Episode 493 - Now a Major Motion Picture
Added 2025-07-14 03:13:49 +0000 UTCIn 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.)
