WEBVTT - Impending Doomsday: X-Men (2000) 0:00:00.270 --> 0:00:08.170 Warning! Today's episode contains spoilers for the year 2000's X-Men. 0:00:09.090 --> 0:00:13.640 Formerly a Fox Studios production. Be warned. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:17.780 Don't give up on them, Eric. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.540 What would you have me do, Charles? I've heard these 0:00:21.579 --> 0:00:22.270 arguments before. 0:00:25.470 --> 0:00:26.689 It was a long time ago. 0:00:27.370 --> 0:00:29.050 Mankind has evolved since then. 0:00:30.020 --> 0:00:36.010 Yes. Into us. Are you sneaking around in here, Charles? 0:00:37.010 --> 0:00:42.170 Whatever are you looking for? I'm looking for hope. I 0:00:42.190 --> 0:00:45.650 will bring you hope, old friend. And I ask only 0:00:45.810 --> 0:00:49.750 one thing in return. Don't get in my way. We 0:00:50.950 --> 0:00:51.940 are the future, Charles. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:52.320 Not them. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.420 They don't look about that. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.060 Hello! 0:01:06.100 --> 0:01:07.560 My name is Jason Concepcion. 0:01:08.060 --> 0:01:09.000 And I'm Rosie Knight. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.060 And welcome back to X-Ray Vision, the podcast where we 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.000 dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, and spot culture. 0:01:13.020 --> 0:01:16.460 We're bringing you three episodes a week, plus news this week. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:17.640 Plus news on Saturdays. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.860 Okay, guys, we will be starting today recapping the list 0:01:21.890 --> 0:01:25.569 of 14 films and one movie that Disney released that 0:01:25.630 --> 0:01:28.940 you have to watch. before Doomsday, so you don't have to, 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.280 or so you can, and you can listen along. So 0:01:32.310 --> 0:01:34.120 what we're going to do is we are going to 0:01:34.190 --> 0:01:39.230 give you the hits of what happened in the era 0:01:39.390 --> 0:01:40.310 the movie was released. 0:01:40.430 --> 0:01:41.330 Why did it matter? 0:01:41.550 --> 0:01:43.229 What's a fact you might not know about it? How 0:01:43.270 --> 0:01:45.690 much money did it make? Then, of course, we're going 0:01:45.709 --> 0:01:47.669 to recap it. And then we're going to tell you 0:01:47.690 --> 0:01:51.430 where we think it will fit in to Doomsday and 0:01:51.490 --> 0:01:53.550 why Disney included it on their list. 0:01:54.330 --> 0:01:54.950 But first. 0:01:56.190 --> 0:02:01.650 Let's hit you with some facts, some quick facts of X-Men, 0:02:01.670 --> 0:02:05.110 which came out in the year 2000. Rosie, can you 0:02:05.170 --> 0:02:09.800 cast your mind back nearly 30 years to the year 2000? Crazy. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.739 I remember when they were casting this movie. It was 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:19.040 a big deal at the time. Reading the news and 0:02:19.060 --> 0:02:22.310 the rumors in Wizard Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Let's start here. 0:02:22.530 --> 0:02:24.150 Glenn Danzig as Wolverine. 0:02:24.169 --> 0:02:25.250 That was crazy in 1995. 0:02:25.250 --> 0:02:31.519 Glenn Danzig as Wolverine started as a magazine bit in 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:36.780 Wizard Magazine, January 1995. Casting column proposed him, quote, Wolverine, 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.940 the most unshaven hero in comics, would be brought to 0:02:38.980 --> 0:02:42.929 life by brooding rock star Glenn Danzig. Months later, 20th 0:02:43.330 --> 0:02:46.630 Century Fox was actually courting him for the part with 0:02:46.650 --> 0:02:50.070 the script still unfinished. But this was very early on. 0:02:50.090 --> 0:02:54.550 Bryan Singer had not been hired yet. And honestly, thank 0:02:54.570 --> 0:02:56.230 God we moved in a different direction. 0:02:56.710 --> 0:03:00.110 Yes, not the right choice. But those wizard castings were hilarious. 0:03:00.350 --> 0:03:07.130 In 2017, LA Weekly asked Danzig about X-Men and about 0:03:07.169 --> 0:03:10.570 the rumors. And he said, you know, he was asked, like, 0:03:10.610 --> 0:03:12.070 what would it have been like if you were in 0:03:12.130 --> 0:03:15.370 it and not Hugh Jackman as Wolverine? Danzig said, quote, 0:03:15.830 --> 0:03:21.220 it wouldn't have been as gay. adding, quote, it was terrible. So, 0:03:21.260 --> 0:03:25.090 Glenn Danzig, we're glad we've moved on from Glenn Danzig. 0:03:25.110 --> 0:03:28.250 That was a wild, wild thing to say, like, especially 0:03:28.310 --> 0:03:31.310 for a movie that's pretty straight. 0:03:31.169 --> 0:03:33.910 For an X-Men story, Glenn Danzig. 0:03:34.490 --> 0:03:37.810 Yeah, this was a really wild but fun time to 0:03:37.900 --> 0:03:40.540 be an X-Men fan. I mean, so much happened, Jason, 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.800 before this movie even came out. Oh, yeah, well, then 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.680 he wasn't, Glenn wasn't the only. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.620 One who passed because Joss Whedon also wrote a draft. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.880 And Fox threw all of it out and then invited 0:03:50.930 --> 0:03:52.930 him to a read through without telling him. 0:03:53.110 --> 0:03:53.390 Wow. 0:03:53.750 --> 0:03:56.250 Drama behind the scenes on this movie at every step. 0:03:56.710 --> 0:04:00.250 The writer is shit in the movies was his summary. 0:04:00.550 --> 0:04:01.410 I don't know what that means. 0:04:01.970 --> 0:04:04.090 One line survived intact. It's me. 0:04:04.390 --> 0:04:04.890 Prove it. 0:04:05.110 --> 0:04:05.790 You're a dick. 0:04:06.230 --> 0:04:08.250 He also owns up to the toad line, which he 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.460 wrote as a throwaway and blames the delivery. Halle Berry 0:04:11.540 --> 0:04:12.840 said she, oh, excuse me. 0:04:12.860 --> 0:04:13.820 I hate this man. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.619 In the AV club in 2001, only a year later, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.349 September 15th, September 5th, 2001. 0:04:19.350 --> 0:04:19.590 Wow. 0:04:19.850 --> 0:04:23.330 Different time. Uh, he said, Halle Berry said it like 0:04:23.390 --> 0:04:24.809 she was Desdemona. 0:04:24.850 --> 0:04:25.410 Oh, do you know what? 0:04:25.450 --> 0:04:28.480 Like the Shakespeare? How about you just leave Halle Berry 0:04:28.580 --> 0:04:29.080 out of this? 0:04:29.220 --> 0:04:29.580 All right. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.380 Don't you blame her for that line. 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.840 I will say that it's me. Prove it. You're a 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.270 dick line, which is when, um, Scott and Jean are 0:04:37.310 --> 0:04:40.570 worried that Logan might be Mystique, which is very funny 0:04:40.610 --> 0:04:41.830 and does read as very great. 0:04:41.850 --> 0:04:44.310 Great delivery and very pre-MCU. 0:04:44.890 --> 0:04:48.450 The movie was a huge hit, surprising hit, and it 0:04:48.570 --> 0:04:51.890 nearly killed Marvel, although Marvel had its own problems. Bill Jemis, 0:04:52.270 --> 0:04:55.190 describing his first six months as Marvel president, said, quote, 0:04:55.210 --> 0:04:56.670 We were right in the middle of the release of 0:04:56.710 --> 0:05:00.560 the first X-Men movie, which was the spectacular box office success. 0:05:01.050 --> 0:05:03.730 The movie was for 20-year-olds, and the toys were for 10-year-olds, 0:05:03.850 --> 0:05:06.229 and the toys didn't sell. So we had a movie 0:05:06.250 --> 0:05:10.339 success and a god-awful financial failure, and we were broke. Like, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.620 can't make payroll broke. The company would go to bankruptcy 0:05:15.140 --> 0:05:16.020 right around that time. 0:05:16.339 --> 0:05:18.550 If you didn't know why that was, guys, it's because 0:05:18.580 --> 0:05:23.070 they licensed the rights for the movies to different studios. 0:05:23.110 --> 0:05:25.590 Because at the time, Marvel was owned by Toy Biz, 0:05:26.010 --> 0:05:28.890 Ike Palmutter and Avi Arad's company. And they thought, well, 0:05:28.910 --> 0:05:31.130 we'll make money off the toys. But as they said, 0:05:31.180 --> 0:05:33.040 that didn't really work for them. And yeah, this was 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:38.020 the craziest time at Marvel post the boom. Fox then, 0:05:38.260 --> 0:05:40.640 this is actually something that I think is like another 0:05:40.740 --> 0:05:43.830 really big precast. So they marketed the film. by basically 0:05:43.870 --> 0:05:48.650 running a fake political campaign. Mutantwatch.com played it completely straight, 0:05:48.750 --> 0:05:53.570 invented press stories, polls, books, all of it behind Robert Kelly, 0:05:53.610 --> 0:05:57.560 Senator Robert Kelly. And they recruited visitors into the genetically 0:05:57.660 --> 0:06:00.240 pure patriot brigade where they were asked to email in 0:06:00.260 --> 0:06:01.420 the names of their mutant friends. 0:06:01.820 --> 0:06:05.740 Very bleak. 0:06:05.740 --> 0:06:09.580 240,234 people gave up an address thanks to marketing sherpa 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.810 for that one. I want to say, Everyone gives The 0:06:12.850 --> 0:06:16.150 Dark Knight a lot of credit for that ARG kind 0:06:16.170 --> 0:06:18.450 of Joker marketing, but this was really like one of 0:06:18.490 --> 0:06:21.289 those earliest kind of viral marketing moments on the internet. 0:06:21.890 --> 0:06:25.390 Hugh Jackman was not the original Wolverine. This is, of course, 0:06:25.450 --> 0:06:29.150 famous lore. He was hired into the movie when it 0:06:29.190 --> 0:06:34.550 was already underway. Doug Ray Scott was cast and was 0:06:34.650 --> 0:06:39.950 playing Wolverine. The movie was shooting, but because Mission Impossible 0:06:39.950 --> 0:06:43.900 2 went over... He couldn't continue in the role. Ian 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:48.610 McKellen has released his diaries from that period and from 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:53.390 other periods of his career. And he wrote on November 10th, 1999, quote, 0:06:53.490 --> 0:06:56.630 now we have been filming for four weeks, continuing to 0:06:56.650 --> 0:06:59.390 describe that a new actor has appeared on the scene. 0:06:59.430 --> 0:07:02.650 And it was Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman's qualifications for the 0:07:02.670 --> 0:07:05.890 most feral character of Marvel Comics was a year of 0:07:05.950 --> 0:07:08.190 singing Oh, What a Beautiful Morning. He had just finished 0:07:08.230 --> 0:07:11.360 playing Curly in Trevor Nunn's production of Oklahoma at the 0:07:11.420 --> 0:07:15.090 Royal National Theater, and he got an Oliver nomination for it. 0:07:16.930 --> 0:07:20.489 Grant Morrison's Our Fave and Frank Quietly's New X-Men pitch 0:07:20.510 --> 0:07:24.030 document credits the film with the X-Team's costume change in 0:07:24.050 --> 0:07:24.570 the comics. 0:07:24.950 --> 0:07:27.070 The movie had it almost right. 0:07:27.570 --> 0:07:30.290 Then argues for yellow paneling, if only to avoid the 0:07:30.370 --> 0:07:34.070 dull black leather look of every film superhero, specifying pop art, 0:07:34.210 --> 0:07:37.340 they glow yellow, the kind cyclists and bikers wear to 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.830 be seen. He also wrote that X-Men had become a 0:07:40.050 --> 0:07:44.210 watchword for undiluted geekery before the movie gave us another 0:07:44.350 --> 0:07:45.810 electroshock jolt. 0:07:46.230 --> 0:07:46.910 That it did. 0:07:47.790 --> 0:08:10.760 Let's go to the recap after this. And we're back. X-Men, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.160 year 2000. I could not have been more excited for 0:08:15.180 --> 0:08:21.910 this movie. And its opening fulfilled every hope that I had. Poland, 1944. 0:08:21.910 --> 0:08:27.170 It's raining at the concentration camp. People are being sorted 0:08:27.270 --> 0:08:31.110 into groups. Adults separated from children. A boy is separated 0:08:31.150 --> 0:08:35.700 from his parents. He cries out. He's reaching for them, screaming, crying. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.110 Guards come. They're trying to wrestle him back into his line. 0:08:39.690 --> 0:08:42.410 And then the iron gate separating him from his parents 0:08:42.470 --> 0:08:48.150 starts to like buckle and groan and brah. And the 0:08:48.210 --> 0:08:51.500 guards can't hold him back. But then finally a rifle 0:08:51.550 --> 0:08:54.260 butt to the boy's head knocks him out, makes it 0:08:54.300 --> 0:08:56.040 all stop. And then we get a shot of the 0:08:56.100 --> 0:09:00.099 gate and it's just wrecked. Honestly, to this day, maybe 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.110 the best. character introduction in a superhero film. 0:09:05.150 --> 0:09:07.230 Literally, I would totally agree with you, Jason. 0:09:07.950 --> 0:09:12.290 It is something that at the time felt so rooted 0:09:12.550 --> 0:09:15.650 in real history and the horrors of what had happened 0:09:16.130 --> 0:09:19.770 and something that, you know, 26 years later feels horribly 0:09:19.970 --> 0:09:24.610 timely right now. It is stunning and it establishes Magneto 0:09:24.690 --> 0:09:28.030 and his wants and his needs and his, what drives him, 0:09:28.070 --> 0:09:32.010 his trauma and so well and what he has seen 0:09:32.090 --> 0:09:34.469 and what he wants to stop at any cost it 0:09:34.630 --> 0:09:39.910 is just unbelievably fucking cathartic and great as soon as 0:09:39.950 --> 0:09:42.329 I watched it I was just like wow yeah this 0:09:42.410 --> 0:09:45.110 is like that's a sale on how to get someone 0:09:45.150 --> 0:09:46.270 in on a cold open. 0:09:46.809 --> 0:09:50.929 We get Charles Xavier's narration explaining that mutation is the 0:09:50.990 --> 0:09:53.650 key to our evolution and the process is usually very 0:09:53.710 --> 0:09:57.010 slow but that every few hundred millennia there is a 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:01.100 massive leap forward and we open on on a bedroom 0:10:01.140 --> 0:10:05.470 in Meridian, Mississippi, present day for, so the year 1999, 0:10:05.470 --> 0:10:08.970 a girl, a young girl named Marie is in her 0:10:09.070 --> 0:10:12.069 bedroom with her boyfriend, David. They're getting ready for a 0:10:12.130 --> 0:10:14.209 road trip. She's very excited about it. They're going to 0:10:14.230 --> 0:10:16.830 go up to Niagara Falls, the Canadian Rockies, and then 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.380 up from there across Canada, I guess, to Anchorage, Alaska, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:28.089 and they kiss, and his eyes roll back, he passes out, 0:10:28.230 --> 0:10:32.570 starts to convulse, and she is horrified. We have another 0:10:32.630 --> 0:10:35.910 voice over this scene, the voice of Jean Grey, saying 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:40.960 that mutations tend to manifest at puberty, often during stressful 0:10:41.700 --> 0:10:45.300 or sometimes exciting situations, and we cut to Jean at 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.569 a Senate hearing, She's testifying against the Mutant Registration Act, 0:10:48.630 --> 0:10:52.570 and Senator Robert Kelly does not believe any of this shit. 0:10:53.150 --> 0:10:58.820 He's like, mutants are dangerous. Shouldn't we keep track of them? 0:10:58.900 --> 0:11:01.960 Gene says, we don't need to do that. We don't 0:11:01.980 --> 0:11:05.579 need to treat them like dangerous weapons. Kelly says, well, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.040 we license people to drive. Gene says, yeah, but we 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.350 don't license them to live. Kelly then produces a list 0:11:11.490 --> 0:11:15.610 of identified mutants in the United States, and what they 0:11:15.650 --> 0:11:17.890 can do, including a girl in Illinois who can walk 0:11:17.910 --> 0:11:18.970 through walls, Kitty Pryde. 0:11:19.010 --> 0:11:19.510 Kitty Pryde. 0:11:20.429 --> 0:11:21.970 What if she walks into a bank vault? What if 0:11:21.990 --> 0:11:25.510 she goes to the White House? He says. And he 0:11:25.710 --> 0:11:28.970 adds that there are rumors of mutants who can control 0:11:28.990 --> 0:11:32.250 your mind and make you do what they want. And 0:11:32.270 --> 0:11:35.720 he closes by saying, mutants are real. Mutants are among us. 0:11:36.020 --> 0:11:38.560 We must know who they are. We must know what 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.680 they could do. Who is watching in the gallery? Of course, 0:11:42.220 --> 0:11:46.520 Professor Charles Xavier is watching, as is The now grown-up 0:11:46.580 --> 0:11:52.089 Eric Lencher, all grown-up, white-haired, looking great. Immaculate. They look beautiful. 0:11:52.300 --> 0:11:54.390 They meet in the corridor afterwards, and they do the 0:11:54.429 --> 0:11:59.420 scene from our cold open in which Charles is basically like, hey, 0:11:59.450 --> 0:12:03.550 give the humans a chance. They'll come around. This is 0:12:03.610 --> 0:12:08.510 such a great scene. And this movie, here's my two 0:12:08.570 --> 0:12:10.130 critiques of this movie watching today. 0:12:10.150 --> 0:12:10.270 Mm-hmm. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.520 It feels dated in how Logan focused it is. It's 0:12:14.580 --> 0:12:15.000 so Wolverine. 0:12:15.020 --> 0:12:16.059 Yeah, it was a different time. 0:12:16.220 --> 0:12:18.230 It was a different time. Wolverine was clearly the biggest 0:12:18.250 --> 0:12:22.230 star of the X-Men. And two, if we did this today, 0:12:24.179 --> 0:12:26.780 they'd be like, let's make it three hours and we 0:12:26.820 --> 0:12:29.080 don't have to worry about it. We can really give 0:12:29.179 --> 0:12:30.800 everybody their own moment. 0:12:31.140 --> 0:12:33.380 But I do have to say, I want. 0:12:33.260 --> 0:12:35.120 To shout out, I was thinking about this so much 0:12:35.179 --> 0:12:38.580 as I rewatched these, John Wright and Kevin Stitt are 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.760 the editors on this. The editing in this movie is 0:12:41.980 --> 0:12:45.100 unbelievable because if you're really thinking about a movie that's 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.380 not three hours, that doesn't have all that time, that's 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.020 not an MC, this is so pre the MCU, that 0:12:50.059 --> 0:12:53.790 hasn't been the slow build in of different characters. This 0:12:54.110 --> 0:12:59.370 opening like 20 minutes of just introducing different mutants and 0:12:59.410 --> 0:13:02.510 where they are with the voiceover, it works so well 0:13:02.740 --> 0:13:07.140 as a exposition download for people who aren't as familiar 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.480 while also kind of just hitting the big beats for 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.700 people who are. It's really smartly done. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:17.120 I completely agree. You know, at the time I remember thinking, 0:13:17.140 --> 0:13:19.730 I just wish there was more time for everybody else. 0:13:19.809 --> 0:13:24.110 But to your point, it really, really well put together felt. Um, 0:13:24.429 --> 0:13:28.080 we go up to Alberta, Canada. There's a cage fighting bar. 0:13:28.500 --> 0:13:30.760 The current house champ at the bar is a guy 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.319 with weird kind of like, I don't know. How would 0:13:35.340 --> 0:13:39.329 we describe Wolverine's hairstyle? I had never seen anything like 0:13:39.390 --> 0:13:43.070 that before. Obviously Star Fox is the only other guy 0:13:43.090 --> 0:13:45.430 that I've never seen look like that. 0:13:45.890 --> 0:13:47.709 If you have, I would, how I would describe it 0:13:47.750 --> 0:13:50.100 to someone, cause this is a podcast and we obviously 0:13:50.140 --> 0:13:52.380 can't show you a picture. It's like if you saw 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.780 like a rockabilly who had the two tubes that were 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.750 kind of like as part of his pompadour, but he 0:13:59.950 --> 0:14:02.650 unrolled them. So each one looked like a devil's horn, 0:14:02.929 --> 0:14:04.910 but they kind of came together like a love heart. 0:14:05.100 --> 0:14:06.500 Yeah, it's really weird. 0:14:06.860 --> 0:14:10.240 And I absolutely love that in this movie where they 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.439 make everything so grounded to a point right it's not 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.890 like Tom King lanterns like grim and gritty true detective 0:14:17.150 --> 0:14:21.690 but it is like real world no crazy spandex suits 0:14:21.750 --> 0:14:25.930 where we've got militarized costumes there's a political landscape set 0:14:25.970 --> 0:14:28.609 around our powers it's so funny that the one thing 0:14:28.630 --> 0:14:30.620 they committed to was his hair always had to be 0:14:30.650 --> 0:14:32.070 in that style. 0:14:31.780 --> 0:14:34.420 In the first movie because it really. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.380 Is no matter what happens to him his hair stays magical. 0:14:37.940 --> 0:14:42.580 Yes Well, Wolverine's just beating the shit out of everybody. Everyone. 0:14:42.620 --> 0:14:46.060 They punch him and their hands break. A guy who 0:14:46.100 --> 0:14:48.800 has apparently been losing a lot of money betting against 0:14:48.860 --> 0:14:53.739 Wolverine all night confronts him and basically accuses him of 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:58.410 being a mutant. Wolverine pops his adamantium claws at the 0:14:58.450 --> 0:14:59.370 guy's fucking neck. 0:14:59.390 --> 0:15:00.930 Proving it. Proving it. 0:15:01.410 --> 0:15:03.630 And then he gets thrown out of the bar at 0:15:03.730 --> 0:15:07.890 shotgun point. He goes to his camper and he finds Rogue. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:12.420 Marie hiding out there. They have a brief argument. She 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.160 saved his life during the fight. That's like an important 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.140 thing is like, she basically, the guy, well, the guy 0:15:17.180 --> 0:15:20.000 has a knife. She thinks she saved his life. Right. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:22.440 She's like, look out. 0:15:22.460 --> 0:15:24.940 So she thinks she has a, like, she's not just 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.460 like stowing away. She's like, Hey, you owe me, you know? 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.359 And that kind of sets up the notion of, of 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.300 their relationship, even though he knows he would have probably survived. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.100 So he lets her hitch a ride. They talk, About stuff. 0:15:35.140 --> 0:15:38.500 They talk about his dog tags. He tells her that 0:15:38.580 --> 0:15:41.930 his claws hurt his hands every time they come out. 0:15:42.210 --> 0:15:46.230 Crazy drop. That changed it. Jason, do the description. 0:15:46.550 --> 0:15:47.250 I'll be rogue. 0:15:47.770 --> 0:15:48.610 Does it hurt? 0:15:49.470 --> 0:15:49.970 Every time. 0:15:51.610 --> 0:15:53.430 When they said that in the cinema, like we were 0:15:53.450 --> 0:15:56.229 saying that shit for years after in the playground. 0:15:56.390 --> 0:16:00.800 Crazy. So he introduces himself as Logan and just then 0:16:00.860 --> 0:16:06.590 a tree falls across the highway and Wolverine, Logan goes 0:16:06.670 --> 0:16:10.350 out to investigate. He sniffs the air. He smells something 0:16:10.430 --> 0:16:14.950 really bad and weird. And then he gets like, boom, hit, bang, 0:16:14.990 --> 0:16:20.660 baseball bat style by a tree trunk held by a 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.680 large man dressed caveman style and animal skins and long 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.360 hair and claws of his own. This is Sabretooth. But 0:16:28.420 --> 0:16:31.470 before Sabretooth can like grab Rogue. 0:16:32.270 --> 0:16:32.510 who. 0:16:32.470 --> 0:16:35.010 Is in the camper that is catching fire at this 0:16:35.050 --> 0:16:38.630 very moment. There's like the wind picks up and the 0:16:38.730 --> 0:16:43.040 fog drops and storm and Cyclops are there and Cyclops 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.440 shoots an optic blast, which scares, Sabretooth immediately just chickens out. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.240 He's like, nope. 0:16:49.420 --> 0:16:52.140 Logan wakes up on the exam table at the X 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:56.650 mansion in Westchester County, New York. And Charles is like, hello. 0:16:57.460 --> 0:16:58.000 Hello. 0:16:58.020 --> 0:17:01.050 Hello, Logan. Good to see you. I'd like to introduce 0:17:01.070 --> 0:17:05.400 you to my friends. This is Storm. This is Aurora Monroe, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.690 otherwise known as Storm. This is Scott, otherwise known as Cyclops. 0:17:09.970 --> 0:17:11.750 And this is Jean, who has no codename. 0:17:12.190 --> 0:17:16.320 She doesn't have a codename. She's not Marvel Girl. She's not, 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.120 you know, she's not. We call her Jean. She's just Jean. 0:17:19.300 --> 0:17:21.399 She's just Jean Grey because I'm trying to keep her powers. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:22.520 Yeah. 0:17:22.619 --> 0:17:25.420 And then Logan drops his sick zinger. Yeah. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.680 And then, yeah, Logan's like, what are you? Who are you? 0:17:27.859 --> 0:17:28.399 Wheels? 0:17:28.460 --> 0:17:29.460 Which is very funny. 0:17:29.940 --> 0:17:30.619 This is crazy. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:33.390 Then he grabs Scott by the lapels and is like, 0:17:33.490 --> 0:17:37.420 get out of my way. I love this. moment because 0:17:37.500 --> 0:17:39.879 scott is also like not worried about it he's just 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.520 kind of like he looks at the professor like you 0:17:42.540 --> 0:17:44.939 want me to fuck this guy up or no yeah 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.970 xavier lets him go wolverine kind of like is about 0:17:49.050 --> 0:17:52.250 to head for the exits but then xavier stops him 0:17:52.310 --> 0:17:54.830 by saying how long has it been logan 15 years 0:17:54.890 --> 0:17:58.300 no memory no history roaming around from place to place 0:17:58.470 --> 0:18:01.140 place just you know wanting to know the truth about 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:06.159 yourself charles promises logan let me show you around the 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:10.220 school And then give us 48 hours to figure out 0:18:10.260 --> 0:18:12.860 why Magneto wants you. And then I will help you 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.340 find out about your past. Let's take the tour. They 0:18:15.420 --> 0:18:18.439 take the tour. He shows them the classrooms where Rogue 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.510 is currently turning Bobby Drake straight. 0:18:24.950 --> 0:18:27.910 That's her power, the power of Anna Paquin. What can 0:18:27.950 --> 0:18:29.170 you do? What can you do? 0:18:29.470 --> 0:18:32.130 They go to the Blackbird hangar. He shows them the hangar. 0:18:32.150 --> 0:18:34.030 They go to the fucking riding stables. 0:18:34.050 --> 0:18:35.189 Why do they have those? 0:18:37.630 --> 0:18:40.530 They go to Cerebro. All the while, he's giving him 0:18:41.070 --> 0:18:44.830 the history of... Me and my boyfriend. Me and my boyfriend, Magneto. 0:18:44.910 --> 0:18:46.830 He helped me build this place and all this stuff. 0:18:47.770 --> 0:18:51.300 We go to Senator Kelly. Senator Kelly is in his helicopter, 0:18:51.740 --> 0:18:55.000 and he's making phone calls. He's whipping votes for the 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:59.300 Mutant Registration Act. Well, you're a gun registration guy. You 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.820 should be for this, this, and that, and the other. Meanwhile, 0:19:01.900 --> 0:19:07.429 his assistant, Henry Gyrick... is watching him from across the 0:19:07.650 --> 0:19:12.410 helicopter and, you know, they make some small talk. Kelly 0:19:12.430 --> 0:19:13.690 looks out the window and he's like, why the fuck 0:19:13.710 --> 0:19:17.350 are we over the open ocean? And boom, he looks back. 0:19:17.609 --> 0:19:22.500 Henry Gyrick is Mystique. Mystique, like, chokes him Who wrote this? 0:19:22.619 --> 0:19:23.619 Like a foot fetish? 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.359 I'm saying. No, no, no. Look. Wait, hold on. 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:33.250 Mystique grabs him with her feet around his neck, holds 0:19:33.310 --> 0:19:35.850 him there, then does like a pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, 0:19:36.210 --> 0:19:38.550 gives him like a one, two, three, four with the 0:19:38.850 --> 0:19:41.930 heels and the face and knocks him out and then 0:19:42.530 --> 0:19:46.800 pilots the helicopter alongside Toad. This was like very feisty. 0:19:46.820 --> 0:19:50.780 Jason, there's a lot of stuff in this movie which, 0:19:51.100 --> 0:19:54.480 you know, is suspect when you watch it as an adult, 0:19:54.580 --> 0:19:57.380 or at least heavily fetishized. 0:19:58.150 --> 0:20:00.350 Yes, lots of feet and lots of mystique. 0:20:00.430 --> 0:20:02.850 I will say one thing I do love on re-watching 0:20:02.890 --> 0:20:07.840 these is, despite the inevitable... like crazy fetish and the 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:11.179 mystique stuff is especially like, whoa, sexy. I love how 0:20:11.220 --> 0:20:14.050 they also like never afraid to make her really scary. 0:20:14.310 --> 0:20:17.910 Like she always has the terrifying yellow eyes. They're like, 0:20:17.970 --> 0:20:19.850 if you want to have sex with this monster and 0:20:19.890 --> 0:20:21.109 her feet, she's a monster. 0:20:21.230 --> 0:20:22.669 Like she still looks fucked up. 0:20:22.690 --> 0:20:25.490 Her hands, her nails, like her hands are kind of 0:20:25.530 --> 0:20:26.430 like weird. 0:20:26.490 --> 0:20:27.510 Like scaled. 0:20:27.670 --> 0:20:30.949 Yeah. Back at the mansion, Logan has begun flirting with 0:20:30.970 --> 0:20:38.110 Jean as she's pressing like, probes to his hairy, muscled 0:20:38.310 --> 0:20:42.609 chest to do an MRI scan on his metal skeleton. 0:20:42.630 --> 0:20:44.390 And we get our first look at his metal skeleton. 0:20:45.010 --> 0:20:48.830 Gene is like, well, he survived this process because he 0:20:48.890 --> 0:20:52.830 has an incredible healing factor. He's basically unkillable. And also, 0:20:53.310 --> 0:20:55.090 he could be any age. We have no idea. He's 0:20:55.130 --> 0:20:58.969 probably older than Professor. We just simply don't know. We 0:20:59.010 --> 0:21:03.110 go back to the Brotherhood base. Kelly is in his 0:21:03.369 --> 0:21:07.210 weird little I don't know, like almost like a Gandalfian 0:21:08.050 --> 0:21:11.020 prison at the hands of Sour Man type thing. It's 0:21:11.100 --> 0:21:16.859 very old school for sure. He watches Toad eat a bird, 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.830 which makes him pretty sick. Magneto comes over, introduces himself. 0:21:21.250 --> 0:21:23.610 We learn that Henry Garrick has been dead for many 0:21:23.650 --> 0:21:27.760 months now. And Mag gives Kelly his like, kind of 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.590 quick version of his mutant supremacist ideology is like, we're 0:21:31.609 --> 0:21:35.330 better than you. You're insects. You, you know, you've evolved 0:21:35.369 --> 0:21:38.070 into us. And the fact that you think that you're 0:21:38.090 --> 0:21:41.310 going to control us is actually fucking crazy. Come over. 0:21:41.330 --> 0:21:44.090 He like pulls him over in a metal chair, get 0:21:44.130 --> 0:21:47.619 into position so that he can test his weird machine 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:51.119 on him. And the machine has like two control panels 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:55.010 that Magneto places his hands on. And that part of it, 0:21:55.020 --> 0:21:59.169 the control panel is, section is like inside two rotating 0:21:59.609 --> 0:22:04.669