493 – Now a Major Motion Picture
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | You know, Jay, there are startlingly few cameos in the first X-Men movie. |
| 0:04.9 | What do you mean? There's David Hader who wrote it. |
| 0:07.8 | And played Solid Snake. |
| 0:09.4 | And played Solid Snake. |
| 0:10.7 | And there's Gary Goddard, who directed Masters of the Universe, and Cal Dodd and George Boussa from the animated series. |
| 0:16.3 | And, of course, contractually, Stan Lee. |
| 0:19.3 | It's just I keep looking, and I can't find Chris Claremont anywhere. |
| 0:23.5 | He's got to be somewhere. |
| 0:25.6 | He is not in it. |
| 0:27.6 | What? I'm Jay Editing. |
| 0:41.6 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:43.1 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:45.9 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:47.7 | Welcome to episode 493 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:51.7 | where we walk you through the in's outside ret cons of comics, |
| 0:54.6 | and today, movies, greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:57.8 | And welcome to a very special day, Jay, why is this day unlike other days? |
| 1:04.1 | Because today we're going to talk about drugs. |
| 1:07.1 | By which you mean? |
| 1:09.0 | By which I mean the 2000 X-Men movie, which turns 25 this week. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, yeah, this episode will be going up the night of July 13th, 2025, and the movie came out |
| 1:21.0 | July 14th, 2000. |
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