User blog comment:Captain alex/Movie Review: X-Men (2000)/@comment-60868-20101107164810

For me, this movie was Marvel's break out movie. It took all the future movies to a new level. Prior to this, the special effects were mediocre and the story lines never followed any character comic back stories. This one seemed to be true to the individual characters and this was COMPLETELY due to the actors. The storyline was eh. That's one thing that I think they messed up with on the following sequels... they made it about storyline and the characters became second. Most of us just want to see our favorite characters kick ass and use powers rather than try to fit themselves into a storyline that we can't compare them to since we never read it beforehand. It's a difficult two-step that I think the movie makers have problems understanding.