X2: X-Men United Commentary Podcast

[@TheAncientdragon1]

I didn't fully appreciate this film when I was younger. But, I think it's absolutely brilliant. For not relying on action scenes. This film is about something, and it favors story first. I love listening to these commentaries.

[@TheComixkid2099]

By the by, I was howling with laughter when you guys were talking about "I think Magneto's behind it"

[@metsbears100]

The xmen are all out of Dr. Pepper. Cyclops says I think magneto's behind this

[@LizzyVonBloom]

***** All Marvel movies either have Dr pepper in them, or Dr pepper has licensed cans. In this movie Cyclops seems to think Magneto is behind everything. Put those two cliches together.

[@hiran558]

lol the "magnetoes behind this" part made me lol

[@NerdManReturns]

I read a fan script once where someone tried to fix X3 and add Cyclops in the mix, and I felt it was 10 times better then the films.

[@DTWX]

Kinda hard to comprehend that these commentaries were done 6 years ago when I'm listening to them now. The Deadpool references for example... 😋

[@DarkMasterofCupcakes]

Wow...I never noticed the huge time difference between X-Men and X2. I mean, I always knew that the second movie was longer, but I never realized how much longer it was. Then again, I also saw this movie first.

[@rokaanalzeer]

Shades, the first class composer is henry jackman. He also did kick-ass 1 and 2 and he's doing captain america: the winter soldier

[@jushill08]

is it sad that James Marsden's acting in that one scene in the white house where he is looking slightly anguished bettr than Halle Berry's acting through the trilogy?

[@Sungetsu15]

I feel the same way, especially after the poor reception of 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'. And you are not alone. ;)

[@BoooRatt]

I think the best reason for Mystique being naked as her shapeshirting ability works better without having to change out of her suit and 1st Class's better excuse is it takes a lot of strain of her to hold a shape for any amount of time and she just wants to relax. Also she is a bit of hippy revolutionary in that movie!

[@Geekvolution]

That's coming very soon! We'll be posting a commentary for Origins soon after we return from the holiday break. -CL

[@stevebaxi]

I actually enjoy First Class more then this but as I watched the podcast, I'm really getting pulled towards X2 lol

[@MrEffectfilms]

Hey guys, the guy who did the score for Xmen First Class is Henry Jackman. He also did the score for Kick Ass before this (no surpirse since they're both directed by Matthew Vaughn). Also I really hope you two do a First Class commentary, its my personal favorite of the series and would love to hear what you guys have to say.

[@Geekvolution]

Yep, my middle name is Logan. I use it as my last name professionally. -CL

[@whoesyourriley1]

Now have you guys ever noticed Jean's lining on her costume changes from green in the first movie to red in the following two? And what do you think of the of color lining on each X-man's costume matching a prominent color on their comic book costume like Cyclops has blue, Wolverine has orange, Rogue has green and so on?

[@Geekvolution]

Yep, we didn't mean to skip it when we did but Manos was interested in Batman and Robin and we decided we'd better do Forever before that. Hopefully soon on Returns. -CL

[@shaunblake7411]

I also love how inspirational the way they did Nightcrawler was. For example it looked to me like it inspired the way his teleportation effect was done in the video game Marvel Ultimate Alliance. And that wasnt even in the same continuity as this movie...

[@Geekvolution]

Yes, what fantastic news! -CL

[@COMICFILMEXPERT]

The crazy thing is how John Ottman went on to score both of TIm Story's "Fantastic Four" films...which funny enough, you can very much argue that his scores are the best components of those films as well. He also did "Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later," but Dimension stepped in and hired Marco Beltrami to do additional music that wasn't as good as what Ottman said he had in mind.

[@CalebBirman]

They built that hallway with the wall of ice. It wasn't someone elses building.

[@hollandorises]

I would join the cyclops club with u shades ;) he's the best.

[@guy6666657]

Another awesome commentary podcast you guys! Absolutely love all your videos from Superhero Rewind etc. Are you guys gonna do a Rewind or Commentary on First Class, Green Lantern, Cap: The First Avenger or The Avengers anytime soon?

[@georgelmfao]

I just watched X2 for the first time in a long time. I had forgotten how excited I was for the Phoenix Saga. I was was shaking. Shaking with excitement to see the bat-crap crazy alien stuff I remembered from the animated series translated to screen. I forget who I saw it with, but I was explaining everything we were going to see in the next few movies. What a shame. Can somebody explain to me why Jean couldn't do what she did from the inside of the Blackbird?

[@JoeChillton]

You just blew my mind, Cap. That's so cool, and on a related note about Wolverine's name, i always used to think his real name (before Origin in '01) i swear i thought it was John Logan.

[@Elsuperhombre42]

before you mentioned catwoman, i had completely forgot that movie existed. lol i've seen it, but like many others have tried & fail i succeeded & litterally forgotten about it until you brought it up. -_- thanks cap for bringing it back into my mind.

[@Geekvolution]

Au contraire-- "Jaymes Logan" is also my pen name on my novel, which a lot of our viewers are aware of. I actually didn't reveal my last name here! -CL

[@767scarecrow]

Cap is James really youre first name?

[@ThePsychoticBee]

Wade Wilson's name is on that computer

[@natsmith303]

As someone who pretty much never reads comics, I'm going to start assuming that anyone Wolverine interacts with one-on-one in these movies has some long history with him in that medium based on how often you two say it.

[@DarkMasterofCupcakes]

I liked The Last Stand. Second favorite movie of the franchise to me, after this one. Then again, I might be biased, because it was the first X-Men movie I saw in theaters.

[@MM2Dylan]

Actually the kid with the funky-looking tongue is from the comics, he's Arthur Maddicks, one of the Morlocks. He's basically in name only though.

[@5keeper7ful]

Did you know that Kelly Hu (Deathstrike) was China White in Arrow?

[@ShadesAtKnight]

The video of her Warner Bros. bashing speech at the Razzies is online.

[@TheComixkid2099]

And he appeared earlier than that in the old X-Factor series.

[@MercerCreate]

Did you notice that the kid with the remote control blinky eyes flips through the channels and passes over TNG?

[@767scarecrow]

Cool! Is Logan really in your name too? Great commenary by the way. Very entertaining. I cant wait for the rest of them!

[@MrBANE1992]

will you also do a rewind on first class before the wolverine in may

[@sesychaves1675]

Arthur "Artie" Maddicks is from generation x

[@johnnyfive222]

You guys should do Returns in December just in time for Christmas. Since it is a Christmas Batman :)

[@billdenley9331]

Of course you wouldn't have any memory of being Wolverine until you read Origin, Cap, "You will have no memory."

[@MassDestructionFTW]

This movie has a lot of similarities to Star Trek 2 the wrath of khan. The main villain wants revenge on the main character because of a past event and a main character dies in the end and has a monologue at the end. Xavior=Kirk striker=khan jean grey=Spock

[@LewisCox]

Hi Cap will you do this for all of the X-Men movies

[@BoooRatt]

You're correct he was the 1st Lector!

[@regeekable]

You guys should do one of these for Under the Red Hood, since you clearly have a lot to talk about.

[@767scarecrow]

Nolan North is awesome!

[@whoesyourriley1]

Shades I will be in your Cyclops favorite character ever club. I remember when I was younger my cousins and I would play X-men I would always be Cyclops while they would be Wolverine or Gambit or Colossus and they would say why do you like Cyclops so much I would say because he is so cool and other thinks, but now that I'm older there are so many great reasons why he is my favorite character ever but I won't go into them here since I plan on doing a video on the topic.

[@Geekvolution]

@Luckyshadow1000 Yep!

[@Sungetsu15]

Still like to note Professor X and Captain Jean-Luc Picard. lol

[@BoooRatt]

The part that bothers me about Lady Deathstrike thing is she is basically an innocent character that dies pointlessly! She wasn't in full control of herself!

[@justinmitchell2577]

Would Scott be Riker or Jordi?

[@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168]

1:30:35 You guys completely misinterpreted what she said and also made ridiculous statements because of it.

[@Geekvolution]

Yep, we sure are! -CL

[@BoooRatt]

You know what is funny? One of my mom and my biggest plothole joke for this movie is they got Ice Man there with them at the end and he pulled a 2 foot thick roughly 30X30 ice wall out of thin air but he couldn't save them by freezing the lake water!? Jean had to sacrifice herself!?

[@christianknight3014]

my top 10 favorite superhero movies 10.X-men first class 9.x-men 8.The incredibles 7.Batman 89 6.Iron man 5.The dark knight 4.X-men 2 3.Captain america the first avenger 2.Batman Begins 1.The avengers 3.

[@christianknight3014]

I think that it might have been me that commented that it would be cool if deathstrike would be in the wolverine.Yeah I am not really sure what they will do I mean obviously they doing the wolverine in China but I am not sure what story they will do.

[@Fallows1985]

Ah right na it just something that i realised recently watching your vids , good commentary, will you be doing batman returns?

[@dageekundaground]

I actually have X-Factor #1 where ARTIE appears ... I can't help it if Singer changed everything in his "adaptations" to fit his rather "unique" perspective on everything.

[@BoooRatt]

Still might've said that at the moment!

[@jugulator95]

Hey cap did you know bryan singer is directing xmen days of future past

[@astrostar49]

I've seen it. My feelings still haven't changed. It's obvious she was doing it in jest. She's bashing everyone, but it's pretty clear that she is playing up the "obnoxious actress" joke onstage. There is a reason why everyone is clapping and laughing because they get the humor. Some of the people she is bashing is actually there on stage with her. It's an act. It wasn't serious at all. You ask her in a real manner she probably would admit that the movie just didn't turn out like she hoped.

[@JoeChillton]

Cap, you planning an X Men Origins: Wolverine one with Shades too??? Plz let him rip that one a new one.

[@5keeper7ful]

Uh oh.....Spiderman 3 must be coming up very soon.

[@manuelaag99og]

IT'S NOT NOLAN NORTH, IT'S RYAN REYNOLDS!

[@blackmegaman]

Hope we'll see a TMNT (1991) or a Power Rangers the Movie commentary soon. heh

[@jugulator95]

Hey cap can you and dan do dark knight and when it comes out can you guys do rises I think it would be an interesting podcast

[@Geekvolution]

Yep, but it's Jaymes. -CL

[@BoooRatt]

That wasn't my point my point was he pulled a 30X30 wall of ice out of thin air he could've just frozen the whole lake! I'd think freezing water vapor in the air is a lot harder than freezing already condescend mass of liquid water water. Especially ice cold water in that era!

[@Fallows1985]

well with the panels u did with eric you'd think there wouldn't be much more you could say about the films but from your other commentaries there is. 2bh its quite sad that Cyclops was killed off in the next movie cos apparently they were going to develop him way more than they had done with his guilt about Jeans death and pushing the X-Men to not make the same mistake.

[@MrGoldThing]

Brian Cox is British I think

[@LifterC3]

even a roughly 30x30 wall wouldn't have stopped that water from crashing down, merely delay it for 8 seconds or so and Ice Man ( at that stage ) wasn't that powerfull enough to create anything bigger,

[@justarandomveryintelligent8934]

I didn't mind first class's explanation of mystique becuase I read it as yoy wouldn't look at a tiger and say it should be hidden from the world becuase of its majesty and regality. you'd let it display what it truly is which is a beautiful creature. same with mystique. she shouldn't cover up her blue skin becuase that's part of who she is. the same as the tiger's regal looks and beautiful fur is part what makes a tiger a tiger

[@astrostar49]

Nice review. I had an issue with Shades and his take on Halle Berry as Storm though. I'm not the biggest fan of her here also, but I think you guys blow it way out of the water and put too much blame on her. There were reports that she wanted more screen time and character development back then, as Storm was under utilized in the first two films. As for her words about Warner Bros, we weren't there and who is to say it wasn't take out of context? Kind of surprised by you two. Sorry, just sayin.

[@BoooRatt]

Speaking of Wolverine's dogtags I wish the plot-line wasn't dropped or some badly screwed up that we never got why is it that they got the same serial number as Magneto's concentration camp tattoo!?

[@Fallows1985]

awww Cap, you've revealed your real name. Now the mysteries gone :( lol 2bh I do think this is the first time you or someone has said your real name.

[@dageekundaground]

Kid who never sleeps is from Uncanny X-Men # 215- He is a de-aged for the movies version of Super Sabre from Mystique's version of Freedom Force .... and you're supposed to be geeks?

[@LifterC3]

So like I said, Ice man wasn't powerfull enough to do that.

[@dageekundaground]

What's wrong with Zac Efron ?

[@randomMarvelDCguy]

actualy cap your Stan Lee kinda sounds like Ledger's Joker imho.

[@sesychaves1675]

wade wilson is not a mutant

[@johnnyfive222]

So your like Doctor Who :) Revel it and the whole universe is in jeopardy.

[@dageekundaground]

I doubt that I would classify as "your junior" .... listen "kid" I was just filling in some information that was missing from the podcast. Did you really have to take it so got-damn personal? BTW, I'd been a fan of your videos for a long time until I read this smarmy shit. Good luck in you LA Film career ...and lighten up. Gonna need a thick skin to make it in the film industry.

[@dageekundaground]

Kid with the tongue is from X-Factor # 1 -Artie Maddox ... and you're supposed to be geeks?

[@ShadesAtKnight]

You weren't "just filling in some information that was missing from the podcast". You insulted me. Don't think for a split second that I take someone insulting my knowledge and love of the X-Men lightly, junior.

[@rokaanalzeer]

X2 I think is overrated but still good. My favorite xmen movie is first class. After that I love the wolverine and X1 more than X2.

[@kdragonballz]

Wow u like the wolverine more I can understand first class but the wolverine that's a first for me

[@rokaanalzeer]

kdragonballz well now, days of future past is my favorite

[@deathtarget1337]

i am just not a fan of the x men films

[@jacknapier2598]

X2 is the worst movie I have ever seen!