Episode 50 – X-Men 3: The Last Stand
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
It’s our 50th episode! We celebrated with our favorite thing: talking about X-Men with Caroline from Fantastic Fangirls and Panels. Unfortunately, this means we had to read the novelization of our least favorite X-Men movie: X-Men: The Last Stand by Chris Claremont. It’s a movie whose convoluted plot was not aided by having been novelized in the style of a very long 80s comic speech bubble. Hey–is Cyclops in this? Oh well, thanks for joining us for 50 episodes, bubs!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Rogue Gets In Trouble by Kate Beaton
Jesse Hamm’s “Tetched” Rogue series
X-Men: The Last Stand Rifftrax
Candy pairing: Caroline says Beemans gum, Kait says your favorite candy after a recipe change, Renata says a marshmallow roasted by the flames of the Phoenix force.
Coming up next: Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we didn't read about Scott Summers, so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read X-Men, The Last Stand, the movie novelization by Chris Claremont. |
| 0:22.9 | Joining us to discuss this novelization of the weakest installment of the X-Men movie franchise is Caroline, professional X-3 apologist. |
| 0:31.2 | Hi, Caroline. |
| 0:32.2 | Hello. |
| 0:33.5 | I'd like to know also that in the Kindle edition of this, it is actually called the X-Men TM, the Last Stand movie novel edition. |
| 0:42.5 | Just in case you didn't know that X-Men is trademarked. |
| 0:46.7 | So adjust your fan fiction accordingly. |
| 0:50.3 | Got to put those disclaimers on there. |
| 0:51.9 | Okay. |
| 0:53.0 | Does that mean that the X-Men are trademarked by Marvel and, like, Sony and whoever owns that? |
| 1:00.7 | Or are they saying that, like, within the X-Men universe, Xavier is, like, a trademark, what do you call it, a troll? |
| 1:09.0 | He goes around and he, like, basically sues everybody who has that ex-in-roll? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, he's like, he goes around and he like basically sues everybody with their name. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:13.0 | No, he's like he goes around and sues everybody who tries to use a letter X, like when Spike Lee sued the Spike Network. |
| 1:18.3 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:19.2 | Yeah, he is at war with Chris Carter regarding the X-Files. |
| 1:25.1 | Not happy about Vin Diesel and the triple X movies. |
| 1:30.0 | Not happy at pornography. |
| 1:33.3 | Really excited to read the fan fiction that is just the court transcripts of Charles |
| 1:39.6 | Xavier versus Chris Carter. |
| 1:43.1 | Wow. |
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