Why oh why do people simply forget and blinded by own stardom... X-Men The Movie was crap lets face it. People were too highed for seeing wolverine on screen and some other popular mutants that they didnt care for the movie.
The story telling for the first film suffered from the re-writes and nothing made sense. For example, Magneto hated humans why would he bother turning them to humans... He has never shown any compasion for humans in the comics, infact he sees them as only insects. Secondly Jean Grey has never been a doctor and Beast who was written out of the movie should of appeared because continuity counts, this left people confused... Look at it this way, Jean Grey a doctor uses several different hospital equipment... anyone whose been to hospital knows that each machine has there own specialist dedicated to it, mostly because there so complex to run the focus on just those machines would need alot. Then we have the brotherhood, who were just wrong...! Magneto's first brotherhood of mutants was toad, mastermind and quicksilver plus scarlet witch... Now i know that this was an ultimate story but Sabretooth doesnt really work for Magneto... would you think he would work for stryker? Sabretooth does what he wants to do. He wouldnt be a lacky for no reason. Then we look at the overal story, we now have a young rogue who fances bobby, when bobby was originally going to be Gambit in the first movie... Although the movie was interesting, it simply was bad but alot of people will defend it because they simply were blind sighted by the fact that some of the favorite mutants appeared on big screen.
Any pro-x1 remarks are always considered over biest because of that fact...
Look at x1 to x2 -- X2 was excellent because alot more money and work went into it...
See i dont blame bryan singer or the writers for x1, it was the studio for a not having faith in the franchise and not actually knowing anything about the franchise to begin with.