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I have been sort of learning Japanese for many years but I never got very far. Not even enough to pass the easiest level of the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) out of 5 levels.
In the comics Storm is T'Challa's wife. Also, the actor that plays Toad is martial artist Ray Park, who prior to this role is best known as Darth Maul from Phantom Menace. In fact, he throws a nod to Darth Maul in this movie when he twirls the staff. As far as Wolverine, his bones are covered in Adamantium, which means he does naturally also have claws, but his claws are normally made of bone. Lastly, in the comics Adamantium is far stronger than Vibranium. Captain America's shield is originally a mix of Adamantium and Vibranium. Ultron's final form in the comics was made of solid Adamantium making him nearly invulnerable.
Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto, is without a doubt my favorite "Villain" in any comic book or superhero property. He has the most backstory. The most nuance. He's just sooooooooooo complex and believable. And he just has so many great lines and interesting philosophies. He's also very often an anti-hero or just straight up hero themselves despite being cast as "villain" because he's so multidimensional and realistic.
@@HereJune Willem Dafoe yeah good actor Green goblin was much like a power rangers villain and doc oc and Spiderman 2 is actually rated as one of the best comic book films of all time
He's definitely in my list of top 'villains' for those reasons. I just have a real soft spot for well intentioned extremests I guess. In that same list goes the Agent from Serenity and Price Nuada from Hellboy 2.
Watching her paranoia grow each time Mystique revealed herself is enjoyable, in a good way. It's hard to react to it like that when we've grown up watching this movie dozens of times. We just know what to expect.
I still remember watching X-2 on the day it came out, and I knew exactly what was happening to a certain character ( don’t want to possibly spoil anything for Addie lol ) at the beginning lol
I'm pretty partial to the Phoenix color palette design in the 3rd one though. Scary but beautiful, shrouded in shadow with a red glow embedded in it, like a nebula or something. Friggin love it so much.
Nice reaction Addie! Fun fact...the evil mutant "Toad" was played by Ray Park, who also played Darth Maul is Start Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace!
I can still remember going to see X-Men at the theatre when I was still in school. I was a longtime fan of the comics and the girl I went with was really fond of the animated X-Men TV show. Even though there were differences in the movie we were both amazed by how true this movie was to the spirit of what the X-Men are all about.
Honestly, most of the movies are more accurate to the comics than some people think. At least they are as accurate as they can be (although they probably should have made the costumes a bit more flashy) since the comic book fans only make up of like 20% of the audience, not to mention this is the movie that kickstarted the Hollywood superhero craze and the movie was made in a time before nerd culture was cool and aside from a few moderate critical successes like Batman Returns, The Mask and Blade, comic book movies during the 90's were considered a joke. Anyway, these movies are accurate enough to be satisfying for fans despite a few slipups. Heck, comic book legends Stan Lee and Chris Claremont, the latter being the one who made the best X-Men stories, had nothing but good things to say about this movie. In fact, Chris Claremont sprung up from his seat and applauded when Wolverine said that the claws hurt him every time he uses them. According to him, that was a small but quintessential detail that sums up how Wolverine is defined by pain and suffering. Claremont also praised most of the other films. The only X-Men films that he hated were X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Apocalypse.
Yeah, this, Spider-Man, and Blade proved that comic movies could actually be really good movies in their own right. I don't think we'd have gotten the MCU if without these movies.
@@xyex Blade had very little impact on the industry other than delaying Marvel's bankruptcy, which the success of X-Men saved it from. Blade was also only a moderate hit that later gained a cult following. Kevin Feige has said that Marvel Studios owes its existence to Bryan Singer's X-Men while Iron Man owes its success to the successes of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and Nolan's Batman Begins. Not to mention the reason Daredevil, Hulk and Batman Begins were dark and gritty is because X-Men essentially modernized the dark, gritty comic book movie formula. I also disagree with your statement that Spider-Man and Blade proved that comic book movies can be good. That honor goes to Donner's Superman movie. And we have Tim Burton's Batman movie to thank for the way superhero movies are marketed. For example, the first X-Men teaser we got was simply a poster with a giant X logo on it. That marketing tactic was inspired by the way Warner Bros released the first Batman teaser as a simple black poster with the Batman symbol on it.
@@vetarlittorf1807 Blade only gets the credit simply because it had the luck to not get held up in development hell like X-men and Spiderman did. Even back when it came out, not one person I knew then in high school had any idea that Blade was a comic book property. We liked it because vamps, but as far as it being a worthy comic adaptation, no one I knew acknowledged it.
Fun Fact: Ke Huy Quan (the same actor who played Short Round in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and Waymond Wang in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE) was one of the stunt choreographers for this film.
Fun fact #1: this was filmed mostly in Toronto, including the opening scene in ‘Poland’ (an old abandoned distillery called Gooderham and Worts). Fun fact #2: Ian McKellen says one of his fave shirts is a tee that a fan sent him emblazoned in big letters with the phrase “I am Gandalf AND Magneto”. Lots more movies in the franchise to get through.
Unfun fact: I found out they'd be filming X-Men in my town, using the local Science Center as the base for Magneto (it was built out of a mine) in the next few months. Unfortunately my family was moving away that month.
I just love the scene with Xavier and Magneto at the start, especially Magneto’s hat. When I saw it for the first time, I knew they’d get the rest of the film right.
You'll get more Magneto backstory as you go through the films. It is really tragic and compelling. Ironically it is so very human. He has all the best lines.
Over 20 years later and this movie still holds up well. The themes mean much more these days and for a movie that was made its effects were still well done for its time. And Hugh Jackman no one could have been chosen better to play Wolverine all these years. Funny thing is people did not initially believe Hugh could play the character as in the comics Wolverine is 5ft short and Hugh Jackman is a huge jacked man. But he truly embodied the swagger that masked a soul broken by pain and loss the loner who doesn’t usually like many people but fights to keep those he cares for safe. Hugh was to Wolverine what RDJ and Chris Evans were to Iron Man and Captain America.
Hi Addie! Actually, i believe Wanda from the Avengers is actually a mutant as was her brother, and they both were originally part of the xmen universe in the comic books. If you notice, no human in the Avengers have latent powers they were born with. I was surprised when her character first appeared in the Avengers..
So technically right. Wanda was first introduced as a mutant and she was Magneto's daughter. But in the comics they've retconned her origin several times, so she is currently not a mutant in the comics.
When these movies were being made, Fox owned the X-men rights, Sony had Spider-Man and Marvel studios had begun recollecting the rights to the rest. Now, Marvel has finally bought the X-men back and so have begun reintegrating all the different universes.
Yeah, in the official canon of the comics Wanda and her brother are Magneto's kids and mutants. The MCU didn't have the movie rights for mutants when they added them in Age of Ultron, so they sort of skirted around that.
In terms of connections to the greater Marvel universe the X-Men in the comics (Earth-616) exist within a shared universe with Avengers, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, etc. Characters like Wanda and Pietro Maximoff who you know from the MCU are Mutants in the comic's originally members of Brotherhood of Mutants lead by their "father" Magneto an idea that's been retconned a few times but originally Magneto was the father to the Maximoff twins. They later joined the X-Men and Avengers which created a fun loophole for the MCU as Fox owned the rights to the X-Men/Mutants BUT Wanda and Pietro are also Avengers meaning they could technically be used by Marvel Studios in the MCU Marvel Studios just couldn't refer to them as Mutants or mention X-Men. This is why they're referred to as Enhanced Individuals in Age of Ultron instead of Mutants a term that's been used to refer to many Individuals with unexplained powers in the MCU. In theory they could still be Mutants in the MCU it's just Marvel Studios couldn't refer to them as Mutants. This has changed now that Disney own the rights to the X-Men so they could easily say that Wanda was always a Mutant. Now that Disney owns X-Men they're free to include X-Men and Mutant related content in the MCU it's just a case of how they'll introduce Mutants and the X-Men. They could say that Mutants and X-Men were active all along in the background like Spider-Man or they could pull them from another universe into the MCU. My guess is they'll do the "They've always existed in the MCU we just haven't seen them" which will take alot of explaining like why didn't they help with Thanos to why haven't we heard anything about X-Men or Mutants as a whole. So believe it or not The X-Men were way more popular than The Avengers both in animation and comics at that time from the 1980s to the 1990s early 2000s. Studios did not want characters like Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, etc. Hulk is really the only Avenger who caught on having his own classic TV show that introduced him to the more mainstream audience back in 1978. It wasn't until Iron Man in 2008 that the Avengers started to become more well known and popular all coming together in 2012 with The Avengers movie that just blew up pushing the Avengers beyond X-Men. There's a few reasons why X-Men was so popular for one the New Mutants comics were being released in the 1980s introducing a younger class of characters focused on really cool teenage mutants while also introducing some really cool characters like Deadpool and Cable. We then got the amazing X-Men Animated Series in 1994, series was massive even crossing over with the 90s Spider-Man show. Then we got the Fox X-Men movies in 2000 bringing the X-Men to the more mainstream audience but these films moved away from the more comic book look and feel so for comic fans of the comic's it was a little disappointing seeing them outfitted in black leather. This was at a time when Studeios and creators were very unsure about how the mainstream au dice would react to comic designs so alot of the comic look and feel was replaced with a more tame rendition of the X-Men. The 2000s Spider-Man movie did the opposite diving deep into that bright colourful comic book look using Spider-Man's classic Red and Blue outfit along with a fun tone mixed with darkness. 2008 Iron Man did an amazing job at using comic designs something the MCU has followed really well something DC has also done really well as far back as Batman 1989.
I've got an issue with mutants and X-men being in the MCU all along. If that's true, why didn't we see Wolverine, Sabertooth, or Magneto in Captain America: The First Avenger???? Both Wolverine and Sabertooth fought in World War 2 while Magneto was imprisoned as a child at a Nazi concentration camp. Captain America would've bumped into those guys at some point during the movie. Why isn't Apocalypse in the Eternals film??? The Eternals would've witnessed him building the pyramids and dominating over all of ancient Egypt. They could've done something to stop him. How come Evan Peters's Quicksilver didn't show up in Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness??? He was already in WandaVision so he should've been in this movie. Another missed opportunity is putting the X-men themselves in this movie since they already brought in Professor X.
The clash of philosophies between Charles and Eric (and the fact that they're both kind of right), along with the stellar acting of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen really elevates an otherwise average superhero movie. They took what might have been just another quickly-forgotten, live action adaptation and turned it into a film franchise.
FYI: in the comics, Wolverine had a small, metal insert placed on his knuckles that keep the skin from closing after retracting his claws or from tearing it open when unsheathing them. It cut down on the pain. I think it would have been cool to have at least a trickle of blood run down from the opening and down the claw at least once, for the “oooooh” factor
That's actually curious when you know that both actors have many performances of Shakespeare's plays in their background. It certainly showed on screen.
In the X-Men movies wolverine is the younger brother of sabertooth (the mutant who attacked wolverine and rogue). Magneto is Wanda and her brother quicksilver's father.
This movie was the last time I went to the theater with my mom🙂 So glad this was a good movie, you never know when the last time is, when you have time with people 🥰
I'll try to give a short explanation of the confusing reality of Marvel movies being in or not in the MCU.. In the 1990s, after a short but huge speculator boom (people buying up tons of comics thinking they would go up in value), there was a market crash. Marvel Comics was in big financial trouble. To stay afloat they sold off the movie rights to most of their most popular IP. New Line got Blade. Lion's Gate got the Punisher. Sony got Spider-Man. Columbia got Ghost Rider. Universal got the Incredible Hulk. and 20th Century Fox, doing well for themselves at the time, nabbed arguably the two most valuable properties: The Fantastic Four and X-Men (at the time X-Men was by far Marvel's most popular comic). All of these studios eventually made one or more films based on these properties. Some better than others. Some did really well, financially and critically. (Blade, X-Men, and Spider-Man, notably) Others didn't do so great. Inspired both by the possibility of making $$$, and also the desire to not see their IP trashed by lesser adaptations, Marvel created Marvel Studios with the idea to produce their own films in-house. Someone noticed that of all the IP Marvel had sold off... they still had the rights to most of the original Avengers (except Hulk)... so they had the idea to create an interconnected universe of movies all leading up to one big event cross-over film about the Avengers, which is how things have always worked in the comic books. This was a novel idea for movies, though... in film.. superhero movies always existed in their own separate universes and never crossed over. They rarely even were consistent within their own universes from one picture to its sequel. Trying to create an interconnected universe of films about many different characters all living in the same world... building upon that over years or decades even... that was pretty radical and unprecedented. Anyway... Marvel Studios worked out a deal with Universal which had already made one Hulk movie (that flopped) to use Hulk in the MCU... the deal was that Marvel Studios would produce the films, Universal would retain distribution rights to any solo Hulk movies (and the bulk of the profits from those), and then Marvel could use Hulk in any team-up movies like the Avengers. Universal kind of got shafted because they never made another solo Hulk film after The Incredible Hulk (2008)... but Marvel now had their Avengers line-up. Iron Man came out in 2008 and was a huge hit. Avengers came out in 2012 and was an even bigger hit. Eventually Marvel Studios was producing the biggest movies in Hollywood making billions of dollars worldwide. The MCU was a gigantic success. But all of these other characters that had been sold off still belonged (in film) to these other studios... but... slowly... Marvel started to reacquire all of their IP. New Line went bankrupt so they got back Blade. The Punisher and Ghost Rider movies flopped so the options on them were allowed to expire and they reverted to Marvel. The deal they had with Netflix to make streaming shows about Daredevil, Luke Cage, etc stipulated that if no new shows had been made after a certain number of years, then rights would revert to Marvel, and since Marvel was the one producing the shows they simply stopped making them once they had their own streaming service Disney + in the works, and eventually got the rights back for these characters. The Fox X-Men films were still doing pretty well, most of the time (they were kind of hit-or-miss). Didn't seem likely that Marvel would get back the rights to X-Men or Fantastic Four. But Disney acquired Marvel in 2009... and then they bought Fox in 2019... so both were Disney subsidiaries at that point and part of the same company, which is how they all ended up under the same roof and why the X-Men and Fantastic Four are now scheduled to re-deubt in the MCU. The only hold-out left is Spider-Man with Sony... but Marvel has a deal with Sony to use Spider-Man in the MCU, they share the profits for these movies, which are enormous, everyone wins (except for the people who wanted a decent Carnage or Morbius movie). Anyway... From 2000 - 2020 the X-Men movies that came out were Fox films, not connected to the MCU. Going forward... if there are any future X-Men movies they will be part of the MCU. Probably Deadpool 3 is going to crossover from the Fox-verse to the MCU, too, in some self-aware meta way. And... with Phase 4 of the MCU they also introduced the concept of the Multiverse... where there are infinite different versions of the Marvel universe existing in parallel, and through that concept they brought in characters like Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, from the earlier non-MCU Spider-Man films, and Patrick Stewart's Professor X.... so..... in a way.... ALL Marvel movies, even those not in the MCU, have sort of retroactively been made into MCU canon... they just exist in different parallel universes to the MCU. So... think of the Fox X-Men films as in a parallel universe to the MCU. Actually maybe think of every X-Men film as in its own separate universe because they barely make any sense together there are so many plot holes.... but some of these films were really great even though others were terrible.
Charles Xavier -- Professor X (telepath extraordinaire) Marie -- Rogue (can absorb life force/powers thru physical contact) Logan -- Wolverine (mutant: healing & keen senses; claws: were implanted) Ororo Monroe -- Storm (power over weather) Jean Grey -- "Marvel Girl", never used in movies -- (telepathy/telekinesis) Scott Summers -- Cyclops -- (energy beam from eyes) Bobby -- Iceman -- (power to produce ice & snow) Eric -- Magneto -- (magnetic powers) Mystique -- (shape shifter) Sabertooth -- (incredible strength) The love triangle between Scott, Jean & Logan was established in the comics. I subscribed to many of the X-Men books (including Alpha Flight, Excalibur, New Mutants; & X-Man) for several years, until the comics became too expensive. These movies were created by people who genuinely love the source material!
Fun Fact: When Rogue asks wolverine if his claws hurts when it comes out and he replied by saying "Everytime", he ment both physically and mentally especially the fact that he was experimented on and lost everyone he loved overtime
Notice the symbolism in the final scene and how it sets up the moral ambiguity of the series. Magneto is wearing white but his chess pieces (representing the Brotherhood of Mutants) are black while Xavier is wearing black but his chess pieces (representing the X-Men) are white.
Blade (1998) and X-Men (1999) are responsible for the success of high-budget Marvel movies. Up until then, there really wasn't a mainstream interest in comic book movies. People who liked comics were looked down upon as geeks and pretty ladies wouldn't have been caught dead liking these characters. Now, well, here we are. It's more popular and lucrative than ever imagined.
Fun fact: Actor that played Toad was also Darth Maul in Star Wars Phantom Menace. After he knocked Storm down the elevator shaft towards the end of the movie, he did a spinning trick thing with the metal stick that was keeping the elevator door open. That was a callback reference to Darth Maul and his double sided lightsaber.
The actor who played Toad was the actor who played Darth Maul in Ep 1 and Solo. His scene with the staff was a nod to ep 1 which came out the year before this movie did.
in the comics, Logan is like 5 feet tall. Hugh Jackman is so good at playing him, many choose to ignore this detail. and they're correct. he's perfect.
The X-Men comic is an allegory of the Civil Rights Movement, Magneto being Malcom X and Xavier being MLK. *** Magneto is not a “villain” despite being the antagonist.
Wolverine has regeneration, adamantium skeleton and highly developed senses. His scent lets him smell and track people. His senses also give him a heightened awareness of his environment.
You're into it for good reason... Louise Jones Simonson was a writer and editor for the comics and had a lot of influence over the stories in the mid-to-late 1980s, an era known for several signature X-Men stories.
One of the funniest things about this movie is that they made James Marsden stand on crates all through this film. Wolverine is supposed to be short, but Hugh Jackson is over 6’ tall. Famke Janssen (Jean Grey) is 6’ tall, so they made James stand on apple crates.
Great movie that treats its source material with respect and with a great cast. Instant movie star making turn from Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. The sequel X2 remains one of my absolute favourite superhero movies.
Rogue is seriously underpowered in this movie. In the comics, she held onto Captain Marvel (yes, that Captain Marvel) and absorbed her powers permanently and put her into a coma for quite some time. The comics Captain Marvel doesn’t have Tesseract enabled abilities but can fly and has super-strength.
The guy that dropped Rogue off at the cage fight bar and slept on the bench, voiced Hank, (Beast), McCoy in the animated series. The the cop on the megaphone that Magneto held the bullet to his head, is Nic Cage’s brother.
I read and loved these comics growing up. As kids on the playground we’d cast the then non existent X-Men movie and we always said “Obviously Captain Picard will be Professor X” so when I was 17 and this movie got announced with him in the role I felt very happy.
18:37 Fun Fact: The train station scene was filmed at the Liuna Train Station in my hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, up here in the Great White North. I was one of the extras outside watching the roof get blown off. A few years later I met Ray Park (Toad) and we chatted for about 10 minutes about this movie as well as "The Phantom Menace", as he also played Darth Maul. After he signed my Darth Maul action figure package and got photos taken, I was about to pay him for the autograph and pics...he stopped me and said "Don't worry about it, they're on me. We co-stars have to stick together, right?"
Here is some Marvel comic book trivia to catch you up and help you understand: 1.) In the Marvel comics and 1992 Fox TV X-Men cartoon, Rogue is shown having superhuman speed, strength, and stamina. She got this from fighting Miss Marvel (aka Captain Marvel) and prolonged physical touch during combat made her absorb Carol's powers permanently. 2.) In the OG Marvel comics (Earth-616 story line), Wolverine's main outfit was brown. The "yellow spandex" was his old outfit when he first got out of the Weapon X program and he decided to return to it when he joined the X-Men. 3.) If/when you watch Deadpool, you'll see many references to Wolverine. The reason is because in the comics, Deadpool was also in the same Weapon X program as Wolverine and they became Weapon X alumni "friends". 4.) Wolverine's enhanced strength and stamina are due to his body adapting to the heavy Adamantium that was injected into him. He also survived the Adamantium injection surgery thanks to his enhanced mutant self-healing powers. 5.) In the Marvel comics, Captain America's shield was made from Proto-Adamantium (Vibranium & iron alloy mix). However, other attempts to duplicate the successful shield resulted in the creation of "True Adamantium" which was the metal bonded to Wolverine's skeleton. 6.) Throughout the comics, the X-Men, Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc. have all had guest appearances and cameos in each other's respective franchises. However, Fox owns the X-Men franchise broadcast rights and Sony owns Spider-Man so only recently have these franchises gone from being standalone movies to profitable collaborations like you saw in Civil War and Infinity War/Endgame. 7.) In the 1991 Infinity Gauntlet Saga, Thanos turned Wolverine's skeleton into a sponge after Wolverine stabbed him (which did nothing). What you saw in Infinity War (2019) was nothing compared to the bloodbath of what Thanos did in the1991 IGS comics. 8.) 19:20 - In the Fatal Attractions (1993) comics, Magneto pulls out all of Wolverine's Adamantium. This is a nod to the scene in the train where Magneto bends Wolverine's claws.
I really liked a lot about this film (the characterization of Wolverine, Professor X, and Magneto) but a lot of the other members suffered (Sabertooth, Storm, Scott, and Rogue). But I think the strength of this film is in its premise and fairly accurate take on X-Men. The franchise really has its ups and downs but there's a lot to like here.
Yea,. the next one is on par with this and from there, they all go down hill. They are interesting from a background perspective and there are a few scenes within each that are evocative, but they aren't good overall.
Wolverine doesn't have super strength, at least in the movies. In the comics it's more debatable, since it can be argued his skeleton allows him to lift more than a normal human, and he doesn't show any real "extreme" examples of strength. They've also changed his powers a lot since this movie came out (It was revealed he's part of some lupine type race, and can survive being flatted by a truck, healing almost instantly as the tires come off him, etc.) He can heal extremely fast, the adamantium skeleton (which he only survives cause of his healing), peak human strength (again, cause of his healing), also heightened senses like an animal like smell.
This film is so close to my heart because it reminds me of one of my favorite childhood memories. I didn't get to see it in theaters but since I loved X-Men, my family rented it on video when it was available and I fell in love with the movie. For my birthday that year they gave me what felt like a million dollars and told me to run into Toys R Us and grab whatever X-Men toys I wanted. I still remember walking out with 2 big bags (the X-Men toys came in these huge boxes) and for Christmas they got me the X-Jet and the Statue of Liberty playset. My family always struggled, but always knew how to make me feel like the luckiest kid in the world.
Awesome reaction, Addie. X-Men (2000) is one of the movies that started the entire superhero genre craze, and it's still going strong. My favorite X-Men character is Deadpool, although he's in training. BTW, if there's a language that I would love to learn, it's French.
Speaking of Bryan Singer, I also suggest Public Access (1993), The Usual Suspects (1995), Apt Pupil (1998), Valkyrie (2008), and Jack the Giant Slayer (2013).
...and speaking of Hugh Jackman, I also suggest Van Helsing (2004, directed by Stephen Sommers, the director of The Mummy (1999)), The Prestige (2006, directed by Christopher Nolan), Real Steel (2011), Prisoners (2013), and Reminiscence (2021).
You can't imagine what it was like seeing this movie come out in 2000. It was something a lot of us could never FATHOM. Hell, we couldn't even imagine the MCU! We all had misgivings about Hugh Jackman because he was SO freakin' tall and Wolverine is only supposed to be 5'3", but man--does that all seem so silly now that we CAN'T imagine ANYONE else in the role. The rest of the casting was phenomenal as well, even though many characters ended up being underdeveloped or underutilized during the course of the franchise. And it's all so funny because Marvel had SUCH a hard time trying to sell the X-Men to film and TV. They tried two backdoor pilots within Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends that went nowhere, and then did a full pilot episode that ALSO went nowhere (but at least became the basis for an AMAZING arcade game). It wasn't until Margaret Loesch, who worked for Marvel's animation division, became head of Fox Kids that she was able to get X-Men: The Animated Series made and suddenly the X-Men became VERY appealing. So, minor spoiler alert: the X-films, unfortunately, don't all maintain an even level of quality. When they hit, they HIT. And when they miss, hoo-boy. You should have an entertaining journey through them--especially with an MCU background under your belt now to truly compare and contrast how things evolved from these humble beginnings.
You can see this 'series', along with the Spider Man series around the same time, is what finally gave Disney the confidence to join in. I'll echo many posts with the sentiment: Ian McKellen is simply amazing.
Before Hugh Jackman forever became Wolverine because of this movie, he was in New York playing a very different character. He was playing Curly in a production of Oklahoma on Broadway. It's well known now, but when he came onto the movie scene, it wasn't revealed until later that Hugh is a big song-and-dance man. He was well known in his native Australia as a stage performer. He was the original Gaston when the stage version of Beauty and the Beast premiered in Australia. Recently, he did a run on Broadway doing The Music Man. It was delayed because of Covid, but when the curtain finally rose, it was very well received. Hugh also said that he would've jumped at the chance to play Wolverine in The Avengers. He's returning to the role apparently when mutants are revealed in the MCU. We'll see what happens. The X-Men film franchise gets a little muddy with the jumping around in time after The Wolverine. Here's hoping for a more stable continuity within the MCU. I met Famke Janssen (Jean Grey) a few years ago at a convention. Lovely lady from the Netherlands. Met Ray Park too. Super nice guy. A little underused here. There are other comic book movies that deserve more recognition that were done in the 1990s. Some are admittedly a bit campy, but still a fun watch. Excluding the Batman films from that decade, I recommend the following: The Rocketeer(based on the comics by Dave Stevens), The Phantom(based on the long-running comic strip), and The Shadow(based on the radio show from the 1930s) which starred Alec Baldwin when he was more likable.
I'm pretty sure Cyclops' eyes are a portal to a dimension where there's nothing but that red energy, and he has the glasses and the visor to control it
In the comics, Rogue first absorbed the powers of Ms Marvel (now known as Captain Marvel). She basically has a similar base power set as Captain Marvel, with also the ability to drain others of their powers.
So I guess the line "You know what happens when a Toad is struck by lightning, the same thing that happens to everything else" was supposed to be a running gag with Toad saying something like that before whatever he was gonna do but it was all cut out and made Storm look kinda stupid like... "Storm what does that mean?" lol
Addie, my first Xmen movie that i saw was Generation X (1995) which was the second junior Xmen team in the 90s after the New Mutants in the 1980s . so you can watch that one last if you want , after you get through the 20 years of Xmen movies that lead up to it.
This was the first movie that kicked off modern superhero movies. This movie was popular enough that studios realized that they could start making movies about every superhero. The best part about X-men in general is the fact that every mutant only gets one power/mutation. So everyone has limits they have to deal with. That combined with everything taking place in "real life" makes the franchise more believable than other franchises like the MCU.
@@luxurybuzz3681 Right. Blade was good, but it wasn't considered as something for wide audiences (I think Blade is rated R). X-men was the first movie that made production companies realize that the genre could be a long-term money maker.
@@joshuawiedenbeck6944 I disagree. I think Batman was. 1989. 90s were full of comic book movies. Ninja Turtles, The Rocketeer, Darkman, The Crow, The Mask, Inspector Gadget, Blade, etc...
I remember watching these just a few months ago and, even though i have seen these films many times, only then managed to realize the social commentary in these movies
The Brotherhood of Mutants, in the comics, is called The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, something Stan Lee always regretted, because no villain looks in the mirror and sees a villain, every villain is the hero of his own story. And this is especially true for Magneto. His aims are, really, exactly the same as Charles Xavier's: create a world where mutants don't have to live in fear, victims of prejudice and hate crimes. It's their methods that differ, Magneto preferring violent revolution and exterminating humans if that's what it takes, Charles wanting to find the road of peace, coexistence, and cooperation. And given Magneto's backstory, that he's literally seen human prejudice at its worst, you can understand why he believes the way he does, and even if you're more sympathetic to humans (because you probably ARE one), you might even agree that he has a point, and our track record of being able to get along with the "other" is pretty damn dismal. I love that the films mostly kept that aspect to him. That even when Magneto is at his worst, you can usually sympathize with his motives, and understand why he believes what he does, even if you don't agree with it.
One thing X-Men is known for especially in the comics is their depiction & call out for some social issues like discrimination that mirrored the times then when they were released.
Yes AND no. The original team wore identical yellow and black uniforms from 1963-67, before switching to individual costumes until the book was cancelled in 1970. The yellow uniforms returned when the X-Men made appearances in other books between 1972 and 1974. (The X-Men comic had been revived in 1971 as an all reprint book so the look of the team reverted to match the uniforms in the reprint series.) The All-New, All-Different X-Men, who debuted in 1975 and on whom the films were based, wore individualized costumes from Day One, with yellow, black and blue being Wolverine's signature look. (Yellow was used as an accent color on other characters, but their costumes were primarily other colors.) The original yellow uniforms were revived in 1982 for the New Mutants spin-off book, before they, too, got individual costumes several years later. And now that's more than anyone needs to know about the X-Men and yellow spandex.
Fun fact: the X-men were originally meant as a metaphor for black people and their social issues in the 70s. Professor X and Magneto were specifically inspired by MLK and Malcolm X: two crusaders with a valid cause, but one committed to the ideals of peace and the other a lot more comfortable with violence as a tool.
I also heard they were also a metaphor for gay people. They find out something different about them, mostly in their teens. They are often discriminated cause of it, mostly their parents who kick them out and they go out to find communities of them.
Great reaction Addie. You have immediately caught on to the larger themes of X-MEN, including the civil rights allegory and the cost of mutant heroes. As you noticed, most mutant powers inflict a heavy cost. These movies are mostly pretty good, though there are some duds near the end. I'll let you decide which are which when you get there.
Wolverine's original powers are rapid regenerative healing, enhanced senses (smell, hearing, etc. equal to a natural predator), strength (a side-effect of his healing), and retractable claws. the experiments done on him was to add "adamantium" to all his bones, including his natural retractable claws. This was done to him specifically because his healing allowed him to survive the metal implantation/grafting operation. Make sure to look for Stan Lee and also watch the end credits scene(s) with each film.
"Oh, So It's Not Just Super Strength, He Can Heal Himself Too" Wolverine's full powers are more than just his strength and rapid healing He's also got all 5 senses heightened and his skeletal structure is laced with a metal called Adamantium, which is similar to the metal Vibranium used in Black Panther's suit
In the comics, Wolverine and Sabertooth are rivals, they have nearly the same mutation, both have an accelerated healing factor, heightened senses like smell, hearing and sight. Sabertooth's mutation is _slightly_ more focused toward his outward appearance and lethality and Wolverine having the _slightly_ stronger healing factor. Both were a part of the same program that gave Wolverine his Adamantium skeleton, and Sabertooth was supposed to get the same but Wolverine broke out and ruined the place before Sabertooth could get the chance. If I remember correctly, Wolverine was kidnapped for the program whereas Sabertooth wanted it.
27:36 - I am glad u got the scene when they were regrouping and the words between Cyclops and Wolverine: Wolverine: "Hey, hey it's me." Cyclops: "Prove it." Wolverine: "You're a dick." Cyclops: "Ok" Best part of the movie.
Hey, Addie! The X-Men are Marvel Comics superheroes created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963. The film rights were sold to 20th-Century Fox studios in the 1990s. Therefore, no other Marvel characters could appear in them when the MCU came into existence later and nothing mutant-related could exist in the MCU. The X-Men movies proved team superhero movies were viable and are the reason we have an MCU and DCEU. One major problem with the franchise is that there was no plan going in to make a coherent saga so there are MANY CONTINUITY ERRORS! Another problem is that there is little FIDELITY to the comics other than surface level stuff and the franchise became a showcase for HUGH JACKMAN's Wolverine as the central focus; the comics are much more ensemble pieces. Wolverine is hugely popular among comic readers but the movies became largely his vehicle. When the franchise was rebooted with a younger cast to clear up continuity and fidelity issues, the only explanation for discrepancies between the two sets of films was that they were taking place in MULTIPLE TIMELINES. Despite the confusion, X-Men films are all very ENTERTAINING including the duds and boast terrific action and INCREDIBLE CASTS. Now that Disney owns the film rights, fans are excited to see Kevin Feige adapt them properly. As always, since these are films based on Marvel Comics, STAN LEE has a cameo in most of them. In "X-Men", he was a hot dog vendor on the beach when Senator Kelly emerges from the surf. X-MEN TIMELINES: Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP --> Origins ------------------------------------------------> X1 --> X2 --> X3 --> Wolverine ----------> New Mutants ----------------------> Logan Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP ----------------> Apocalypse --> Dark Phoenix ------------------------------------------------> Deadpool --> Deadpool 2 -----> DOFP Utopia Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> DOFP Dystopia DO NOT WATCH THE FILMS IN RELEASE ORDER!!!!! FOLLOW THIS RECOMMENDED ORDER!!!!! It keeps the multiple timelines orderly. RECOMMENDED VIEWING ORDER: X-Men X2: X-Men United X3: The Last Stand X-Men Origins: Wolverine X-Men: First Class The Wolverine: Extended Cut X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut X-Men: Apocalypse X-Men: Dark Phoenix Deadpool New Mutants Logan Deadpool 2
X-men are my favorite group of any superhero group, the movie versions of them aren’t really that good representation of them except wolverine,professor X,and Magneto but some of the movies are still good
Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, appears in 9 films: - X-Men - X2: X-Men united - X3: The Last Stand / X-Men: The Last Stand - X-Men: First Class - X-Men: Days of Future Past - X-Men: Apocalypse - X-Men Origins: Wolverine - The Wolverine - Logan In more than half of these films, Wolverine/Logan is a main character, or THE main character. There are a few of these films in which his appearance is either a cameo, or is not central to the story. Charles Xavier also appears in each of these films. The best of these films, are: X2, Days of Future Past, and Logan. The events of the first X-Men trilogy are envisioned as occurring within a year or so of one another. The events of the second three films are envisioned as occurring over a 20-year period, from the early 1960s to the early 1980s. The events of ‘The Wolverine’ are envisioned as occurring some time after X3: the Last Stand. The films •can• be viewed as self-contained, stand-alone units... but, that's not ideal: because events build on one another over time, it couldn’t hurt to view them either in the order listed above, or in release order. For ex, if a person viewed 'X2', without having first seen 'X-Men,' then, among other things, they would miss the story of Magneto and what he did in the first film, which is part of the back story for the second film. •••• My understanding is that when the first X-Men comics were created in the early 1960s, Stan Lee conceived ‘mutants’ as being a sort of parallel with blacks during the Civil Rights era (then underway). Xavier and Magneto, the two leaders in conflict, were conceived of as rough stand-ins for Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcom X, respectively (Which the X-Men film tacitly acknowledges, by having Magneto say the exact phrase that is the title of Malcolm X’s book, “By any means necessary.”)
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Great reaction. Thank you. The Wolverine origin movie spells everything out. Best Wolverine movie ever.
I have been sort of learning Japanese for many years but I never got very far. Not even enough to pass the easiest level of the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) out of 5 levels.
"I wish I could stop you but you're in a movie"
24:17 yes, yellow and blue, so that was a joke for the fans.
In the comics Storm is T'Challa's wife. Also, the actor that plays Toad is martial artist Ray Park, who prior to this role is best known as Darth Maul from Phantom Menace. In fact, he throws a nod to Darth Maul in this movie when he twirls the staff. As far as Wolverine, his bones are covered in Adamantium, which means he does naturally also have claws, but his claws are normally made of bone. Lastly, in the comics Adamantium is far stronger than Vibranium. Captain America's shield is originally a mix of Adamantium and Vibranium. Ultron's final form in the comics was made of solid Adamantium making him nearly invulnerable.
Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto, is without a doubt my favorite "Villain" in any comic book or superhero property. He has the most backstory. The most nuance. He's just sooooooooooo complex and believable. And he just has so many great lines and interesting philosophies. He's also very often an anti-hero or just straight up hero themselves despite being cast as "villain" because he's so multidimensional and realistic.
Heath ledger joker? Dark knight
Alfred Molina Doc Oc? SM2
@@totterdell He's right. Magneto has the most backstory, which establishes his motives and to a point, valid justification for his actions.
@@totterdell molinas doc ock isn't that good tbh, green goblin was way better
@@HereJune Willem Dafoe yeah good actor Green goblin was much like a power rangers villain and doc oc and Spiderman 2 is actually rated as one of the best comic book films of all time
He's definitely in my list of top 'villains' for those reasons. I just have a real soft spot for well intentioned extremests I guess. In that same list goes the Agent from Serenity and Price Nuada from Hellboy 2.
Your reaction to the Unknowable Threat of Mystique made my whole dang day.
Well that's sad lol.
@@iwatchyoutube6539 Can't you just be glad for me that I've found a bit of joy?
Watching her paranoia grow each time Mystique revealed herself is enjoyable, in a good way. It's hard to react to it like that when we've grown up watching this movie dozens of times. We just know what to expect.
@@greencello599 EXACTLY that!
Or if you are just familiar with Mystique in general, I wasn’t shocked by her powers having read the comics
X2 is still the jewel of this trilogy. X-Men: First Class and Days of Future Past are really well done as well
I still remember watching X-2 on the day it came out, and I knew exactly what was happening to a certain character ( don’t want to possibly spoil anything for Addie lol ) at the beginning lol
The first 5 minutes of X2 are absolutely EPIC.
Absolutely right!
I'm pretty partial to the Phoenix color palette design in the 3rd one though. Scary but beautiful, shrouded in shadow with a red glow embedded in it, like a nebula or something. Friggin love it so much.
@@tooluser BAMF!!
“I think I can read his mind right now”
Addie for Jean Grey casting whenever the MCU does X-Men.
or Madelyne Pryor
she seriously does look like her
Nice reaction Addie! Fun fact...the evil mutant "Toad" was played by Ray Park, who also played Darth Maul is Start Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace!
He was also Mauls performance capture in the S7 mandalore fight
And Snake Eyes in the first two G.I. Joe movies.
He also did the Headless Horseman fights in Sleepy Hollow - I even recognised his style when he twirled his weapons.
@@Cau_No he was the one on foot. The one that rode the horse was another stuntman.
@@crispy_338 that fight on Mandalore was epic
I can still remember going to see X-Men at the theatre when I was still in school.
I was a longtime fan of the comics and the girl I went with was really fond of the animated X-Men TV show.
Even though there were differences in the movie we were both amazed by how true this movie was to the spirit of what the X-Men are all about.
Honestly, most of the movies are more accurate to the comics than some people think. At least they are as accurate as they can be (although they probably should have made the costumes a bit more flashy) since the comic book fans only make up of like 20% of the audience, not to mention this is the movie that kickstarted the Hollywood superhero craze and the movie was made in a time before nerd culture was cool and aside from a few moderate critical successes like Batman Returns, The Mask and Blade, comic book movies during the 90's were considered a joke.
Anyway, these movies are accurate enough to be satisfying for fans despite a few slipups. Heck, comic book legends Stan Lee and Chris Claremont, the latter being the one who made the best X-Men stories, had nothing but good things to say about this movie. In fact, Chris Claremont sprung up from his seat and applauded when Wolverine said that the claws hurt him every time he uses them. According to him, that was a small but quintessential detail that sums up how Wolverine is defined by pain and suffering.
Claremont also praised most of the other films. The only X-Men films that he hated were X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Apocalypse.
The best thing they did that differed from the comics is that they excluded Jubilee 😂
Yeah, this, Spider-Man, and Blade proved that comic movies could actually be really good movies in their own right. I don't think we'd have gotten the MCU if without these movies.
@@xyex Blade had very little impact on the industry other than delaying Marvel's bankruptcy, which the success of X-Men saved it from. Blade was also only a moderate hit that later gained a cult following.
Kevin Feige has said that Marvel Studios owes its existence to Bryan Singer's X-Men while Iron Man owes its success to the successes of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man and Nolan's Batman Begins. Not to mention the reason Daredevil, Hulk and Batman Begins were dark and gritty is because X-Men essentially modernized the dark, gritty comic book movie formula.
I also disagree with your statement that Spider-Man and Blade proved that comic book movies can be good. That honor goes to Donner's Superman movie. And we have Tim Burton's Batman movie to thank for the way superhero movies are marketed. For example, the first X-Men teaser we got was simply a poster with a giant X logo on it. That marketing tactic was inspired by the way Warner Bros released the first Batman teaser as a simple black poster with the Batman symbol on it.
@@vetarlittorf1807 Blade only gets the credit simply because it had the luck to not get held up in development hell like X-men and Spiderman did. Even back when it came out, not one person I knew then in high school had any idea that Blade was a comic book property. We liked it because vamps, but as far as it being a worthy comic adaptation, no one I knew acknowledged it.
Fun Fact: Ke Huy Quan (the same actor who played Short Round in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and Waymond Wang in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE) was one of the stunt choreographers for this film.
Now THAT'S a fun fact!!😍
RIP Michael Kamen
He made Logan and Rogue's moment feel so special
Fun fact #1: this was filmed mostly in Toronto, including the opening scene in ‘Poland’ (an old abandoned distillery called Gooderham and Worts).
Fun fact #2: Ian McKellen says one of his fave shirts is a tee that a fan sent him emblazoned in big letters with the phrase “I am Gandalf AND Magneto”.
Lots more movies in the franchise to get through.
Unfun fact: I found out they'd be filming X-Men in my town, using the local Science Center as the base for Magneto (it was built out of a mine) in the next few months. Unfortunately my family was moving away that month.
I just love the scene with Xavier and Magneto at the start, especially Magneto’s hat. When I saw it for the first time, I knew they’d get the rest of the film right.
I think it's one of my favorite scenes in the series.
The only problem with the scene is that Stewart and McKellen sound so similar that it can be hard to tell who's talking.
Bobby being a student and not a full fledged X-men annoys me still, but aside from that a great movie.
You'll get more Magneto backstory as you go through the films. It is really tragic and compelling. Ironically it is so very human. He has all the best lines.
Always hire Shakespearean actors for the deeper roles. Hero and villain. The delivery of the best lines are done by them.
When Logan said it hurts every time his claws come out he didn't mean physically.
Over 20 years later and this movie still holds up well. The themes mean much more these days and for a movie that was made its effects were still well done for its time. And Hugh Jackman no one could have been chosen better to play Wolverine all these years. Funny thing is people did not initially believe Hugh could play the character as in the comics Wolverine is 5ft short and Hugh Jackman is a huge jacked man. But he truly embodied the swagger that masked a soul broken by pain and loss the loner who doesn’t usually like many people but fights to keep those he cares for safe. Hugh was to Wolverine what RDJ and Chris Evans were to Iron Man and Captain America.
Hi Addie! Actually, i believe Wanda from the Avengers is actually a mutant as was her brother, and they both were originally part of the xmen universe in the comic books. If you notice, no human in the Avengers have latent powers they were born with. I was surprised when her character first appeared in the Avengers..
So technically right. Wanda was first introduced as a mutant and she was Magneto's daughter. But in the comics they've retconned her origin several times, so she is currently not a mutant in the comics.
Multiverse.
When these movies were being made, Fox owned the X-men rights, Sony had Spider-Man and Marvel studios had begun recollecting the rights to the rest. Now, Marvel has finally bought the X-men back and so have begun reintegrating all the different universes.
@@havok6280 Thanks for the additional history. I didn't know she was retconned so many times.
Yeah, in the official canon of the comics Wanda and her brother are Magneto's kids and mutants. The MCU didn't have the movie rights for mutants when they added them in Age of Ultron, so they sort of skirted around that.
In terms of connections to the greater Marvel universe the X-Men in the comics (Earth-616) exist within a shared universe with Avengers, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, etc. Characters like Wanda and Pietro Maximoff who you know from the MCU are Mutants in the comic's originally members of Brotherhood of Mutants lead by their "father" Magneto an idea that's been retconned a few times but originally Magneto was the father to the Maximoff twins. They later joined the X-Men and Avengers which created a fun loophole for the MCU as Fox owned the rights to the X-Men/Mutants BUT Wanda and Pietro are also Avengers meaning they could technically be used by Marvel Studios in the MCU Marvel Studios just couldn't refer to them as Mutants or mention X-Men. This is why they're referred to as Enhanced Individuals in Age of Ultron instead of Mutants a term that's been used to refer to many Individuals with unexplained powers in the MCU. In theory they could still be Mutants in the MCU it's just Marvel Studios couldn't refer to them as Mutants. This has changed now that Disney own the rights to the X-Men so they could easily say that Wanda was always a Mutant.
Now that Disney owns X-Men they're free to include X-Men and Mutant related content in the MCU it's just a case of how they'll introduce Mutants and the X-Men. They could say that Mutants and X-Men were active all along in the background like Spider-Man or they could pull them from another universe into the MCU. My guess is they'll do the "They've always existed in the MCU we just haven't seen them" which will take alot of explaining like why didn't they help with Thanos to why haven't we heard anything about X-Men or Mutants as a whole.
So believe it or not The X-Men were way more popular than The Avengers both in animation and comics at that time from the 1980s to the 1990s early 2000s. Studios did not want characters like Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, etc. Hulk is really the only Avenger who caught on having his own classic TV show that introduced him to the more mainstream audience back in 1978. It wasn't until Iron Man in 2008 that the Avengers started to become more well known and popular all coming together in 2012 with The Avengers movie that just blew up pushing the Avengers beyond X-Men.
There's a few reasons why X-Men was so popular for one the New Mutants comics were being released in the 1980s introducing a younger class of characters focused on really cool teenage mutants while also introducing some really cool characters like Deadpool and Cable. We then got the amazing X-Men Animated Series in 1994, series was massive even crossing over with the 90s Spider-Man show.
Then we got the Fox X-Men movies in 2000 bringing the X-Men to the more mainstream audience but these films moved away from the more comic book look and feel so for comic fans of the comic's it was a little disappointing seeing them outfitted in black leather. This was at a time when Studeios and creators were very unsure about how the mainstream au dice would react to comic designs so alot of the comic look and feel was replaced with a more tame rendition of the X-Men. The 2000s Spider-Man movie did the opposite diving deep into that bright colourful comic book look using Spider-Man's classic Red and Blue outfit along with a fun tone mixed with darkness. 2008 Iron Man did an amazing job at using comic designs something the MCU has followed really well something DC has also done really well as far back as Batman 1989.
I've got an issue with mutants and X-men being in the MCU all along.
If that's true, why didn't we see Wolverine, Sabertooth, or Magneto in Captain America: The First Avenger???? Both Wolverine and Sabertooth fought in World War 2 while Magneto was imprisoned as a child at a Nazi concentration camp. Captain America would've bumped into those guys at some point during the movie.
Why isn't Apocalypse in the Eternals film??? The Eternals would've witnessed him building the pyramids and dominating over all of ancient Egypt. They could've done something to stop him.
How come Evan Peters's Quicksilver didn't show up in Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness??? He was already in WandaVision so he should've been in this movie. Another missed opportunity is putting the X-men themselves in this movie since they already brought in Professor X.
@@loudboy317 that would've been too much in winter soldier and possibly ruin how great the movie was
@@HereJune
I'm talking about First Avenger, not Winter Soldier.
"How Many Times Can This Guy Get Stabbed And Still Survive?"
Just like Wolverine, Sabretooth also has rapid healing
I remember when this movie first came out. I was so excited because everything finally came together to give us a good live action X-Men movie.
The clash of philosophies between Charles and Eric (and the fact that they're both kind of right), along with the stellar acting of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen really elevates an otherwise average superhero movie. They took what might have been just another quickly-forgotten, live action adaptation and turned it into a film franchise.
FYI: in the comics, Wolverine had a small, metal insert placed on his knuckles that keep the skin from closing after retracting his claws or from tearing it open when unsheathing them. It cut down on the pain. I think it would have been cool to have at least a trickle of blood run down from the opening and down the claw at least once, for the “oooooh” factor
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen was like watching Shakespeare on screen with those two
That's actually curious when you know that both actors have many performances of Shakespeare's plays in their background. It certainly showed on screen.
In the X-Men movies wolverine is the younger brother of sabertooth (the mutant who attacked wolverine and rogue). Magneto is Wanda and her brother quicksilver's father.
Your Mystique paranoia is hilarious (and probably justified). 😝
This movie was the last time I went to the theater with my mom🙂 So glad this was a good movie, you never know when the last time is, when you have time with people 🥰
Before these movies, all my X-Men knowledge came from the early 90s cartoon. It was awesome.
The sequel provides a lot more information regarding Wolverine's background. Also he gets a lot more ripped, haha.
Fun Fact: The actor who played Toad, Ray Park also played Darth Maul in Phantom Menace.
and his iron bar spin is an homage to Maul's double-bladed saber
I'll try to give a short explanation of the confusing reality of Marvel movies being in or not in the MCU..
In the 1990s, after a short but huge speculator boom (people buying up tons of comics thinking they would go up in value), there was a market crash. Marvel Comics was in big financial trouble. To stay afloat they sold off the movie rights to most of their most popular IP. New Line got Blade. Lion's Gate got the Punisher. Sony got Spider-Man. Columbia got Ghost Rider. Universal got the Incredible Hulk. and 20th Century Fox, doing well for themselves at the time, nabbed arguably the two most valuable properties: The Fantastic Four and X-Men (at the time X-Men was by far Marvel's most popular comic).
All of these studios eventually made one or more films based on these properties. Some better than others. Some did really well, financially and critically. (Blade, X-Men, and Spider-Man, notably) Others didn't do so great. Inspired both by the possibility of making $$$, and also the desire to not see their IP trashed by lesser adaptations, Marvel created Marvel Studios with the idea to produce their own films in-house. Someone noticed that of all the IP Marvel had sold off... they still had the rights to most of the original Avengers (except Hulk)... so they had the idea to create an interconnected universe of movies all leading up to one big event cross-over film about the Avengers, which is how things have always worked in the comic books. This was a novel idea for movies, though... in film.. superhero movies always existed in their own separate universes and never crossed over. They rarely even were consistent within their own universes from one picture to its sequel. Trying to create an interconnected universe of films about many different characters all living in the same world... building upon that over years or decades even... that was pretty radical and unprecedented.
Anyway... Marvel Studios worked out a deal with Universal which had already made one Hulk movie (that flopped) to use Hulk in the MCU... the deal was that Marvel Studios would produce the films, Universal would retain distribution rights to any solo Hulk movies (and the bulk of the profits from those), and then Marvel could use Hulk in any team-up movies like the Avengers. Universal kind of got shafted because they never made another solo Hulk film after The Incredible Hulk (2008)... but Marvel now had their Avengers line-up.
Iron Man came out in 2008 and was a huge hit. Avengers came out in 2012 and was an even bigger hit. Eventually Marvel Studios was producing the biggest movies in Hollywood making billions of dollars worldwide. The MCU was a gigantic success. But all of these other characters that had been sold off still belonged (in film) to these other studios...
but... slowly... Marvel started to reacquire all of their IP. New Line went bankrupt so they got back Blade. The Punisher and Ghost Rider movies flopped so the options on them were allowed to expire and they reverted to Marvel. The deal they had with Netflix to make streaming shows about Daredevil, Luke Cage, etc stipulated that if no new shows had been made after a certain number of years, then rights would revert to Marvel, and since Marvel was the one producing the shows they simply stopped making them once they had their own streaming service Disney + in the works, and eventually got the rights back for these characters. The Fox X-Men films were still doing pretty well, most of the time (they were kind of hit-or-miss). Didn't seem likely that Marvel would get back the rights to X-Men or Fantastic Four. But Disney acquired Marvel in 2009... and then they bought Fox in 2019... so both were Disney subsidiaries at that point and part of the same company, which is how they all ended up under the same roof and why the X-Men and Fantastic Four are now scheduled to re-deubt in the MCU.
The only hold-out left is Spider-Man with Sony... but Marvel has a deal with Sony to use Spider-Man in the MCU, they share the profits for these movies, which are enormous, everyone wins (except for the people who wanted a decent Carnage or Morbius movie).
Anyway... From 2000 - 2020 the X-Men movies that came out were Fox films, not connected to the MCU. Going forward... if there are any future X-Men movies they will be part of the MCU. Probably Deadpool 3 is going to crossover from the Fox-verse to the MCU, too, in some self-aware meta way. And... with Phase 4 of the MCU they also introduced the concept of the Multiverse... where there are infinite different versions of the Marvel universe existing in parallel, and through that concept they brought in characters like Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, from the earlier non-MCU Spider-Man films, and Patrick Stewart's Professor X.... so..... in a way.... ALL Marvel movies, even those not in the MCU, have sort of retroactively been made into MCU canon... they just exist in different parallel universes to the MCU.
So... think of the Fox X-Men films as in a parallel universe to the MCU. Actually maybe think of every X-Men film as in its own separate universe because they barely make any sense together there are so many plot holes.... but some of these films were really great even though others were terrible.
There were other Marvel movies and superhero movies before the X-Men movies, but these are what really started the modern superhero craze.
If you didn’t know Ray Park (Toad) was also Darth Maul in Starwars ep1
Charles Xavier -- Professor X (telepath extraordinaire)
Marie -- Rogue (can absorb life force/powers thru physical contact)
Logan -- Wolverine (mutant: healing & keen senses; claws: were implanted)
Ororo Monroe -- Storm (power over weather)
Jean Grey -- "Marvel Girl", never used in movies -- (telepathy/telekinesis)
Scott Summers -- Cyclops -- (energy beam from eyes)
Bobby -- Iceman -- (power to produce ice & snow)
Eric -- Magneto -- (magnetic powers)
Mystique -- (shape shifter)
Sabertooth -- (incredible strength)
The love triangle between Scott, Jean & Logan was established in the comics. I subscribed to many of the X-Men books (including Alpha Flight, Excalibur, New Mutants; & X-Man) for several years, until the comics became too expensive. These movies were created by people who genuinely love the source material!
Claws were not implanted. He had them before. They were only covered in adamantium
yes the "yellow spandex" is a callback to Wolverine's old costume in the comics. good catch.
Not just Wolverine's, but all of the X-Men.
Fun Fact: When Rogue asks wolverine if his claws hurts when it comes out and he replied by saying "Everytime", he ment both physically and mentally especially the fact that he was experimented on and lost everyone he loved overtime
Addie, you'll get your wish. There's plenty of Wolverine in the upcoming movies. He even has some of his own movies which includes an origin movie.
Notice the symbolism in the final scene and how it sets up the moral ambiguity of the series. Magneto is wearing white but his chess pieces (representing the Brotherhood of Mutants) are black while Xavier is wearing black but his chess pieces (representing the X-Men) are white.
Blade (1998) and X-Men (1999) are responsible for the success of high-budget Marvel movies. Up until then, there really wasn't a mainstream interest in comic book movies. People who liked comics were looked down upon as geeks and pretty ladies wouldn't have been caught dead liking these characters. Now, well, here we are. It's more popular and lucrative than ever imagined.
Fun fact: Actor that played Toad was also Darth Maul in Star Wars Phantom Menace. After he knocked Storm down the elevator shaft towards the end of the movie, he did a spinning trick thing with the metal stick that was keeping the elevator door open. That was a callback reference to Darth Maul and his double sided lightsaber.
The actor who played Toad was the actor who played Darth Maul in Ep 1 and Solo. His scene with the staff was a nod to ep 1 which came out the year before this movie did.
in the comics, Logan is like 5 feet tall.
Hugh Jackman is so good at playing him, many choose to ignore this detail. and they're correct. he's perfect.
The X-Men comic is an allegory of the Civil Rights Movement, Magneto being Malcom X and Xavier being MLK.
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Magneto is not a “villain” despite being the antagonist.
Hi Addie, Magneto cant fly. He controlled metal from what his wearing, example belt, make it rise & down, so just like fly
Fun fact: Toad is played by Ray Park who you will know as Darth Maul from The Phantom Menace he’s a highly underrated actor and stuntman/Choreographer
Addie I think you have the mutant ability of spotting Mystique. Before you knew she was even a character, you knew!
Yay! Can't wait for the X2 reaction! Love your channel - thanks for all your hard work!
Wolverine has regeneration, adamantium skeleton and highly developed senses. His scent lets him smell and track people. His senses also give him a heightened awareness of his environment.
X-Men is my favorite comic series of all time. Been reading since the early 80s
You're into it for good reason... Louise Jones Simonson was a writer and editor for the comics and had a lot of influence over the stories in the mid-to-late 1980s, an era known for several signature X-Men stories.
One of the funniest things about this movie is that they made James Marsden stand on crates all through this film.
Wolverine is supposed to be short, but Hugh Jackson is over 6’ tall. Famke Janssen (Jean Grey) is 6’ tall, so they made James stand on apple crates.
Great movie that treats its source material with respect and with a great cast. Instant movie star making turn from Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. The sequel X2 remains one of my absolute favourite superhero movies.
Rogue is seriously underpowered in this movie. In the comics, she held onto Captain Marvel (yes, that Captain Marvel) and absorbed her powers permanently and put her into a coma for quite some time. The comics Captain Marvel doesn’t have Tesseract enabled abilities but can fly and has super-strength.
The guy that dropped Rogue off at the cage fight bar and slept on the bench, voiced Hank, (Beast), McCoy in the animated series. The the cop on the megaphone that Magneto held the bullet to his head, is Nic Cage’s brother.
I read and loved these comics growing up. As kids on the playground we’d cast the then non existent X-Men movie and we always said “Obviously Captain Picard will be Professor X” so when I was 17 and this movie got announced with him in the role I felt very happy.
You’re in for another wild ride.
Hey Addie, the actor who played Toad in this movie is Ray Park, the actor who played Darth Maul in Star Wars:Episode I
18:37 Fun Fact: The train station scene was filmed at the Liuna Train Station in my hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, up here in the Great White North. I was one of the extras outside watching the roof get blown off. A few years later I met Ray Park (Toad) and we chatted for about 10 minutes about this movie as well as "The Phantom Menace", as he also played Darth Maul. After he signed my Darth Maul action figure package and got photos taken, I was about to pay him for the autograph and pics...he stopped me and said "Don't worry about it, they're on me. We co-stars have to stick together, right?"
Here is some Marvel comic book trivia to catch you up and help you understand:
1.) In the Marvel comics and 1992 Fox TV X-Men cartoon, Rogue is shown having superhuman speed, strength, and stamina. She got this from fighting Miss Marvel (aka Captain Marvel) and prolonged physical touch during combat made her absorb Carol's powers permanently.
2.) In the OG Marvel comics (Earth-616 story line), Wolverine's main outfit was brown. The "yellow spandex" was his old outfit when he first got out of the Weapon X program and he decided to return to it when he joined the X-Men.
3.) If/when you watch Deadpool, you'll see many references to Wolverine. The reason is because in the comics, Deadpool was also in the same Weapon X program as Wolverine and they became Weapon X alumni "friends".
4.) Wolverine's enhanced strength and stamina are due to his body adapting to the heavy Adamantium that was injected into him. He also survived the Adamantium injection surgery thanks to his enhanced mutant self-healing powers.
5.) In the Marvel comics, Captain America's shield was made from Proto-Adamantium (Vibranium & iron alloy mix). However, other attempts to duplicate the successful shield resulted in the creation of "True Adamantium" which was the metal bonded to Wolverine's skeleton.
6.) Throughout the comics, the X-Men, Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc. have all had guest appearances and cameos in each other's respective franchises. However, Fox owns the X-Men franchise broadcast rights and Sony owns Spider-Man so only recently have these franchises gone from being standalone movies to profitable collaborations like you saw in Civil War and Infinity War/Endgame.
7.) In the 1991 Infinity Gauntlet Saga, Thanos turned Wolverine's skeleton into a sponge after Wolverine stabbed him (which did nothing). What you saw in Infinity War (2019) was nothing compared to the bloodbath of what Thanos did in the1991 IGS comics.
8.) 19:20 - In the Fatal Attractions (1993) comics, Magneto pulls out all of Wolverine's Adamantium. This is a nod to the scene in the train where Magneto bends Wolverine's claws.
I'm excited for you to see X-men 2 X-men united
I really liked a lot about this film (the characterization of Wolverine, Professor X, and Magneto) but a lot of the other members suffered (Sabertooth, Storm, Scott, and Rogue). But I think the strength of this film is in its premise and fairly accurate take on X-Men. The franchise really has its ups and downs but there's a lot to like here.
"Your hair's in your mouth."
Every time I see that shot I think, "Really? You couldn't have done another take?"
31:45 "Your hair is in your mouth" That toc kicking in
I love Addie!!
Fun Fact Addie: In the comics Magneto is the fanther of Wanda and Quicksilver.
I love Toad. He's literally one of my favorite mutants of all time.
Yea,. the next one is on par with this and from there, they all go down hill. They are interesting from a background perspective and there are a few scenes within each that are evocative, but they aren't good overall.
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There's a double meaning when Logan says it hurts every time.
It hurts him, and hurts the ones he uses them on, every time.
Wolverine doesn't have super strength, at least in the movies. In the comics it's more debatable, since it can be argued his skeleton allows him to lift more than a normal human, and he doesn't show any real "extreme" examples of strength. They've also changed his powers a lot since this movie came out (It was revealed he's part of some lupine type race, and can survive being flatted by a truck, healing almost instantly as the tires come off him, etc.)
He can heal extremely fast, the adamantium skeleton (which he only survives cause of his healing), peak human strength (again, cause of his healing), also heightened senses like an animal like smell.
This film is so close to my heart because it reminds me of one of my favorite childhood memories. I didn't get to see it in theaters but since I loved X-Men, my family rented it on video when it was available and I fell in love with the movie. For my birthday that year they gave me what felt like a million dollars and told me to run into Toys R Us and grab whatever X-Men toys I wanted. I still remember walking out with 2 big bags (the X-Men toys came in these huge boxes) and for Christmas they got me the X-Jet and the Statue of Liberty playset. My family always struggled, but always knew how to make me feel like the luckiest kid in the world.
"...because of Rights...." (followed by Jedi hand gestures.) Good one.
Awesome reaction, Addie. X-Men (2000) is one of the movies that started the entire superhero genre craze, and it's still going strong. My favorite X-Men character is Deadpool, although he's in training. BTW, if there's a language that I would love to learn, it's French.
Speaking of Bryan Singer, I also suggest Public Access (1993), The Usual Suspects (1995), Apt Pupil (1998), Valkyrie (2008), and Jack the Giant Slayer (2013).
...and speaking of Hugh Jackman, I also suggest Van Helsing (2004, directed by Stephen Sommers, the director of The Mummy (1999)), The Prestige (2006, directed by Christopher Nolan), Real Steel (2011), Prisoners (2013), and Reminiscence (2021).
Blade....then Spiderman and X-men. The rest is history.
@@alextan1478 I'd say The Fountain directed by Darren Aronofsky is Hugh Jackman's most highly underrated movie but well worth a watch.
You can't imagine what it was like seeing this movie come out in 2000. It was something a lot of us could never FATHOM. Hell, we couldn't even imagine the MCU! We all had misgivings about Hugh Jackman because he was SO freakin' tall and Wolverine is only supposed to be 5'3", but man--does that all seem so silly now that we CAN'T imagine ANYONE else in the role. The rest of the casting was phenomenal as well, even though many characters ended up being underdeveloped or underutilized during the course of the franchise.
And it's all so funny because Marvel had SUCH a hard time trying to sell the X-Men to film and TV. They tried two backdoor pilots within Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends that went nowhere, and then did a full pilot episode that ALSO went nowhere (but at least became the basis for an AMAZING arcade game). It wasn't until Margaret Loesch, who worked for Marvel's animation division, became head of Fox Kids that she was able to get X-Men: The Animated Series made and suddenly the X-Men became VERY appealing.
So, minor spoiler alert: the X-films, unfortunately, don't all maintain an even level of quality. When they hit, they HIT. And when they miss, hoo-boy. You should have an entertaining journey through them--especially with an MCU background under your belt now to truly compare and contrast how things evolved from these humble beginnings.
You can see this 'series', along with the Spider Man series around the same time, is what finally gave Disney the confidence to join in. I'll echo many posts with the sentiment: Ian McKellen is simply amazing.
Fun fact about the X-Men
Magneto’s prediction about war has been correct in every timeline. And they’ve reset the timeline thousands of times
Before Hugh Jackman forever became Wolverine because of this movie, he was in New York playing a very different character. He was playing Curly in a production of Oklahoma on Broadway. It's well known now, but when he came onto the movie scene, it wasn't revealed until later that Hugh is a big song-and-dance man. He was well known in his native Australia as a stage performer. He was the original Gaston when the stage version of Beauty and the Beast premiered in Australia. Recently, he did a run on Broadway doing The Music Man. It was delayed because of Covid, but when the curtain finally rose, it was very well received. Hugh also said that he would've jumped at the chance to play Wolverine in The Avengers. He's returning to the role apparently when mutants are revealed in the MCU. We'll see what happens. The X-Men film franchise gets a little muddy with the jumping around in time after The Wolverine. Here's hoping for a more stable continuity within the MCU. I met Famke Janssen (Jean Grey) a few years ago at a convention. Lovely lady from the Netherlands. Met Ray Park too. Super nice guy. A little underused here. There are other comic book movies that deserve more recognition that were done in the 1990s. Some are admittedly a bit campy, but still a fun watch. Excluding the Batman films from that decade, I recommend the following: The Rocketeer(based on the comics by Dave Stevens), The Phantom(based on the long-running comic strip), and The Shadow(based on the radio show from the 1930s) which starred Alec Baldwin when he was more likable.
Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine in Deadpool 3.
I'm pretty sure Cyclops' eyes are a portal to a dimension where there's nothing but that red energy, and he has the glasses and the visor to control it
In the comics, Rogue first absorbed the powers of Ms Marvel (now known as Captain Marvel). She basically has a similar base power set as Captain Marvel, with also the ability to drain others of their powers.
Lore-wise, Cyclops eyes are a portal to another dimension,
and the beam is not a laser, but kinetic force.
So I guess the line "You know what happens when a Toad is struck by lightning, the same thing that happens to everything else" was supposed to be a running gag with Toad saying something like that before whatever he was gonna do but it was all cut out and made Storm look kinda stupid like... "Storm what does that mean?" lol
25:44 Everyone said that. LOL.
Also magneto is the father of pietro and wanda in the comics
Was. That was retconned out some years ago. Now it’s… complicated.
And even Magneto being their father was a retcon.
From 1974 - 1979, they were the children of Golden Age superheroes the Whizzer and Miss America.
Addie, my first Xmen movie that i saw was Generation X (1995) which was the second junior Xmen team in the 90s after the New Mutants in the 1980s . so you can watch that one last if you want , after you get through the 20 years of Xmen movies that lead up to it.
"Was His Costume Yellow In The Comics?, Was That A Reference To That?"
The answer to both of those questions is 'Yes', Addie
This was the first movie that kicked off modern superhero movies. This movie was popular enough that studios realized that they could start making movies about every superhero.
The best part about X-men in general is the fact that every mutant only gets one power/mutation. So everyone has limits they have to deal with. That combined with everything taking place in "real life" makes the franchise more believable than other franchises like the MCU.
Blade came before.
Spider-Man came just after
@@luxurybuzz3681 Right. Blade was good, but it wasn't considered as something for wide audiences (I think Blade is rated R). X-men was the first movie that made production companies realize that the genre could be a long-term money maker.
@@joshuawiedenbeck6944 I disagree.
I think Batman was. 1989.
90s were full of comic book movies. Ninja Turtles, The Rocketeer, Darkman, The Crow, The Mask, Inspector Gadget, Blade, etc...
@Luxury Buzz When I said modern, I meant 2000s. I should have been more specific.
@joshuawiedenbeck6944 yeah there were only two superhero movies in 2000.
X-Men and Unbreakable
I remember watching these just a few months ago and, even though i have seen these films many times, only then managed to realize the social commentary in these movies
The Brotherhood of Mutants, in the comics, is called The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, something Stan Lee always regretted, because no villain looks in the mirror and sees a villain, every villain is the hero of his own story. And this is especially true for Magneto.
His aims are, really, exactly the same as Charles Xavier's: create a world where mutants don't have to live in fear, victims of prejudice and hate crimes. It's their methods that differ, Magneto preferring violent revolution and exterminating humans if that's what it takes, Charles wanting to find the road of peace, coexistence, and cooperation. And given Magneto's backstory, that he's literally seen human prejudice at its worst, you can understand why he believes the way he does, and even if you're more sympathetic to humans (because you probably ARE one), you might even agree that he has a point, and our track record of being able to get along with the "other" is pretty damn dismal.
I love that the films mostly kept that aspect to him. That even when Magneto is at his worst, you can usually sympathize with his motives, and understand why he believes what he does, even if you don't agree with it.
One thing X-Men is known for especially in the comics is their depiction & call out for some social issues like discrimination that mirrored the times then when they were released.
Yes the xmen were typically portrayed in yellow before this movie.
Yes AND no. The original team wore identical yellow and black uniforms from 1963-67, before switching to individual costumes until the book was cancelled in 1970.
The yellow uniforms returned when the X-Men made appearances in other books between 1972 and 1974. (The X-Men comic had been revived in 1971 as an all reprint book so the look of the team reverted to match the uniforms in the reprint series.)
The All-New, All-Different X-Men, who debuted in 1975 and on whom the films were based, wore individualized costumes from Day One, with yellow, black and blue being Wolverine's signature look. (Yellow was used as an accent color on other characters, but their costumes were primarily other colors.)
The original yellow uniforms were revived in 1982 for the New Mutants spin-off book, before they, too, got individual costumes several years later.
And now that's more than anyone needs to know about the X-Men and yellow spandex.
Fun fact: the X-men were originally meant as a metaphor for black people and their social issues in the 70s. Professor X and Magneto were specifically inspired by MLK and Malcolm X: two crusaders with a valid cause, but one committed to the ideals of peace and the other a lot more comfortable with violence as a tool.
I also heard they were also a metaphor for gay people. They find out something different about them, mostly in their teens. They are often discriminated cause of it, mostly their parents who kick them out and they go out to find communities of them.
Great reaction Addie. You have immediately caught on to the larger themes of X-MEN, including the civil rights allegory and the cost of mutant heroes. As you noticed, most mutant powers inflict a heavy cost. These movies are mostly pretty good, though there are some duds near the end. I'll let you decide which are which when you get there.
Fun fact: Mystique is naked in these X-Men movies, they just painted the blue looking suit right on to her bare skin.
Wolverine's original powers are rapid regenerative healing, enhanced senses (smell, hearing, etc. equal to a natural predator), strength (a side-effect of his healing), and retractable claws. the experiments done on him was to add "adamantium" to all his bones, including his natural retractable claws. This was done to him specifically because his healing allowed him to survive the metal implantation/grafting operation.
Make sure to look for Stan Lee and also watch the end credits scene(s) with each film.
"Oh, So It's Not Just Super Strength, He Can Heal Himself Too"
Wolverine's full powers are more than just his strength and rapid healing
He's also got all 5 senses heightened and his skeletal structure is laced with a metal called Adamantium, which is similar to the metal Vibranium used in Black Panther's suit
In the comics, Wolverine and Sabertooth are rivals, they have nearly the same mutation, both have an accelerated healing factor, heightened senses like smell, hearing and sight. Sabertooth's mutation is _slightly_ more focused toward his outward appearance and lethality and Wolverine having the _slightly_ stronger healing factor. Both were a part of the same program that gave Wolverine his Adamantium skeleton, and Sabertooth was supposed to get the same but Wolverine broke out and ruined the place before Sabertooth could get the chance. If I remember correctly, Wolverine was kidnapped for the program whereas Sabertooth wanted it.
27:36 - I am glad u got the scene when they were regrouping and the words between Cyclops and Wolverine:
Wolverine: "Hey, hey it's me."
Cyclops: "Prove it."
Wolverine: "You're a dick."
Cyclops: "Ok"
Best part of the movie.
Yes, that was definitely a reference to the comic book costumes.
Hey, Addie! The X-Men are Marvel Comics superheroes created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963.
The film rights were sold to 20th-Century Fox studios in the 1990s.
Therefore, no other Marvel characters could appear in them when the MCU came into existence later and nothing mutant-related could exist in the MCU.
The X-Men movies proved team superhero movies were viable and are the reason we have an MCU and DCEU.
One major problem with the franchise is that there was no plan going in to make a coherent saga so there are MANY CONTINUITY ERRORS!
Another problem is that there is little FIDELITY to the comics other than surface level stuff and the franchise became a showcase for HUGH JACKMAN's Wolverine as the central focus; the comics are much more ensemble pieces. Wolverine is hugely popular among comic readers but the movies became largely his vehicle.
When the franchise was rebooted with a younger cast to clear up continuity and fidelity issues, the only explanation for discrepancies between the two sets of films was that they were taking place in MULTIPLE TIMELINES.
Despite the confusion, X-Men films are all very ENTERTAINING including the duds and boast terrific action and INCREDIBLE CASTS.
Now that Disney owns the film rights, fans are excited to see Kevin Feige adapt them properly.
As always, since these are films based on Marvel Comics, STAN LEE has a cameo in most of them. In "X-Men", he was a hot dog vendor on the beach when Senator Kelly emerges from the surf.
X-MEN TIMELINES:
Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP --> Origins ------------------------------------------------> X1 --> X2 --> X3 --> Wolverine ----------> New Mutants ----------------------> Logan
Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP ----------------> Apocalypse --> Dark Phoenix ------------------------------------------------> Deadpool --> Deadpool 2 -----> DOFP Utopia
Egypt --> 1845 --> Nagasaki --> First Class --> DOFP --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> DOFP Dystopia
DO NOT WATCH THE FILMS IN RELEASE ORDER!!!!! FOLLOW THIS RECOMMENDED ORDER!!!!! It keeps the multiple timelines orderly.
RECOMMENDED VIEWING ORDER:
X-Men
X2: X-Men United
X3: The Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men: First Class
The Wolverine: Extended Cut
X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Rogue Cut
X-Men: Apocalypse
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Deadpool
New Mutants
Logan
Deadpool 2
FYI: Wolverine and Sabertooth are brothers. More of that in later movies but Sabertooth has the same healing abilities. That why he didn't die.
"Gandalf is a villain in this? Idk if I can handle that.."
This is why I subbed just now..
X-men are my favorite group of any superhero group, the movie versions of them aren’t really that good representation of them except wolverine,professor X,and Magneto but some of the movies are still good
The actor playing Toad, is the same actor who played Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I.
Wolverine, played by Hugh Jackman, appears in 9 films:
- X-Men
- X2: X-Men united
- X3: The Last Stand / X-Men: The Last Stand
- X-Men: First Class
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- The Wolverine
- Logan
In more than half of these films, Wolverine/Logan is a main character, or THE main character. There are a few of these films in which his appearance is either a cameo, or is not central to the story. Charles Xavier also appears in each of these films.
The best of these films, are: X2, Days of Future Past, and Logan.
The events of the first X-Men trilogy are envisioned as occurring within a year or so of one another. The events of the second three films are envisioned as occurring over a 20-year period, from the early 1960s to the early 1980s. The events of ‘The Wolverine’ are envisioned as occurring some time after X3: the Last Stand.
The films •can• be viewed as self-contained, stand-alone units... but, that's not ideal: because events build on one another over time, it couldn’t hurt to view them either in the order listed above, or in release order. For ex, if a person viewed 'X2', without having first seen 'X-Men,' then, among other things, they would miss the story of Magneto and what he did in the first film, which is part of the back story for the second film.
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My understanding is that when the first X-Men comics were created in the early 1960s, Stan Lee conceived ‘mutants’ as being a sort of parallel with blacks during the Civil Rights era (then underway). Xavier and Magneto, the two leaders in conflict, were conceived of as rough stand-ins for Martin Luther King Jr, and Malcom X, respectively (Which the X-Men film tacitly acknowledges, by having Magneto say the exact phrase that is the title of Malcolm X’s book, “By any means necessary.”)
Days of Future Past and Logan are the best of the entire series. Especially Logan. What a masterpiece.