Captain America: The Winter Soldier and X-Men Days of Future Past

[hafital]

I liked both of these movies! I liked them quite a bit. I didn't expect to like X-Men film, actually, but that was a pleasant surprise. There's a great deal that I don't entirely grasp though, since I don't know that much about either Marvel universe. Like, for example, is the Quicksilver from the Avengers the same as the Quicksilver from X-Men?? How does that work...



Captain America: The Winter Soldier

While I liked the first Captain America movie just fine, this was WAY better, imo. Maybe it was just the addition of Natasha Romonov, though, who I have decided is my favorite character in this universe, and I am quite annoyed she doesn't get her own film wtf.

Things I loved:

~ I really like that everyone calls him Captain, or Cap. :D

~ I love that his real strength, apart from his super human strength, is that he's an excellent (the best?) strategist, that he can see the best way to defend or attack.

~ I loved all the action sequences, although they always go on about five minutes too long, imo. But in particular the attack on Nick Fury was crazy and cool.

~ I love love love Natasha. I want her in every one of these marvel universe movies.

~ Sign me up for Steve/Sam! I appreciate all the Bucky love, but, well, I didn't much have an impression of him from the first film (which I haven't rewatched yet) and I'd like to see what happens to him and whatever recovery he might have, if any, before I can go that way.

~ Actually, sign me up for Steve/Sam/Natasha.

~ I love Nick Fury's right hand lady, who I'm afraid I don't know her name, but I liked her in The Avengers, and I think she's awesome.

~ I'm mostly here for the candy.

I almost did not go see the X-Men movies. I just, I don't know, there's so many of these movies, and they've been going on for so long, and it's the same struggle over and over again, and I get a little tired of Magneto and Prof. X and their epic manlovemanhate -- it's not my pairing, as cute as their younger counterparts are (and as friggin adorable as Ian and Patrick are). But I did go, and I really liked it! So, whatever, just goes to show you. I did think this film was better than First Class.




X-Men: Days of Future Past

~ I liked the dystopian future entry to the past, that was neat.

~ Someone explain to me how the time jump worked, though? I understand that that's part of Kitty's abilities. And that the past and the future were tied until the moment when the change in the past altered the future, but was it that every day Logan spent in the past was a full day in the future for Kitty and Co? I mean, was she sitting there bracing his head for the weeks it took, or was it just a couple of hours? Eh, it's not that important.

~ I loved Peter/Quicksilver, and for some reason kept expecting him to make an appearance in the rest of the film, as if he'd been with them all along without them knowing, but that didn't happen and I was sad.

~ I LOVED that the entire human and mutant race's future was dependent on Mystique making the correct decision at the critical moment. I loved that it all came down to her. That's really what made the movie work for me.

~ I was also expecting Erik's confession re: Kennedy to be a flat out lie.

~ I do appreciate that the young Charles Xavier is not so omnipotent and all knowing, and that he's all kinds of messed up.

~ Between Erik and Raven, I understand Raven's desire to fight the non-mutants and to save the mutants, but I don't fully grasp Erik/Magneto's megalomania. It's one of the reasons I have such a hard time with X-Men. I don't find any part of his fight and anger sympathetic. Raven, though, at least I can see that it is painful to her and that in some part her actions are driven by love. (Although this is a recent thing in these newer movies; the Mystique of the older films was far more two dimensional). I don't know, I guess I don't find Magneto's cold, anger and genocide tendencies sexy. And he seems pretty irredeemable. One keeps hoping... Eh, I've never been able to get behind those Hero/Villain pairings. Not my thing.

~ But I'm okay with all that. I don't watch these films for any fannish reason, really. They're just a heck of a lot of fun, generally. I'm here for the candy. :D

~~~

In other news, I am still pleasantly distracted by Leverage. There is SAD lack of OT3 fic, though. Painful lack. Eh, it was never a big fandom. sigh.

I'm almost done with the line edits for the book. And by almost, I mean I am moments away from sending it to my editor for monday. *BIG EYES*

Comments

[laurajv]

Fury's right-hand lady is Maria Hill. She is awesome.

I have all the Steve/Bucky feeeeels but I love Sam with Natasha. And Steve-Sam-Bucky love triangle action.

[hafital]

I'm all for Sam and Natasha, too! I'm for Natasha with just about anyone, I think.

[raine]

There's some good ones on AO3 for Leverage fic in general. I think it's a case where the source was so awesome for how they handled the canon OT3 that it almost doesn't need fic, which isn't to say I didn't try. :-)

[hafital]

I read your story! :) And it was lovely. I just read it, actually.

I found the source very satisfactory for Nate/Sophie and Hardison/Parker, and although lovely for the OT3, I would have liked more. Anyway, I have scoured the AO3 archive, but most of what I have found was written early in the series, and doesn't quite capture the changed dynamics of the end of the series. But there are a few gems there. I'm still searching.

[raine]

I'm so glad you liked my fic!

A couple of fic recs from my bookmarks:
The Five-O Job (crossover with Hawaii 5-0): http://archiveofourown.org/works/255180

your body is a war zone but you are not a ruin:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/799639

Closing Time (cute outside POV fic)
archiveofourown.org/bookmarks/17551717

[hafital]

Thanks. :)

I'm not familiar with Hawaii 5-O, but I'll check that one out. I've read the other two.

[raine]

There's a good primer on H50 here: http://thisissirius.livejournal.com/593712.html, but what you need to know to read the fic is that at the end of one season, Steve McGarrett winds up in jail, framed for murdering the governor. Danny does stupid shit whenever Steve's involved. That's it. :-)

[liviapenn]

Like, for example, is the Quicksilver from the Avengers the same as the Quicksilver from X-Men?? How does that work...

Short version: Pietro/Quicksilver is both a mutant and an Avenger... so the X-Men movies can use him as long as they don't mention Avengers (and also they renamed him "Peter" in Days of Future Past for some reason, I don't know if they *had* to or just wanted it to be less confusing.) And then the Avengers movies can use him as long as they don't mention he's a mutant (which is why Pietro seems to have been given his powers by experimentation in the Avengers side of things.)

[hafital]

I see, I see. *wise nod*

[destina.livejournal.com]

They all inhabit the same universe, and it's the same Quicksilver technically, but it can't play out that way in the movies because there is a rights issue and Marvel doesn't own many of their characters. SO there will be a different Quicksilver in the next Avengers movie, I guess. (The only part of the Marvel universe I really care about is X-Men, so I'm not really up on the next Avengers movie.) I like this graphic a lot, it made things a ton clearer for me, because I didn't really get it either.

http://bitcast-r.v1.sjc1.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/Marvel-movie-rights-infographic.png

[hafital.livejournal.com]

That graphic was very helpful! Although it makes my brain hurt to think the avengers and the X-Men are supposed to be in the same universe. That's wackadoo.

Also, I can't take anything called Man-Thing seriously.

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

Nick Fury's right hand gal friday is Maria Hill