[Captain Nash]

I think the realization that the films universe (regardless of what film studio it is) is an alternate reality to the comics universe helps to give some leeway to stories. Stark instead of Pym creating Ultron, Wasp never being a founding Avenger, QUicksilver and Scarlet Witch being test subjects of Hydra rather than mutants are on par with Wolverine being taller than expected, Xavier never serving in a war (which isn't something that I see brought up that often), and changing the line up of the first class of X-Men.

There has to be some degree of similarity though, otherwise why bother with covering the storyline at all? And I think, really, the only X-movie that fails at that was The Last Stand, it handled the Cure storyline well but fell apart with The Dark Phoenix part. Although, bad writing on the part of that may have had a bit to do with it as well. Wolverine Origins was just a shitstorm of awful film making, but it didn't have a particular storyline it was trying to adapt other than Wolverine's origins (the entire point of the movie.) For me, every other X-movie has been at very least okay and in some cases outstanding, and I don't try to judge the differences in the comics and movies.

Regarding X-Men Dark Phoenix, if the writing is good and they keep the focus on Jean and Scott I'll be fine. If they change the focus characters I would say why bother attempting to redo the story at all.

And I say all this as someone who is still not a fan of some of what they have done. Too much Mystique, too much reliance on the Xavier/Mystique/Magneto focus..but those are different qualms than differences from comics to movie. Conversely, If I were to point out films from Marvel, it had a couple of films that did not work for me at all: The first Hulk movie and Thor The Dark World. It also had its share of just okay movies on par with X-Men X-Men Apocalypse and The Wolverine: Iron Man 2 and 3, the first Thor movie, and Ant-Man were all decent but not great.

Anyways, enough of my soapbox just thought I'd throw out my opinions on the subject. Can't believe only two more weeks til SDCC!