Too emotionally hungover to even attempt going to sleep so I guess I'll watch X-Men. Time for another trip down the old well of impactful movies from my youth I haven't seen since transition.

Do all queer teens project all over Rogue or just me? Man oh man I wanted to be her when I was...checks release date–yikes...13

The senate hearing that opens this movie is like almost word for word the scaremongering shit you hear about trans folks and the bathroom debate.

Hugh Jackman. How one guy can be this hot and this talented is one of life's true mysteries.

I could honestly watch him intimidate hateful jerks all day. All queer teens should be assigned a feral wolverine to look out for them when they head out into the world, tbh.

Just for the record: I spend a lot of my time trying to be like Charles Xavier but in my heart of hearts I'm Team Eric. Dude has a point

"Does it hurt when they come out?"

"Every time."

Yup. This movie still holds up

Who is your favorite mutant and in 240 characters or less why did you choose Storm? There are no wrong Storm answers

It's a damn shame Kate Pryde just gets a little easter egg cameo in this first movie. Love her

So, having just finished TNG for the first time like a month or so ago ... Hearing Picard actually makes me love Xavier even more rather than pulling me out of the movie

It's also jarring, and not at all in a bad way, to watch a super hero movie that isn't parroting, parodying or purposefully diverging from the MCU formula.

Lol. I totally forgot about toad eating the bird. Majestic

Normally villain monologues are insufferable, but when it's Ian Mckellen as Magneto I'm lapping it up.

If your favorite X-Men is cyclops then I assume unflavored oatmeal is your breakfast, lunch and dinner of choice.

It's been 20 years, and the scene where Mystique pretends to be Bobby and shatters Rogue's little heart and the refuge she's found still hurts. I think a lot of us know how it feels to be hated because of one fact about us we didn't choose

And not just be hated, but to have that hate passed off as caring for the well being of everyone else like your very existence is a disease. To hear that hate in a soft voice wearing love like a mask and wielding concern like a dagger

"He seems to genuinely want to help you, and that's a rare thing for people like us."

Logan follows up right to the feels

"That remarkable metal doesn't run through your entire body... does it?"

Magneto is such a satisfying antagonist. His prison break in X2 remains one of my favorite things I've ever seen on screen.

Honestly, the more I watch this movie the more I want to be watching X2. I love them both but I think X2 is one of the rare sequels, we're talking Blade Runner 2049 and Empire Strikes Back level rarefied air, that builds and improves on all that came before to make both better

Do not love Logan and Scott bickering as a way to compete for Jean. Love the implication in some of the newer comics that all three of them are in some kind of polyamorous relationship

Like there are a few panels that def give off that vibe and also I'm pretty sure Wolverine has a room in Scott's moon base/Krakoa house

You can tell Magneto was a theater kid because he picks the literal Statue of Liberty for his big moment for maximum dramatic irony

"Do you know what happens to a toad when it's struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else."

That line got so much hate and maybe I'm just an Ororo fan girl but I love it. It's ice cold.

Anyway, back to the polyamorous Jean/Logan/Scott thing. In X-Men No. 1 of the current Hickman run you can see the three of them have rooms adjacent to each other in the Summer House (it's on the moon!) with internal connecting doors.

Exhibit B are these panels from Dawn of X No. 6 and X-Force No. 10 (so minor spoilers). You can't tell me these three aren't having a blast putting old rivalries behind them.

Anyway: to sum up this thread:

1- X-Men the movie holds up.
2- Queer readings of X-Men are my favorite readings of X-Men
3 - Jean and Logan and Scott are a loving trio in the current X-Men canon

Also, the year 2000 was a simpler time when you watched the credits out of some vague obligation to creators and not because you're being held hostage by an ongoing joke/tease in a textbook example of diminishing returns