One interesting aspect is when Nightcrawler was teleporting, his flesh colored make-up coming off with each "teleport" in the White House. Eventually showing his blue skin.
@clearlydisabledgaming8 ай бұрын
That small detail was always something I loved.
@thecannonballz46478 ай бұрын
28:34 When Pyro basically says to Magneto, "I can't create the flame only manipulate it" he's oblivious to the fact the very mutant he's speaking to and highly respects, Magneto, is in fact essentially the same as him. Magneto doesn't create metal, he "merely" manipulates it. In replying, "you're a god among insects," he's subtly hinting at how much alike the two of them are.
@bekleedee7 ай бұрын
I thought that was so good when I saw the movie
@Laone448 ай бұрын
That nightcrawler opening scene was just 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@BluEx223298 ай бұрын
Classic
@claymathewselevator81218 ай бұрын
Love Nightcrawler
@WhiskerDooz8 ай бұрын
So damn cool! It's funny how menacing he was in that scene and then you meet him and he's like, "Hi, I'm Kurt and I am a great performer 😀"
@JDNoble8 ай бұрын
Twas!
@georgehallam29248 ай бұрын
Best opening scene to an xmen movie ever ! I rewatch it every time
@Chillbilly2048 ай бұрын
My mom took me to see it after the dentist on opening day when I was 12, that nightcrawler scene blew me away and still remains one of the best sequences I've ever seen on the big screen
@venomousnate72638 ай бұрын
The opening scenes with Nightcrawler is one of my favorite scenes in a superhero film.
@stancinatti81988 ай бұрын
Truee
@Chuck_EL8 ай бұрын
Alan Cumming is up there with Hugh, Reeve, Patrick, JK , and Wesley as the best and most accurate potrayal of a comic book icon
@maximusolivia99827 ай бұрын
It’s really well done .
@TheChrisHype8 ай бұрын
I love the idea of the actors actually stepping up together like to call Singer out on his BS (granted, we didn’t know just how dark his BS was at the time…). It’s like they were the actual X-Men.
@neonclouds92958 ай бұрын
Can I have an explanation on this? Cuz I have no idea who or what you're talking about. Who is singer and what did he do?
@maggiepb48 ай бұрын
@@neonclouds9295 Bryan Singer is a film director, he directed 6 X-men movies including this one. He has been accused multiple times of sexually assaulting and raping children, and is infamous for his awful behavior on set including drug use and tantrums.
@GumbiiGrows8 ай бұрын
going to the movies and experiencing the nightcrawler scene for the first time not knowing he was going to attack the president was one of my greatest movie going experiences... i was an adult that grew up on the comic books and animated series, but right there, i was in tears... never thought i would ever get to see something on the big screen that only lived in my imagination...
@aldogg1878 ай бұрын
I completely agree. This was an amazing experience in the theater. Last stand when professor x was torn apart by Jean also blew my mind.. I may have also been enhancing my mind at the time of watching that part... These are all great movies.
@Blue_Lazer-k9qАй бұрын
Hearing bye bye bye after Deadpool and Wolverine hits different😂 23:03
@DemiDemon948 ай бұрын
Nightcrawler was not only my favorite character in this movie, but in all xmen films tied with Wolverine. I loved everything they did with him, the scars, the back story, his personality, the accent. It was all so perfect n that opening was the best the series ever had.
@kramermariav8 ай бұрын
Same!
@JC_Cali6 ай бұрын
Costuming and make-up UNDERSTOOD the assignment
@masterwesty8 ай бұрын
X2 isn’t only the best X-Men movie but it is up there as one of the best super hero films ever.
@BluEx223298 ай бұрын
Maybe as far as intros
@Endgame_018 ай бұрын
Two words. Dark Phoenix
@JBTriple88 ай бұрын
Nope First Class is the best X-Men movie Superman(1978) is the best superhero movie
@UrbanMediaReview8 ай бұрын
@@JBTriple8superman trash , nobody not watching that old dusty shit. Also days of future past is ranked higher than first class on most lists online.
@neonclouds92958 ай бұрын
@@JBTriple8very subjective but at the same time objectively wrong
@charleslee83138 ай бұрын
That scene with Jean and the dam -- if only there were a mutant or two who possibly had the ability to quickly freeze water. Oh well...
@ZRobertson918 ай бұрын
Alan Cumming was Floop in Spy Kids two years before this came out! I remember my mind being blown when I realized Floop was Nightcrawler
@FrankNStyne303Ай бұрын
23:01 !!!!!! The call back from Deadpool n Wolverine
@MadeByDW8 ай бұрын
I’ve seen this movie multiple times. I’m 25. Deadpool 3 comes out on my birthday. X2 is one of my favorite X-men movies. And I’ve never, ever, in my life noticed the green star and humanoid figure in the beginning credits. I’m speechless 😂
@MattsMCUniverse8 ай бұрын
when is deadpool 3/ your bday coming out again?
@MadeByDW8 ай бұрын
@@MattsMCUniverse july 26th
@RuleNo2NoNames8 ай бұрын
8 minutes at the beginning to discuss the Night Crawler scene, totally worth it. Back in the day, when I first saw, I was totally amazed 😊
@warryck59098 ай бұрын
Admittedly, having Gambit as the assassin would be really cool. It could have brought in the Thieves and Assassins feud down in the Bayou.
@GrapeDogMoody8 ай бұрын
I'm not gonna lie, I loved Alan Cummings as Nightcrawler, but I can't unsee the actor as Floop from the Spy Kids films. I just can't, he will always be Floop to me.
@darnell98068 ай бұрын
Yes that's it, I was trying to remember where i recognize him from
@DavidStowers-o7k8 ай бұрын
It must've been great for Alan Cummings to star alongside his Goldeneye co-star Famke Janssen. The Janus operative characters Boris and Xenia were an absolute delight. Their deaths, (Dowsed In Liquid Nitrogen and Shattered Spine respectfully.) were up there for me in the list of Bond movies "Henchmen" deaths.
@moreau17558 ай бұрын
17 minutes in, and the folders on Stryker's computer: Graymalkin does NOT refer to Jonas Graymalkin, given that the movie came out in 2003 and Jonas wasn't introduced in the comics until 2008. It probably refers to Cable's orbiting space station, which is also called Graymalkin - both the space station and the character were named after the street address of Xavier's School, which is in Graymalkin Lane, Westchester County.
@Phoenixflame878 ай бұрын
came to the comments to say the same
@jacksondavis63278 ай бұрын
Ice man's museum scene in freezing the bully is an homage to his origin comic in 1963 "the iceman cometh" where bobby freezes a bully thus outing him and causing him to enroll at prof.x school
@Chuck_EL8 ай бұрын
And in the first X-Men movie he did a similar thing in a comedic scene to pryo's fireball Which is a part of comic Bobby's jokester side
@ZestyDyll8 ай бұрын
I pray that Alan Cummings come back in deadpool 3 his nightcrawler is criminally underrated!
@martinfeichtinger9138Ай бұрын
And in 2024 the same song from Nsync (Bye, bye, bye) plays in the opening fight from Deadpool & Wolverine. 😉 Here in X2 it played in the car from Cyclops.
@thecricketmadguyАй бұрын
That Deadpool open title song is same as that of X2 movie, in the scene after the fight in school, logan , pyro travel via a blue car, where pyro played this exact song, only for logan to switch off the system, 😮🔥🔥
@RailroadTy7 ай бұрын
The Once and Future King is also foreshadowing Jean's death and return, as Arthur takes a fatal wound but is taken to Avalon with the promise to return when he is needed again.
@joeblankenship3778 ай бұрын
Fading to that wolf just fueled people's confusion over what a "wolverine" is.
@bryanthoyte91568 ай бұрын
X2, first class, Logan & days of future past (rogue cut) r the best x- men movies no debate
@ThatOtherMikeyGuy8 ай бұрын
The three action set-pieces in this movie are still, two decades later, absolutely top-tier.
@codymckamey79828 ай бұрын
Also! The “Hi” Jean hears in the museum is one of the kids at the school during Striker’s attack.
@joshfactor18 ай бұрын
i like how they reinforce that he's not always a straight-up villain; in fact, i think he's even actually been an x-man at one point in the comics
@iAmNemoYT8 ай бұрын
He'll even lead the X-Men in the upcoming animated X-Men 97 reboot
@thewheatharvester91568 ай бұрын
Jean reciting the opening monolog at the end is like at the end of star trek II when spock recited, space, the final frontier. Giving hope that they would both return
@gohanblanco63908 ай бұрын
Magneto coldest line “your a god amongst insects don’t let anyone tell you different”
@rebeccamyers39987 ай бұрын
I love how Kurt instinctively saves his little sister ( Marie, Rogue ) without anyone telling him
@jacobbarber86658 ай бұрын
The metal in the guard that Magneto uses to break out isn't molten, it's just small. We naturally have iron in our blood, he just had too much, allowing Magneto to use it. Although I suppose Magneto's powers could easily enough allow him to super-heat metal if needed.
@FallenTree2588 ай бұрын
😊
@benzorelli96678 ай бұрын
He didn't use the iron in his blood he used the iron mystique injected inside him.
@BluEx223298 ай бұрын
@@benzorelli9667thats still iron in his blood
@yotuel90648 ай бұрын
@@benzorelli9667 Yeah, but it was an excess of iron in a solution. Not molten iron.
@aliasfakename31597 ай бұрын
Try picking up a single grain of sand vs a handful of sand. That's why Mystique injected him with more iron
@wesleyoakes91618 ай бұрын
In the novelization, it is hinted at that the secret service agent who stops nightcrawler has mutant powers and doesn't know it.
@cassieo8 ай бұрын
Yeah, IIRC they are conscious and awake during the final scene in the Oval Office when Prof X freezes everyone who is human other than the President…
@Chuck_EL8 ай бұрын
I'm assuming he was Morph
@jarianharris82406 ай бұрын
Yeah I noticed the "Nightcrawler standing in the room before his cue" thing on my 4th or 5th rewatch. A noticeable flick flub
@Brooknamsfinest8 ай бұрын
Alan Cumming as Kurt Wagner was an amazing casting choice " Even Dee Voice ? "
@java_bean6 ай бұрын
13:55 Charles sleeps on that mattress with Magneto? Nice. Ship confirmed!
@reeceytaylorАй бұрын
Lol he did it again at around 24 mins
@louisberry44038 ай бұрын
One of the best X-Men Films and Comic Book Film Sequels. Takes everything that made The First One good and builds upon it. The Opening Scene is one of the best comic book scenes. Hope Cummings's Nigtcrawler comes back for Deadpool 3.
@andyferrat4068 ай бұрын
You said Jason Striker was mutant 143. Do you think that is a morbid reference to the meaning of 143 being “I love you” and since Striker is in charge of his son, he’s trying to say “I love you” to his son even though he’s the villain?
@haroldhardebeck87398 ай бұрын
I’ve seen this film a lot but seeing Vos break it down helps me understand it more.
@nicktroisi63477 ай бұрын
“You are a God among insects. Never let anyone tell you otherwise” That has to be my favourite line and moment in the film. I love the dynamic Magneto had with Pyro and that its the start John’s journey into The Brotherhood. Also another cool and one of my favourite details is that when Magneto first takes John’s zip lighter he uses his powers but then he hands it back he dose so without them symbolising him building and gaining John’s trust and showing him he’s not the enemy, which is just brilliant filmmaking and writing imo
@guapadonna30948 ай бұрын
Glad you mentioned that blooper shot w Nightcrawler in the shadow w the kids. I’ve always seen that n wondered if anyone else noticed
@Sierra03318 ай бұрын
I don’t care what anyone says, that opening with Nightcrawler was super badass!
@WalterFreemanProductions8 ай бұрын
Does everyone say that?
@FWbaracuss8 ай бұрын
This movie still holds up
@burneyboys028 ай бұрын
It still blows my mind that Fegan Floop was in one of these movies.
@phelix_3816Ай бұрын
So “Bye Bye Bye” in Deadpool is also an Easter egg 😂😂😂????
@WilAdams8 ай бұрын
I have always thought that Jean's 'DEATH' could easily have been avoided IF only one of the X-Men on the plan had possessed a power that could transform water into something that could have sealed the breach in the damn. You know, like maybe transforming it into something like an 'ice wall'.
@PrinxeGaming_8 ай бұрын
IF only😔 because out of everyone on the plane there was exactly no one who could’ve done that
@randomspiel8 ай бұрын
I hear you but no way teenage Bobby had anything close to the power to do that to a rushing dam of water lol
@WilAdams8 ай бұрын
@@randomspiel I don't know because A) he built (fashioned) a solid ice wall across the corridor in the school to say Logan. So, even as a teen he was pretty powerful. Also, as I envision your idea Bobby would be positioned as Jean was--out in the open--but with Kurt there the two of them could have teleported to the top of the dam and Bobby could then have laid hands on the wall--thereby increasing his power--and then just used ice to plug the hole giving Jean the chance to lift the jet out of danger. You know, working as a team which is the idea behind the X-Men (teamwork) as opposed to George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards.
@randomspiel8 ай бұрын
@@WilAdams I don't feel like a wall a few metres away and stopping a barrage of tons of water the size of a lake spewing out are that comparable imo! He's also still quite young and inexperienced here, he doesn't even get his ice body form until the end of the next movie years later, let alone close to the Omega level beyond that. I like the idea of the teamwork to make up for it, but he just doesn't have the raw power to handle this to me.
@machadogreg8 ай бұрын
Having grew up with not just the comics, but cards, and other memorabilia, it was cool to see evolution play out from what we thought the most powerful mutants were, Professor X and Magneto as level 4, but then Jean Grey into Phoenix as level 5, true omega level
@Tantorsaurus8 ай бұрын
Eric and the New Rockstar team are national treasures. Protect at all costs!!
@WhiskerDooz8 ай бұрын
They did sooo good with Alan Cumming as NC. If only we got some visual history about how his abilities work and "where" he is during that traversal.
@brandonmetro71158 ай бұрын
X2 where wolverine loses it in the x-mansion with iceman is watchable over and over again.
@Twee135 ай бұрын
10:06-10:25 Jean's just listening to everyone in the studio going over their lines in their heads. I caught that after I got the movie on DVD after it got released.
@jamesstarnes80268 ай бұрын
Bless this team for going over every name and folder on the computer. 10/10 Must have taken some time.
@ecnalreleam7 ай бұрын
You're wrong about Greymalkin. The character wasn't introduced yet. It's referring to the road the mansion is on, which is also where the character got his name.
@TheThird19778 ай бұрын
This film was such an evolution (pardon the pun) over the first movie, taking everything that worked and then building on it superbly.
@Theremustbemorelight8 ай бұрын
😂love the disinterest with the “Jaws” lighter reference 😒
@lamarstaysweird8 ай бұрын
Still one of the best superhero movies ever made. Nightcrawler’s opening scene is iconic
@SuziePenguin7 ай бұрын
I’ve always loved that there’s a connection to Highlander the Series here with the actor who plays Methos being Striker’s second in command. Methos had many many lives, being the oldest immortal, and I love the thought of him seeing the rise of mutants too.
@SmilingBanditUK8 ай бұрын
Salem Centre isn't another reference to the Xavier School. It's the closest population area to the town, and where the young mutants go to hang out. Also the Massachusetts Academy is a reference to the Hellions (it's the Hellfire Club's version of the X-men school), not a reference to the later location of the Xavier School.
@darrenrichardson61468 ай бұрын
that was the one run by Emma Frost wasn't it?
@Phoenixflame878 ай бұрын
The Massachusetts Academy became the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters in the mid-90s around the time Generation X was formed. The Westchester school became the Xavier School for Higher Learning and shifted to having older students like a university.
@kins18947 ай бұрын
What I Love about , Stewarts intro on X1 and X2 is... reminiscent of the Space... intro from the Star Trek Movies/ series
@James-semaJ8 ай бұрын
I absolutely love every bit of this film. It's these x men films that got me interested in comic book characters.
@tiago99778 ай бұрын
3:42 4:53 6:50 27:09 Nightcrawler was such a badass in this film, but he's even more impressive in Wolverine & the X-Men imo. I can't wait to see him in the MCU - hopefully they'll do him justice.
@WhiteRaven6968 ай бұрын
Discussing Alan Cumming in the early aughts, and no mention of Spy Kids?! 😤
@stevenweber77938 ай бұрын
I think this is easily the best and my favorite x men film. (As a team at least since Logan is #1) this is also just an amazing piece of cinema I think anybody could understand and follow the plot enough to be invested
@chrishewitt82878 ай бұрын
I have wanted a live action Mister Sinister since the first X-Men. Also really want Gambit and Omega Red.
@claymathewselevator81218 ай бұрын
Yes, Omega Red
@Chuck_EL8 ай бұрын
Definitely
@noir-2148 ай бұрын
30:49 Nightcrawler: I'm here to save you children The students: aaahhh
@tbx598 ай бұрын
Everyone likes the first drop on x2, but I think the best part is the view from the lift hill and the superman flying section after the big drop.
@danielbuzo72618 ай бұрын
3:15 Alan Cummings was also Floop in Spy kids in 2001 😃
@brandonballesteros53418 ай бұрын
10:19 I thought the “hi” in that scene was from when Jones says “hi” to one of the soldiers in the mansion scene.
@andrewknight29188 ай бұрын
It's great to hear what all the major actors did to Singer after all the crap he did to all those boys at DEN.
@randomspiel8 ай бұрын
Calling the president's aide being named Jackie as a Jackie O ref is the kind of stretch that could send you to physical therapy.
@sanchitgarg44848 ай бұрын
I saw your 4 years old easter egg video of this movie just yesterday!
@ajfar35148 ай бұрын
yh me too
@TitanicTruths8 ай бұрын
I always said the X3 last stand never actually happened. That its logans nightmare that he always has. But after multiverse of madness, i think it does happen. Just not in the main X-Men universe we have come to know at that point. Dreams are glimpses into the multiverse, so it did happen. Just not to our X-Men
@PeverellTheThird8 ай бұрын
Keep lying to yourself
@bromodragone84058 ай бұрын
The cat sounded more disappointed when Logan retracted his claws. It even kinda sounded like an "Aww."
@ZayWicked0078 ай бұрын
I said it once ima say it again, this is the best nightcrawler they need to bring him back 🔥🔥
@joey61397 ай бұрын
11:23 what was that weird ass cut 😂😂😂
@jharrjs804 ай бұрын
I love how magneto talks so much shit to wolverine since he cant do anything to him lmfao
@cignus198315 ай бұрын
Something i noticed, when Wolverine volunteered to go in the dam, Magneto tells Wolverine , "Whoever goes into the dam needs to be able to operate the spillway mechanism. What do you intend to do, scratch it with your claws?" Later when the dam breaks and everything is flooding, the group was trying to get out through the spillway, but Wolverine gets there right before everyone else does, uses his claws on what appears to be the control mechanism for the spillway door. Shuts the door and saves everyone from drowning.
@claymathewselevator81218 ай бұрын
I always liked Nightcrawler in the comics because of his Catholic background especially being a Catholic myself as well
@mailyak4422 ай бұрын
20:53 omg X3 is SUCH a conversion therapy metaphor I got SO MAD lol
@jorgej.cruzhernandez92478 ай бұрын
Nightcrawler was just ridiculously awesome. Bamf!
@JP474718 ай бұрын
Bryan Cox's role as Stryker is his best role of all time.
@shaunbang8 ай бұрын
The fox X-men franchise deserves its flowers and I hope Deadpool and secret wars does so. As a kid, seeing the first X-men film in theaters basically introduced me to cinema not just comic book films. To this I am film geek and the first film I ever saw in theaters was X-men.
@robertkinler72948 ай бұрын
Nightcrawler can teleport anywhere. He just knows it is a danger to go somewhere he has not been. Might end up being "cut" in half by a table or sofa or something
@WilliamJames484 ай бұрын
It's wild how much the Magneto prison break scene mirrors the events of "The Dark Forest" novel. The balls even float around each other in a "Three body esq" orbit pattern. Wondering if Liu Cixin was inspired by or even saw X2.
@μητέρα-θ1χ8 ай бұрын
Who notice the new countdown animation.just love it
@boredasshit3298 ай бұрын
anyone else notice when we was talking about where magneto at some points he calls him "charlies" 13:57 and again at 24:59 lol
@hufflepuff_halfblood4 ай бұрын
We used to have this on VHS back when I was a kid. This is the movie that got me into superheroes, so it'll always have a special place with me
@blazeplayz25088 ай бұрын
Idk why they don’t have the first two X-men movies on Disney + makes no sense.
@aditya5935Ай бұрын
BYE BYE BYE only if he knew then
@EvilMike3498 ай бұрын
Im so excited you guys are doing these, I've never been able to get enough of these movies.
@99clmsntgr8 ай бұрын
How could you not mention Alan Cumming’s biggest role prior to X2? … FEGAN FLOOP!
@Mystic-Midnight8 ай бұрын
"Say what you will about the x-men movies but can we all agree Cyclops had the best grip" -Jeremiah Elbertson
@godofdeath8828 ай бұрын
I could not find this on Disney plus yesterday when u wanted to watch it
@jacobblair34228 ай бұрын
Agreed nightcrawlers white house scene is pure gold
@maverickpancake32748 ай бұрын
Just wanted to point out in the easter egg scene you pointed out David North aka Maverick but the pic you used of the actor from X-men Origins Wolverine plays the character Fantomex in that movie.
@ytuser_31228 ай бұрын
This joins Logan, Days Of Future Past, X-Men (2000), First Class, and Deadpool as my personal favorite X-Men films
@Wilko-sw6yp8 ай бұрын
Also David Kaye later voiced Arishem the Judge in Eternals
@aliasfakename31597 ай бұрын
The opening scene made Nightcrawler my favorite mutant
@matt479915 күн бұрын
Wow, for some reason I always assumed Nightcrawler was just sending a message, not actually trying to kill the president. Time for a re-watch!
@mattduncil8 ай бұрын
The fact that Adamantium can’t cool down or it hardens and can’t remelt. That makes me think that when Wolverine pops his claws in cold weather the metal should further cool down, retaining the coldest temperature the metal reaches, and staying that temperature.