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timepiececlock::rewatching X-Men 2 for the first time since it was in theaters::
I still can't believe they included Rogue in Mystique's various "temptation" forms for Logan. I love that they did, but I can't believe that they did. I'm so used to movies (especially movies with this much draw of a younger audience) being tamed down, that for them to have that allowed that blatant suggestion of cradlerobbing to be included boggles me. Movies just don't do limit-testing things like that in uber-commercialized films.
It is sort of a continuation of the first movie. The first movie had a hundred times more UST between Rogue/Wolverine than between Wolverine/Jean. Still does, though the W/J chemistry did get a bit better this time around. But I thought that the R/W sexual tension could be rationalized away as an unintended result of the actors doing their thing and covered by the writers attempts at a W/J/Cyclops love triangle. The same thing in this film-- only now instead of just the actors gazing at each other, the UST has actually been written in.
Now, one could say that it was meant to be just Mystique freaking him out and it doesn't mean that there is any sexual attraction at all on Logan's part, and that Mystique was fishing for things to bait him with.
But come on. That just doesn't fly with the cast you've assembled here. Maybe if Hugh Jackman and Anna Pacquin had played it completely platonic and paternal from minute one of the first film, maybe that would fly. But the director just forgot to mention that or something I think.
That or the director wanted the semi-flirtation there as a contrast to the Jean/Wolverine thing... or maybe just to titilate the audience.
Either way, I'm surprised it got past all the censorship from the moneybackers.
And now I'm getting a desire to read Mystique/Wolverine NC17 fic of that scene with Wolverine/Rogue hints. Cause they never really explain why she went in there.
I guess she was just horny.
Oh well, good for her I guess. Get laid with a hot guy and take a moment to emotionally screw around with your enemy at the same time. Two birds with one stone.
I still can't believe they included Rogue in Mystique's various "temptation" forms for Logan. I love that they did, but I can't believe that they did. I'm so used to movies (especially movies with this much draw of a younger audience) being tamed down, that for them to have that allowed that blatant suggestion of cradlerobbing to be included boggles me. Movies just don't do limit-testing things like that in uber-commercialized films.
It is sort of a continuation of the first movie. The first movie had a hundred times more UST between Rogue/Wolverine than between Wolverine/Jean. Still does, though the W/J chemistry did get a bit better this time around. But I thought that the R/W sexual tension could be rationalized away as an unintended result of the actors doing their thing and covered by the writers attempts at a W/J/Cyclops love triangle. The same thing in this film-- only now instead of just the actors gazing at each other, the UST has actually been written in.
Now, one could say that it was meant to be just Mystique freaking him out and it doesn't mean that there is any sexual attraction at all on Logan's part, and that Mystique was fishing for things to bait him with.
But come on. That just doesn't fly with the cast you've assembled here. Maybe if Hugh Jackman and Anna Pacquin had played it completely platonic and paternal from minute one of the first film, maybe that would fly. But the director just forgot to mention that or something I think.
That or the director wanted the semi-flirtation there as a contrast to the Jean/Wolverine thing... or maybe just to titilate the audience.
Either way, I'm surprised it got past all the censorship from the moneybackers.
And now I'm getting a desire to read Mystique/Wolverine NC17 fic of that scene with Wolverine/Rogue hints. Cause they never really explain why she went in there.
I guess she was just horny.
Oh well, good for her I guess. Get laid with a hot guy and take a moment to emotionally screw around with your enemy at the same time. Two birds with one stone.
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Date: 2004-06-20 01:54 pm (UTC)Two questions:
1. Did Mystique shift into Storm in that scene? I can't remember, but it would make more sense if she didn't.
2. What's the U in UST stand for? Unconsummated?
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Date: 2004-06-20 02:05 pm (UTC)1. Yes. She went through Jean, then Storm, then Rogue. Then she went back to Jean again, then backed off and taunted him with Stryker's image.
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Date: 2004-06-20 05:24 pm (UTC)Some would say it remained unresolved by the end.
1. Yes. She went through Jean, then Storm, then Rogue. Then she went back to Jean again, then backed off and taunted him with Stryker's image.
Ah yes, now I remember. I think the Stryker/Wolverine made me forget about Rogue. Well, having Storm in there crushes my theory -- she has NO chemistry with Wolverine. Either way, Mystique is deliciously nasty.
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Date: 2004-06-20 05:27 pm (UTC)They slept together and had a baby. There may still be tension, but by then its' just plain sexual tension, not unresolved sexual tension.
Either way, Mystique is deliciously nasty.
Yeah. My first reaction when I saw the second movie (weirdly, not the first) was "I want my own Mystique! Where can I get one? Where, where?"
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Date: 2004-06-20 09:37 pm (UTC)Oh right. It was the rest of the show that was unresolved.
Yeah. My first reaction when I saw the second movie (weirdly, not the first) was "I want my own Mystique! Where can I get one? Where, where?"
Do you get the feeling she'd take over if she didn't respect Magneto so much? And I don't even like Rebecca Romijn-Stamos!
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Date: 2004-06-20 09:54 pm (UTC)Yeah, I got the feeling that she was perfectly capable and the only reason she did was that she respected/cared so much.
And I don't even like Rebecca Romijn-Stamos!
Me either. I think all that make-up helps.