Logan

[Cary Kollins]

New trailer looks great.

 

By the way the first 45 minutes were screened for critics and just about all of them freaked out over how awesome it was, fwiw.

[d-dave]

On 1/20/2017 at 1:01 PM, Cary Kollins said:

New trailer looks great.

 

By the way the first 45 minutes were screened for critics and just about all of them freaked out over how awesome it was, fwiw.

That has me stoked!  I'm really looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

I'm not a comic book guy, what is the story for Logan losing his healing factor and what not?  Is that ever uncovered?

[Zaximus]

The people making the trailers for this movie did a fantastic job as well.

[scpanther22]

Will be interested to see what they do with the x-23 character after the film..

[Zaximus]

I gotta see this soon.  It's getting amazing reviews.

[carpanfan96]

Gonna go down as the best comic book movie so far, maybe ever based on reviews

[arbnranger]

On 2/18/2017 at 3:52 AM, Zaximus said:

I gotta see this soon.  It's getting amazing reviews.

Went to go see "A Cure for Wellness" and they previewed the Johnny Cash  "Hurt" version. Gotta see it now. 

[PantherKing1983]

This was one of my favorite comic book inspired films. 

The R rating helps so much , one can only wonder how much better all the other ones could have been with a little more violence some cursing and a titty. 

[twylyght]

Just got done watching this film.  Definitely one for the win column, but not the world beater that everyone is hyping it up to be.  That title still holds firm with The Dark Knight.

[Moorgan]

It was everything a Wolverine movie should be. They nailed the character and needed the R rating to do so. It has a touch of Unforgiven as it is a movie that is the totality of the character like William Munny was all of the characters that Eastwood played.

My issues were minor and I loved the movie. Tough to beat the 1st 2 Batman movies as they started the dark super hero movie genre...but this movie expands that and, in some ways, does it better. Go see it.

[TheRed]

Simply amazing. Hats off to Hugh Jackman.

[Cary Kollins]

posted in the lounge logan thread:

Very good movie. I'd like to see it again to see if it's better than my first impression.

 

The little girl, Laura, is incredible. When I saw the previews I was a little weary of this little girl being mini-Wolverine, but holy crap, when she started fighting it was like a miniature Wolverine/Bruce Lee Hybrid and I couldn't help but laugh with excitement. Great little actress too; she said so much just by the looks she gave. Hugh Jackman gave an incredible performance as well. I find it hard to believe they'll be six or seven better acting performances this year, and I wouldn't be shocked if he's nominated for an Academy Award.

 

spoilers

 

 

The story was a little frustrating in how formulaic it was:  run from bad guys, bad guys catch up, fight bad guys, run from bad guys, bad guys catch up, fight bad guys etc.

When that family took them in for the night, was there any doubt the family was doomed? I was just counting the minutes until it happened.

X24 was a cool surprise. It was shocking how unceremoniously he offed the Professor. The look Wolverine and X24 exchanged at the bottom of the stair well was epic.

 

Overall I'd give the film a very solid 8/10 on first viewing. I have a feeling I might appreciate it more a second time. It did kind of leave me wanting more though....more fight scenes for Laura (there are 2 iirc), more of the kids using their powers, less predictable plot.

 

All in all, this is how a comic book movie handles "serious". Take notes Zack Snyder. You don't need pouring rain every other shot. You don't have to make your heros insufferable tools to be taken serious. Logan isn't a "good guy", he's broken and very human in a way. I dare you not to get a little misty when Laura turned the cross into an X. Great ending imo. If only every X-men movie were done this well.

[OneBadCat]

I thought it was a very good film but not what it was hyped to be. But I guess most movies aren't. Don't get me wrong it was awesome. But I did think there were time where they said fug just for the sake of being an r rated film. 

Jackman has always been terrific it sucks to see him leave the role.  The girl playing Laura was great. 

 

SPOILER:

 

 

So Logan had cancer right? It was never clear to me what was making him sick.

[PanthersBigD]

14 minutes ago, OneBadCat said:

I thought it was a very good film but not what it was hyped to be. But I guess most movies aren't. Don't get me wrong it was awesome. But I did think there were time where they said fug just for the sake of being an r rated film. 

Jackman has always been terrific it sucks to see him leave the role.  The girl playing Laura was great. 

 

SPOILER:

 

 

So Logan had cancer right? It was never clear to me what was making him sick.

The way I understood it, the extremely long term exposure to adamantium started to wear down his healing factor and at some point his healing factor could no longer keep up with repairing the damage that the metal poisoning was doing to his body.