X-Men
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2015
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
Consider this the podcast equivalent of Giant Size X-Men #1! It's an episode filled with big announcements, enormous thank yous, and an epic discussion about this incredibly influential film and the franchise it kicked off!
We were all a little shocked when we realized that this original X-Men movie is already fifteen years old! What's really interesting about it now is that it's sort of a middle ground between the way comic book films were made and marketed in the 80s and 90s vs the way they're treated today. There's no question that this helped shape the landscape of the modern superhero movie, but there are still a lot of elements here that are holdovers from the previous era.
Topics include: our history with the comics and the 90s cartoon, other versions of the film that were kicked around before Bryan Singer got involved, some initial skepticism about the age of certain characters, the incredible opening scene and why the Magneto/Professor X relationship is so central to the success of this property, whether or not Wolverine should be a leading man, the real reason this feels a little small in scope, how unfortunate it is that Cyclops and Storm get sidelined here, some issues with the costumes, some questions about Magneto's plan, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember X-Men? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.7 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.8 | And today we're revisiting X-Men. |
| 0:53.5 | Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting X-Men. So before we dive in and start talking about this movie, I mentioned in our 50th episode that we'd be making a big announcement in the near future. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, friends, the future is now. |
| 1:06.9 | Or since you'll be hearing this in a week, the future was then, but now for you. |
| 1:14.8 | And to help make this announcement, Kristen's here. Hi, Kristen. Hello. Yay. So, and she's not just here |
| 1:21.3 | for the announcement. She's going to stick around and talk about X-Men with us. So there you go, |
| 1:25.1 | Marcella. We brought that cheerleader back. Yay. And here's the thing. Marcella |
| 1:31.1 | was not the first person to express an interest in hearing more from Kristen. Your appearances |
| 1:35.8 | always seem to get a lot of really good feedback. We certainly enjoy having you sit in with us. |
| 1:40.3 | So the bad news is that Kristen just isn't available to join us in a more permanent or even semi-permanent capacity. |
| 1:47.2 | The good news is it's because we're launching a brand-new podcast and she's got our own show now. |
| 1:52.6 | Yay! |
| 1:54.1 | So why don't you tell everybody a little bit about it? |
| 1:57.3 | So after the Haiti You Remember Gang did the |
| 2:01.4 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie |
| 2:03.8 | Chris had the idea that he and I would record |
| 2:07.0 | together a bonus episode |
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