X-men: yuck

I finally rented the first X-men movie. I don't watch a lot of movies so it is not unusual for me to be years behind.I really wanted to like it. The concept is great. I love the idea of mutant super heroes, and society fearing or misunderstanding them.The screenplay is terrible. It dragged start to finish. I might have simply stopped watching, but I at least wanted to see where it was going, hoping it would get better. It didn't. I'm still trying to analyze exactly why it failed so utterly. The first thing that didn't work for me was that the beginning was awfully exposition-heavy, with a lot of jumping around. Then when you meet characters you're supposed to care about - Rogue and Wolverine - they are not presented with enough background to make you care. All Rogue does is look wide-eyed and pitiful, and with a bad fake southern accent at that. Wolverine is perhaps a little easier to like, but I don't feel either character is sufficiently developed that I really give much of a darn what happens to them. Then the "bad guys" and "good guys" show up seemingly out of nowhere.I know, it isn't supposed to be high art. I think its greatest appeal would be to those who already loved the comic books/cartoons and don't need a reason to care about the world and characters. Or kids who are emo or angstich enough to love the idea of the misunderstood outcasts without caring whether the plot is full of holes.This is coming from a person who was entertained by the last Superman movie and the first Spiderman movie. (Haven't seen the others so I can't comment.) Actually, when I think about it, the concept of X-men is much more believable and appealing to me personally then the other two superheroes. So why couldn't they make me like the movie? Maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety.