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X-Men

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In the future there is a race of humanoids born whom later when reaching maturehood develop powers and even bizarre appearences on some as they are mutants. However the human race misunderstands them and kind of treats them unfairly, so a powerful good mutant named Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) have formed a school for the gift where young mutants can control their powers and help the benifit of all mankind. However there are some terrorist mutants lead by Magneto (Ian McKellen) who are hellbent on trying to destroy the human race so that mutants can rule over mankind, a runaway mutant girl named Rogue (Anna Paquin) who has the power to absorb lifeforces and energy from other beings including mutants temporarily of course as she runs away from home. She meets up with a Canadian mutant named Wolverine (a.k.a. Logan) (Huge Jackman) but after being attacked by a savage brute named Sabretooth (Tyler Mane) they get rescued by a team of mutants named The X-Men lead by Cyclops (James Marsden), Storm (Halle Berry) and Jean Grey (Famnke Janssen) where they live in Professor X's school for the gifted to help mankind from the bad mutants such as Magneto's minions like Toad (Ray Park) and Mystique (Rebecca Romijin Stamos) who are planning on mutating the whole human race.

An excellent adaptation of the popular comic books from Marvel that started a different trend on superheroes created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Bryan Singer who did the excellent "Usual Suspects" was born to do these movies except for the third as he really took the comics metaphor on discrimination of different people well to the big screen after years of development hell even with Carolco originally wanting the rights but Fox came to save it. The acting is quite excellent including the action sequences as i love how this Sci-fi movie plays as a movie about racism in the future and how to try to be accepted by mankind. I love how this movie introduces audiences to a different cinematic superhero then Batman or Superman back in 2000 who is Wolverine making him the best superhero ever! it was followed by an equally awesome yet even better sequel.

This 2-Disc Blu-Ray set offers the movie in a glorious picture and sound quality experience that would rocket the viewer to the roof. The extras are fantastic like audio commentary, behind the scenes footage, Deleted and Extended Scenes with optional commentary, Mutant Watch featurette that appeared on FOX TV, Charlie Rose interview with Bryan Singer, Still galleries, animatics, Intro by Bryan Singer, Five-part interactive documentary, Trailers, TV spots and internet interstitials.

X-Men was one of the first DVDs I bought after getting a TV that had component video in. I remember being impressed with how sharp it was and how warm the colors were at times. The title sequence also seemed to nearly pop off the screen. It only seemed appropriate that one of the first BDs that i picked up after getting a PS3 and a HDTV also be X Men.

I haven't even looked at the extra features disc yet; I just like watching this movie in HD. It looks great, the details are better, and it has a DTS TrueHD soundtrack. There are some movies that actually look a bit worse in HD because the effects are done somewhat sloppily and the finer detail in the image just calls attention to their phoniness. I haven't notices that in X Men. It's a very tightly made movie in almost every respect, though I'll admit a soft spot for origin stories.

there is some visible film grain, but I assume that that's because of, well, the film. Though I honestly don't know if it's true film grain or if it was added in post (sometimes they do that), but it's rarely, if ever, distracting. I actually kind of like real film grain, so that's not a mark against it-- I have heard people complain about it, though, so there it is.

Basically, the film is really good for what it is and this is a good disc.

Looks and sounds great in high def. Great pop-corn flick and definitely worth adding to your high def movie collection.

BLU-RAY VERSION IS WORTH BUYING. I DON'T NEED TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE MOVIE, OTHERS ALREADY HAVE. BUT, NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE TELL YOU IF IT IS WORTH UPGRADING FROM YOUR REGULAR DVD TO BLU-RAY. THIS ONE IS WORTH IT. COLORS ARE STUNNING AND SOUNDS GREAT.

Who wants to watch a movie that reminds you of your everyday life and the struggles we all face? Anyone? ... I didn't think so. This is just what the doctor ordered. Get away from reality with this great action flick with good special effects. I can watch this one over, and over, and over ...

These are movies for someone who loves films based on comic books and the special effects are good. Fantastic 4 has less of a plot than X-Men does. The Characters and their conflict with one another not to mention the full throttle grab you by your heels intensity of the film is a little to somewhat less when in comparison to X-Men. Fantastic 4 is a decent film but X-Men is an EXCELLENT one. The background on all of the characters is not always clear in X-Men. The background on the characters in Fantastic 4 is fairly boring. I am a person who likes to in general have a very good grasp of what is happening in a movie from beginning to end. I need a engaging plot and interesting characters. X-Men has all of these things while Fantastic 4 only has them to a lesser degree.

This Blu - Ray movie was bought as a gift for my nephew. He has just started his Blu-Ray collection. He likes it a lot!

I was looking to fill up my Blu-Ray collection a bit, and ran across this movie during the Christmas sales this year. I got it for five bucks, and that price, how can you go wrong? =)

That said, this is what's considered X-Men 1.5. It has some extra features on a second Blu-Ray disc included; so if you don't already own X-Men, this is the copy you want to purchase. If you have the original version, then this may still be worth it if you're going to Blu-Ray. If you have it in Blu-Ray without the extras, might not be worth it.

Image quality is great, sound quality is great, everything is great really. =) I've already watched it a few times, and I'm sure it'll stay in regular rotation.

Found a great deal during black friday, and added a classic movie to my collection. Amazon offers some great Blu-ray deals during Black Friday and through the month of December.

X-Men is one of my favorite all-time movies, and remains my favorite in the X-men series. I think, being the introduction to all the amazing characters like Rogue, Wolverine, Professor Xavier himself (whom I so loved as a child I named my only son Xavier after!), Magneto, Storm, and so many others their names escape me at the moment! But my point is movies where so many main characters are introduced, usually the first in the series, are often the best, because these are the movies where you meet and get to know and fall in love with said characters, as you do so here. And you come along a main evil, humanity, which wants to rid the world of mutants. And there are also so many sub-stories, sub-origin stories as well. Like where everyone is coming from, their backstories, how they are meeting and coming to Professor Xavier's school, coming together, and on the reverse how the other, "bad" mutants are coming to Magneto's side, etc., and the other stories, and love plots, between Jean and Wolverine and with Rogue wanting so badly to make a connection and being unable to touch anyone. This is also Anna Paquin's big coming out, playing Rogue, her first big part on the big screen (now as Sookie Stackhouse in the True Blood series), and she really makes her mark and nails this part like no other could. But the whole cast is cinematic Gold. It is a Stars Buffet to be had, and this is definitly THE disc to get! I already had it on standard and just had to pick up the blu-ray as well, X-Men is one of the rare few I will rewatch for years to come (I am not one of those that rewatches movies at all) Highly recommended to all, a must have for any movie collection!