Before I went to see X-Men: The Last Stand, I watched the original X-Men a few days before seeing the movie, and then X2 a day after that. I think X-Men 3 was true to the previous movies' style, the characters still felt the same people who you've got to know during the first two movies. I think the movie pulled an Advent Children in terms of storyline. However, there were a lot of tragic moments, and something like 3-4 sad scenes to make up for the story. While X2 had more like superhero action, X-Men 3 had some great war scenes. A great way to end the first trilogy, IMHO.

I've heard that there could be an X4, but that one will probably start a whole new trilogy with a new story. One thing I didn't like about the movie was how Rogue, who was my favorite character in the first two movies, didn't get much time on the screen, although she was pretty good in the scenes she had. I also like the soundtrack, it feels like the most mature of the three soundtracks, and there's a lot of orchestral and choral parts, and memorable themes.

It's a bit hard to compare the X-Men movies to each other. X2 had some great action and a lot of nice characters, while I think the original X-Men had the best storyline, and a lot of touching moments. X3 had excellent action and sad parts too, but it still felt like it came a little short compared to the first two films. Not to mention the final battle started relatively early, I was feeling like, "What, is the movie about to end already?" It's still a good movie, though. It seems a lot of people disliked the film, and usually hearing a lot of people bashing the movie will reduce my opinion towards the movie (for example, I first thought FFVIII was a decent game but not excellent, and after hearing everyone say the game is the worst FF, I slowly started to think that the game sucks, and that kept going on for a long time, until I actually played the game again). However, so far I haven't been that much affected by others' opinions. Hopefully I can stay that way.