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As an X-men fan since I was a kid and have collected the comics over the years the movies actually are not that far from the comics.
The real difference is that they really are a mixture of the times lines from 60, 70, 80, and of course the new millenium.
As the original 5 are Angel, Beats(as a more human look, with his larger feet), Marvel girl, Iceman and their feild leader Cyclops.
It wasn't until years later when the original team was in danger that a new team was created. Colossus, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird, and their leader Storm.
and in the new millenium with the new ultimate Xmen being more of the base, as it restarts the time line with pretty much all the Xmen being more or less teenagers.
I like the movies personally and they have an amazing job with staying true to the actual characters of the X-men. some are younger (Iceman) some don't have all the powers we are used to seeing (Rogue) and some are too tall (Wolverine) but over all they are the same chars we have read about in the comics.
If they did or did not make Angel a female it wouldn't make that much of a difference to me. As I would rather see him rather than her! As long as the base of the char was still how Warren Worthington III was in the comics.
I have always enjoyed the broken time lines of the X-men with the Age Of Apocolypse , or Cable, Bishops realities of the X-men are different. so the Movies are just another different time line in the way of the Xmen.
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