Totally a great Magneto movie. The rest of it was a mixed bag, but that's an X-Men film -- it's weird that it's named for the First Class because the kids are barely in it, though I did enjoy the one scene of them just hanging out, where it seemed like the actors were having fun.
I'm still weirded out that they went out of their way to include characters of color, which they could completely have justified eliminating by 'they're not in the comics' (I don't approve of this approach, but it's not uncommon) and then went for the dying/defecting cliches. That was pretty damn tone deaf.) I agree that Angel's defection was portrayed fairly sympathetically, but 'almost all the POCs are Brotherhood' was an uninterrogated problem with the 3rd movie, and this just seemed to replicate it.
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I'm still weirded out that they went out of their way to include characters of color, which they could completely have justified eliminating by 'they're not in the comics' (I don't approve of this approach, but it's not uncommon) and then went for the dying/defecting cliches. That was pretty damn tone deaf.) I agree that Angel's defection was portrayed fairly sympathetically, but 'almost all the POCs are Brotherhood' was an uninterrogated problem with the 3rd movie, and this just seemed to replicate it.