Episode 493 - Now a Major Motion Picture (Patreon)

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.)