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Oh, jeeze. *smacks both your hands off the keyboards* Save the walls of text for the game! Haha, only joking. But very interesting opinions from both of you.

Please, let's just sink away in a lake of sadness together.
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I promise to restrain myself from now on. xD

That's how I felt for days afterwards... I quite genuinely went home afterwards and ranted to my friend about the cruelty and unfairness of the world, straight after the film. >_> Even my super-stoic male buddy was tearing up. 

[quote=icmasticc]
Lol... Holy crap that's a lot. It's all good though, I actually read it all hahahaha. 

And I think what said outlines my overall problem with the X-Men film franchise. It seems that every movie is always showcasing the ongoing bias of the government against mutants when the very stories the filmmakers are adapting from the comics are so much more than that. There are so many X-Men stories that have absolutely nothing to do with the government and general human bias towards mutants and it makes me sad that we may never seem adapted into live action. X-Men, by all accounts, should be a much bigger franchise than it actually is at the moment. The X-Men universe is so huge and so versatile and even though I'll say Bryan Singer is the best thing for the franchise at this point, even he seems to only view the movies in a limited scope. The next one coming, X-Men: Apocalypse, may be more on track with what I'm saying, but I think I'm tired of the mutant vs. non-mutant backdrop now. I really just want to see the X-Men being the X-Men for once - going up against a big bad with their signature team dynamic that the Avengers movie portrayed so well in live action. I just don't care that the military wants to kill all mutants anymore lol. 

I'll give that Spider-Man point. Not everybody reads the comics so you have to expect that the Sinister Six won't be known by everyone. They're basically a team of villains that got the bright idea to take on Spider-Man together instead of one at a time. I guess you can only judge it on a standalone basis if you're not familiar with certain set-ups. Ah well, hopefully Spider-Man will get the movie and game he deserves before I die XDD.EDIT - OH Bliss, didn't see you there XDD.
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I'm so sorry. D: It's just become habit, I love talking to people about anything and everything.

I hadn't actually thought about that, but now that you mention it, I somewhat agree. It was a clever allegory and exploration of social issues at first, but you do begin to wonder when they're going to do something new with it. I actually quite like that it isn't just superheroes vs. villains, that it's a bit different from many other genres (though an X-Men film in the style of the Avengers would be [i]so unbelievably awesome[/i]), but I do want to see it expand a bit in some way or another - particularly, as you said, as they're drawing from rich source material. On the other hand... the issues they were exploring (which is so not a word) are still very pertinent. Maybe the fact that they keep plugging those issues in every film is just another aspect of the allegory - demonstrating just how ridiculously long and slow the process of change on these matters is. Though as it's primarily a superhero film designed for entertainment, I doubt that.

I think it's challenging to write superhero films in the sense that you have to appeal to everyone - those who're diehard comic fans and know everything about the characters, as well as people who've never read a comic in their life and know nothing about the backstory. It's hard to find the middle ground. But oh my freaking word, I want a good Spiderman game - one not made as a movie tie-in but as its own game, by experienced devs. With games like Mirror's Edge pushing how dynamic we can be with movement in games, a Spiderman game that does the source material justice is edging closer and closer.

Annnddd so much for containing myself. Tsk, me, tsk.