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Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with the Slate's spoiler special podcast on X-Men Origins.

Help me, John.

X-Men Origins, colon, Wolverine.

Right.

There's no punctuation in between X-Men and Origins?

No, I think there should be, the, you know, editor in me wants to put a colon there, too, but I think they maybe decided that double colon was probably bad for publicity purposes.

It's hard to fit on the market.

Yeah.

So, and so joining me here is John Swansberg.

Hi, John.

Hi, good to be here.

Who's Slate's Culture Editor and who is also my loyal spoiler companion who sat through one

of the worst movies of the year so far, I would say. Yeah, I mean, I was walking out ready to say it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

You reminded me that there have been some worse ones.

Well, I was just saying that the love guru, I think, has to hold that title for at least a couple years.

Fair enough.

But not many people had to sit through that. at the issue, you know, in a couple of years and see if we, I think that, I think this could give a Love Guru a run for its money. Well, so should we start off with it with a brief summary and

maybe keep in mind that, let's see. Well, first of all, if you don't want to hear any spoilers,

obviously zip ahead now or tune back in after you've seen the movie. Right. Do you think we and background before we tell you this movie? I don't know. I don't know that I could provide it. I think you and I both are not exactly scholars of this series, although I think you and I both,

we should say at the outset, liked at least the first two X-Men movies.

Even myself not being a huge comic book movie guy, I felt like those were comic book

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