Xavier's is Totally Rad!
May 19, 2016 11:40 AM   Subscribe

 
I think it was Twitter, but I would like to thank the person who pointed out that from the facade of the school, it is totally unfriendly to wheelchairs so I guess ole Professor X has to keep his ramp around back.
posted by Kitteh at 11:44 AM on May 19, 2016 [5 favorites]


So, that 1-800-312-9951 at the end is a working number with a voice you might recognize.

Excelsior!
posted by leotrotsky at 11:45 AM on May 19, 2016 [4 favorites]


Xavier's may be rad, but Professor Xavier is a JERK!
posted by entropicamericana at 11:45 AM on May 19, 2016 [3 favorites]


Camera quickly pans to the side as Beast carries Xavier in through the front door Officer and a Gentleman-style.
posted by griphus at 11:45 AM on May 19, 2016 [4 favorites]


"Hi, I'm Jubilee..."

/me examines that well rated yellow jacket

Yes, yes you are.
posted by comealongpole at 11:53 AM on May 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


Hm. I was real excited about this when I thought it was a fan work, but it seems to have been put out by the official 20th century fox youtube account, which means that this is not an interesting and hilarious fan work, but is in fact a viral advertisement! My one super-weakness!
posted by Galaxor Nebulon at 11:55 AM on May 19, 2016 [2 favorites]


If you're interested in more viral advertising, the official Facebook page posted a bunch of album covers of X-Men as pop stars.
posted by zombieflanders at 11:59 AM on May 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


A school full of students just like me!?

Must be where bad teachers go when they die.
posted by crazylegs at 12:00 PM on May 19, 2016


I dunno guys, Greendale Community College's ad says they allow you to register by FAX AND has the most advanced typing class in the southwestern Greendale area! Tough choice!

Go Greendale! Go Greendale! Gooooooo!
posted by tittergrrl at 12:05 PM on May 19, 2016 [8 favorites]


Greendale is 100 percent the place that Xavier sends mutants who have really dumb (and useless) powers.
posted by Etrigan at 12:14 PM on May 19, 2016 [14 favorites]


Was that Stan the Man at the end?
posted by Artw at 12:15 PM on May 19, 2016


That was a better film than X-Men: Apocalypse, which is currently at 49% on rottentomatoes.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 12:20 PM on May 19, 2016


Was that Stan the Man at the end?

Yes.

Literally the best live-action X-Men piece Fox has ever produced.
(Given that Deadpool is his own man.)
posted by scaryblackdeath at 12:29 PM on May 19, 2016


The fact that this is not the entire movie is total bullshit.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 12:30 PM on May 19, 2016 [7 favorites]


I was yelling about this on Twitter the other week but they really, really need to make an X-Men movie where the entire world is not in peril, the stakes are not high, and the uppance is not coming.

Just a bunch of weird teens and their mentors have to go out and solve a problem and they crack some jokes and punch some dudes and there's no Grimdark High Drama that shatters the meaning of reality as we know it.
posted by griphus at 12:33 PM on May 19, 2016 [30 favorites]


Sadly the economics of franchise superhero movies seems to make that impossible. I'd love to see the series switch to Netflix or similar to get some breathing room.
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 12:38 PM on May 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


Like the Colossus/Negasonic relationship in Deadpool was absolutely perfect for how an X-Men movie should be. There's a really special and particular sort of camaraderie between the older and younger mutants at the Academy that isn't as simple as "teacher/student" and I think that was like literally the one time the nature of it was explored in film.
posted by griphus at 12:39 PM on May 19, 2016 [12 favorites]


Sadly the economics of franchise superhero movies seems to make that impossible. I'd love to see the series switch to Netflix or similar to get some breathing room.

I have a Theory that the enormous-budget picture is a bubble ready to burst and that we're going to get mid-budget genre pictures back in the next 5-10 years.
posted by griphus at 12:40 PM on May 19, 2016 [3 favorites]


If past experience is any experience, I'm prone to be VERY forgiving of X-Men movies. That said, I still have a feeling that this is going to be my favorite X-Men film produced by Fox this decade.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:40 PM on May 19, 2016 [2 favorites]


I was yelling about this on Twitter the other week but they really, really need to make an X-Men movie where the entire world is not in peril, the stakes are not high, and the uppance is not coming.

I said that about Star Trek for a long time, and then we got Insurrection.
posted by Etrigan at 12:42 PM on May 19, 2016 [3 favorites]


Really hope the forthcoming New Mutants movie does something low-key, like Marvel meets John Hughes. The issue where Warlock arrives on Earth might be a fun one to adapt.
posted by entropicamericana at 12:43 PM on May 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


Ant-Man was a decent attempt at the "middle-range" threat, I think: the world wasn't in imminent peril, just that bad guys were trying to gain a shrinky-suit and Our Heroes wanted to stop them.

The final battle took place in a little girl's playset, after all.

But anyone remember FOX's attempt at a "Generation X" TV pilot back in the 90s? That was an attempt at being half-superheroes, half-teen-drama, although in practice it was half-teen drama and half bugnuts insane.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 12:44 PM on May 19, 2016 [3 favorites]


Enjoy (?)
posted by griphus at 12:46 PM on May 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


"Generation X" was not great but when you look at the TV landscape right now, it feels like it was just ahead of its time. (It's available on YouTube.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 12:47 PM on May 19, 2016


Wait, is this weird four-syllable pronunciation of Xavier canon?

Are they worried that I'm not going to notice that Xavier starts with an X? I guess in that case I might watch the movie and leave the theater thinking "Why is he called Professor X? Why are they called the X-Men? This movie doesn't make any sense!"
posted by aubilenon at 12:58 PM on May 19, 2016


There's a Catholic high school in NYC called "Xavier" and it's pronounced the same way I think.

There's also one called "Xaverian" which is pronounced "Savarian."
posted by griphus at 1:01 PM on May 19, 2016


No, you're both wrong. The french pronunciation is the correct one:

Le professeur Z-ah-vee-aye
posted by leotrotsky at 1:13 PM on May 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


Greendale is 100 percent the place that Xavier sends mutants who have really dumb (and useless) powers.

Ted Glen and Alf Thompson pitchfork any mutant that shows its face in Greendale and dig them into the fields at Thompson Ground.
posted by biffa at 1:22 PM on May 19, 2016


IIRC in the 90's cartoon it was also 4 syllables. That was the X-Men I grew up with, so I have not appreciated any of the movies since then.
posted by numaner at 1:24 PM on May 19, 2016 [1 favorite]


I think it was Twitter, but I would like to thank the person who pointed out that from the facade of the school, it is totally unfriendly to wheelchairs so I guess ole Professor X has to keep his ramp around back.

That might have been me! I mean, it's totally possible that someone on Twitter made the same observation I did, but I made this Tumblr post about a month ago and it kind of took off. So if that is the post you were thinking of, you're welcome!

I'm loving the promotional stuff coming out in advance of this movie. Between this, BeastMode, and the '80s album covers, the people behind XMA are clearly having an enormous amount of fun. And that's contagious. I'm not expecting the movie to be very good, but as a huge X-Men fan, I do expect it to make me squee. (If only to see Scott and Jean alive and together.) It hasn't even come out yet, and I'm already delighted!
posted by Anyamatopoeia at 3:03 PM on May 19, 2016


There's a Catholic high school in NYC called "Xavier" and it's pronounced the same way I think.

There's also one called "Xaverian" which is pronounced "Savarian."


I live just a couple of miles from Xavier University (pronounced "Zavier") and there's also a St. Xavier High School (pronounced "Ecks-avier") nearby. Given that both schools are ostensibly named after St. Francis Xavier, I think the difference in pronunciation is just to alleviate confusion between schools. Sadly, neither school boasts a Mutant Studies program.
posted by Strange Interlude at 4:01 PM on May 19, 2016


I said that about Star Trek for a long time, and then we got Insurrection.

I think a real example of a TNG movie where the "world isn't in peril, etc." would be an extended Deanna Troi episode with Barkley on the holodeck.
posted by Ashwagandha at 6:28 PM on May 19, 2016


Atari 800 at 44 seconds.

Sold!
posted by lumensimus at 11:37 PM on May 19, 2016


It was definitely a 3-4 syllable Xavier in the '90's cartoon, but Remy Labeau could stretch it out to at least 8
posted by elr at 11:00 AM on May 20, 2016


Is the trailing "cheri" a syllable?
posted by griphus at 11:03 AM on May 20, 2016


In the days since y'all posted that pilot video (which I didn't know had been a thing), I have spent a lot of time feeling gratitude that this particular TV series never got made. That was kindof an amazing special flavor of awful.
posted by girl Mark at 10:05 PM on May 20, 2016


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