[LucyTheAlien]

Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 Special Edition. All excellent.

And I did a lil' X-Men Retrospective watch.
The first is a real product of it's time, and while groundbreaking at the time is just an okay film from every aspect, (Toad really?)
United is a major improvement in every regard and is remembered as excellent for good reason everytime William Stryker is onscreen it's completely captivating,
almost every main character has an arc and a purpose (apart from Cyclops and Xavier whom are down for the count most of the film)
from Wolverine, Phoenix, Nightcrawler, Storm to Bobby, Rogue and (Magneto and Mystique influence) Pyro.
The Last Stand is, totally redundant at best and at worst it disrespects Mystique's character and torpedoed Rogue's character development,
it wrecked both the cure storyline and Phoenix killed Scott and Jean but everything else remained static for all intents and purposes.

The Wolverine is good, excellent even but that final act brings the whole thing down.
The fight with Shingen Yashida is by far the peak, the Viper and Silver Samurai robot suck and hurt an otherwise great character piece.
All three have excellent scores, but (RIP) Michael Kamen's Logan & Rogue, X-Jet, Checkmate & End Title and John Ottoman's X-Men theme
stand out above the rest although composer John Powell brings a excellent layered Phoenix theme.

Marco Beltrami's entire Wolverine score is brilliant, especially the main theme and,
as John Ottoman on Days Of Future Past, Marco Beltrami on Logan is only an improvement and enhancement.

First Class is near perfect, because of the relationship between Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Mystique and Shaw.
Banshee is good fun but otherwise the other characters are immensely one note,
but it doesn't matter so much because the film's really interested in exploring the development of theses characters into their extremist versions of themselves.
Magneto hunting Nazis, and that theme- until Shaw and permanently scarring the relationship between Charles and Erik.
It's a film full of powerful emotions and the most iconic X-Men theme, I'd wager. "I prefer, Magneto." WUB-WUB.

Days of Future Past is perfect, if you don't care for the older X-Men Trilogy much anymore the Theatrical Version is the way to go,
it's also got superior pacing but the "Rogue Version" is ultimately more fulfilling and ties in stronger to both the original Trilogy and First Class.
Characterisation wise, everyone gets the ending most appropriate for them and we get our well deserved happy but believable ending after all the turmoil of the past.

Logan is a masterpiece, but it's good to know it's completely standalone and a representation of a possible future.

I don't count X-Men Origins, Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, I might rewatch them in the future but
I'd consider them non-canon as they only really harm the continuity and the overall saga by the end of their runtime.
Origins is fun if you're intoxicated, but shouldn't be taken seriously in any respect. It's pure unadulterated schlock garbage.

But I think the series had a good run overall.
I'll be watching the "Legion" series once it's finished.