Hollywood

Those of you alive back in 1985, or those that just like to go back and watch old films, may know of a little film by a director named John Hughes called Weird Science.  To those of us who were of an age to sit in the theaters and see this first-hand, it was a great bit of sci-fi inspired comedy that featured that always acceptable premise - two nerds getting a hot girl.  In this case, however, the two nerds made the girl out of nothing, using the super-powered science of the all-powerful “computer.”

The X-Men comic books were one of the many geek staples of my childhood.  Though many cartoons came and went through the decades, it was a long time after I was a kid that any of them seemed even close to capturing the wonder I felt at the original printed stories.  As far as movies went, the idea of making an X-Men movie was never at the forefront of Hollywood’s “to-do” list.  Until the year 2000 that is, when Bryan Singer’s first attempt at bringing these iconic super heroes to life finally hit the big screen.