Posted March 04, 2017
EDIT: BEWARE SPOILER IN POST #3 BY Gog8
The X-Men movie franchise really is a rollercoaster, isn't it? It finally managed to return to grace with Days of Future Past, and fucked it up shortly thereafter with Apocalypse, and now is back in great form again with Logan. It's also really weird how the last Wolverine movie (at least for that version of the character) is also the first really good one. They only finally got it right in time for it to end.
And it really is a very good movie. It's almost astonishingly out of place in the current supehero movie scene. Although it's only been 5 years since Dark Knight Rises, the landscape is very different. Seriousness is not welcome in comic book movies anymore, and this is about as serious and bleak as it gets.The future it shows for the X-Men is really tragic, to the point where it makes the epilgue of the Days of Future past seem like a cruel joke. There are no laughs to be had, the action is brutal and bloody and not in the gooy Deadpool way, and while the action scenes are quite impressive and pack quite a punch, it's the moments characters share in between that make this movie. Jackman and Stewart give it their damndest and it's almost heartbreaking to see Logan taking care of the elderly Xavier who is losing his mind, but still tries to save his last student from his own dark side.
It's not a perfect movie- there is a lot here that is very predictable, including an almost literal Chekov's Gun, the villains are pretty bland and forgettable and the story has some... well maybe not outright plot holes, but let's say there are some daubts about a thing or two. It's not my new favourite superhero movie, but it's still pretty damn great.
The X-Men movie franchise really is a rollercoaster, isn't it? It finally managed to return to grace with Days of Future Past, and fucked it up shortly thereafter with Apocalypse, and now is back in great form again with Logan. It's also really weird how the last Wolverine movie (at least for that version of the character) is also the first really good one. They only finally got it right in time for it to end.
And it really is a very good movie. It's almost astonishingly out of place in the current supehero movie scene. Although it's only been 5 years since Dark Knight Rises, the landscape is very different. Seriousness is not welcome in comic book movies anymore, and this is about as serious and bleak as it gets.The future it shows for the X-Men is really tragic, to the point where it makes the epilgue of the Days of Future past seem like a cruel joke. There are no laughs to be had, the action is brutal and bloody and not in the gooy Deadpool way, and while the action scenes are quite impressive and pack quite a punch, it's the moments characters share in between that make this movie. Jackman and Stewart give it their damndest and it's almost heartbreaking to see Logan taking care of the elderly Xavier who is losing his mind, but still tries to save his last student from his own dark side.
It's not a perfect movie- there is a lot here that is very predictable, including an almost literal Chekov's Gun, the villains are pretty bland and forgettable and the story has some... well maybe not outright plot holes, but let's say there are some daubts about a thing or two. It's not my new favourite superhero movie, but it's still pretty damn great.
Post edited March 05, 2017 by Breja
