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Jan. 2nd, 2008 11:59 pm
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I saw X-men 3 again. It's still well done (though still silly in all the ways people said it was before).

* It definitely benefits from a big screen
* Magneto and the tattoo, magneto and the bridge, Hank "There comes a time when any man... oh, you get the idea", are all my favourite moments.
* It's still stupid to build a magneto-proof prison out of metal. What's next, out of money or high explosives?
* I notice Magneto, despite being willing to kill all humans in the world last film, still attacks on foot rather than, eg. dropping a nickel-iron asteroid on alcatrz island
* Alternatively, I notice Storm, Magneto, Wolverine, Charles, Pyro, etc could nearly run the economy of a small country. What would it be worth to never have any storms devastate any coast for ever, or free space travel, or free heat, or free meat? Oil barons get legal breaks, how about mutants? :)

ETA: Did Magneto's powers start coming back for any particular reason? Is he just that cool? Do class 4 mutants have greater powers in other ways? Or did they just not have enough long term testing for the cure and it's going to wear off for *everyone*. That would have been handy to know before.

ETA: The academy is going to be fun with Jimmy in some classes, it'll keep some people on their toes.

Date: 2008-01-03 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
you don't treat mutants like shit, then relatively few of them will turn terrorist in the first place

Oh yes, totally. There's so many reasons not to act like bigoted totalitarian assholes it's hard to enumerate them all :)

Though as you say, once you start down that road, it's hard to change. In fact, they may have started when a powerful minority was suggesting registering mutants, which is a reasonable idea in itself, but magneto correctly saw it was going somewhere bad fast.

But most mutantations don't make that much difference. A generous policy at the outset would hopefully have worked.