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ECHORIFT | Pop Culture Interceptor (Yes, a fast car from a dark future) - 126 | Movies | X-Men (2000)

126 | Movies | X-Men (2000)

08/14/13 • 30 min

ECHORIFT | Pop Culture Interceptor (Yes, a fast car from a dark future)
Analyzing the movie that kicked off the modern superhero genre: Bryan Singer's X-Men

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The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews.

This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia! When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure!

Timestamps
  • 00:24 - Significance - Kicking off the modern superhero genre of movies
  • 05:50 - The cast, the costumes
  • 09:30 - Tonal decisions - Intros to Magneto, Jean, and Xavier
  • 14:18 - Intro to Rogue, The problem of Senator Kelly
  • 18:02 - Wolverine's entrance, Rogue team-up
  • 21:31 - Sabertooth and the X-Men Arrive - Traditional film-making
  • 25:08 - Capturing the mentor tradition of Wolverine with Rogue
References
  • X-Men is directed by Bryan Singer
    • Written by: David Hayter
    • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin
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Analyzing the movie that kicked off the modern superhero genre: Bryan Singer's X-Men

Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | Miro | RSS

The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews.

This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia! When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure!

Timestamps
  • 00:24 - Significance - Kicking off the modern superhero genre of movies
  • 05:50 - The cast, the costumes
  • 09:30 - Tonal decisions - Intros to Magneto, Jean, and Xavier
  • 14:18 - Intro to Rogue, The problem of Senator Kelly
  • 18:02 - Wolverine's entrance, Rogue team-up
  • 21:31 - Sabertooth and the X-Men Arrive - Traditional film-making
  • 25:08 - Capturing the mentor tradition of Wolverine with Rogue
References
  • X-Men is directed by Bryan Singer
    • Written by: David Hayter
    • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin
Contact Us! If you enjoy the Echo Rift podcast, you will also enjoy these other Echo Rift Productions:

Music for the Echo Rift podcast is provided by Home at Last

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125 | Backstage | New Doctor Who, Dramatic Reading

Peter Capaldi is the new Doctor! Plus Best Of: Dramatic Reading

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The Echo Rift Backstage podcast is a weekly episode that contains stuff that just didn't fit in any of the other episodes!

This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia! When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure!

Timestamps
  • 00:05 - Peter CaPALDI is the New Doctor (Don says CaTaldi like a tool at least once)
  • 14:40 - BEST OF ECHO RIFT: Dramatic Reading
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127 | Comics | Superman Red Son (DC Comics)

Trying to figure out what message Mark Millar has for us in Superman Red Son

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The Echo Rift podcast is your resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews.

This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia! When that buzzer goes off, we have five minutes to end transmission or we will be atomized for sure!

Timestamps
  • 00:24 - Intro to the world of Red Son, not what we expected
  • 05:30 - Superman takes a job that doesn't exist in the US - micromanaging humanity
  • 10:18 - Hypocracy of Superman, Lex Luthor is intrinsically bad
  • 15:37 - What does Batman stand for? Wonder Woman turns on Superman
  • 20:08 - Weird to be on Lex Luthor's side - are there good guys in this story?
  • 25:16 - A fantastic science-fiction story with a great plot, Predestination Paradoxes
References
  • Superman Red Son is published by DC Comics
    • Written by: Mark Millar
    • Art by: Dave Johnson
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