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Re: Logan

Sat March 04, 2017 11:01 pm

This was a good movie. Not great, but good. I'm still mulling it over, but I appreciate the genuine attempt at creating depth.
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Introducing Logan as being suicidal, having him literally being almost killed by a version of himself, and then that destructive version of him is destroyed by his daughter, who he finds a purpose and connection with in his final moments.

The last 20 minutes are fantastic, and I find them genuinely moving and emotional. I'm not sure it all completely works, but it's an admirable attempt.

Dafne Keen's performance will deservedly go down as one of the great child performances, up there with Anna Paquin in The Piano.

Re: Logan

Sat March 04, 2017 11:45 pm

Possibly the best x film.. thought it was really good....

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kinda bugged me, thought that the clone wolverine was gonna be omega red n the doctor be sinister.... now that I think about it, it's probably for the better that they weren't

Kinda figured on him dying being that it was set in the future n hj basically said it was his last film

Loved how brutal it was, especially x23.. Def not a kids film..

So which x force character was one of the kids supposedly??

Re: Logan

Sat March 04, 2017 11:51 pm

i got bugs wrote:Possibly the best x film.. thought it was really good....

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kinda bugged me, thought that the clone wolverine was gonna be omega red n the doctor be sinister.... now that I think about it, it's probably for the better that they weren't

Kinda figured on him dying being that it was set in the future n hj basically said it was his last film

Loved how brutal it was, especially x23.. Def not a kids film..

So which x force character was one of the kids supposedly??


Rictor (for your question, not really a spoiler so) Rictor (the kid that flipped the truck) was an original New Mutant, X-Factor, and X-Force.

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The X-24 Wolverine clone is the only thing I didn't like. They should have used a very feral Sabertooth that they had limited mind control over. That would have worked... and they even had discussions of bringing Liev back to play him.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 12:03 am

MadTIGERmaN wrote:
i got bugs wrote:Possibly the best x film.. thought it was really good....

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kinda bugged me, thought that the clone wolverine was gonna be omega red n the doctor be sinister.... now that I think about it, it's probably for the better that they weren't

Kinda figured on him dying being that it was set in the future n hj basically said it was his last film

Loved how brutal it was, especially x23.. Def not a kids film..

So which x force character was one of the kids supposedly??


Rictor (for your question, not really a spoiler so) Rictor (the kid that flipped the truck) was an original New Mutant, X-Factor, and X-Force.

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The X-24 Wolverine clone is the only thing I didn't like. They should have used a very feral Sabertooth that they had limited mind control over. That would have worked... and they even had discussions of bringing Liev back to play him.


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oh OK I think the note was signed Rictor

N yeah.. of all the xmen villains and they go with a generic wolverine clone.. it was completely obvious the bullet would kill him also

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 12:04 am

He was not an original New Mutant.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 12:27 am

Glad we're talking about the important stuff

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 12:29 am

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Glad we're talking about the important stuff

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Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 12:44 am

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Glad we're talking about the important stuff

Facts is facts, LV.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 1:58 am

I thought the scene in the casino hotel room was fucking fantastic

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 1:59 am

Man, that girl was something special in this movie the more I think about it

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 2:00 am

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Man, that girl was something special in this movie the more I think about it


she had such a huge impact without saying a damn word for 3/4 of the movie

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 2:06 am

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I thought the scene in the casino hotel room was fucking fantastic

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when the girl and Logan were killing all of those guys and trying to stop patrick Stewart at the same time.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 2:30 am

E.H. Ruddock wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I thought the scene in the casino hotel room was fucking fantastic

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when the girl and Logan were killing all of those guys and trying to stop patrick Stewart at the same time.


Yeah that was amazing

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 3:30 am

I will say one thing I think is lacking in this movie is context for the world in which it's set. There are all these passing references to mutants being nearly wiped out, and one toward the end about Richard E. Grant being the one who did it, but none of that is ever illustrated. It was very vague, which made Logan and Xavier's exhaustion and desperation a bit formless and unearned.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 3:37 am

wease wrote:He was not an original New Mutant.


Wiki had him listed in all 3 lol so whomever did the wiki fraked up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rictor

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I will say one thing I think is lacking in this movie is context for the world in which it's set. There are all these passing references to mutants being nearly wiped out, and one toward the end about Richard E. Grant being the one who did it, but none of that is ever illustrated. It was very vague, which made Logan and Xavier's exhaustion and desperation a bit formless and unearned.


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Xavier admits right before he dies, he did a terrible thing in Westchester. In the comic Old Man Logan, Mysterio makes Wolverine think the school is under attack, and Wolverine kills all the X-men. So, I think they left it vague on purpose. Did Xavier kill them with one of his headaches, did he make Wolverine do it? its kinda left up to us to decide. I kept waiting for a flash back to show it, but I'm kinda glad they didn't do it.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 3:41 am

MadTIGERmaN wrote:
wease wrote:He was not an original New Mutant.


Wiki had him listed in all 3 lol so whomever did the wiki fraked up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rictor

Wiki is wrong. He showed up 5 years after New Mutants started.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 3:43 am

LoathedVermin72 wrote:
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Introducing Logan as being suicidal, having him literally being almost killed by a version of himself, and then that destructive version of him is destroyed by his daughter, who he finds a purpose and connection with in his final moments.

My husband was questioning the
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why they chose to have an evil clone Wolverine
I thought I'd given him a good reason but the insight in your spoiler had us both nodding our heads in an "aha" moment.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 3:44 am

wease wrote:
MadTIGERmaN wrote:
wease wrote:He was not an original New Mutant.


Wiki had him listed in all 3 lol so whomever did the wiki fraked up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rictor

Wiki is wrong. He showed up 5 years after New Mutants started.


I tend to block him out of my X-mind. I CANT STAND most of the X-Factor stories from that time period. It was a good character to toss in for Logan though, since hes such a minor player in the X-universe.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 3:46 am

doone wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
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Introducing Logan as being suicidal, having him literally being almost killed by a version of himself, and then that destructive version of him is destroyed by his daughter, who he finds a purpose and connection with in his final moments.

My husband was questioning the
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why they chose to have an evil clone Wolverine
I thought I'd given him a good reason but the insight in your spoiler had us both nodding our heads in an "aha" moment.


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I'd still have gone with an old / aged / barely there Sabertooth. I doubt they'll use him again anyway, so why not have Sabertooth end with Wolverine. Hugh even said they considered it.

Re: Logan

Sun March 05, 2017 3:58 am

MadTIGERmaN wrote:
doone wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
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Introducing Logan as being suicidal, having him literally being almost killed by a version of himself, and then that destructive version of him is destroyed by his daughter, who he finds a purpose and connection with in his final moments.

My husband was questioning the
Spoiler: show
why they chose to have an evil clone Wolverine
I thought I'd given him a good reason but the insight in your spoiler had us both nodding our heads in an "aha" moment.


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I'd still have gone with an old / aged / barely there Sabertooth. I doubt they'll use him again anyway, so why not have Sabertooth end with Wolverine. Hugh even said they considered it.

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But Logan said there were no mutants left other than himself, Charles and Caliban so to bring Sabertooth in they'd have had to used a "cloned" Sabertooth. I think LV's interpretation is more elegant.
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