All I’m gonna say is that I used to watch x-men: the animated series on fox kids as a young boy, and when I heard there was a live action film being made, my mind was blown.
Sure there wasn’t any yellow and blue spandex, but X-Men 2000 was the first superhero movie I saw in theaters. I was 5 years old and my dad took me to see it. I had no idea what was happening during most of it and was freaked out at certain parts, I remember. But it had Wolverine and Cyclops and that was freaking cool, man.
Those movies came out during such a great time in my life and I will never stop loving them even with their flaws, comic inaccuracies and all. Sure I’m ready for the MCU versions, but they’ll never be my first love. That title will always belong to the x-men who had the Fox fanfare playing before each and every film. I cried during DOFP because of how they fixed everything. I have yet to cry like that for any recent CBM.
Their time has come and gone, but Fox’s X-Men will always be with me.