Out of curiosity, did everybody who saw X3 stick around after the credits for the big reveal at the end of them?

What was missing for me is that most of the participants of the last battle were characters that had absolutely no back story or involvement. I've never read the comic books so I don't really know anything about Collosus, Kitty, or Beast. And yet these were half of the good-guy team saving our asses. Same on the bad side, were names even provided for half of the lead bad guys?

I did stick around, but only because I heard someone next to me before it started talking about how they had to stick around.

As far as ending the franchise, I think prior to the movie premiering they had alluded to this being the last X-Men movie with those lead characters.

Here's my miscellaneous movie musing: I hate how the battalion of teenagers with brooms invades the theater before the credits are over. Some of us want to sit there and watch the credits! And no, you are not excused for sweeping behind my feet.

I do like DVDs.

I loved X-3. It is my favorite of the three. I was a huge fan of the comic books and was delighted by a lot of things they got right.

This isn't a spoiler, but did anyone else think that the guy with the sharp things coming out of his face has the worse mutant power ever?

I kept getting reminded of that Family Guy episode where Meg had the power to make her fingernails grow.

As opposed to the giant mob of mutants whose only mutant powers seemed to be the ability to run really fast into Wolverines blades?

But I was thinking that was probably the primary motivation for those mutants willing to be cured. "Hey, might as well be normal so that they'll stop making fun of the suckiness of my power.

For me the award goes to Storm who seems to do the least with a very strong power.

Wolverine isn't even a mutant, is he? He was a military experiment, right? Or is his healing power the mutant thing?

His healing power makes him the mutant, which is why they did the experiments

This was the weakest of the three to me (of three not particularly strong, but enjoyable films). I, too, cannot quite put my finger on what I felt was "missing," but it just seemed lacking a certain something. They did the requisite mutant-to-homosexuality comparisions, they killed off or power-neutered most of the characters, and yet it just seemed to lack a certain indefinable thing.

I found it enjoyable though. I really like the bookend elements with the first film, such as Magneto's plot involving the Statue of Liberty, iconic guardian of the east coast, in the first film ... and his plot this time involving the Golden Gate bridge, yada yada yada of the west coast. Also both films ending with Magneto playing chess ... this time, all meloncholy without Charles and sapped of power to move the metalic pieces (heheh, they were plastic pieces in the first film that he likewise lacked the power to move).

The Usual Suspects is slowing rising to the top of my favorite movies list.