The Reel Rejects - X-MEN (2000) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:23 Commence. watched X-Men 2000 on our journey to Deadpool and Wolverine. If you are listening to this on Apple or Spotify, take out those claws and drop some ratings. We appreciate it, by the way, also go to rejacknationshop.com. Yeah, baby. Get you some Che-Jack gear. That is what you need to do right now. Come on now.

Starting point is 00:01:51 Tara. Wow. What did you think of X-Men 2000? I might be an X-Men girl now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, are you kidding? I loved everything about this movie. The script was smart.

Starting point is 00:02:06 There wasn't a lot of exposition in, like, explaining things to us and their powers. They let us just find out. The visuals are great. The practical effects totally held up for being 2000, and they used a lot of practical stuff,

Starting point is 00:02:20 which I super appreciated, thrown in there with CGI, but I did not hate it. There's movies that we've seen with CGI that was way later dates that we do not like that looked like Crapola. This was great

Starting point is 00:02:32 and the casting was phenomenal. Every actor in here, I believed. I loved the connection between Hugh Jackman and I think her name is Anna. The one who plays Rogue. Yeah, we'll see her name in a sec. She's great, true blood girl.

Starting point is 00:02:47 Their connection was so great. And I loved their one-on-one talk in the train how he's sort of like her older brother Now, even though we could tell in the beginning, we're like, wait, where is this going to go? Is that going to form into a romantic relationship or is it going to be something else? And now I feel like it's just going to be a really strong friendship where he will always look out for her.

Starting point is 00:03:12 And I really believed that conversation to where he pulls her Anna Pac-Wan. I knew it was Anna. I knew it was Anna. I knew it was Anna. I just forgot Pac-Wan. I just forgot her last name. She's great. But anyway, I really, really loved his connection with Gene.

Starting point is 00:03:28 and them not using any words and him just saying my heart belongs to someone else. This script is phenomenal without using a lot of expositiony talk. They just sort of show us through emotion and you're not able to do that unless you have really good actors who know how to emote without a lot of words and all of these people do. And I'm an X-Men girl now like get me, come on, send me an X-Men shirt.

Starting point is 00:03:54 Let's do this, baby. For me, again, this is obviously, obviously my rewatched into getting ready for Deadpool and Wolverine. And I do remember seeing this film, as I mentioned earlier in the reaction. I was, I don't, I think I was in sixth grade or seventh grade. It was the summer. Yeah, so it was a long time ago. It was the summer.

Starting point is 00:04:13 It was a field trip at summer camp and we went to see this. I was blown away in the theater. I was, I loved it then and I still love it today. It still holds up for me. I just think the world building into, again, the mutants, showing like what they have to deal with you know in terms of fear from human beings like yes they have these extraordinary powers but I think that the film just does a great job and just what the comic book does and showing like why Magneto does what he does especially at the beginning showing in

Starting point is 00:04:41 that black and white scene you know in where we get into a concentration camp where we see we get the motivations right away for Magneto we see that his parents are taken away from him and we see his hatred for a man, for human beings, homeless apians. So I think the film just did a great job saying that up. And then also with Charles, you know, it could be so, the easy thing for Charles could easily be like, hey, humans hate my guts. What do I need to protect them for? You know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:05:10 And I've got these extraordinary powers. I can control whoever I want. But it's the tough decision, but it's the right thing to do is to protect humans. And also he's protecting mutants as well. I love that he has a safe space. Yeah, he's giving a safe space for for mutants with the his mansion and the school

Starting point is 00:05:28 and I think that's very noble of him at the same point he's also making the tough decision of not only protecting humans but protecting humans from mutants. I mean those are technically his brother his brethren because they are like him in terms of being mutants so I think like

Starting point is 00:05:44 that's what makes him so honorable and noble and the X-Men in general that's the tough decision to make and it's like that's what makes me identify and resonate so much with the X-Men on top of, hey, we got cool action sequences and look at these powers, like, it's awesome. But I think it's the emotional stuff like that that makes me so fall in love with the X-Men. And, you know, seeing a world that discriminates against them, like, unfortunately, we have to deal with that here in the real world as well. Not

Starting point is 00:06:11 everyone is like that. There are lots of beautiful and wonderful people out there, but unfortunately, there are also lots of so great people. So I think, like, from a movie, like, you've heard me talk about this a million times. I love in movies that are not grounded in reality in terms of like mutants. Obviously, we don't have those here in the real world. But the other stuff that's in it in terms of like, you know, just being terrible to, you know, to other people, like that's something that's grounded in reality. The emotional attachments to the characters, like that's stuff that resonates with me. That's the stuff that's grounded in reality. And I agree with you too. Like I loved all the actors that were cast in the role. I know Dougary Scott was originally, as I

Starting point is 00:06:49 mentioned earlier was originally supposed to be Wolverine. I still think he would have done a great job. Having said that, Hugh Jackman is the goat. I'm so glad that he... Yeah, he's great. I love me. I know Mission Impossible 2 is often hailed as the worst of the Mission Impossible series, and I'm not going to argue that. I still enjoy that movie, but it's definitely the the worst of the Mission Impossible films. But I will always love that film for making reshoots happen because Tegree Scott was busy with that. We got Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. So y'all need to be grateful for that film, if anything, for that, even if you don't like it. it because I think Hugh Jackman does a good job.

Starting point is 00:07:21 And I think you made a great point. Again, the ensemble between all of them is good. I'd say some of my favorite interactions have to be Cyclops and Wolverine. It's a lot of levity and tension from all the series. They're rosy stuff. It's just hysterical. But also, too, you can understand James Marr or rather Cyclops, you know, the jealousy. And also, I would say vice versa with Wolverine because he's got the girl he wants.

Starting point is 00:07:43 And then also he's got the 36 abs Wolverine. So he's got to be like very watchful of him taking over. you know his woman and all that so but again the interactions are are so natural they're so organic and i think it's hysterical whenever they banter with each other yeah but i think the the heart of it um you know is wolverine and uh anapaquin rather rogue i love their interactions and i love how she really helps him and i would say with professor xavier and the rest of the team helps him become a lot you know more selfless and more team oriented and i just i love how they they help him you know with that arc of his just become more uh you know

Starting point is 00:08:19 Again, just less rogue, if you will, not to be, no pun intended. Less independent, less rogue. Less independent, yeah. And more to be reliant on others than just to be reliant on himself only. Right. And I think that's, it was beautiful to watch as it, you know, developed throughout the film. It never felt forced. It felt earned.

Starting point is 00:08:36 Like, truly felt earned. It absolutely felt organic. And I really love, like, specific with shot that they showed us with Magneto, when he grabs Wolverine's necklace, his tags, and we see his number on his wrist. That tells us that the story, it reminds us of that story before. And so I really like, again, it's like showing us and not telling us. I love that very, very much. But no, I also agree with you in the connection with Rogue and Wolverine was excellent.

Starting point is 00:09:06 But also with Cyclops, he has a girl, Gene, who's obviously going to be hit on all the time. But when it comes down to when Wolverine enters the picture, there's a type of chemistry. and a connection in him also being a mutant that Cyclops has to like kind of look out for. Except I really liked out how we were able to see instead of Wolverine saving her, like Cyclops took care of his girl by getting the weird tow juice off her face

Starting point is 00:09:35 and like looking out for her. And I love that the trust between them when she says, open your eyes, do you trust me? Because if, you know, if he didn't, he realizes like, if I open my eyes, I could burn your face off and you're my girlfriend. Of course. And I really like that.

Starting point is 00:09:49 There's a great amount of trust there that we got to see between them. So it makes that moment later when Wolverine says my heart belongs to someone else a little bit harder and sweeter to digest because it's not as though they have a bad relationship. They don't. But I guarantee that in the writing later, there is already an unspoken chemistry there between her and Wolverine. And I would like to see that flourish without like. it being weird with Cyclops. Like, I'm sure that he's an attractive. I mean, James Marzen is hot as hell.

Starting point is 00:10:24 Like, I'm sure I'll figure it out. But I'm very intrigued by that whole storyline and the way that they are telling it. The script was just so smart. And every effect was great. And the music was excellent. Like, I'm like X-Men all day, baby. Sign me up. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:41 And you know, I'm sure many of you going to be like, how did you miss? Look up. I'm DBWR. Yeah. I'm sure many of you were going to say, How did you miss again? It's been so long since I saw the first X-Men. It's been quite a while,

Starting point is 00:10:52 but I had totally forgot that Kitty Pride was in here when she ran through the door in Professor Xavier's office. So I'd love seeing that little, I don't know if you would call it Easter, but at least seeing that character before we get to possibly see her again in the future. Don't want to ruin things for terror. But I think also, too, we got to see Jubilee, if I'm not mistaken, and it looked like she was wearing a yellow sweater,

Starting point is 00:11:16 or a yellow jacket, or at least it would look like an Easterer reference to that character, if that wasn't her, just paying homage to her. And also, I thought that was really cool. You know, I really liked to the entire storyline in terms of, again, we talked a little bit about Magneto, you know, in terms of his hatred for humanity. I thought the whole thing of what he was trying to accomplish, like, okay, we've got this entire world that hate, you know, that are not mutants, that hates us, homo sapiens. So I've got two options.

Starting point is 00:11:46 I can do violence against them or I can just turn them into mutants because he didn't, you know, he didn't know that his machine thing was, you know, he didn't know it killed Senator Kelly. So his entire thing was, I'm just going to turn the world into mutants. So you know what? Like it's an understandable motivation. And also, too, when they were trying to explain him, hey, Senator Kelly said he was so locked into vengeance and from what we had seen in the concentration camps. And understandable, I totally get it. That is one of the most atrocious things that ever happened in human history.

Starting point is 00:12:17 So from his perspective, I could understand, too, like, you know, even though we don't agree with what he's doing, you can get into the mind of this character and go, I can understand not listening to reason in his mind. Yeah, he's been through a lot of pain. And I thought it was actually, while I didn't agree with the plan, I thought it was actually an interesting plan, like, okay, this is a nonviolent way of taking care of the problem, which I actually, I didn't like it, but I respected that he was willing to go a nonviolent way. worse is kind of like where you're going with it because he could have just like maybe killed him I guess instead of but I mean he wanted him to go back out there as a mutant probably work on their side I wasn't even just talking about Senator Kelly like his plan in general of just turning everyone because again his plan was not I'm just going to wipe out and kill everyone I'm going to turn other people into mutants so that the world doesn't fear us anymore they are us so why why would they fear us

Starting point is 00:13:07 you know they are so again while I didn't like the plan I respect the idea of not violently hurting people and like you said the alternative is way worse of you know killing people so I did like that at least from you know a villain's perspective I thought like I respected didn't like but respected and motive his motivations rather I understood his motivations is what I'm trying to get out here and I love the performance again by Ian McKellen uh it's one of my favorite actors I mean he's Gandolph as we know in Lord of the Rings he's a phenomenal actor and he he just really did a good job of like just holding off from showing how much pain he felt from what he had experienced during the Holocaust,

Starting point is 00:13:47 but you could still feel like it was always still around him, that aura, like, of what he had gone through and, like, an understanding. So I think he's just such a powerful actor. And also, two, last thing, before we get into the trivia, I love the interactions between him and Charles Xavier. You really get that history dynamic between the two of them. They only had a few scenes together, but, again, you really feel like these two have... They're old buddies, old buddies.

Starting point is 00:14:10 Yeah, they've known each other for a very long time, and you can really feel it in their chemistry with each other. Absolutely. Reject Nation, some of you guys have been so kind to point out, Greg, you look like you've been getting in better shape lately. And Greg, you look like you've been pointing that out a lot more than we've been pointing that out lately. That's because I've been getting products that have allowed me to casually mention that. But with all that exercise comes a lot of sweat, and let's be honest.

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Starting point is 00:16:06 Fantastic. And it's funny that you brought up Lord of the Rings. It's in one of these Trivias. First one, though, Hugh Jackman took an ice-cooled showers every morning in the filming in order to help get into character. That would piss me up. So the tradition started because he jumped in the shower at 5 a.m. Before realizing there was no hot water. Oh, God. Shocked awake, but not wanting to wake up his sleeping wife, he gritted his teeth and he had to bore it before realizing that his mindset, wanting to scream and lash out at something,

Starting point is 00:16:35 but having to hold it in was the mentality that Wolverine is in constantly. so he got he did the cold showers every morning that he was in character because of that which I love because it happened by accident I kept saying to you too like he's doing a good job emoting in this film being pissed off yeah now having the knowledge of that cold showers will piss you up cold showers at five in the morning to when it's already cold outside no matter what time of year it even if it's summer and it's already hot outside at five in the morning it's freezing so damn that man is committed right surely After accepting the role of Magneto, Sir Ian McKellen was offered the role of Gandalf and Lord of the Rings, which originally he had to decline.

Starting point is 00:17:17 He spoke to Brian Singer about his interest in making Lord of the Rings, and Singer agreed to rearrange his movie's shooting schedule so that McKellen would finish his scenes by the end of 1999, freeing him up to travel to New Zealand in January 2000. So we really had Brian Singer to thank for Ian McKellen being in Lord of the Rings. Thank you for getting him in the movie, but you're still a rotten human being. I know nothing about him. I don't know anything about him. I'm sure he could give you all the details. But you guys probably know. And I'm sure you guys know.

Starting point is 00:17:48 I just, I don't know much. Neither Sir Patrick Stewart nor Aine McKellen knew how to play chess during filming. It was like you said. You didn't know. A chess master had to come in and teach them. I like that. To celebrate her last day on set, Rebecca Romaine brought in a bottle of tequila which she gave to her fellow cast and crew during.

Starting point is 00:18:07 a break in filming. Unfortunately, that day, she happened to be filming the Wolverine and Mystique fight scene, and she threw up blue colored vomit from the chemicals in her makeup all

Starting point is 00:18:21 over Hugh Jackman. Damn, and you know what, Hugh Jackman is a very nice human being. I guarantee you, like, he was probably very professional and cool. I mean, probably wasn't happy about it, but he was probably very professional and cool about it. Right. Okay, so here's a

Starting point is 00:18:37 Wolverine's line, which was improvved. It said, what do they call you, wheels? Wheels, sorry, what do they call you wheels, which was an adlet by Hugh Jack? Oh, I totally believe that. That's great. It was a great line, too. I love that line. Okay, let's see if I can do two more spoilers.

Starting point is 00:18:52 It says, the scene in the train station where a young boy smiles at Cyclop and he smiles back was unplanned. The boy was a huge X-Men fan, and Cyclops was his favorite. Oh, I love that. called for Cyclops to look at the train schedule but according to director Brian Singer the boy could not stop smiling at James Marsden. Finally

Starting point is 00:19:12 during one shot Marsden just looked at him and he smiled much to the boy's delight. Brian Singer liked the idea so much he kept it in the movie and told the actress playing the boy's mother to react the way she did. That's sweet. That's a very sweet little moment there.

Starting point is 00:19:28 I'll read one more let's see. In the comics the X-Men wore distinctive blue-gold uniform but the filmmakers revise the uniform to black leather suits. Tom DeSanto explained that the test designs of the X-Men in their blue-gold outfits were unsuccessful. Brian Singer noted that durable black leather made more sense for the X-Men to wear's protective clothing. So despite the sport from Stanley and Chris Claremont, many fans were upset about the change in costumes. I remember that.

Starting point is 00:19:55 So Brian Singer added dialogue referring to the issue when Wolverine complains about the uniforms. Yellow spandex. Exactly. Cycops, would you prefer yellow spandex? So the blue and gold uniforms appear, okay, in later movies. So that's, that's great. I love all that stuff. I didn't spoil any. I said nothing.

Starting point is 00:20:12 I said nothing. No, no, no. So I love this film and I can't wait to watch all of them. Yes, yes. If you guys don't want to miss out on our journey, we're going to be doing X2 X-Men United next. And then we will continue on from there. We're doing the whole thing, including the Deadpool films as well. Deadpool 1 and 2 to get you guys ready for Deadpool and Wolverine, rather.

Starting point is 00:20:38 So don't miss it. Make sure you guys do all the things to do. Share this video. Like it. Like it. Do all of the stuff so that we get a lot of views on these so that we can actually continue. Please. Because sometimes we don't get enough, then they have to switch it up.

Starting point is 00:20:53 But I want to watch all of these, please. Make Tara's dream happen. Yes, please, please. Anyways, guys, if you made it this far, we appreciate it. Thank you so much. We hope to see you on the next one, X2, X-Men United, and we shall see you then. All right.

Starting point is 00:21:09 Cheers. He's called Michaelaide. Because he's really mutant. Mutant Linden. Mutant. Mucal. Do you know what his mutant powers would be, John? What are his mutant powers?

Starting point is 00:21:24 Wasn't rhetorical. I know it sounded that way. I know what his mutant powers are. Okay, get this. Yeah. Kale Linden's power. You got this. That wasn't good or no. He can absorb the moisture out of any organic thing.

Starting point is 00:21:42 Okay. Yeah. So he could wither your body. He could like grab your skin. He has to make contact with flesh. And he could absorb all your moisture into himself and thus increase his vitality. Wow, that's brilliant. Or he could do it to like a plant or an animal or, or, or,

Starting point is 00:22:02 or fresh produce at the store. Oh, that sounds like a German enhancing meeting. New power, new power. How about Mikhail, get this, Michaelo can travel in time. But he can only travel in time to 10 minutes into the future for one minute of a trip.

Starting point is 00:22:23 So you've got to really know what time you need to be at and how to maximize that 60 second window. I mean, it's genius. But it could come in handy if you get it right. I think it's really. Yeah, so I think that's

Starting point is 00:22:35 it's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. And hey, I mean, that's a great way actually to comment on movies because then you could predict without people knowing. You should become a reactioner

Starting point is 00:22:48 with that. How he knows movies too well. He can predict things 10 minutes before they happen every time. And he never has to buy a drink at the movies because when you have one,

Starting point is 00:22:58 he could just because he also has the water. power all ties together all ties together I want that you know what that's more superheroes should have two powers that have nothing to do with each other and like that's just how it works

Starting point is 00:23:14 bliss yeah

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