What separates us

X-Men

(2000)

Yes, I was in the mood for more mutants after watching the new one today. Also wanted to see whether the reprise of the concentration camp scene that opens the new one is as exact a duplication of the scene that opens this one as struck me while watching this afternoon; yeah, it's pretty damn close--the original might be a little muddier. One thing I didn't have in mind but was a nice reminder--and another clever use of the future vis-à-vis the new film's past--is the Xavier voiceover at the very outset of the first film: "Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet." It's not much of a spoiler to point out that in the new film young (and infinitely less responsible) Charles uses that very speech as a pickup line at pubs.