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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 23, 2017 13:56:44 GMT -5
The wife said my blu-ray was delivered to the house about 2 hours ago. Counting down the minutes until I get off work and can go home and watch it again. And to my surprise, evidently a black and white version is included! Awesome! Black and white??? That's a surprising but really good idea. B&W always gives fantasy an air of authenticity; it's like a booster for our willing suspension of disbelief. |
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Post by Warmonger on May 23, 2017 14:04:54 GMT -5
The wife said my blu-ray was delivered to the house about 2 hours ago. Counting down the minutes until I get off work and can go home and watch it again. And to my surprise, evidently a black and white version is included! Awesome! Black and white??? That's a surprising but really good idea. B&W always gives fantasy an air of authenticity; it's like a booster for our willing suspension of disbelief. Yup As soon as she told me I had to check out some of the screenshots and they look fantastic.    |
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Post by lobsterjohnson on May 27, 2017 21:52:30 GMT -5
Saw this today - really good movie. I've never really liked the X-Men films, but this is probably the best superhero movie yet.
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Post by Jesse on Jun 16, 2017 9:25:55 GMT -5
It's not perfect by any means but I do feel this is the strongest of the X-Men films and I also think it takes comic books movies to a whole new emotional depth that the James Gunn MCU films only touch on. A hell of a swan song for Hugh Jackman as the character and certainly the end of an era. This is the Wolverine film that many fans have been waiting for.
The Professor X Alzheimer's allegory genuinely feels like a punch in the gut (in the best way imaginable). Wolverine struggling with PTSD after the death's of the X-Men and taking care of ailing father figure felt very relatable to me. There's also a subtle nod to erectile dysfunction with Logan not being able to pop his claws properly which made me laugh. It's definitely a film that plays on male anxieties.
The actress that plays X-23 was surprisingly good for not having much dialogue throughout most of the film. It was her stone cold facial expressions that really sold the character for me. It was kind of great seeing both her and Logan go all out with the over-the-top violence gorily clawing bad guys in the face. The ending has me kind of excited for the upcoming New Mutants film.
I wasn't a huge fan of the younger Wolverine clone and at first I was unsure if he was supposed to be part cyborg like The Reavers. I was hoping we were getting a nod to Albert the robot doppelganger of Wolverine from the comics but that wasn't the case. There were a few other things this film could have done better but other than that I think it's easily the best of the X-Men movies.
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Post by rom on Jun 22, 2017 8:20:36 GMT -5
Just saw Logan for the first time. Incredible! I'm a fan of the X-man comics from the '80's, but have not been extremely impressed by most of the films (even though I've seen all of them). The only one I really liked (prior to Logan) was X-men: Apocalypse.
Logan is simply an amazing super-hero/action/sci-fi/road trip film. I liked the futuristic time period - not too far into the future, but just enough that there were some differences to our time period (the "automated" buses, etc.). Also, the story was fantastic - following an aging, sick Logan as essentially the "last X-man" having to both protect Professor X, and also help the little kid (X-23) get to her destination - very gripping, with amazing action scenes. I also liked the themes of: The passing of one generation (Logan) to make way for the next (X-23 & her fellow child mutants) & self-sacrifice.
And, I appreciated the homage to the classic western Shane. Professor X & X-23 were watching this in the hotel room, and X-23 quoted this at the very end of the film - when Logan was buried. Logan was obviously similar to Shane in that film, given that he was an aging fighter who had decided to help save innocent people he cared about, even though he endangered himself doing so (at the end of the Shane novel (not so much the film) it's heavily implied that he's mortally wounded, as he rides off into the sunset).
The little kid who played X-23 was incredible; very good acting here. As with the little kid who played "Eleven" (in last year's amazing Netflix "Stranger Things" series), most of her acting was done via her facial expressions.
The scenes with the farmers/homesteaders were great; This was another obvious "Shane" reference, though in this case Logan couldn't save them, but instead was indirectly responsible for their all being killed (given that he inadvertently led the bad guys to their farm).
Other than the principal actors (Jackman, Stewart, etc.) it was cool to see some other familiar faces in this film:
Eric La Salle played the homesteader/farmer; I remember him as Doctor Benton in the iconic series ER (1994 - 2009), one of my favorite TV dramas.
Elizabeth Rodriguez played Gabriela Lopez, the nurse who was protecting X-23 in the beginning; she's a great actress, and plays Aleida Diaz in another of my favorite dramas, Orange is the new Black.
Side-notes:
It was also interesting to see Logan & others reading/looking at old X-man comics; this is the first X-men film (that I remember) in which actual older comic series was referenced - presumably both the comic series & the X-men themselves existed in Logan's world - possibly the comic writers in this world were basing the series on "real life" with a lot of obvious embellishment/exaggeration - based on Logan saying that "this never happened that way", etc. - while reading the comic.
The "death" of most of the other X-men was referenced in this film, but not a lot of detail was given. I know Logan was based on the comic series "Old Man Logan", which I've never read; I've barely read any X-men comics since the late '80's. However, considering I liked the film so much I'll probably check out the series at some point - I suspect that will give more detail on some of the events referenced in the film.
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Post by Randle-El on Jun 22, 2017 10:04:30 GMT -5
I saw Logan for the first time this past weekend. I watched it on Father's Day, after the kids were in bed. I have two little girls myself, and let me tell you, watching that movie on Father's Day after all the fatherly appreciation from my kids... I must have gotten something in my eye, dust or something, during that final scene of the movie.
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Post by badwolf on Dec 13, 2017 15:10:01 GMT -5
Finally saw this. A solid movie, one of the better X-films. I didn't think it came close to the Batman films though, not as complex or interesting to me.
The girl who played Laura was great.
The violence and language was a bit much. They could have toned it down just a bit. Seemed like they were trying to hard at times.
It just left me wondering who built "Eden" (if that was where they ended up). And how did it get into a comic?
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Post by rberman on Jan 5, 2018 12:13:02 GMT -5
No one has mentioned what a great job Stephen Merchant did as Caliban. He looked the part (tall, gaunt) and had the right hangdog persona, unlike the more pimplike version we saw in X-Men Apocalypse.
Too bad they didn't name Pierce's gang "The Hellfire Club." I know that title already got used in First Class, but that movie treated Emma Frost more like Tessa, making it more difficult for future movies to use her correctly.
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