I like Logan, too - as an ensemble character, not as the lead, and like you, I really appreciated this movie used him well without letting him overwhelm it.
And speaking of Raven, I loved and adored how everything was so focused on her and that her making the world-saving decision was predicated upon Charles making the first step to repair their relationship. I love the Charles/Erik relationship, but you're right, the focus was on Charles and Raven for this one, as it should have been.
Back when First Class was announced I was hoping it would rekindle my love for the X-movieverse and thought it had a decent shot at it due to providing me with the Charles/Erik backstory. But what I hadn't expected at all was the much bigger role for Raven. I mean, I loved her in the first trilogy, too, but she only had one sentence in the first movie and while being awesomely competent in the second, had just one scene (the one with Kurt) about her own ideas re: mutant kind as opposed to scenes about Erik). Quite different from the overall narrative treating her as a main character, with more than one relationship in her life and with her own emotional and intellectual development, instead as the sidekick to a main character. And that change/new element - Raven/Mystique as there from the beginning of the story, just as Charles and Erik, with her own issues, becoming her own type of mutant activist and having complicated relationships with them both (and one with Hank) without being defined by one of those relationsphips alone, that was such a great, great surprise.
...and how long has it been since a sibling relationship was treated as key to a fantasy/sci fi movie? (Other than Frozen, of course.)
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And speaking of Raven, I loved and adored how everything was so focused on her and that her making the world-saving decision was predicated upon Charles making the first step to repair their relationship. I love the Charles/Erik relationship, but you're right, the focus was on Charles and Raven for this one, as it should have been.
Back when First Class was announced I was hoping it would rekindle my love for the X-movieverse and thought it had a decent shot at it due to providing me with the Charles/Erik backstory. But what I hadn't expected at all was the much bigger role for Raven. I mean, I loved her in the first trilogy, too, but she only had one sentence in the first movie and while being awesomely competent in the second, had just one scene (the one with Kurt) about her own ideas re: mutant kind as opposed to scenes about Erik). Quite different from the overall narrative treating her as a main character, with more than one relationship in her life and with her own emotional and intellectual development, instead as the sidekick to a main character. And that change/new element - Raven/Mystique as there from the beginning of the story, just as Charles and Erik, with her own issues, becoming her own type of mutant activist and having complicated relationships with them both (and one with Hank) without being defined by one of those relationsphips alone, that was such a great, great surprise.
...and how long has it been since a sibling relationship was treated as key to a fantasy/sci fi movie? (Other than Frozen, of course.)