Two facts about the movie that Minty didn't mention. 1: One of the action choreographers was Hong Kong stuntman and director Corey Yuen. His assistant choreographer and interpreter was a guy named Jonathan, better known as Ke Huy Quan of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. 2: Despite this being based on a comic book, Singer encouraged the cast to not read the comics for research. There was a comics loving Production Assistant who went out of his way to write and present comics based bulletpoints to the cast behind Singer's back, even convincing Jackman to say Wolverine's catchphrase "Bub", which wasn't in the original script. The PA's name is Kevin Feige, who is the mastermind behind the MCU and president of Marvel Entertainment.
@@cinemaarts8795 I heard the same thing. Although I disagree with his implied suggestion that the x-men will get renamed to the mutants in the mcu. I disagree with that move because from a marketing perspective, everyone knows them as the x-men, so it would be kind of silly not to caplitalize off the name people are already familiar with.
The scene where Wolverine threatens the drunk guy at the bar by slowly extending his middle claw towards his throat is iconic, as those claws were nothing short of convincing - unlike the cartoon claws in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a mess, which is a shame because there are some good performances in there, the cast was trying but the script was terrible. I think it had to do with the writer's strike at the time. Anyway the next Wolverine movies were excellent and made up for it.
Another interesting fact: the truck driver who dropped Rogue off at the bar where Wolverine fought in the cage arena was played by George Buza who voiced Beast in the animated series. Buza wasn't gonna be the only voice actor from the cartoon to be in the movie, Gambit voice actor Chris Potter who also played Peter Caine in Kung-Fu: Legend Continues auditioned to play Cyclops
I met Chris potter and most of the animated cast in Chicago this year-I loved Gambit and was really happy to get my comics signed-He was very very nice(also remembered him from Kung-Fu series) and did not realize Catherine Disher(whom I watched in Forever Knight)voiced Jean. It was a great day for me.
Wow, someone else remembers Kung Fu: The Legend Continues! Another weird thing is that Lenore Zahn, who played Rogue, later became a Canadian politician.
That's interesting I can see that actor from Kung Fu legend continues.. he 1:50 played a cop and he was Cain's son yes. He would have been a little older I think like his early 30s maybe. He had presents and he was kind of tougher looking.. the face and voice he could have rocked a visor and still been a standout. I love Cyclops and I always watched Kung.
Gotta thank Russel Crow for casting Jackman as Wolverine. These movie studios should realize that an unknown actor is the best way to go as long as they look the part and can act.
Yeah, especially for iconic preexisting characters. If they'd gotten Crow, then it would have just been Russel Crow _playing_ Wolverine, but with Jackman, it *IS* Wolverine. Sure, in later roles, he's just Hugh Jackman (the Wolverine actor) playing a part, but whenever he goes back to it, he *is* Wolverine again. I think of it as the "Christopher Reeve Effect".
The memories attached to this movie are insane for me. I was born in 1986 and this is just one of those teenager movies for me that I remember clear as day how it made me feel. Along with the first spiderman movie. The production was so brand new and a real sight of the future of movies. Magneto always has the best power too. The mute of the lift of police cars always sends chills down my spine.
I was so excited when this came out. Being a Marvel fan during my youth I thought it was about time some Marvel characters got a film that was worthy of them. This did not disappoint. Jackman did a great job, but I just always wish someone like Russel Crowe had taken the role (I'm aware he actually passed it on to HJ).
He passed in part because he didn't wanna play a char back to back a lot like his LA Confidential character. But come on, that scene in Gladiator? "Frost-sometimes it makes the blades stick!" That would have been pure Logan.
Hugh Jackman was detained at Pearson International (Toronto) when his prop claws gave security reason to search his luggage after they saw them during X-Ray. It was during the audition period, but the guards got photos and autographs anyhow. It was a small blurb in my local newspaper.
I was in my late teens to early twenties when the animated series first aired, so I appreciated it being a little more mature than other cartoons, like the Japanese anime I was getting into at the time. I read a novel called Planet X which was a crossover of X-MEN and Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which Storm gave Dr. Crusher the details she needed to create a holodeck recreation of Professor Xavier in his office. Seeing the rendering completed, her first thought was, "She was right, there was a resemblance." That always tickled me.
This is the only movie to date that i saw 6 times at the cinema, my local Odean even had Tyler Mane (Sabertooth) come and do an opening, i got his signiture, tall guy, very imposing but so friendly. I remember getting goosebumps at the introduction of youg Eric in the camp and whispering the name of each mutant as they first appeared on screen and just being super excited by this movie, as a massive fan of the 90s animated series i couldn't wait for this movie and i am excited about the figure line up for X-Men 97 to, i also had figures for this movie, the weird rubber faces on Wolverine and Sabertooth so you could get them to look like they were snarling, one toy i always wanted was Wolverine on Cyclops bike but i never found in my local toy store.
Oddly enough you see Jubilee & Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde), both characters who Rouge was morphed into, in the American version. You see them both in Storm's class. And Kitty runs through a door to get her book from Professor X's office. David Hayter is also the voice actor most associated with Solid Snake, from the Metal Gear Solid series. He also wrote the script for X2 & based it loosely on the X-Men graphic novel; God Loves, Man Kills. Tyler Mane the actor who plays Sabretooth was a former professional wrestler. Jackman found working with him easy as Mane had so much experience "fighting" someone without hurting them. Mane went on to play Michael Myers. Rebecca Romijn actually injured scene partner Bruce Davison (Senator Kelly) in the helicopter. Davison did not complain. Romijn found out later. And unlike Jennifer Lawrence, Romijn spent countless hours in make-up for all 3 films. I met Ray Park once & asked him if he would've like have been Wolverine given his closer height & build & background in martial arts. He said he offered, just as Minty there was no actor tied to Wolverine. They told him someone was on the way & Jackman's convincing American accent being the thing that put him over. Neither Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen knew how to play chess, Singer assumed both of them would know how since they were both "English Gentleman" as he put it. So they both had to be taught what to do, so pieces weren't moved improperly. And if i remember correctly this is the movie where Hugh Jackman cut a stunt performer. He had 2 different sets of claws. One metal, the other foam. They had figure out a martial arts style for using claws, so it was new to everyone involved. Although Hugh Jackman is a dancer & a former PE teacher, they had a trainer get him into a shape. He 5'3" & loved Wolverine. He kept calling Jackman Logan & Wolverine the entire time. Famke Jannsen had previously worked with Patrick Stewart. She appeared on a Single Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Jean Luc Picard falls madly in love with her, but she is betrothed to someone else as part of peace deal. A peace deal, Picard has to oversee on behalf of the Federation. Not long after, Hugh Jackman & Halle Berry went on to co-star in Swordfish.
Dougray Scott was the rumored #1 guy to play Wolverine at the time. I remember looking up everything about him at the time, because I was such a Wolverine fan.
He was but he was stuck on an overrunning shoot for Mission: Impossible II. I'm told that was why they shot for three weeks without Wolverine and why Hugh Jackman was eventually cast. Also it almost cost Ian McKellen the part of Gandalf. Bryan Singer managed to shoot all his scenes before he had to go to New Zealand at the beginning of 2000
Speaking of Patrick Stewart, a video about Star Trek: First Contact (1996) would be nice as that film had the actor's most memorable and most intriguing cinematic portrayal of Captain Picard. Oh yes, First Contact is the best Star Trek TNG movie ever.
Small correction minty, the original x-men movie was “Generation X” which was a made for TV move released on Fox in 1996 which was supposed to serve as a pilot for a live action x-men tv show, surprised you didn’t mention that
Lol, you mean the Finola Hughes as Emma Frost, Max Headroom voice guy as the villain (I know he was also the neighbor dad on "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids!" movie), series pilot Generation X in 1995, it was adapted from the actual title of "Generation X" comic book (not an original X-Men movie), that had just debuted in Jan 1994, ran for 4 issues, then was put on hold (along with all other X-Titled books) for 4 months, with the "Age Of Apocalypse" alternate timeline, with new titles as Generation X became Generation Next, and then resumed with Generation X issue #5 in Sept. In the show/movie they had Frost and Banshee (just like the comic) as the headmistress and headmaster, with Jubilee, Skin, Mondo, and a version of Husk (but she didn't continue peeling layers off to reveal a new one), she was just overly muscular, not sure if Chamber, or M were in it either, but a few other characters that weren't in the comic, were there to round out the team. It was a flop and I'm glad FOX didn't pick it up, as it just wasn't time yet, for comic book movie (TV or Theater) adaptations then, as the FX tech needed, wasn't quite there yet (studios were still relying more on practical effects, than CGI then). 🤷
The animated serious wasn’t my introduction to the series… but it was so awesome! Watching it at times when I’m older now, it still kicks ass and it’s amazing how I (as a kid) got into it being it was virtually a kids soap opera. Just saying not “kid typical”. Also… the theme is one of the best ever for shows like this. Still listen to it for hype up needed moments lol.
"Andrew Kevin Walker, who would go on to write 8MM", you seem to gloss over the fact that he wrote SE7EN on spec and is one of that era's great uncredited script doctors.
Listening to all this just makes me think back when I was reading the comics, back in 79. All I did back then was read books and comics. Maybe a little nerdy and geeky, but I loved it.
Mid eighties cast of X-Men Wolverine: Kurt Russel Cyclops: Zach Galligan Jean Grey: Nicole Kidman Storm: Vanessa Williams Professor X: Sir Patrick Stewart Magnito: Sir Ian McClellan Quicksilver: Mark Hamill Mystique: Heather Locklear Jubilee: Ally Sheedy Sabertooth: Judd Nelson Rogue: Phoebe Cates Beast: Patrick Swazye
X-men initially had nothing to do with civil rights (that's propaganda). According to Stan Lee, mutants was an easy origin instead of coming out with new origins for all these characters. Magneto lead the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants because they were evil. Read the early issues. Now Chris Claremont did steer the X-men in that direction over a decade after their creation.
Intersting movie fact also about this movie before Ian got the role of magneto they did want Rutger Hauer but he turned it down because of the long contract deal.
LOOK I LOVE ALL THESE VIDEOS BUT once and for all, was the part offered to BOTH dougray Scott and Russel crowe?! And I thought I heard that each of them mentioned Hugh jackman?! I need to know for my journals
i think it was still early in comic book adaptions and they were hit/miss with mass audiences. i see a lot of films and even worked in home entertainment (video/dvd biz) and hadn't seen first 2 in theaters. then the third was coming out and i wanted to see it. at the time i worked at Paramount and so before it debuted i looked for the first 2 and couldn't find them in stores. i didn't rent anymore because i got so many free movies or saw things in theaters. and i hadn't been in a blockbuster for years. and it really stuck out how much it'd changed. all the boxes were color coded for days/price but no price was listed anywhere. and i asked people who were also browsing, all knew the rules. i felt unprogrammed. hahaha. only found 1 of the first 2 though. a friend lent me the other. wow! what a missed money making drafting opp for fox. and they were category captains at walmart. smdh.
Kind of ironic how back then Viggo Mortensen didn't want to commit to multi-picture deal in order to play Wolverine, but not that much further into future, and he's starring in all 3 of the LOTR films. But I guess the Lord of the Rings probably would've been more enticing for him to commit to starring in a trilogy. Peter Jackson just happened to have the better bait to lure Viggo in is all.
did Carolco make Total Recall ? they had Kuato in that movie, he was a psychic mutant like Charles Xavier in that movie , was that an attempt to make an Xmen movie within the Total Recall movie?
Viggo Mortensen didn't want to commit to a multiple picture deal....but shortly after became a last minute replacement for one of the lead roles in one of the biggest multi picture deals of all time.
Yeah but there was alot of extensive reshoots in post production so the actors were contracted to be available. My mate worked on LOTR trilogy as a vfx artist and co supervisor he said there were a few reshoots and were under time pressure to get Twin towers completed
Translation. He had no faith in the X-men movie doing well at the time because of the stigma that "Batman and Robin" left on the genre, so him turning it down for that reason was obviously just an excuse if he was willing to partake in another multi picture deal outside of x-men later on.
@@getoffthisrocktravel2054 And Ian McKellen was LOTR too, as Gandalf. But also was Magneto in the X-Men movies. Not the X-Men First Class movie though.
Shouldnt there be an ❗after prefer cause the question was what would you prefer? Yellow spandex! Would that not be prober punctuation??? Just wondering
I was hooked on the first X-Men from the opening credits. Hearing Prof. X's monologue about humans versus mutants as well as the intensity of the scene of a young Magneto being separated from his parents was amazing. But once Wolverine entered the movie I was sold. The movie could've ended with the scene where Cyclops and Storm save Wolverine and Rouge I would've left the theater completely satisfied. I still enjoy watching that scene alone from time to time. When Wolverine senses something's off, raises his eyes, takes two whiffs and extracts his claws, I get goosebumps. Regarding Dougray Scott, I'd heard that Dougray got hurt while filming Mission Impossible 2, which prevented him from appearing in the X-Men movie but I looked it up and apparently Dougray partially blames Tom Cruise for not letting him do both projects. Apparently they were knee-deep into the production of MI: 2 and Dougray wanted to split his time but Cruise refused to let him go. I don't know if that's just sour grapes from Scott but I do find it interesting that history would repeat itself with Cavill being unable to shave his mustache for Whedon's Justice League reshoots. Anyway, clearly Jackman was meant to play Wolverine, so no matter how it shook out things were supposed to turn out the way they did.
It was a dream come true to see Patrick Stewart taking on the role of Professor Xavier, Hugh Jackman was great as Wolverine, and mystique's makeup was fantastic.
Storm was not in the background. The character Storm is always cautious and holding back, because her powers are amazingly destructive if fully unleashed.
My son was a pre-teen when the X-Men cartoon came out in the 90s. I watched it with him to make sure it wasn't something I didn't think he needed to watch, and got hooked myself. It was a good storyline with good values. I wish more shows today were made this way. Even today, he's a huge X-Men fan.
If you wanna get technical. Blade walked so Marvel could run. Since Marvel was dying and Blade helped save it's life and ultimately started the comic book movie phase.
Yeah they were definitely dying. They sold movie rights for a mere 15,000. Can you imagine?! And the irony that New Line Cinema made the movie who's parent company Time Warner also owned DC Comics
Patrick Stewart as Professor X rates as the biggest no-brainer casting in the history of cinema. That part was cast by everyone the moment TNG hit the air a decade earlier, regardless of director. It’s why Bryan Singer didn’t bother trying to cast anyone else in the role at the time.
If they wanted to keep the idea of alienation then why didn’t they just keep Jubilee? She was a young girl coming into her powers. Every time she got dazzled her powers would go off. A young person not knowing how to deal with her / their powers. That could’ve been ANY mutant really. They didn’t need to start with Rogue.
I'm surprised at minty didn't mention that originally before Wolverine got his origins in the comic book anytime he was shown an animated series the character Wolverine with portrayed as Australian yes Marvel Comics intended for Wolverine to be from Australia Wolverine makes his first animated series appearance in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends season 3 episode 7 I think the episode was called the X-Men Adventures or the X-Men's reunions Wolverine was depicted with an Australian accent then a year later for the pride of the X-Men pilot Wolverine again was depicted with an Australian accent when Stan Lee was interviewed about the pride of the X-Men he stated that Wolverine origin was that he was from Australia he also stated in the DVD extras for the 2000 X-Men film that he felt it was a sign when Hugh Jackman was hired because he always felt that they should have kept Wolverine an Aussie but it was Jim Lee who created The Wolverine Saga which made Wolverine Canadian. So yeah up until the Wolverine Saga then later X-Men the Animated Series Wolverine was always meant to be Australian.
In the UK and Australia, it totally *is* the figure used instead of 300 billion as in the US. Though if you it could not be an accurate figure for this movie, then yeah you are right. That would be an awful lot of profit obtained by one movie. Hollywood would love it if that were true though.
While this and several other Fox X-Men films took a lot of Liberties with the material I really do enjoy this first X-Men film a lot. It's just a fun under 2 hours Magneto vs Xavier X-Men versus the Brotherhood movie with a straightforward plot. It's not super complex but it's filled with likeable characters and some fun action and that really overshadows the occasional wonky effects and not so comic accurate details.
The first X-Men film managed to be a fantastic movie while also having to be a movie that sets up the entire franchise, and explain to normies what the X-Men universe is all about.
For me, personally, X2 is so good, it makes the first one actually suck in comparison. As a writer, this has become my motto for the kind of sequels storytellers should be striving for.
Minty - this is super trippy. I had a bout of 90s superhero nostalgia yesterday and watched Episode 1 of the X-Men cartoon. I agree with your assessment that this movie wasn’t a perfect film, but did an excellent job of introducing the movie universe it existed in. McKellan and Stewart added a ton of gravitas and the ensemble cast really fleshed out the heros and villains. The Senator turning into ooze was extremely disturbing… and I liked it.
I have the novelization of this movie. It goes into more detail about the characters like Storm. It has a backstory about Storm and what happened when she was being whipped in her village.
Rogue was such an awesome character in the show. Best outfit, coolest personality. In the movie they made her even weaker than Jubilee. Such a shame. Not bringing in Gambit was also a huge fail.
I didn’t really see anything weak about her. In my opinion, she is one of the strongest characters in the story/movie because of the adversity she has endured and came out as what she is.
When this film came out, my brother and I were in college, and he took me to the theater to watch it. He was a comic book fan and I knew nothing of the series. We both thoroughly enjoyed the film. This was my introduction to Hugh Jackman and James Marsden - and all of the actors really suited their roles perfectly. And every time I see that water politician in any other roles, I feel like he’s going to turn into water. ((*shudder*))
X-Men was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, but lost to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film was also successful at the 27th Saturn Awards where it won categories for Best Science Fiction Film, Director (Bryan Singer), Actor (Hugh Jackman), Supporting Actress (Rebecca Romijn), Writing (David Hayter), Costumes. Nominations included Best Supporting Actor (Patrick Stewart), Performance by a Younger Actor (Anna Paquin), Special Effects, and Make-up. Singer also won the Empire Award for Best Director.
Awesome video Minty. One of my favourite movies ever. I still laugh when I hear the line where Wolverine says “you actually go outside in these things” And cyclops replies “what would you prefer yellow spandex”
in the 80's, after seeing his portrayal of Billy in the movie Predator, I was sold on Sonny Landham playing Wolverine. I swear when I was a kid I expected his character in Predator to Snikt out some claws. :)
I think KAENU REEVES would be a great choice for WOLvERINE and even Daniel Radcliffe but they not way be better then Hugh JACKMAN no one can replace him as WoLVERINE
I wish they would have kept the extended classroom scene. Storm is giving a history lesson about a Roman Emperor who converted to Christianity to stop the persecution of Christians in Rome, which is good foreshadowing to what magneto is planning.
Agreed. I recall that episode where Wolverine admits he is catholic to Nightcrawler. Also, now I finally know why Rogue acted more like Jubilee because it was originally supposed to be her.
I’d like to see a X-Force movie. Deadpool is my guy though and the X-Force joke team in Deadpool 2 got me, I was stoked for about five minutes and then they all got got lol. They’ll probably never do it but I got into X-Force through the Deadpool limited series comics. The story line in the comics about a virus that was offing mutants could make an interesting movie. I was legit sad when Multiple Man got sick and died in the comics. I think X-Force could be an R rated team comic movie.
I do remember when Blade came out and everyone was shocked over how it was actually really good. Rumour has it, Blade's success saved Marvel and definitely helped get X-Men and Spiderman made.
The Hugh miss here is that Jackman originally was going to turn down the role, until he wife convinced him to take the role. She told him that both Ian and Patrick were involved in the film and he had always wanted to work with them in theater. He would later end up befriending both of them, after taking the part.
However, the Remy LeBeau name was shown on a list of mutants in X2, the scene where Mystique was looking through "short n fat" Stryker's computer files, while posing as Deathstrike. Then Gambit is actually shown in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, when Blob tells Logan and Will I. Am's character, to go to New Orleans to find him, and he'd fly them to "tall n thin" Stryker's facility, but they get off on the wrong foot with him there, and also run across former partner Sabretooth, and it's the end of the line for WIA's character, so it ends up being just Logan, getting the plane ride from Gambit. 🤷
Bit miffed we never got Mr. Sinster in any of the films despite being teased! I mean the guy exudes evil and is a great character but then again who would play him? Loved his outfit BTW.
Two facts about the movie that Minty didn't mention.
1: One of the action choreographers was Hong Kong stuntman and director Corey Yuen. His assistant choreographer and interpreter was a guy named Jonathan, better known as Ke Huy Quan of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.
2: Despite this being based on a comic book, Singer encouraged the cast to not read the comics for research. There was a comics loving Production Assistant who went out of his way to write and present comics based bulletpoints to the cast behind Singer's back, even convincing Jackman to say Wolverine's catchphrase "Bub", which wasn't in the original script. The PA's name is Kevin Feige, who is the mastermind behind the MCU and president of Marvel Entertainment.
@@cinemaarts8795 I heard the same thing. Although I disagree with his implied suggestion that the x-men will get renamed to the mutants in the mcu. I disagree with that move because from a marketing perspective, everyone knows them as the x-men, so it would be kind of silly not to caplitalize off the name people are already familiar with.
The making of this movie sounded alot like the making of the Super Mario Bros movie from 1993… everything was just so chaotic and a jumbled mess
Good times😊
Ke Huy Quan... wasn't he Short Round in Temple of Doom? 🤔
@@BennyLlama39 Off course he was.
The scene where Wolverine threatens the drunk guy at the bar by slowly extending his middle claw towards his throat is iconic, as those claws were nothing short of convincing - unlike the cartoon claws in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
That's hilarious. I remember wondering how the claws looked worse even though origins came out years later.
That scene? Is that the one which reminds me of Superman 2? When Superman stands up to the drunk.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine was a mess, which is a shame because there are some good performances in there, the cast was trying but the script was terrible. I think it had to do with the writer's strike at the time. Anyway the next Wolverine movies were excellent and made up for it.
Micheal Jackson wtf
@@JohnWilliams-p8vI know right. What the heck? They could have used M Jackson on the scene where the senator turns into a jelly slob at the table.
Another interesting fact: the truck driver who dropped Rogue off at the bar where Wolverine fought in the cage arena was played by George Buza who voiced Beast in the animated series. Buza wasn't gonna be the only voice actor from the cartoon to be in the movie, Gambit voice actor Chris Potter who also played Peter Caine in Kung-Fu: Legend Continues auditioned to play Cyclops
I met Chris potter and most of the animated cast in Chicago this year-I loved Gambit and was really happy to get my comics signed-He was very very nice(also remembered him from Kung-Fu series) and did not realize Catherine Disher(whom I watched in Forever Knight)voiced Jean. It was a great day for me.
Wow, someone else remembers Kung Fu: The Legend Continues!
Another weird thing is that Lenore Zahn, who played Rogue, later became a Canadian politician.
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Three hundred thousand million dollars?..?........
That's interesting I can see that actor from Kung Fu legend continues.. he 1:50 played a cop and he was Cain's son yes. He would have been a little older I think like his early 30s maybe. He had presents and he was kind of tougher looking.. the face and voice he could have rocked a visor and still been a standout. I love Cyclops and I always watched Kung.
For those who may not have caught it: David Hayter is the original voice of Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid series of games...
And let's not forget the Guyver!
Snaaaaakkkeeeee!
And a lot of people thought David Hayter voiced Wolverine in the animated show which gives it yet another silly “connection”
Ya as soon as he said David Hayter I was like hah? 🤔 Snake?
I didn't know he was involved. 😅
I liked when Magneto pulls up his sleeve and looks at his tattoo. That explained him in about 5 seconds.
Gotta thank Russel Crow for casting Jackman as Wolverine. These movie studios should realize that an unknown actor is the best way to go as long as they look the part and can act.
Yeah, especially for iconic preexisting characters. If they'd gotten Crow, then it would have just been Russel Crow _playing_ Wolverine, but with Jackman, it *IS* Wolverine. Sure, in later roles, he's just Hugh Jackman (the Wolverine actor) playing a part, but whenever he goes back to it, he *is* Wolverine again.
I think of it as the "Christopher Reeve Effect".
I still have the soundtrack. On the actual cover, it says Michael K-Men.
"Well what would you prefer, yellow spandex?"
Literally LOLed in the theater, and I was not alone 😂
meanwhile…
me and my friends: yes. please.
Now that I think about it, I don't think I've ever seen Minty without his sunglasses on. So him "cosplaying as Cyclops" seems pretty accurate 😂😂😂
He's done at least one video without the glasses. It was different LOL.
Finally Minty did an X-Men movie! You need to do the rest as well :)
The memories attached to this movie are insane for me. I was born in 1986 and this is just one of those teenager movies for me that I remember clear as day how it made me feel. Along with the first spiderman movie. The production was so brand new and a real sight of the future of movies. Magneto always has the best power too. The mute of the lift of police cars always sends chills down my spine.
I was born in 87, I saw this movie when it first came out when I was 13
I was also born in 1986, and I remember my dad taking me and my brothers to see X-Men in 2000.
@@nsasupporter7557and this film is almost 25 yers old in two yers
I was so excited when this came out. Being a Marvel fan during my youth I thought it was about time some Marvel characters got a film that was worthy of them. This did not disappoint. Jackman did a great job, but I just always wish someone like Russel Crowe had taken the role (I'm aware he actually passed it on to HJ).
Hugh is the only actor suitable to be Wolverine.
Danny devito was actually proposed to be wolverine in the 80s as well.
He passed in part because he didn't wanna play a char back to back a lot like his LA Confidential character. But come on, that scene in Gladiator? "Frost-sometimes it makes the blades stick!" That would have been pure Logan.
Hugh Jackman was detained at Pearson International (Toronto) when his prop claws gave security reason to search his luggage after they saw them during X-Ray. It was during the audition period, but the guards got photos and autographs anyhow. It was a small blurb in my local newspaper.
I was in my late teens to early twenties when the animated series first aired, so I appreciated it being a little more mature than other cartoons, like the Japanese anime I was getting into at the time. I read a novel called Planet X which was a crossover of X-MEN and Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which Storm gave Dr. Crusher the details she needed to create a holodeck recreation of Professor Xavier in his office. Seeing the rendering completed, her first thought was, "She was right, there was a resemblance." That always tickled me.
This is the only movie to date that i saw 6 times at the cinema, my local Odean even had Tyler Mane (Sabertooth) come and do an opening, i got his signiture, tall guy, very imposing but so friendly.
I remember getting goosebumps at the introduction of youg Eric in the camp and whispering the name of each mutant as they first appeared on screen and just being super excited by this movie, as a massive fan of the 90s animated series i couldn't wait for this movie and i am excited about the figure line up for X-Men 97 to, i also had figures for this movie, the weird rubber faces on Wolverine and Sabertooth so you could get them to look like they were snarling, one toy i always wanted was Wolverine on Cyclops bike but i never found in my local toy store.
Oddly enough you see Jubilee & Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde), both characters who Rouge was morphed into, in the American version. You see them both in Storm's class. And Kitty runs through a door to get her book from Professor X's office.
David Hayter is also the voice actor most associated with Solid Snake, from the Metal Gear Solid series. He also wrote the script for X2 & based it loosely on the X-Men graphic novel; God Loves, Man Kills.
Tyler Mane the actor who plays Sabretooth was a former professional wrestler. Jackman found working with him easy as Mane had so much experience "fighting" someone without hurting them. Mane went on to play Michael Myers.
Rebecca Romijn actually injured scene partner Bruce Davison (Senator Kelly) in the helicopter. Davison did not complain. Romijn found out later. And unlike Jennifer Lawrence, Romijn spent countless hours in make-up for all 3 films.
I met Ray Park once & asked him if he would've like have been Wolverine given his closer height & build & background in martial arts. He said he offered, just as Minty there was no actor tied to Wolverine. They told him someone was on the way & Jackman's convincing American accent being the thing that put him over.
Neither Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen knew how to play chess, Singer assumed both of them would know how since they were both "English Gentleman" as he put it. So they both had to be taught what to do, so pieces weren't moved improperly.
And if i remember correctly this is the movie where Hugh Jackman cut a stunt performer. He had 2 different sets of claws. One metal, the other foam. They had figure out a martial arts style for using claws, so it was new to everyone involved. Although Hugh Jackman is a dancer & a former PE teacher, they had a trainer get him into a shape. He 5'3" & loved Wolverine. He kept calling Jackman Logan & Wolverine the entire time.
Famke Jannsen had previously worked with Patrick Stewart. She appeared on a Single Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Jean Luc Picard falls madly in love with her, but she is betrothed to someone else as part of peace deal. A peace deal, Picard has to oversee on behalf of the Federation.
Not long after, Hugh Jackman & Halle Berry went on to co-star in Swordfish.
This movie was the first DVD I ever bought
All these movies messed Cyclops up so much. Cyclops is the heart of the Xmen.
Dougray Scott was the rumored #1 guy to play Wolverine at the time. I remember looking up everything about him at the time, because I was such a Wolverine fan.
He was but he was stuck on an overrunning shoot for Mission: Impossible II. I'm told that was why they shot for three weeks without Wolverine and why Hugh Jackman was eventually cast.
Also it almost cost Ian McKellen the part of Gandalf. Bryan Singer managed to shoot all his scenes before he had to go to New Zealand at the beginning of 2000
Speaking of Patrick Stewart, a video about Star Trek: First Contact (1996) would be nice as that film had the actor's most memorable and most intriguing cinematic portrayal of Captain Picard. Oh yes, First Contact is the best Star Trek TNG movie ever.
Nobody can play Wolverine, but Jackman
Small correction minty, the original x-men movie was “Generation X” which was a made for TV move released on Fox in 1996 which was supposed to serve as a pilot for a live action x-men tv show, surprised you didn’t mention that
Lol, you mean the Finola Hughes as Emma Frost, Max Headroom voice guy as the villain (I know he was also the neighbor dad on "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids!" movie), series pilot Generation X in 1995, it was adapted from the actual title of "Generation X" comic book (not an original X-Men movie), that had just debuted in Jan 1994, ran for 4 issues, then was put on hold (along with all other X-Titled books) for 4 months, with the "Age Of Apocalypse" alternate timeline, with new titles as Generation X became Generation Next, and then resumed with Generation X issue #5 in Sept.
In the show/movie they had Frost and Banshee (just like the comic) as the headmistress and headmaster, with Jubilee, Skin, Mondo, and a version of Husk (but she didn't continue peeling layers off to reveal a new one), she was just overly muscular, not sure if Chamber, or M were in it either, but a few other characters that weren't in the comic, were there to round out the team.
It was a flop and I'm glad FOX didn't pick it up, as it just wasn't time yet, for comic book movie (TV or Theater) adaptations then, as the FX tech needed, wasn't quite there yet (studios were still relying more on practical effects, than CGI then). 🤷
The animated serious wasn’t my introduction to the series… but it was so awesome! Watching it at times when I’m older now, it still kicks ass and it’s amazing how I (as a kid) got into it being it was virtually a kids soap opera. Just saying not “kid typical”. Also… the theme is one of the best ever for shows like this. Still listen to it for hype up needed moments lol.
"Andrew Kevin Walker, who would go on to write 8MM", you seem to gloss over the fact that he wrote SE7EN on spec and is one of that era's great uncredited script doctors.
Magneto has all the best lines.
A great shame they didnt mention Freedom Force member's also Storm wasnt used properly like Colossus, no Shiro and Thunderbird a great-shame.
21:28 Three hundred thousand million dollars? 🤔🤔🤔 This must be that new math.😂😂😂
Listening to all this just makes me think back when I was reading the comics, back in 79. All I did back then was read books and comics. Maybe a little nerdy and geeky, but I loved it.
Mid eighties cast of X-Men
Wolverine: Kurt Russel
Cyclops: Zach Galligan
Jean Grey: Nicole Kidman
Storm: Vanessa Williams
Professor X: Sir Patrick Stewart
Magnito: Sir Ian McClellan
Quicksilver: Mark Hamill
Mystique: Heather Locklear
Jubilee: Ally Sheedy
Sabertooth: Judd Nelson
Rogue: Phoebe Cates
Beast: Patrick Swazye
X-men initially had nothing to do with civil rights (that's propaganda). According to Stan Lee, mutants was an easy origin instead of coming out with new origins for all these characters. Magneto lead the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants because they were evil. Read the early issues. Now Chris Claremont did steer the X-men in that direction over a decade after their creation.
Finally someone else says it. That is a popular Revisionist History example. It was mainly due to people who felt different from others.
I loved "Apt Pupil"!
Bob Hoskins as Wolverine... damn, we missed out on that one.
Minty, please do a 10 things about Welcome To Raccoon City!!!
Intersting movie fact also about this movie before Ian got the role of magneto they did want Rutger Hauer but he turned it down because of the long contract deal.
Andrew Kevin Walker also wrote Se7en and Sleepy Hollow
LOOK I LOVE ALL THESE VIDEOS BUT once and for all, was the part offered to BOTH dougray Scott and Russel crowe?! And I thought I heard that each of them mentioned Hugh jackman?! I need to know for my journals
(@21:30) 300 thousand million dollars?
So donut lord from the Sonic movies, used to be cyclops. Cool👍
Good job Mark, keep it up....23 years ? Blimey
I believe this was the first movie trailer I ever downloaded.
i think it was still early in comic book adaptions and they were hit/miss with mass audiences. i see a lot of films and even worked in home entertainment (video/dvd biz) and hadn't seen first 2 in theaters. then the third was coming out and i wanted to see it. at the time i worked at Paramount and so before it debuted i looked for the first 2 and couldn't find them in stores. i didn't rent anymore because i got so many free movies or saw things in theaters. and i hadn't been in a blockbuster for years. and it really stuck out how much it'd changed. all the boxes were color coded for days/price but no price was listed anywhere. and i asked people who were also browsing, all knew the rules. i felt unprogrammed. hahaha. only found 1 of the first 2 though. a friend lent me the other. wow! what a missed money making drafting opp for fox. and they were category captains at walmart. smdh.
This movie really was the introduction to the 2000s.. it really set up spiderman for a win
Kind of ironic how back then Viggo Mortensen didn't want to commit to multi-picture deal in order to play Wolverine, but not that much further into future, and he's starring in all 3 of the LOTR films. But I guess the Lord of the Rings probably would've been more enticing for him to commit to starring in a trilogy. Peter Jackson just happened to have the better bait to lure Viggo in is all.
Great video, I like the pronunciation of Famke Jansson. J=Y in Dutch.
Three hundred thousand million dollars ? Now that was a good return on 75 million.
I had to do a double take and rewind the clip to see if I heard right. And I did. .. Man, Minty is awesome!!!
Glenn would’ve been awesome as Wolverine 🤘
>Minty didn't mention the fact that SOLID SNAKE HIMSELF wrote X-Men 1, 2, and 3.
did Carolco make Total Recall ? they had Kuato in that movie, he was a psychic mutant like Charles Xavier in that movie , was that an attempt to make an Xmen movie within the Total Recall movie?
Thank you Minty 😊😊
$300,000 million dollars Minty?! 😂😂😂
Bryan Singer touched young boys.
he's a gay predator
Beginning of the end of cinema
You're just regular wolverine but the top of your head isn't done regenerating yet
three hundred thousand million dollars... lol General mistake, I understand, but I got a chuckle out of that! (~21:30) :) Love what you do!!!
Frequency is a great movie.
Bonus x men fact, for a time in the 80's comics they were based right out of the Aussie outback!!! Aussie Aussie Aussie, oy! Oy! Oy!
The cartoon made me fall in love with the x-men way back than with Wolverine being my favourite super hero and me wishing i was Rogue 🤣🤣🥲
Met Cal Dodd over the weekend! :)
That's why I love you mint you give DC the respect they deserve
Patrick Stewart is brilliant as Xavier and Hugh Jackman is brilliant as Wolverine. 😀👍
The real brilliance among the actors comes from Ian McKellen, of course.
@@maze2007 I agree with you. 😀👍
N is amazing..and i think fastbender was a great choice to take on thecroll as a younger magneto
To be fair it's not hard to be brilliant as wolverine. He doesn't do a whole lot of emoting.
They made the right call casting Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.👍👍
Viggo Mortensen didn't want to commit to a multiple picture deal....but shortly after became a last minute replacement for one of the lead roles in one of the biggest multi picture deals of all time.
The lord of rings movies were filmed at the same time (from 1999 to 2000), which means it was basically a long movie
Yeah but there was alot of extensive reshoots in post production so the actors were contracted to be available. My mate worked on LOTR trilogy as a vfx artist and co supervisor he said there were a few reshoots and were under time pressure to get Twin towers completed
Translation. He had no faith in the X-men movie doing well at the time because of the stigma that "Batman and Robin" left on the genre, so him turning it down for that reason was obviously just an excuse if he was willing to partake in another multi picture deal outside of x-men later on.
Funny how that happens sometimes...! =)
@@getoffthisrocktravel2054 And Ian McKellen was LOTR too, as Gandalf. But also was Magneto in the X-Men movies. Not the X-Men First Class movie though.
Wolverine: "You you actually go outside in these things?" Cyclops: "What would you prefer? Yellow spandex?" Deadpool: "I got you covered."
:::holds up yellow french maid outfits:::
@@solomonverricothen Hitler holding a pineapple walks in
Shouldnt there be an ❗after prefer cause the question was what would you prefer? Yellow spandex! Would that not be prober punctuation??? Just wondering
I was hooked on the first X-Men from the opening credits. Hearing Prof. X's monologue about humans versus mutants as well as the intensity of the scene of a young Magneto being separated from his parents was amazing. But once Wolverine entered the movie I was sold. The movie could've ended with the scene where Cyclops and Storm save Wolverine and Rouge I would've left the theater completely satisfied. I still enjoy watching that scene alone from time to time.
When Wolverine senses something's off, raises his eyes, takes two whiffs and extracts his claws, I get goosebumps.
Regarding Dougray Scott, I'd heard that Dougray got hurt while filming Mission Impossible 2, which prevented him from appearing in the X-Men movie but I looked it up and apparently Dougray partially blames Tom Cruise for not letting him do both projects. Apparently they were knee-deep into the production of MI: 2 and Dougray wanted to split his time but Cruise refused to let him go. I don't know if that's just sour grapes from Scott but I do find it interesting that history would repeat itself with Cavill being unable to shave his mustache for Whedon's Justice League reshoots.
Anyway, clearly Jackman was meant to play Wolverine, so no matter how it shook out things were supposed to turn out the way they did.
"Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand."
It was a dream come true to see Patrick Stewart taking on the role of Professor Xavier, Hugh Jackman was great as Wolverine, and mystique's makeup was fantastic.
Happy I met Rebecca over the weekend!
Pretty good fulms
Ment to write films
Storm was not in the background. The character Storm is always cautious and holding back, because her powers are amazingly destructive if fully unleashed.
My son was a pre-teen when the X-Men cartoon came out in the 90s. I watched it with him to make sure it wasn't something I didn't think he needed to watch, and got hooked myself. It was a good storyline with good values. I wish more shows today were made this way. Even today, he's a huge X-Men fan.
You’re a good parent. I wish there were more parents who were as vigilant and caring about the things going into the mind of their child. Seriously. 😊
It was a good show. They don't make good shows with values like this anymore.
My biggest issue with all of the X-Men movies is their treatment of Cyclops.
My favorite x-man and James Marsden did a good job playing him
If you wanna get technical. Blade walked so Marvel could run. Since Marvel was dying and Blade helped save it's life and ultimately started the comic book movie phase.
Yeah they were definitely dying. They sold movie rights for a mere 15,000. Can you imagine?! And the irony that New Line Cinema made the movie who's parent company Time Warner also owned DC Comics
Lol you would have thought Minty would have dressed as Prof. X instead of Wolverine
Patrick Stewart as Professor X rates as the biggest no-brainer casting in the history of cinema. That part was cast by everyone the moment TNG hit the air a decade earlier, regardless of director. It’s why Bryan Singer didn’t bother trying to cast anyone else in the role at the time.
I am an Extra in this Film. It was really fun to be part of it. They shot many scenes in and around my city,
The city you speak of must be the Hammer?
If they wanted to keep the idea of alienation then why didn’t they just keep Jubilee? She was a young girl coming into her powers. Every time she got dazzled her powers would go off. A young person not knowing how to deal with her / their powers. That could’ve been ANY mutant really. They didn’t need to start with Rogue.
Exactly. Not to mention that Rogue was an adult in the series.
I'm surprised at minty didn't mention that originally before Wolverine got his origins in the comic book anytime he was shown an animated series the character Wolverine with portrayed as Australian yes Marvel Comics intended for Wolverine to be from Australia Wolverine makes his first animated series appearance in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends season 3 episode 7 I think the episode was called the X-Men Adventures or the X-Men's reunions Wolverine was depicted with an Australian accent then a year later for the pride of the X-Men pilot Wolverine again was depicted with an Australian accent when Stan Lee was interviewed about the pride of the X-Men he stated that Wolverine origin was that he was from Australia he also stated in the DVD extras for the 2000 X-Men film that he felt it was a sign when Hugh Jackman was hired because he always felt that they should have kept Wolverine an Aussie but it was Jim Lee who created The Wolverine Saga which made Wolverine Canadian. So yeah up until the Wolverine Saga then later X-Men the Animated Series Wolverine was always meant to be Australian.
OK but I'm pretty sure there aren't wolverines in Australia
300 thousand million dollars?
I don't think that's a real figure...
Dr. Evil, Minty & Professor X...
Only their mother can tell them appart.
In the UK and Australia, it totally *is* the figure used instead of 300 billion as in the US.
Though if you it could not be an accurate figure for this movie, then yeah you are right. That would be an awful lot of profit obtained by one movie. Hollywood would love it if that were true though.
While this and several other Fox X-Men films took a lot of Liberties with the material I really do enjoy this first X-Men film a lot. It's just a fun under 2 hours Magneto vs Xavier X-Men versus the Brotherhood movie with a straightforward plot. It's not super complex but it's filled with likeable characters and some fun action and that really overshadows the occasional wonky effects and not so comic accurate details.
The first X-Men film managed to be a fantastic movie while also having to be a movie that sets up the entire franchise, and explain to normies what the X-Men universe is all about.
@@micahrutland9021 very true.
@@micahrutland9021and now this filmmis kind bdn canclled thse vbsecause of brysn singer has been canclled
For me, personally, X2 is so good, it makes the first one actually suck in comparison. As a writer, this has become my motto for the kind of sequels storytellers should be striving for.
Minty - this is super trippy. I had a bout of 90s superhero nostalgia yesterday and watched Episode 1 of the X-Men cartoon. I agree with your assessment that this movie wasn’t a perfect film, but did an excellent job of introducing the movie universe it existed in. McKellan and Stewart added a ton of gravitas and the ensemble cast really fleshed out the heros and villains.
The Senator turning into ooze was extremely disturbing… and I liked it.
I sort of felt sorry for the senator at that point, even though he was an asshole.
I have the novelization of this movie. It goes into more detail about the characters like Storm.
It has a backstory about Storm and what happened when she was being whipped in her village.
Rogue was such an awesome character in the show. Best outfit, coolest personality. In the movie they made her even weaker than Jubilee. Such a shame. Not bringing in Gambit was also a huge fail.
And best 🍑
They really disappointed a lot of xmen fans on how Rogue was like. I think a lot of people thought she was Jubilee throughout the movie.
I didn’t really see anything weak about her. In my opinion, she is one of the strongest characters in the story/movie because of the adversity she has endured and came out as what she is.
@@CivilEngineerWroxton She has the presence of a mouse. When she flies the jet she's trembling like a leaf.
@@brainlock72 cool story bro
When this film came out, my brother and I were in college, and he took me to the theater to watch it. He was a comic book fan and I knew nothing of the series. We both thoroughly enjoyed the film. This was my introduction to Hugh Jackman and James Marsden - and all of the actors really suited their roles perfectly.
And every time I see that water politician in any other roles, I feel like he’s going to turn into water. ((*shudder*))
A video about the X-Men animated series of the 1990s would be nice.
This movie is the one that made Hugh Jackman desirable to women all over the world.
😄😄😄😄 "boldverine" should participate the #Deadpool3 as a super variant of #Wolverine 😎
Such a great Movie. The first 2 are brilliant. Days of future past is also a great one
And the comic for Days of the Future Past is amazing
X-Men was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, but lost to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film was also successful at the 27th Saturn Awards where it won categories for Best Science Fiction Film, Director (Bryan Singer), Actor (Hugh Jackman), Supporting Actress (Rebecca Romijn), Writing (David Hayter), Costumes. Nominations included Best Supporting Actor (Patrick Stewart), Performance by a Younger Actor (Anna Paquin), Special Effects, and Make-up. Singer also won the Empire Award for Best Director.
RIP Michael Kamen
He made Logan and Rogue's moment feel so special
I love that his music feels so tragic and beautiful, even if I like the score for the second one, this one has more deep
Awesome video Minty. One of my favourite movies ever. I still laugh when I hear the line where Wolverine says “you actually go outside in these things”
And cyclops replies “what would you prefer yellow spandex”
I love this movie, this to me is a modern classic movie, without the animated series we would have this movie.
The making of this movie sounds alot like the making of the Super Mario Bros movie from 1993… everything was so chaotic and a jumbled mess
Do "Strange days" , im exited to see some more info behind that exellent movie. Love your channel Mark :)
Just watch the trilogy this week. Hope you do all the X-Men movies including the wolverine trilogy.
Can't imagine any other actor who could embody Wolverine as well as Hugh Jackman.
in the 80's, after seeing his portrayal of Billy in the movie Predator, I was sold on Sonny Landham playing Wolverine. I swear when I was a kid I expected his character in Predator to Snikt out some claws. :)
I think KAENU REEVES would be a great choice for WOLvERINE and even Daniel Radcliffe but they not way be better then Hugh JACKMAN no one can replace him as WoLVERINE
Just blew my mind learning that Toad played Darth Maul 🤯🤯🤯
Met him back in 08.
I wish they would have kept the extended classroom scene. Storm is giving a history lesson about a Roman Emperor who converted to Christianity to stop the persecution of Christians in Rome, which is good foreshadowing to what magneto is planning.
Agreed. I recall that episode where Wolverine admits he is catholic to Nightcrawler. Also, now I finally know why Rogue acted more like Jubilee because it was originally supposed to be her.
Very insightful point !
I’d like to see a X-Force movie. Deadpool is my guy though and the X-Force joke team in Deadpool 2 got me, I was stoked for about five minutes and then they all got got lol. They’ll probably never do it but I got into X-Force through the Deadpool limited series comics. The story line in the comics about a virus that was offing mutants could make an interesting movie. I was legit sad when Multiple Man got sick and died in the comics. I think X-Force could be an R rated team comic movie.
I do remember when Blade came out and everyone was shocked over how it was actually really good. Rumour has it, Blade's success saved Marvel and definitely helped get X-Men and Spiderman made.
The x-men and batman cartoon of the 90s are to me the best ever made till this day
Dude, in an alternate universe, I could totally see Bob Hoskins playing Wolverine in the '80s
The Hugh miss here is that Jackman originally was going to turn down the role, until he wife convinced him to take the role.
She told him that both Ian and Patrick were involved in the film and he had always wanted to work with them in theater.
He would later end up befriending both of them, after taking the part.
I can't believe i was 18 when this movie came out, time really flies.
And Jackman is still wolverine as of 2023 while the rest are RIP with their roles. Who saw that coming in late 2000?
In the comics and cartoon series, my faves were Cyclops and Gambit. A pity the latter never made it into the movie.
However, the Remy LeBeau name was shown on a list of mutants in X2, the scene where Mystique was looking through "short n fat" Stryker's computer files, while posing as Deathstrike.
Then Gambit is actually shown in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, when Blob tells Logan and Will I. Am's character, to go to New Orleans to find him, and he'd fly them to "tall n thin" Stryker's facility, but they get off on the wrong foot with him there, and also run across former partner Sabretooth, and it's the end of the line for WIA's character, so it ends up being just Logan, getting the plane ride from Gambit. 🤷
Bit miffed we never got Mr. Sinster in any of the films despite being teased! I mean the guy exudes evil and is a great character but then again who would play him? Loved his outfit BTW.