I need to stop watching this documentary I’m feeling super old. Seriously I have become my mother. We talk about movies sometimes and I have been known to go “but it’s really old! It came out before I was born/just a baby” and mum will look startled and retort that it seems recent to her.

Well I’m looking at X-Men and I remember when it came out. It seems like a perfectly recent movie to me. But for my classmates at uni yup you guessed it – “that came out the year I was born”

*cries*

Seriously it just doesn’t seem possible.

But the actors all look super young as well because of course this was 20 years ago. Shawn Ashmore (identical twin of Aaron Ashmore who played characters I love in Warehouse 13 and Killjoys) looks so young, but then he would have been 18. I think I’m finally understanding why older people look at doctors and policemen and think they should still be in school. When I was 18 I thought people my age looked like adults. Now I’m older … yeah they really don’t.

Anyway I’d forgotten this had Rebecca Romijin in as Mystique. She just said in this documentary she thought she was hired because Mystique was a poser and due to the shapeshifting all the acting was done by others, and of course she started her career as a model. Now 20 years later she has brought to life Eve Baird from The Librarians and Number One from Star Trek. The lady is talented and thank you whatever casting director gave her a chance I love those characters.

I did laugh a bit when Patrick Stewart said he hesitated because he thought one iconic character in an actors resume was enough and of course he was Picard. It was Ian McKellen though that was the most poignant talking about the message behind the X-Men story as a metaphor for prejudice. Now that MCU owns the X-Men they’ll probably appear in some fashion within the next decade. This first movie though will be tough to beat in terms of that message.