126 | Movies | X-Men (2000)

Analyzing the movie that kicked off the modern superhero genre: Bryan Singer's X-Men Subscribe:  iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews. This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:24 - Significance - Kicking off the modern superhero genre of movies 05:50 - The cast, the costumes 09:30 - Tonal decisions - Intros to Magneto, Jean, and Xavier 14:18 - Intro to Rogue, The problem of Senator Kelly 18:02 - Wolverine's entrance, Rogue team-up 21:31 - Sabertooth and the X-Men Arrive - Traditional film-making 25:08 - Capturing the mentor tradition of Wolverine with Rogue References X-Men is directed by Bryan Singer Written by: David Hayter Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin Contact Us! Tweet questions and comments to @EchoRift Use EchoRift.com's Contact Submission Form Leave us a voicemail at 856.208.RIFT Send us an email [email protected] Talk to us on Tumblr If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast, you will also enjoy these other Echo Rift Productions: Kids on Comics Podcast: A fifth grader and his dad talk about comics (every Monday) Music for the Echo Rift podcast is provided by Home at Last