493 – Now a Major Motion Picture

In which the first X-Men film turns 25 (and holds up remarkably well).

X-PLAINED:

• A startling absence


• The X-Men’s big-screen debut


• An X-film that might have been


• X-Men (2000), in general; and related publications


• Some very casting


• What makes a good adaptation


• Wolverine’s hair


• Those costumes


• The cinematic X-Men


• The cinematic Brotherhood


• Sabretooth’s eyebrows


• Condensed backstories


• The movie magic of magnetism


• The worst toy of all time


• Going to school with superheroes


• Things we’d like to have seen in the movie

NEXT EPISODE: The origin of Thunderbird! (Not that one.) (Or that one.)

The visual companion to this episode is the film X-Men (2000).

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