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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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