She brought out the lesbian in me.
Posted on 11/03/2011 9:47:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: “If it weren’t for gays, honey, there wouldn’t be a Hollywood.”
And if there were no Hollywood... what then?
XMen First Class was probably the gayest superhero mivie ever. I was pretty sure Xavier and Magneto were dating midway through the film.
The nice thing about movies or literature is that you can read into them what you want.
Bryan Singer may say that the mutants are gay, but you can call them Christian.
The government has, at least lately, wanted to keep track of homosexuals, but they certainly want to keep tabs on those Christians.
She brought out the lesbian in me.
Sorry I do not get the gay angle.....I do not care if my neighbor is gay, as long as he keeps his perversion behind his front door, as oppossed to a mutant walking though my wall
Bryan Singer, the director of the films, is himself openly homosexual, as are the actors Ian McKellan, and Alan Cummings. However, the only part of the film that I found possibly relating to homosexuality was the cheesy quote from Bobby’s(Iceman) mom, in which she asks him about “not being a mutant.” If I was a dad of some mutant kid, I would be primarily concerned about one thing: my kid is at risk of becoming vain or even arrogant with the possibility of finding celebrity status for his special power. If not about homosexuality, I felt that this quote was a little over the cheese meter for the second film, but then again, the overall film was still entertaining.
Either way, I see the whole X-men series as a blanket representation of just about everything in a person’s identity that was disliked or hated in American history. Nightcrawler (race and Catholicism), Xavier(Professor and either an Atheist or Agnostic, as well as a symbolic representation of MLK, Jr.) Magneto (Jewish, and a symbolic representation of Malcolm X).
Other references include the need to register potentially dangerous individuals, which probably related in the early 1960s to McCarthyism and the search for communists in America, or perhaps the need to register potentially dangerous gun owners, or other people who come across as potentially dangerous for what they own or can do.
Coming to the X-Men, I agree, they built it up, but didn’t deliver a fitting conclusion to the series.
I did, however, enjoy Thor and Captain America, more, as both were a fresh new take on characters not so heavily touched in film, as well as good directors chosen for the jobs, respectively. Hopefully Josh Whoedon of the Firefly Series can deliver on the Avengers in 2012. Having some bias for Firefly, however, don’t take my word for it. As for Spider-Man, they are completely remaking the series from the bottom up in 2012, making a Spider-Man that fits in to the rest of their Marvel Universe Continuity.
Spiderman needs to be redone by Marvel Studios and not Universal. I enjoyed the characters in Captain America, but you know what ruined it for me? Political correctness. You can’t fight the Nazis anymore, all military units must be multicultural (despite the fact that units were segregated in WW2) not that I have anything against other races, I’m Latino, but the non historical attitude bugs me. Thor was good, Hulk, the Ed Norton version was good, and Iron Man was awesome! Mainly because RDJ is more conservative than most movie stars and Iron Man feels very capitalistic and pro defense to me. Jmo.
I didn’t think “Superman Returns” was bad. As a sequel to the first 2 Christopher Reeve/Richard Donner Superman films it was fine and certainly much better than either “Superman III” or “Superman IV”. However, I’ve never seen any of the X-Men films and now probably never will.
Makes sense. Hollywood’s a narcissistic playground.
lets make movies without homosexuals and see how that works...
Disney owns Marvel so I expect more family friendly (homosexual is not family friendly) scripting of the super hero movies.
so the human who falls into radioactive waste or is bitten by a radioactive spider is “recruited”?
Disney owns Marvel so I expect more family friendly (homosexual is not family friendly) scripting of the super hero movies.
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This could be true, but it also means we’ll get lots of PC bull, like not being able to fight the Nazis in a Captain America film, jmo.
my understanding was that red skull was always the enemy of captain america.
comic book countries were always part of the continuty (ie madeupistan)
It is painfully clear homosexuals do not really know how to write stories for a normal audience. homosexuals have to dump they poop on the plotline.
I’ve seen all the X-Men dvd’s and I never once thought of any underlying homosexual theme.......
my understanding was that red skull was always the enemy of captain america.
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Agreed. Red Skull has always been the enemy of Cap, but Stan Lee made him a Nazi in the comics and Adolf Hitler’s right hand man. The fact that Disney thought this was too insensitive (for fear of a backlash with international audiences, also hence the title The First Avenger so movie theaters in other countries could dump Captain America if they wanted to, and only one did South Korea) to put in the movie kind of frosts me a little bit. But I think the actor who played Red Skull did an awesome job, ditto Chris Evans as cap.
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comic book countries were always part of the continuty (ie madeupistan)
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Yep, correct on all counts
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It is painfully clear homosexuals do not really know how to write stories for a normal audience. homosexuals have to dump they poop on the plotline.
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Nailed it. One time I was drinking with my friend and he said that he heard that the X Men represented the civil rights movement. You had one group that wanted to live with the other and another group who wanted nothing to do with the other. Magneto = Malcolm X Professor X = MLK. I don’t think this is true, but there are many ways to interpret X Men. IMO the homosexual movement did nothing to inspire it’s origins.
consider this plot hole.
if there is a cure to having super powers, then there is a way to activate/create super powers via a drug.
why wasn’t magneto spreading that drug to everyone? The first movie tried somethign like that but it made no sense.
if magneto simply said i have a safe drug to give you super powers then there would be a line. no nuclear waste required.
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