I just watched it. I actually liked the movie on one level, because while I'm not a diehard, comic-based fan (I did spend a lot of time in Santo Domingo reading some online stuff Marvel used to put out), at one level I am still the little girl who used to run home from school just to watch the cartoons...the one with Storm in the white suit. Mmm, Storm.

On the other level, I was processing a lot of race/colourfail and genderfail. I hated how all my favourite female characters were just diminished to armcandy and fetchers of things. When I heard them say 'MacTaggert', I whispered 'Moira!' excitedly, as if I used to go to school with her. I LOVE that character. As the movie went on, this was my face:

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I felt like ranting the way I did when they dicked with the Phoenix arc in the movies, but my brother has never really gotten over my infuriated yells, so I let it go. The whole Darwin thing? I turned to my dad and said, "So why the black man had to die first?" My dad shrugged and said, "Black man always suffer."

But yes, if this was a Magneto movie, it'd be better. I'm really sorry you had a negative reaction to the coin thing. I didn't think about it at the time, I just saw it as the other side of the coin, which reads as 'opposite' to me...but the message might still be skewed because it's the same coin.