Ian McKellen's performance truly shows how villanious and snake-like he is. That is Magneto. I liked Fassbender in First Class because he wasn't quite a villain yet. But in DoFP and Apocalypse, he is doing things McKellen would with the attitude of an angsty teenager instead of someone who know what he is doing.
I'll leave when I am good and ready.
No different than most people who are more rash in their younger years before becoming smarter in their actions after having plenty of life experience behind them. In Days of Future Past, Magneto says that it isn't Wolverine he is worried about, but "us". He blatantly states that they "were young" and "didn't know any better." Fassbender is fine as a younger Magneto.
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I am not a fan. I just happen to enjoy movies. Fans are embarrassing.
Who can out-do Ian McKellon? I think Jeremy Irons would be excellent
shareI like both actors, but the problem is Fassbender is not playing the character like he will one day become the McKellen incarnation.... Mcavoy you can see has taken a lot of Stewarts traits, so its a smooth progression from one to the other.... Fassbender just does not seem to be going down this road.
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I don't understand the motivation of Magneto sometimes.
He is always angry and want to get back at the humans, but every single film ends with "Oh no, what have I done".
He has been doing the same things since the early 1970's, but still goes on and on and keep finding out that he loose in the end.
Old or young, he is actually quite stupid :)
Older Magneto said it himself - he was a very different man when he was younger. Young or old, one thing that stays consistent with him is how tore up he seems to be about what he does (granted not so much in the first movie, and probably X2). Xavier had his rough period where he was unrecognizable from his older self, but ultimately he didn't quite go through what Eric did and he of course had a much stronger mind. In other words, Magneto understandably had his reasons to be the more brash and vulnerable one. So in closing, I think Fassbender's interpretation as the younger version of Magneto is faithful and excellent. McKellen's version is at this point more iconic, though.
shareFrankly, I like them both, and I can believe that one could age into the other. People change as they age, the well-adjusted get mellower, and the anger in the angry becomes less obvious - turns into a bitterness that goes all the way to the bottom but which isn't visible at the top.
The young Eric is tense and angry and demonstrative, the old has learned the value of subtlety and hiding his feelings.
While I can understand liking Ian McKellan's Magneto, they obviously couldn't keep him and Patrick Stewart forever as they were getting older and the roles might be too hard for them eventually. Heck they are both almost 80 years old now.
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