Why tear it apart due to "inconsistancies"?

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2001)

I've been reading all the different comments about the X-Men movie.
Yes, It's not true to the comics. Yes, It's riddled with inconsistancies and goofs. Yes, The Beast wasn't there (Although I was a little disappointed with that ommision).
But if you look at the movie from a neutral view, I thought it was a fanastic movie. To take a movie and rip it apart because it isn't "true" to what has been laid before it for canonical reasons is ridiculous.

I went into the theater not expecting anything. Because if I did go in and started to compare the movie with the comics and the animated series, I feel I would have lost the whole point of the experience. The Special Effects are just that - special. No huge CG stuff (except for Mystique's shape changes), but the SFX we subtle, I actually did double takes on some of the scenes. Come on, didn't you kinda freak out when the girl walked through Professor Xavier's door? It's Visual Effects like that that make a lasting impression on movie-goers.
I have yet to see a movie that takes a book/TV Series, and does it justice on the big screen (with the exception of "Hunt for Red October"). But this movie comes awfully close.