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"Where are their parents?" Most of their parents disowned them when they found out they were mutants.
3:45 so glad you picked up on this. 95% of the reactors think time stopped but you're one of the few who correctly deduced that Charles froze people's movements.
Awesome! Charles has some pretty incredible powers!
He froze time for just those people. They are not simply immobilized. They are unaware of the passage of time. They pick up exactly where they left off.
@@TheOneTonHammer He turned off their brains. They aren't aware time is passing but that's not really the same as stopping time.
I remember my brother used to think that one of Xavier's powers was to stop time. It wasn't until he mentioned it that I was able to correct him about this scene. haha
It is incredibly difficult to tell your parents the truth when it could mean they disown you, or, worse, turn you in to the authorities for being "different". Personally, I can understand Bobby's choice to not tell his parents about his abilities until he felt ready, and supported by people he has things in common with.
A good mom would be understanding, I hope. Sadly, it isn't always the case.
I read somewhere that the "tell my parents" scene was an allegory for "coming out," just like Charles and Xavier were allegories for Dr King and Malcom X, two civil rights leaders on the same side but with different approaches (one peaceful and one violent). One of the best things about core Marvel comics, is that creator Stan Lee often used his comic stories to bring current social issues to the forefront. Mutants vs non-mutants = civil rights unrest.
Also the mutant gene doesn’t usually kick in until puberty (or other traumatic experience stressing out your hormones).
Look at today’s society, parents are already terrified of their own children enough to never tell them no or discipline them; what if their hateful teenagers had the power to melt their brain if they said something offensive or disrespectful?
Oopsie, you’re forgiven, you’re a good mutant who just made a mistake. 😂
Case in point: Pyro would burn his parents to the ground.
Our generation had Bewitched. She chose to not use magic because she married a mortal without powers. Then she found out how useful her abilities were as a wife and mother. Then the nosy neighbors got involved and everyone found out she was a Witch. A good witch; with a bad witch twin.
When Nightcrawler teleports, all the smoke you see is from a dark hellfire & brimestone style dimension...while it looks in the regular world that he can teleport instantly, when he's in the other dimension he actually has to find the exit portal...
There's an episode of one of the X-Men animated shows where it's shown.
Exactly, in X-Men Evolution.
It's easy to confuse "Striker" with "Strucker". Literally 1 letter. You're more than excused for that lol. This is peak Xmen imo. The movie is just so good, and still holds up.
Actually, it’s literally two letters. 😂😂
@@sithlordkaeyl21 ok good point. I meant vowel lol
@@TheRealBrotherGrimmy, I know. I just had to joke around a little bit.
Magneto whole thing is protecting mutants even in the first film…its the reason he go so overboard because he wants them to be free because of his past and how he was treated.
When Chris Claremont began writing X-Men in the ‘70s, he did a lot to introduce real complexity into characters. Progressing comics beyond the simpler ‘Silver Age’ of Stan Lee.
Hero or villain became more a matter of perspective than an absolute.
That is much of the reason why they went from one of the least popular comics to the biggest super hero team of the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Still a better superhero team than the Avengers and it's not even close. The MCU really elevated that B Tier team to ridiculous reverance, when at one point only real nerds even knew who the Avengers were. There were only two superhero teams non-comic readers had even heard about, The Justice League and The X-Men.
My guy X-Men was already progressive as is when STAN LEE started writing it lol... why put him down to raise Chris up?
Stan Lee deserves his flowers and deserves his credit for creating the X-Men and literally has sighted he did it as an alegory for the civil rights movement and for gay rights as well. Fucking Charles and Eric are Malcom X and MLK lol
@@vlinnstone6919Lee stated during a panel that when the xmen were created, they didn't have any kind of comparisons to the real life civil rights movement in mind, that it was just a happy accident. When readers made mention of it through writing in, they simply went with it and leaned into it.
Jason is _basically_ an original character from this movie.
He *is* inspired to Jason Wyngarde aka Mastermind: a mutant, a criminal and a real creep with the power of illusions who tormented Jean and the X-Men in the comics (and Wanda before that).
However, his age, his relation to Stryker, his disability... these are all characteristics that Wyngarde didn't have, so I'd say he ended up being a completely different character.
*REVEREND* William Stryker was also a very different character in the comics.
He was a televangelist who preached hate against "demonic looking creatures of Satan" like poor Kurt Wagner, and organized fun group activities like burning monsters at the stake.
After the movie came out, the comics gave him a more militaristic style to adapt the comics to the movie.
Thanks for explaining the backstory of these characters! I like the changes they made to both of them and how they wove their storylines together.
By way of deep background (from the introduction of the Stryker character in a graphic novel that included Magneto as a ally and not an antagonist), Reverend Stryker started out as Sergeant Stryker and he and his wife did have a child while based in a location where nuclear testing was being conducted. They were in a car crash and Mrs. Stryker went into labor. Stryker delivered the child, who was a visible mutant. He killed the child *and* his wife. Not a good dude.
Jason is inspired by Mastermind, but Stryker's parenting is also likely based off his original "God Loves, Man Kills" characterization.
Given the heavy infiltration of the US military by Evangelistic Christonationalists and affiliated white-supremacist groups, and the historical fondness of fundamentalist religious groups for quasi-militaristic social structures (eg. KKK, Crusader groups, many current Evangelical denominations, etc), the two concepts certainly work well together.
@@reactswithjaxI Highly Highly Highly Recommend reading X-Men: God Loves Man Kills. In my opinion, it's one of the best X-Men stories and it's what this movie is inspired by. If you do end up reading it, maybe to a video or something on it!
In the comics, Nightcrawler is Mystique's son. Along with her transformation powers, she also has halted aging. Shes well over 100 years old. She had encountered Wolverine in the Midwest during the 1920s when they were both outlaws.
And Nightcrawler and Logan are good friends!
29:14 Magneto was referring to Scott and Jean fighting, not Mistyque and Logan about getting involved in a lovers quarrel.
Since he put a bit of emphasis on the "one" in the line "this is one lover's quarrel we cannot get involved in" I thought he was making a cheeky reference to the fact that he knew she had pretended to be Jean with Logan and that they weren't going to get involved this time.
Something to keep in mind with the X-Men is that they're often used as an allegory for real life issues like racism or homophobia or persecution, and have been for years. They're meant to be the marginalized group that's seen as 'different' or 'wrong' often in the comics, and that's why so many people can relate to them in one way or another. Everyone for some reason has probably felt like 'other', whether it be because you're introverted vs. extroverted, not being 'feminine' or 'masculine' enough, or simply grew up as a different color or from a different place.
As people have pointed out, Bobby's scene with his family is meant to be similar to coming out, especially with the line "Have you tried not being a mutant?"
"You're kinda proving them right that you deserved to have the police called on you."
The cops were called simply because people of another race were there and immediately "killed" a man trying to explain he wasn't dangerous. They escalated, mutant defended, doesn't retroactively make the police calling right. Given how big a metaphor the X-Men are for racism it's strikingly similar to conversations I've had about real events.
“I hope we see Hugh Jackman again” 😂
That’s funny, you’ll get the joke eventually.
Lmao that's not funny that's hilarious....
I can't wait to be in on the joke! 😂
24 years off and on playing the same character.
2 plus decades, 2 whole generations of kids growing up with Hugh Jackman Wolverine.
i can't wait to get in on the joke too. i've seen all the hugh jackman films and i have no idea what the joke is
@@craigimeHow many films with Hugh Jackman as Wolverine have you seen?.... yeah, that's the joke.
Nightcrawler is one of my all-time favourite X-Men characters, with the best sound effect when he jumps into the brimstone dimension...BAMF! Also, I commend you on your alliteration once again.
I haven’t read any comics yet but have seen all the movie’s multiple times. Nightcrawler teleports to another dimension? That’s cool but could he stay there also?
@@joshuarojas5543 Trying to remember reading the comix when I was a kid, I don't remember him spending any real time there. He was also my favorite character. It's a shame we never see Alan Cumming reprise the role.
@@joshuarojas5543 whenever he teleports, he goes to dimension filled with Sulphur, that's why you smell the sulphur smoke whenever he teleports
@@joshuarojas5543 I'm not a Marvel expert by any means, but, as I remember, he just passes through to get from place to place. Someone else will probably be able to tell you more.
Nightcrawler passes through the dimension with only a subconscious awareness of the dimension that lasts as long as he is there. Usually mere seconds, less sometimes
Rogue, Wolverine, plus Deadpool, Beast, Havok, and Quicksilver whom you haven't met yet but who show up in later movies have been members of the Avengers as well, and Storm was a member of the Fantastic Four. So, you know, you don't have to choose to be on just one superhero team as long as they're in the same universe
That's really cool! I choose to be on both teams then!
@@reactswithjax Storm was married to Black Panther.
@@reactswithjax Wolverine is that badass in demand, he's been on more teams as a leader than a ton of other characters: X-Men, Avengers, Alpha Flight (Canada - Logan is Canadian origin), a stint on the Fantastic Four (which I hope you see as well, for reasons!!), and this comic book "special forces" type team called X-Force!
"YOU SHOULD HAVE KILLED ME WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE!" I try to use that line in public or at work whenever I can.
"You wanna shoot me?!?! Shoot me!"
😂
That line is also a great song by A Day to Remember.
11:07 the girl who can phase through things is named Kitty Pryde. There was an Avengers comic book where the X-Men and the Avengers fought. Kitty Pryde phased through Iron Man and that caused his suit to malfunction. So he's lying on the ground and Tony can't move because his suit has malfunctioned! Before Kitty Pryde runs off to join the fight she turns back and apologizes to Tony for shorting out his suit.
If Kitty amd Vision tried to phase through each other what will happen?😂😂
Wow, that's pretty impressive that she could short out Tony's suit. Kitty seems like an awesome character.
@@reactswithjax Oh, she's a peach. Goes by the codename Shadowcat. She's one of the number of dainty young ladies over whom Logan feels murderously protective. As I recall, both she and Nightcrawler joined a British-based team called X-Caliber.
@@reactswithjax shes so awesome, shes named after my cat
More impressively she bagged Spider-Man.
The guy playing Stryker has had a succession of great roles.
I see what you did there😂
He's extremely underrated.
"Because it looked like she was gaining new powers." Hoo boy. Buckle up.
I am buckled and ready to go!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but in the comics Magneto is the father of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff ( Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver). Because of the separation between Fox and disney, the MCU never referenced that
They just referenced that in the WandaVision reaction I uploaded today!
I actually left a comment about all of that in her reaction to Wandavision episode 5 where Evan Peters pops up out off nowhere.
@@reactswithjax yeah but in the MCU they have never actually said that Wanda and Pietro were the children of Magneto or even a Jew named Eric or anything like that... so it's still kind of up in the air as to whether or not they are.... mutants have slowly started showing up in MCU things... but it's not clear how they're going to introduce the X-Men. Maybe we'll get more answers with Deadpool 3. And at one point... back when Marvel was pissed off that they couldn't get back the film rights to the X-Men from Fox (they would later just buy Fox, solving the problem), they had been taking steps to minimize and marginalize the X-Men comics and characters in the Marvel comics universe... and it was during this period that Wanda and Pietro were ret-conned to not actually be Magneto's children... I don't know if they ever ret-conned this back. But since the characters were both members of the X-Men and the Avengers they got used in both franchises. It remains to be seen if Magneto exists or will exist in the MCU, though.
@@nooneofconsequence1251they did, but they couldn't ever say "X-Men" in the MCU, nor "mutants." That's why Wanda and Quicksilver are given the alternate backstory with Tony Stark and the Mind Stone and all of that.
I know Marvel did what they had to do re: the film rights. It was the 90s and they were close to bankruptcy. They needed money somehow. I do wish that someone would have time-travelled and told them to let something else go, but hold on to those rights for just a few years longer, when they become the most successful franchise in the history of film.
@@camannwordsmith "let something else go" what do you mean by that? what else would they have let go?
The casting in all these movies is excellent. Some standouts from this one for me are Bryan Cox (Who plays William Stryker), Alan Cumming (Who plays Nightcrawler) and Kelly Hu (Who plays Lady Deathstrike, and is also my personal Hollywood crush 😂). The cast remains pretty much spot on throughout this whole series, can't wait for you to watch the rest!
Remember The Last Stand, Origins Wolverine, The Wolverine, Days of Future Past & Apocalypse have end credit scenes. Don't forget to watch those too 😉.
Thank you for letting me know! I will make sure to watch the ending credits.
@@reactswithjax haha... though the post credits scene in Last Stand is kind of important, honestly you can skip the ones in Origins (skip that whole film, actually), The Wolverine, Days of Future Past, and Apocalypse (also skip that movie)... they do nothing to add to the lore, actually they contradict other things from the movies that follow, or set up stuff that is never paid off and are completely irrelevant... so they just end up being confusing.... Fox was never as good as Marvel Studios about interconnecting their films and staying consistent.
@@reactswithjaxyou don’t need to watch Origins, if at all, you don’t need to anytime soon
If you like found footage films please check out afflicted. It's amazing and a hidden gem it's first person and third person vampire movie it's One of my favorite movies 😊
And of course the grand finale, Logan
man she is sharp in picking up hints in the movie, even guessed what might happen in the next movie
I like when reactors actually input in the stuff they watch and not have their mouths open like weirdos
She’s one of the good ones
"It's so weird to be on Mystique's side." (grabs popcorn for later)
Both the metal guy (Peter/ Colossus) and Nightcrawler are major characters in the comics and in several of the cartoon series. Unfortunately they get very little screen time in the movies. For now. (cough)
Nightcrawler is such a great character! I imagine he and Mystique spent a lot of time getting their makeup done.
@@reactswithjaxjust because you made this comment, you should totally check out the episode of the 90s X-Men cartoon Season 4 Episode 14- Bloodlines
"Have you tried... not being a mutant?" is a scene that was supposed to be analogous to someone who's gay coming out to their family who are not accepting of it. That line is a joke "Have you tried not being gay?" as if it works that way lul
Ian McKellen (who is gay) helped oversee that scene and give direction where needed because of his personal experience.
And, as it turns out, Iceman is gay.
@@chrisd7047 No he's not, woke writers inserted their agendas into the comics after he was straight since his inception.
@@thatperformer3879 So what you're saying is that he's gay in the comics now, then. Nice. That's what I said.
@@thatperformer3879I love how “woke” basically means “anything I don’t like”.
Iceman actually is one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel universe. He doesn't typically push his powers very far, but he is an Omega level mutant like Storm, Magneto, and Jean Grey. For clarification, "a mutant whose dominant power is deemed to register -- or reach -- an indefinable upper limit of that power's specific classification." - Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Parraz's House of X #1.
The opening scene with nightcrawler is my favorite part of any marvel film, teleportation is definitely the power I'd want
This was so great the first time in theaters
Then you would love the movie “Jumper”
Teleportation seems like a really cool power!
@diegopansini3152 only if you also love a predictable, badly written story, terrible cliche characters, and really horrible bland performances by all the actors.
@@hypersleepdialogues8889 Eh, I grew up on the movie, the special effects hold up well, and the cast is stellar regardless. I love it, I just wish they made a much better reboot. The concept alone is too amazing to ignore and it feels like they haven’t tried anything like it since
Keep in mind when this series came out it was near the beginning of the superhero genre.. they were breaking ground with it on the big screen still and learning what works and doesn't work. Which is why you'll still get scenes that seem or feel 'campy' like the earlier Batman series (with Michael Keaton and all).
That makes sense. I think they did a really good job with it all
I've never understood how anyone can think of the early X-Men films as "campy", because that was the LAST thing the makers wanted, as the genre was recovering from _Batman & Robin_ . Not to mention at least half of the MCU films are outright comedies.
Jason is based on a character from the comics called Mastermind, who was very much a villain. His whole thing was making people see whatever he wanted them to see, kind of like Loki or Mysterio.
In the comics, though, Jason wasn’t related to Stryker at all. In fact, Stryker in the comics was a Christian Reverend who thought mutants were crimes against God’s creation. This version is really well done, though.
Thanks for explaining some of the backstory on these characters. They do a really good job of twisting story lines together and putting everything into one cohesive story.
@@reactswithjax Mastermind in the comics at one point fooled Wolverine into thinking that the X-Mansion was being invaded by all of the X-Men's greatest enemies. Wolverine went into berserker mode and began a killing rampage, only to wake up and see that he had just murdered all of his teammates. This event is sort of in a way vaguely referenced in the film Logan... which is loosely based on the graphic novel Old Man Logan... though the particulars of what happened at the X-Mansion are quite substantially changed. To the point where I don't feel like this is even a spoiler. You have to pay close attention to stuff being talked about on the radio to even catch the reference...
@@nooneofconsequence1251 it kinda is a spoiler
@nooneofconsequence1251 that wasn't Mastermind, that was Mysterio
If memory serves, Mastermind was heavily involved in bringing out the Phoenix Force In Jean, which ultimately resulted in her death. Years later, as he lay dying, he apologized to Jean (she got better) for what he did to her, and she forgave him.
Stryker - "Strike her"
Strucker - "Struck her"
Yeah I can see why you got the two mixed up 😅
Strucker is living in the past.
@@nooneofconsequence1251 William Stryker. "Will" Strike her
The man is present AND future. How about that...
Ted Stryker?
Have you reacted to Airplane yet?
@@ninjabluefyre3815 No not him, he has a drinking problem.
"What's the point of trying not to?" This is a metaphor for queerness and that's literally the sort of stupid thing queer kids get asked. Earlier Bobby didn't tell them because he was scared of their possible reaction - so he's in the closet. And clearly he was right. I'm surprised you didn't spot that, TBH. X-Men was always had prejudice as a theme, regardless of whatever else it was doing.
The scene has an extra level of nuance, because in the comics, Bobby is gay.
Thank for explaining that. I did spot the metaphor.
This is a reference to a time period where gay people were starting to find acceptance in american culture. Parents often reacted to their kids telling them that they were gay with the line "Have you tried not being gay?" not understanding how being gay worked. It's used here to make the "normies" look stupid and to associate gayness with mutant super powers. This is an early example of the woke agenda being inserted into main stream movies. It is a throwaway scene and never brought up again in any x-man movie. While Iceman's sexuality was changed in the comics (All New X-Men #40, I believe) to pander to gay people, in the movies, Bobby's sexual and romantic interest in Rogue never changes.
Bryan Singer is a sicko though
@@BoboftheOldeWays he wasn't gay at the time... that was about 10 years after this movie came out.
Re: Mystique
It’s not that she can become inanimate objects so much as she can look like anything with a humanoid shape. So she couldn’t become a lamp but a statue is just a humanoid form that doesn’t move
The girl with the sonic scream is called Siryn in the X-Men comics. Her Father is also a mutant with the same powers, called Banshee.
If Bobby was Canadian he would probably be the Minister of Curling and Hockey ice surfaces.
Jax, the X-men have nothing to do with the MCU at this point. X-men movies were created before the other MCU movies and were never tied together. At least not yet.
If Col. Stryker was bad enough to wish for the extermination of the mutants and act upon it, then HE would be the reason his son Jason may have been a bad person.
Jean is an OMEGA level mutant she can end the planet if she wants to
same as storm and prof x
Wow! I had no idea they were that powerful!
In the comics, Rogue is raised by Mystique and may or may not be Mystique's biological daughter by way of Magneto/Wolverine/Sabretooth/???. That whole "we love what you've done with your hair" while laughing together is a very parental response to a rebellious daughter, that it is a dark joke to make due to causing said girl to have Marie Antoinette syndrome is par for the course for both Magneto and Mystique.
20:22 nice save there 😂
Super cool behind the scenes fact (pun very much intended): that ice wall Bobby made in the school was a practical effect. They actually made that for the scene and blew it up.
Haha! That is really cool! 😋
11:08 "I don't know what I'm doing with my hands . . . but I hope it helps." 😆
I have always wondered Jason's age when the event with his mom took place and how intentional it really was. If he was the age he projected to Charles then that is quite young. It could be simply his mind reacting to the trauma of the way he was raised. It sounded like he was taught he was "bad" but learned being a mutant was natural at the school and probably caused resentment. In other movies that centered around a child that could project images into others minds, the danger often stems from the child's own traumatic thoughts becoming real without the intent of damage. Like the mind is creating the nightmare but the mind doesnt control the nightmare.
Just found your channel, sorry about the late comment. The first X-Men film broke new ground in superhero films. Up until this film, they were not serious endeavers. Even the fun 1978 Superman film with Chris Reeve was campy. Then X2 came along and entirely upped the game of superhero films. X-Men, X2 snd the 2004 Spiderman 2 film had great scripts with deep characters, intriging and complex plots, excellent actors and quality direction. And movie SFX was finally able to meet the needs of a superhero film. IMO, without the 3 films I mentioned, I don't think we would have had the MCU (well, through phase 4) we know today. Then in 2017, the filmmakers of Logan came along, looked at the quality filmmaking that had been done in the last couple of decades and said "hold my beer", and raised the bar of superhero films to a whole newv level. Logan became the first superhero film to be nominated for an Oscar. That nom was for screenwriting. I've always thought it criminal that Patrick Stewart wasn't nominated for best supporting actor and a nomination for best picture. Great. Now I'm babbling. Have a good day 😊
19:25 Lying for years? Jax, no. That's exactly what many of us face with our parents. And it is a wrong perspective. How about questioning how, despite your role and those years of closeness, you could not provide your kid a home in which they feel safe to open up to you and just be themselves?
That applies 100% to Bobby's storyline here too. He was ice clear right to reserve himself from his family.
“And it is the wrong perspective”. What a hypocritical statement. Why automatically asume that when kids don’t come out to their parents it’s because they failed to provide a home in which they feel safe to do it? Many kids, gay or not, have different issues both mental and emotional, but blaming the parents is just easier and the “right perspective” huh?
Grow up!
@@andreshernandez1180 Assume nothing. A (not 'the') wrong perspective is to jump to the assessment that you have been lied to. I suggested ('how about...') questioning your part as a parent in that hold to come out instead - the specifics I mentioned might aply or not to each case, that's not the point. It's about not to respond, not to react from that view.
Blaming? Easier?
@@edsonlnoe A wrong perspective is to conclude that thinking he’s been lying is “a wrong assessment”. Why is it wrong? Because it’s not the option you prefer or that applies to your case?
You suggested one option but denied the other or another one therefore anyone who considered it would have “a wrong perspective” to you.
Absolutely arrogant and ignorant.
@@edsonlnoe I don’t understand why those words at the end have question marks, do you need me to explain their meaning to you? Can’t you google it or ask an adult near you? Or are you home alone?
@@andreshernandez1180 >"Why automatically asume that when kids don’t come out to their parents it’s because they failed to provide a home in which they feel safe to do it?"
Because that's a parent's whole fucking job, sweetie. If your kids don't trust you, that's fucking on you. Do you really need it explained that there's a power imbalance between a *literal infant* and the people who decided to create it with the attendant requirement for care that involves?
Be terrified you needed that said.
This is one of the coolest movies in the series.
The "I''m a mutant" talk was meant to be a direct copy version of the "I'm gay" talk. "Have you tried not being a mutant/gay" being a common thing that comes up with the type of parent that a child might not be comfortable talking about such things to. The reason he did not tell his parents is pretty much exactly this. They're not the type of parents who would understand that he just is the way he is, and did not choose to be.
One of my favorite line, "What exactly are you professor of?"
"Art" 😂
Magneto is a great villain, because like Killmonger in Black Panther, he’s on the right side, morally speaking. But he’s so ruthless & extreme, he ends up hurting his own cause.
Magneto is a complex villain, which I like. I don't think he's on the right side, since he wants mutants to rule over people, but I understand his motivation and think he makes some good points.
@@reactswithjax That’s a better way of putting it! His cause - mutant liberation from oppression- is just. But his solution - mutant domination of humans - is just a mirror image of the original oppression.
so he's not on the right side then
@@BoboftheOldeWays He doesn't JUST want mutant liberation from oppression, he wants mutant dominion and to oppress non-humans... so yeah, not just at all.
The metal guy is named Colossus and is named '''Peter." He is tremendously strong and durable, and does a co-operative stunt with Wolverine. Peter armors up and THROWS Wolverine at enemies. Logan can take the hit (most enemies can't) and then claws the crap out of whoever's left standing. You'll see them do that in the next X-Men movie.
FWIW, Colossus is the exact same character as the CGI character in the Deadpool movies. He has a Russian accent in those movies because he's Russian (and named "Pyotr") in Marvel comics continuity.
Hi Jax. How are you, my angel? I've been saying this for a while:
• Did you notice that when Cerebro switches the attack to humans, in the oval office the president is in relief, while his men agonize on the floor? I believe that the president is also a mutant and either disguised it or didn't even know it.
• Another thing about this film Striker is not (for now) in the MCU, the one from Avengers Age of Ultron, Hydra era, his name is Baron Strucker. In the comics, Striker was not a military man, he was a reverend who declared war on mutants, on behalf of his son Jason (Mastermind).
• When they are at home and Bob shows his parents his powers, his mother's speech is the same as when parents discover that their children are homosexuals. And because of the attention he gets, his brother Ron becomes jealous and angry, and turns them in to the police.
• The metal used in Logan is called Adamantiun and is the most resistant metal on Earth, but it is an amalgam that uses alien metals. At the time, FOX held the rights to the mutants and were unable to use Adamantiun in the MCU, as the Captain's shield does not only have Vibranium in its composition. Adamantium is part of it.
I know comic books movies have gotten so much crazier with what they can do but, at the time when this came out, that Nightcrawler teleportation slow motion scene at the beginning was literally the coolest [bleep]ing thing I had ever seen. X-Men 1 was good, and still holds up pretty well, but this is the one when proper comic book movies felt like they'd finally arrived.
4:15 Sir Brian Cox is astounding in almost every role. one of my favorites is ‘Deadwood’
He is a great actor! I haven't seen Deadwood yet. I've been wanting to see Succession though.
Hate to break it to you. Brian Cox was not in Deadwood. (IMDB vetted). You're confusing him with Ian McShane.
I hope somebody didn't already write this -- I'm not feeling up to reading all the comments, but ... there's a funny sort of paradox in this film, left over from the comic books: in this movie, Chrles can use Cerebro to find "all the mutants" or "all the humans." But in the comics, one of the X-men's greatest enemies are A.I.-controlled robots called Sentinels. The A.I. that makes/controls the Sentinels is called Master Mold, it was told its primary mission is "to protect humans from mutants."
The Master Mold replies "All humans are mutants," so it reinterprets its mission as "protect humans from themselves." The Sentinels then conquer the whole planet.
That's a cool concept! That would actually make a great movie plot.
In the comic book Bobby Drake the Ice man was often in a pure ice form and looked vedy cool while gliding through the air with sheets of ice and when I was a kid the Nightcrawler was my favorite mutant
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.... Ignore any hate for ORIGINS WOLVERINE. There's a vocal group that hates it for a specific reason, but it's actually no worse than any of the other X-Men movies, in fact, I enjoy watching it a lot.
Is the specific reason that it's awful?
@@johnburnscrystaljack People need to stop complaining when a movie isn't as "perfect" as the previous movie, such as T3 and T4.... Nothing can be better than T1 and T2, because both were 10/10. T3 was an 8/10 and T4 was 7.5/10, but they were heavily criticized because they were not up to the standards set by 1 and 2. As for Origins Wolverine, that opening "wars" sequence is possibly the best scene in the whole series. His brother has some of the best "one liners" in the series. Each fight scene is awesome. And the "Deadpool" problem was fixed by DAYS OF FUTURE PAST... In the first Deadpool movie, Wade says he was once in special forces, just like ORIGINS shows us, but DAYS OF FUTURE PAST "resets" events, so the "Deadpool/Weapon XI" in Origins doesn't exist. I like to think that ORIGINS WOLVERINE is directly connected to the DEADPOOL movies because it shows Wade in the "special forces" before we see him in the later movies.
@knight4iam If people stopped critiquing film then there would be no reaction channels and I don't think anybody wants that so I'm gonna say people should keep doing it.
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You’re getting Baron Strucker (Avengers) and Colonel Stryker (X-Men) confused.
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Team X-Men forever🎉🎉
37:39 - "I think Jean might be ok"
Us: "Uh...yeah"
Also thankfully for rouge in the comic she does eventual get control over her powers she able to touch people with out zapping thier energy...
Good for her!! It would be so isolating never being able to touch anyone. Or pet a dog!
The scene where Bobby tells his family that he's a mutant was meant to be a "coming out" allegory, similar to a kid telling his family that he's gay. Ian McKellen (Magneto), who is famously and openly gay, helped write that particular scene.
7:25 "Cant she just pretend to be a computer printer or something" (Displays illustration of printer with eyes) I laughed way too hard at this! "That was murder" (I approve). "Bobby has powers! He can create icicles" (illustration of ice with angry eyes)...
We need to coin a name for when you quickfire goof like this!
"JaxHammer Jokes"
"Jaxing off!" :/
"Jolly Jax giddy Craic"
"Hell -arious-Murmurs" (This ones a stretch)
Leave it with me lol
26:33 "Experimentor", "Experimentator".... "He does experiments on mutants" XD flawless recovery Jax
Hahaha! I'm so glad my jokes made you laugh!!
Mystique and Rogue are my absolute favourites.. rogue’s character is a little different but I love Anna Paquins performance!
I’ve always loved the character Pyro.
Am still worried regards Lamby's intentions towards the human race.
Also, look carefully at the water right before the Bryan Singer credit pops up...
Did she make anybody else made this reaction🤣🤣🤣 she defended the crimes against mutants more then the mutants defending themself first she agreed and said she understood Stryker then she said Bobby shouldn’t kill anybody even tho they tried attack them with the intention to kill first I have the feeling she hates self defense or anybody defending themself
Rev. William Stryker of The Purifiers, XMen.
Baron Von Strucker of Hydra, Age of Ultron. 👍
7:26 Mystique trying to look as cubical as possible while making printing noises is a hilarious mental image
I'll give you $50 right now if you turn into a venus fly trap. - Fury
@@reactswithjax "Why would I turn into a filing cabinet?" -Talos
It wasn't really hard to "prove Bobby's parents right" .. they already had their massive prejudices, showing with the question if he never tired to "choose to not be a mutant".. they are the ones on the wrong side, here.. and the little brother is just a jealous a*hole here, calling the police on his brother, he perfectly knows, is harmless...
Remember the N'Sync moment in this movie when you watch the 2024 Deadpool movie. Have that in mind. hahaha
Fun fact that scene when the extras were frozen was actually a room full of mimes
Really!? That's awesome!
Most people dont know this but bobby drake aka "iceman" is actually what is called an "Omega level mutant" basically, an extremely powerful mutant.
In the comics, iceman has the ability to freeze peoples blood, he once turned rain drops into frozen fists and if im not mistaken, hes so powerful he froze hell over. Yes, actual hell.
0:50 I want a Ben 10 watch with different powers of heroes across the universes😂
i want the powers of the omnitrix, but i rather not turn into the aliens
You made a good point about Jason that i never really considered. Maybe he wasn't a very nice person, which is why Charles teaching him didnt have the positive outcome most others had. Or maybe his powers left him mentally unstable.
In the comics and various animated series it is revealed that Mystique is the mother of Nightcrawler and kind of stepbrother to Rouge who Mystique finds as a runaway and trained. In the 90s animated series it is revealed that she was the one who had Rouge take Ms. Marvel (Cap. Marvel) powers putting her into a coma and out of the comics.
Carol Danvers was nver taken "out of comics". After being left powerless and comatose by her encounter with Rogue, she was taken into space by the X-Men and was experimented upon by aliens. Those experiments made her more powerful than ever before, and she returned to earth as Binary and later (after her Binary powers faded) starting calling herself Ms Marvel again. Years after that, she finally adopted the Captain Marvel name.
She did pop up at the end she was the phoenix under the water at the last scene
4:30 Nope...this is William Stryker, the MCU/Wanda guy is STRUCKER. But you have a hell of a memory for names. Good on you.
So that scene where Bobby tells his family about being a mutant was supposed to be a representation for a kid coming out to their family.
You know there is a three season show on FX called the Legion, which depicts the life of Charles Xavier’s son. It’s definitely A different tone, but really excellent nonetheless.
LOVED this reaction due to how many times Jax said my name 😅😂😆
Jason Stryker is based off of Jason Wyngarde, aka Mastermind. In the comics he has no relation to Stryker, and he is generally a unredeemable monster. That having been said, so is Stryker so its likely Jason had reason to hate his father (not that it justifies what he did)
I read a lot of the comments, and most are about what a great character Nightcrawler is. And it's true. The fact that the producers & director kept his Religion intact astonishes me. In the comics, Kurt was at one time, a priest. But even as i type this, I am reading Kurt's biography on Wikipedia, and even THAT was retconned to be an illusion! But at least it's in the movie.
Mutants are classified by levels. The most powerful Mutants were Omega Level. Prof X, Magneto, Jean Grey, Storm, and Ice Man are all Omega Level. Then there are Beyond Omega Level Mutants. These Mutants can control everything at the molecular level. They can take millions of lives with a thought or create it. Reed Richards and Sue Storm of the Fantastic 4 had a son Franklin Richards who was born beyond Omega Level. He would create miniature solar systems for fun. Beyond Omega-level Mutants are pretty much Gods.
18:57 I'd never be a guard because I'm pretty sure my immediate reaction would be to "nope" outta there!
7:27 looking like a humanoid statue isn't the same thing as looking like an inanimate non-humanoid object.
“This fight is pointless” as they continue to stab each other with pointy things 😂
My fav out of the trilogy. Great reaction as always.
Of course I can’t wait till Jax gets to DeadPool ,BUT Logan is going to blow her away.
I'm a little surprised you didn't recognize Brian Cox, who played Stryker. His onscreen air of menace is so powerful, he's actually the first to play Hannibal Lecter. In my opinion, some of that menace was copied by Anthony Hopkins for the reboot trilogy.
Cox can also be seen in Braveheart. (Say that out loud, dareya) as William Wallace's uncle, Argyle. Bourne trilogy, too.
Not a plot that gets explored in the movies but Mystique is Nightcrawler's mother
Love this movie...a sequel, that manages to surpass the original.
My favorite X-Man movie, partly because it's so darn good, partly because it spotlights my favorite Marvel mutant, Nightcrawler. (My cousin once told me "Nightcrawler has weird feet, his name is Kurt, and he loves Errol Flynn movies. Your liking him is practically narcissism.") The opening scene with him in the White House is widely regarded as one of the best fight sequences ever seen in a super-hero movie. You should know that the movies take a *lot* of liberties with the source material. Stryker, for example, is a fundamentalist minister in the comics leading a fanatical anti-mutant cult. His son Jason is loosely based on a character named Jason Wyngarde a.k.a. Mastermind, one of Magneto's original Brotherhood along with Toad, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. My advice is to forget about the comics and enjoy the movies for what they are.
18:49 that’s my favorite scene, when magneto escape from the assistance of mystique. Anyway, I can’t wait to see you react X-men the last stand.
I think that the kid was mad at his parents but he didn't realize that his power was manifesting. She drilled her head because he was angry but he didn't know that his power was making her do that
Great movie, I've always been more of a X-men fan than any other group. Nightcrawler was so awesome!
Nightcrawler is such an awesome character!
- Hey Jax, I understand completely how you feel about the whole Magneto situation, however, you have a couple movies to go but when you get to see a couple of the later ones, like X-Men : First Class & X-Men Apocalypse you will definitely get a lot more of Magnetos backstory, which will give you even more to think about how to view him; let's just say you will most likely definitely have some significant sympathies toward him. I say no more - but trust me, it will be worth it when you watch.
Great reaction Jax like always. The basis for this movie was a graphic novel, "God Loves, Man Kills". It was changed a lot but the basic plot is still there. great story. From back when 'graphic novel' was both a specific publishing format and indicated a story meant to be for a more mature audience (in terms of more sophisticated themes and pacing that might be 'boring' for kids used to 'bright colors punch punch' type comics). The lake shot at the end was a huge teaser for fans of the comics. It's kinda hard to make out if you're not looking for it, but a Phoenix begins to appear on the water, and a Fun trivia: In the comics, Mystique *the shapeshifter) was married to a man of prominence and hid her mutant nature until she couldn't hide it when their son was born. That son had inky black skin, horns and a tail. That son was Nightcrawler aka Kurt Wagner (Vahg ner for rough pronunciation) who is the teleworking mutant we see in this movie. The woman with adamantium bones and claws was a rendition which doesn't hold up to the comic character Lady Deathstryke/Deathstrike. Keep up the good work.
Not a great review
31:24 "This fight is kinda POINTLESS." I see what you did there. LOL
also, Lady Deathstrike was innocent her, she was mindcontrolled the entire time and then killed
Tbf to Pyro, the cop shot Logan first, even though Logan hadn't done anything worth being shot over. Pyro was defending himself and his friends from people who'd already shown themselves to be willing to kill them.