SO we saw X-Men

And by "we", I mean my family and me, because sometimes we have family bonding ley's-go-see-a-movie times, and I always go because hey: free movie.
So anyway: it was good. I liked it. Let's talk about it.
First off: I've never actually seen a full X-Men movie. I've seen enough clips of the other movies to understand the jokes made about the various characters, and to be able to  identify them all, but not enough to know who would turn out "evil" or "good", or to understand any major plot lines hinted at in this movie. My mom, on the other hand, has seen some of them, and so she explained some things; however, there might be other stuff I completely missed.
SO: my thoughts, in some kind of semi-coherent order (HA, just kidding, not at all).
(Also, half/most of this won't make any sense/be funny if you haven't seen it. If it was ever going to be funny at all.)
-First movie with Kevin Bacon I've seen! WOOHOO. Actually, I feel pretty proud of that.
-So, not only does Little!Erik have to go through seeing his mother die, he also has to live with the guilt of killing two men by CRUSHING THEIR HEADS with their metal helmets (I mean, assuming he would feel guilty, which I'm not 100% certain of, which we'll get to in a sec, don't worry). AND he has to deal with the fact that he didn't even try to kill the man who actually shot his mother, i.e., Shaw the evil scientist.
-Baby!Xavier is not the greatest actor when we get into that awkward, "I always knew there must be other people like me. Different." scene, but that scene was just really awks in general. Also: "You'll never have to steal again." Okaaaaay then...
-Only thing I could think during that whole CIA thing was "You're going to get caught, leave, leave, leave, leaveleaveleaveLEAVE NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN." And then they didn't even see her. Let down.
-Hank is TONY, yay! And he's nerdy, how adorable! And he has monkey feet, like me, only more extreme!
-Only thing I could think while they were recruiting Angel was: "You realize they can see you through the windows right? Like, seriously. Close the curtains.
-And then they recruit Henry the Cab Driver from Fringe! Of course, he would be the one to die, too. I almost cried during that scene.
-FLYING WITH SOUND SOMEONE FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS.
-The scene with Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence was just really, really awkward, IMO. The age difference! Not okay! I literally could not watch it (yeah, I have some problems with sex/implied sex scenes. But it's only when they're SLOW sex scenes, you know? It's just sort of weird to me. I feel like I'm invading someone's privacy.)
-James McAvoy is always so tragic. Just looking at him makes me a little sad. For more than one reason...and this is the perfect place to segue into one of my other comment time thing-ys, namely, the hot people in this movie.
HI MICHAEL FASSBENDER
HI JAMES MCAVOY
HI GUY FROM HANNAH MONTANA MOVIE

Anyway, moving onto slightly *deeper* and *more reflective* comments: something I actually wanted to discuss a little more in-depth, and thus refrained from commenting on before was the extreme amount of violence within this movie. In general, I don't have a moral issue with violence in movies (ex: I really enjoyed Inglorious Basterds). However, in this movie, there were multiple scenes where the violence disturbed me for vairous reasons. First: the inn in Argentina where Erik/Michael Fassbender just straight up stabs some guy in the hand repeatedly. And then shoots a bartender, who, for all we know, is completely innocent of any sort crime except attempting to stop some apparent psycho from stabbing someone in his inn. Which I think is a sort of reasonable thing to try to do. So you know: as hot as you are, Michael Fassbender, there's something seriously wrong with your character. Like, I literally cannot comprehend how anyone could do that - just cold-bloodedly sink a knife into someone's hand multiple times. Moving beyond this scene, there's also the one where the facility where the mutants are is attacked; it's pretty much horrifying. The whole, "let's transport people so they're really high up and then DROP THEM." And the smack. And the stabbing with the tail - I just don't understand how anyone could ever join with people who literally massacred that many people, and in that manner. I don't care if you think you're more advanced or whatever - would you be okay killing that many chimpanzees? Gorillas? I wouldn't be able to. And then there's the scene with the coin. Watching James McAvoy screaming, because he can feel the pain of it through Shaw's mind was just horrifying.

AND finally: I would be remiss if I did not mention the epicness of the trailers which preceded the movie, which involved Cameron and 13 from House, Kate and Ana Lucia from Lost, Ryan Reynolds twice, and Tom Hardy aka IAMES FROM INCEPTION, WHO I LOVE.
(Seriously, there were like twenty minutes of commercials. (My parents kept track of time, because that's how we roll in my family) Let's see if I can name them all: Immortals, Green Lantern, Battle: Los Angeles,  The Change-Up, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Transformers, Warrior, and Real Steel. BOO-YAH.