![]() ![]() That said, this is a pretty cool movie, and considering it was one of the front-runners of the new age of comic book adaptations (despite coming out over 15 years ago! What the hell!?!) I can forgive the things it gets wrong because it does get a lot right.įor instance, the casting is pretty awesome. ![]() And to be honest, I didn’t love it when I first saw it, because despite the fact that these were the fucking X-MEN on a movie screen, they’re not quite the X-Men I always wanted to see. OK, so it turns out I have a lot of problems with the movie. One of the most dangerous and powerful characters in Marvel comics needs to amplify his powers with a teenaged girl’s just to power a pretty small machine? And he can’t even do that? Not only does it make less sense than a driving class for the blind, it makes Magneto look pretty ineffective. And it’s pretty clear that they ran out of money towards the end and the finale is totally lame, which sucks.Īnd OK, it’s pretty impossible to overlook how absurd Magneto’s plan is. ![]() And yeah, Magneto’s helmet is pretty stupid, especially since they could have made the one straight from the comics, as they later did in First Class. And sure, it’s pretty lame that they portrayed Sabretooth, who is supposed to be a bigger, faster, and meaner Wolverine as a big dumb idiot who roars like a lion and just looks… ridiculous.Īnd yeah, I think it’s a shame that classic X-Men characters like Cyclops, Phoenix and Storm are completely marginalized other than ‘Wolverine doesn’t like him, Wolverine wants to bang her, and Wolverine is pretty indifferent towards her’. I mean it annoys me a little that a movie called ‘X-Men’ is basically all about Wolverine, but I mean, I get it. ![]() Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, and the newly joined Wolverine battle the Brotherhood with the powers of outdated CGI to save the day!Ĭomic Zombie: Despite the utter nonsense of Magneto’s plan (what was wrong with the story from the original X-Men #1? Or literally ANYTHING else?) and some really, really bad line delivery, I don’t have any problems with this movie. But Magneto’s opposite, Professor Charles Xavier, and his students at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters will stand in his way and try to save their newest student, Rogue, from being used as a pawn in his nonsensical scheme. Plot: Concentration camp survivor Erik Lensherr, aka Magneto, and his Brotherhood of Mutants want to use some wacky-ass device to convert regular humans into mutants, thereby proving that mutants are superior? Or something? Honestly it makes no sense. Jean Grey), Halle Berry (Storm / Ororo Munroe), Rebecca Romijn (Mystique), Bruce Davidson (Senator Kelly), Tyler Mane (Sabretooth), Shawn Ashmore (Bobby Drake), and Ray Park (Toad). Starring: Hugh Jackman (Logan / The Wolverine), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Sir Patrick Stewart (Prof X / Charles Xavier), Sir Ian McKellen (Magneto / Erik Lensherr), James Marsden (Scott Summers / Cyclops), Famke Janssen (Dr. Now, with X-Men: Apocalypse, Deadpool, and a third Wolverine film looming, the franchise appears to be in as good a shape as it has ever been. For better or worse we probably wouldn’t have the Spider-man movies without this one!įifteen years later, and the franchise has had its ups and downs (notice a trend?), but found its footing again with X-Men: First Class and Days of Future Past. Say what you want about the first movie, and we will, but it really opened the floodgates for the huge wave of superhero films (that mostly sucked) for the early 21st century. That’s when Fox dropped a bombshell and announced they were going to finally, FINALLY, release a live action X-Men film! Then the late 90’s hit and Marvel (with New Line Cinema) had a surprise hit on their hands with Blade, and all of a sudden it felt like there might be a chance we’d get some more. There was a long period of time where the only super hero movies we had were the Christopher Reeve Superman films, which (as we discussed HERE), had their considerable ups and downs (mostly downs), and the Batman franchise (which we discussed HERE, HERE, and HERE), but this was before the excellent Christopher Nolan reboot, so it was also mostly bad. Check out our Podcast Episode where we rank the X-Men movies here! ![]()
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