#i am protective over this era of superhero movies dont fucking touch me

[2003daredevil]

"Fox X-Men (2000) was bad"

Wrong. This was the first modern superhero movie and it was going off of basically NOTHING and it was Good. The pacing is good. Every scene takes it's time and we still end up where we need to be within a timely manner.

It starts with the scene of Erik's backstory in order to ground the audience in a sense that this world is real and much like ours by using a major historical event and only towards the end having things take a turn for the fantastic. It also establishes the ethical debate at the core of XMen as a series, about discrimination and how best to avoid the worst case scenario of genocide. It shows what Magneto sees for our future, why he is willing to go as far as he does and what is really at stake in the Charles/Erik chess game.

Then we move on to Rogue who's introduction to the world of mutants and connection with Wolverine is the emotional heart of the story. Logan ALSO gets a great introductory scene that tells us about who he is, a fighter, a shit talker, a wild thing that has up until now been on his own. They bring them together, the old outcast and the new one FIRST so that we as an audience have an area of focus in a series with so many characters. The bond they share and the safety they find in eachother mirror the bond that links all of the X-Men.

It's got humor that isnt just pop culture references, it's got the beginings of relationship dynamics (Logan/Marie paternal, Logan/Jean/Scott romantic, Scott/Charles leadership, Charles/Erik friendly rivals) it's got themes about the struggle of social minorities, balance between practocal effects and cgi, REAL BUILT SETS, even a villain gets a character arc.

Literally X-Men was the blueprint. I don't care that you think their leather costumes are dumb it was the fucking 90's and directors had to fight to get superheroes in costumes at ALL. I don't care if you think the cgi aged poorly. It was a quarter century ago and it does NOT look THAT bad. Today's bells and whistles are nice but the absence of them does not make X-Men a bad film. Put some fuckindhhs respect on her name!