100 Movies in 100 Days: Day 60 – X-men

In the summer of 2000 X-men helped solidify the trend of making comic book movies that could make money and keep the nerds happy.  Okay so maybe the nerds weren’t happy but it was still a good movie.

X-menshowed us that Bryan Singer could make a great comic book movie.  It brought us the unknown actor Hugh Jackman and shot him into super stardom and we got to see Rebecca Romijn painted blue and half naked.

Those things aside X-Mentells a well put together story about Professor X’s (Patrick Stewart) ideology of how mutants can live peacefully with man and his counterpoint Magneto (Ian McKellen) who thinks that mutants should rule over man as it’s genetic superior.

I know that most people think that X2 the sequel to this movie is better, but I think that while this movie is slower because it has to show all of the origins.  That makes the story richer too.  X2 and X3 are good sequels though that are worth watching, both of them benefit from all of the original build up being produced in the first movie.

All movies are on DVD and ready for watching.  All of the X-men movies are rated “PG-13″.

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