groundhog Day-ing their way through the apocalypse until they eventually defeated the sentinels. I'm reasonably sure I would have enjoyed it a whole lot more than the actual movie. Especially if I could get rid of that fire dude who wasn't Pyro (Sunspot?) and replace him with Pyro so he and Iceman could have homoerotic subtext like they do. (Actually, no, screw subtext. This is my movie. I guess Rogue died and some point in the apocalypse and Iceman was all growing angsty facial hair about it, and Pyro was all "I'm not evil anymore. I luuurve you." And Iceman was all, "Okay, but only because it's the end of the world." But then ten years later they're still together. I guess Pyro was technically dead at the end of X-Men 3, but so was Professor X. Ish. Anyway, worse handwaving has occurred in this fandom).
Said movie would have the three things I really wanted that DoFP didn't deliver on: a) POC with actual screen time and lines and characterization and all that stuff, b) cool special effects in fight scenes, and c) a plot that lends itself to a climax that feels... climactic.
The future was less like the real world in the Matrix movies and more like V for Vendetta, okay? (Maybe it was and the movie was just really bad at expressing that, but anyway). The mutants get put into camps and the regular people are still living their regular lives, only in a somewhat distopian world. The sentinels patrol and catch or kill the mutants and any humans who try to help them, and at this point everyone hates the sentinels and knows the people who built them were monsters, they just can't say anything because the sentinels can smell dissent or whatever.
My point is that if one doesn't think of "Let's just go way back in time and undo our whole lives, they don't matter," as a solution, it's at least a semi-livable world. If there was a way to turn off the sentinels, everyone might still be able to build a society one day. So: Kitty and her friends have found a way to turn off the sentinels, it's just really hard to do, and really complicated, so they have a tendency to get killed in the process. Kitty would keep sending Bishop back in time, knowing what they learned the last time around, until they finally found a way to do it without any of them dying.
This would basically be the same deal as the beginning of the actual movie, and it would be pretty bleak, I'm just saying that I would have loved to watch a movie about Kitty and Bishop and co Groundhog Day-ing their way through the apocalypse until they eventually defeated the sentinels. I'm reasonably sure I would have enjoyed it a whole lot more than the actual movie. Especially if I could get rid of that fire dude who wasn't Pyro (Sunspot?) and replace him with Pyro so he and Iceman could have homoerotic subtext like they do. (Actually, no, screw subtext. This is my movie. I guess Rogue died and some point in the apocalypse and Iceman was all growing angsty facial hair about it, and Pyro was all "I'm not evil anymore. I luuurve you." And Iceman was all, "Okay, but only because it's the end of the world." But then ten years later they're still together. I guess Pyro was technically dead at the end of X-Men 3, but so was Professor X. Ish. Anyway, worse handwaving has occurred in this fandom).
Said movie would have the three things I really wanted that DoFP didn't deliver on: a) POC with actual screen time and lines and characterization and all that stuff, b) cool special effects in fight scenes, and c) a plot that lends itself to a climax that feels... climactic.