Oh come on, I know you want to get started! I never read much of the comics (didn't really have access to them) but I watched the 90s cartoon of awesome and had friends who exposed me to the comics later (I even got an X-Men Origins comic book collection from one) so I had a pretty good idea what the characters were all about. What's funny to me is that Rogue was never a favorite character, but I'd always liked her sass and the love/hate relationship between Rogue and Gambit...and then the movie made her so...ARGH! And what the heck was with Wolverine getting all paternal with her? It felt like (to me) they decided to make Wolverine treat her more how he treated Jubilee, which also ticked me off because I always liked Jubilee, who was a no-show in the movies. Then again, probably a good thing...

Did the people you went to see the movie with even know anything about the characters? I'm all for a movie being accessible to all movie-goers, not just the hardcore fanbase, but all the same, why alienate that fanbase by giving them garbage with their favorite characters mixed in? It reminds me of that Cat Woman debacle all over again...