Logan

I guess that's that... been a long journey, indeed Logan is the final nail in the coffin for the x franchise we grew up with. I'm like, having a tough time gathering my thoughts on it. I've been watching Hugh play Wolverine since it all began. I was there waiting for the movie to come out, watched the special x-preview on fox, was an avid viewer of the cartoon.

I'll get my problems with the film out of the way first. It's a shit load like Force Awakens. It's an aftermath film. We have no idea why logan is at the point he is, what happened to the xmen, none of that is made clear beyond something wiped out mutancy from the gene pool, something either man made or natural. In the end we learn scientists found a way to eradicate mutants. It works and rapidly to magneto's exact prophecy destroys mutants.

It's a bleak depressing film. Gone is the flash and fun of the old films. This is not about playing nice anymore. This is hard cold fuck you film making like in seven and all those independent films no body talks about.

This is a bait and switch. We've been fooled by the trailers. It's not about having fun watching wolverine slice and dice at all. It's about watching a man struggle against suicide. Receiving no hopeful cheerful answers about wanting to stay alive at every turn.

I don't know whether the movie did even have a hopeful ending. The kids will still be hunted down. They are up against an organization that has cloning capability and knows ways to destroy mutants.

If only we saw the kids make it to the border, got to see them meet whoever it was that would protect them, I'd feel better about it man... I just don't understand how the film leaves us hanging and not truly seeing the story through. Why does an xmen comic have coordinates to the meetings spot for the cloned mutants.

Did I miss something?

Other than that, this is the best stand alone wolverine film. Not a hard feat to accomplish. It's best attribute is that it doesn't try too hard to impress. It's not trying to be some kind of bombastic over the top blockbuster and does things cold hard simple. This is the complete ANTI Xmen origins Wolverine. Hugh is obviously fed up with the studio bullshit he's been through after working his ass off to stay in shape and he lets his frustration out and maybe doesn't even care if you like the way he decided to end things.

I mean, I just wish it made more sense. I liked the movie, but jesus christ you have to do a lot of contortion to buy the fact that they just up and wiped out mutancy and we're living in some warped mutant-less landscape. That's a hell of a thing to gloss over, complete haulocaust of mutants btw, yeah that happened, except for wolverine and xavier oh boy they made it out.

Tough movie to digest. Probably suicide for the studio. People after the movie was over were mixed on it as well, some were like, yeah it was fine, others were like, damn that was just harsh and cold brutal stuff, not fun. And that's where the box office will suffer. The movie is brutal to show us that shit just got real basically. Wolverine can die now he's not superman, all these characters have potential to bite it this time, it's not comic book brett ratner bullshit we're watching here. It's gritty hard shit we're in.

Which makes the movie seem kinda at war with itself. It's still based on fun awesome comic book stuff. To try to abandon the comic and just make a straight up complex psychologically provoking film feels false. You simply can't. You still have a girl with knives coming out of her foot and kicking a guy in the head with it. It's going to look silly.

The brightest spot in the film is X23. I mean, one wonders if this film is intended to be her origin story and not about Logan at all. If that's the case, it's brilliant in that sense. She doesn't do or say or be involved enough for that to bear out as true unfortunately. It's a wolverine centric affair and he passes the torch to his daughter damn well. So if there's more, unlikely once word of mouth spreads, it would be about her and whatever comes next. Not likely but guaranteed a comic will be made detailing the next journey she embarks upon.

I don't know, I'm like kinda needing a second viewing, but the film is no country for old wolverine basically. No masks, no tights, just claws, sit and talk, claws, sit and talk for 2 hours... take it or leave it.