X-Men
This is like Batman Begins, the missing link between old school goofy superhero films, and modern gritty ones. They use leather, not spandex. A lot of people die, except not really, to save them for the sequel. Plain weird shit.
The cast is incredibly vast, with completely different actors for the rest of the films. Rebecca Romijn makes Famke Janssen look like a librarian, not the Bond girl she is.
The intro is ripped off Fight Club, but without nice electronic music, just generic movie soundtrack bombast.
Bigelow wrote a story treatment with Bob Hoskins being considered for Wolverine and Angela Bassett being considered for Storm.
Fuck, would watch the fuck out of that.
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