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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1589364" data-attributes="member: 177">I disagree.  The X-movies have been fun, but they are profoundly ensemble pieces wherein the majority of the characters are profoundly flat.  By comparison, the character development is pread wafer thin in the X-movies.  If the human issues were the primary focus, they would not have left two-thirds of the classic love triangle without any notable depth of personality.  As far as I can see, across two movies, the only character to have shown signs of change in response to events has been Magneto.  Everyone else is, as best we can tell given only small amounts of information, the same people they were before the events of the first movie.To my mind, the X-movies are each like a single issue of a good comic, in terms of character and story development.  They're action flicks, with stories focused upon a sequence of events that occur to a group of people.  The first Spider Man movie was akin to a trade collection of 6 or so issues.  The story here was focused upon the effects events have on the hero.  We shall have to wait and see if the second movie keeps the same focus.</blockquote>