X-Men
2000 Directed by Bryan Singer
Synopsis
Evolution Begins
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
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Before Spider-Man came along and busted all kinds of blocks at the box office, it was Singer's take on the X-Men comics which put Marvel on the map as the first "well known" comic book movie based on their comics was brought to life.
A combination of excellent casting (particularly Stewart, McKellen, Jackman, Janssen and Pacquin) and a certain sophisticated style to proceedings meant that this was a comic book film which was a whole different beast to the Blade movies and the Spider-Man behemoth to follow. This was a film which wasn't afraid to start in Auschwitz, followed swiftly by a political hearing. It doesn't exactly sound like fun and games does…
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Bryan Singer's film is the 2nd comic book movie after Blade in 1998 to put the genre on track after Batman and Robin shitted on the party, with its great cast including : Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and a star-making turn from Hugh Jackman..X-Men is a X-Cellent (sorry) movie and a great start for the series.
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It nails the opening 20 minutes, which is the important part. It introduces extremely ridiculous concepts without taking them too seriously or undermining them.
But after that, it falls prey to that which many blockbusters do, it feels such a need to keep it's plot moving that it forgets to spend any real get-to-know-you time with the characters, preventing said plot (jam packed though it may be) from having any real impact.
It did nail introducing the concepts though, which in the movie landscape of 2000 was the important part.
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eh. this has a few moments, but......
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I've always been a big fan of this film and after not seeing this for a while I think it's holds up really well.
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One of my favourite comic-book movies of all time. So brilliantly written, without having to resort to to much ''goofyness'', the cast is excellent.
I wish there was a bigger focus on Wolverine and Rogue's relationship, because the have a special 'outsider' connection that is only breached when needed.
It is hard to believe that this film was made in 2000, a lot of it still looks amazing.
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A pretty solid, zippy comic book movie which I forgot all about the second I stepped out of the theatre. Could have been staged with more skill.
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It's a testament to the acting that this film doesn't fall on its face. The script uses Charles Xavier as little more than an exposition machine, but Patrick Stewart manages to pull it off. Likewise, Ian McKellan does a wonderful job in his portrayal of Magneto even though the script tries to turn him into a bit more of a Bond villain than the character should be. And when they are together the chemistry of these two friends-turned-enemies is phenomenal.
The action sequences are a bit on the light side though; the final battle in particular is little more than a few fist fights thrown together in an abandoned museum, resulting in a fight that is neither visually interesting nor…
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*Throwback Thursday*
X-Men is directed by Bryan Singer and stars Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, James Marsden, Famke Jenssen, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Rebecca Romijn, Anna Paquin, and Ray Park. I remember seeing this movie in theaters on a Saturday afternoon with my father and I loved it! This movie made me become an X-Men fan. The cast is spot on as the characters (especially Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, which made him famous) The characters are very likeable, the set-pieces (especially the Statue of Liberty fight between Wolverine and Sabertooth) are well filmed, and I was welcomed into the world of X-Men. I would've given this 5 stars but, This movie has not aged well over the past 13 years. Also, it's a bit too much focused on Wolverine (which I guess could be a bit nitpicky). Other than that, X-Men is a truly wonderful Superhero film that remains a strong favorite film of mine since Childhood.
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Always a classic one to watch, and back when it was released in 2000 it suddenly made it alright for me to say "I read Comics", because suddenly I knew all the ins-and-outs of the X-Men world. Ok, so they felt the need to put them in leather jackets and stuff, which made sense for the time because they couldnt get away with blue and yellow spandex, but even so it's a good film and a good start to a franchise.
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it wasn't special
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A really strong movie, it manages to present a lot of characters in interesting ways, the opening scene is absolutely gripping with Magneto as a kid struggling as his parents head to a concentration camp. Bryan Singer really had something good going here.
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eh. this has a few moments, but......
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The superhero movie is a strange sub-genre. It seems to come in waves. For every Superman there's a Superman 3, and for every Batman a Batman and Robin. One minute you're thinking "hey, these superhero films are pretty fun", and the next, your embarrassed that you ever admitted to liking men in spandex!
Spiderman had its Spiderman 3, Blade had Blade 3 and X-Men had Last Stand. It seemed that after that I was done with superhero movies. But recently the new batch of Marvel films have piqued my interest in the genre once more and so I revisited the first X-Men movie after many years.
First-things-first, as a film it has stood up pretty well. The equal-rights allegory is…
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That fuckin' statue of liberty battle.