How Bryan Singer's Original 'X-Men' Helped Define Superhero Movies

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I’ll never forget seeing movies the summer of 2000. I was 11 years old and I was impatiently awaiting this one summer blockbuster that honestly looked unlike anything I had seen before. I remember seeing adverts for the movie in Circuit City. Does anyone remember the original teaser trailer for the film? The tagline teased “Change is coming“. I don’t think anyone had any idea what that could possibly mean sixteen years later. While Blade and the success of that film made a huge impact just two years earlier, Bryan Singer’s X-Men and its sequel X2: X-Men United arguably jump-started and helped define the entire superhero genre as we know it. Let’s take a look at how the genre has changed and evolved nearly two decades later. ›››

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