So we get a nice little touch on the 20th Century Fox logo that starts the movie off in that it takes just a second longer for the X in Fox to fade away than the rest of the logo. Get it? X. It's a cute detail and I honestly like it. I always like when they pimp out the studio logo for a specific movie. Its like a little gold star the studio gives to the movie for being special.
"You're worth it, X-Men movie"-20th Century Fox Logo
So we start off with this bit of expository voice-over by Professor X, who at this point in the movie is just a disembodied voice:
"Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It has allowed us to evolve from a single-celled organism to the dominant species on this planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands of years. But every few hundred millenia, evolution leaps forward"This is a nice efficient way to get the premise out of the way. The bit of magic that the audience just has to accept at face value. Mutants are a thing. Deal with it. No, it doesn't take thousands of generations of natural selection for a person to evolve something as incredibly complex as shooting friggin' lasers out of their goddamn eyes. It just happens. I'm a huge fan that this passage implies that this happened a few hundred millenia ago too. You know what this means? T-Rexes shooting friggin' lasers out of their goddamn eyes! Yes please. Make that movie now, please.
Anyways, this voiceover occurs over some fancy computer generated DNA and we get the single opening credit; the studio and the license owners. You know all those people who made the movie and created the characters? Fuck them! They'll get their credits at the end! Corporations first!
We get a brief shot of a shiny metal x and the we zoom in on the blue dot in the center and it's actually the first shot of the first scene of the movie! Oooh, fancy transitions.
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