X-Men vs. WoMen!

Another weekend; Another movie. 'X-Men: First Class' was the movie to watch this weekend and as I didn't manage to watch 'Origins' I didn't know what to expect. I liked this one, I would say it was the best out of all five X-Men movies (despite not watching 'Origins'). I liked seeing the young Charles Xavier (Professor X) and Eric Lensherr (Magneto) and their contemporaries. It was surprising to see that the movie wasn't in 3D; it would've had more 3D than Pirates Of The Caribbean. Little mentions of certain characters and even the appearance of some were also nice to see. As I am always critical of movie content, I couldn't help but complain about certain things, one out of all was the fact that the movie had a sexist theme to it. I wondered if people were actually noticing.

Am I the only one that noticed the fact that every single major female character undressed herself in the movie? Think about it; Mystique in bed and after, Frost for the Russian General, Moira in the Vegas scene, Angel and all the other strippers. Why did they all have to undress? Every single one of them? To achieve their goals? Doesn't that portray a message subconsciously? Isn't that sexist? or is that the American version female empowerment? Well, Moira did say she was "using the tools the CIA never gave me". Another scene to add to that is the final scene after Moira was caused to forget the events prior to her final debriefing. She could only remember 'a kiss' and the cheif stated "this is why women shouldn't be in the CIA".

Isn't America and The West supposed to be the champions of women's rights and equality? If their idea of that is for every woman to think that using their body in order to achieve things is ok, then isn't that contradictory to the idea of empowering women? It was like they were trying to push the sexual aspect of the movie all the way down to the female Manikins being used for target practice. You could clearly see the curvature of private parts and emphasis of camera on the 'bust'. Is it just me being a man? Or did they intentionally place that for me to notice?

I know I keep bringing up Movie Brainwashing but seriously, what was all that about in the movie? Other than that I think the movie was good to watch.