Now a Major Motion Picture

Season 1 Episode 493

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

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The visual companion to this episode is the film X-Men (2000).

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Now a Major Motion Picture