Meta/Movie: Canon verus Fanon on the Big Screen -- X-Men

I went to see the first X-Men movie twice, two days apart, because I wasn't sure if I liked it. It was a good movie in general but canon had been changed so much that intially I was ambivalent about the movie as an X-Men movie. It was just too different. After seeing it the second time I thought, okay I can live with this.

( It's all just fanfic writ large )