>>149663905That one line in X-Men doesn't mean it was ashamed of the source material. In fact I'd say plenty of 2000s comic books were more ashamed of old comics in their need for distance to the past. X-Men, Spiderman and FF (I know two were Fox and one were Sony) felt plenty comic booky tonally in their logic. Just unlike the MCU they weren't overpowering with their humour undercutting everything. And Nolan wasn't as bad as Snyder's Nolan parody, that was really bad. And people think Snyder liked the material just because visually he took cues from comics, even though he constantly missed the point (much like his Watchmen adaptation made fundamental changes, not even talking about the squid but characters like Rorschach are just wrong compared to the comic).