Saw Logan premiere night. I was overwhelmed. Teary a bit. Honestly though I didn't know what to say. Well, yes. But I felt so conflicted.
I was of course sad to see that this would be Wolverine's send-off. Still, it made me upset that they had to end the X-Men franchise for the sake of Wolverine's story. Didn't seem fair.
I liked DOFP, it fixed so much of what was wrong with The Last Stand, but it still focused on the past more than it did on the present. Because they killed so many characters off in Brett Ratner's movie, I wanted to see one final X-Men movie with the original cast all together and fighting an evil.
You had this great final battle in X-Men: The Last Stand which unfortunately didn't have Scott, Rogue, Charles or any other characters in the fight because of Brett Ratner.
So it was rated R, for me it wasn't just rated R...it was taking rated R to the next level. MPAA should have created a new rating in their system. I thought I wouldn't have much of a problem with this film being ultra-violent, but wow, this was even more violent than Deadpool...but my question is was it really necessary to go the violent?
I was okay with the entire extended R-rated cut of "The Wolverine", but this one...jesus. One or two head-cuttings I think is enough but they certainly crossed the line with this film's violence.
Furthermore, must it be so ultra-violent? It gets to the point where I question this movie's seriousness. Story versus action-porn. I wonder whether the people making this movie were seriously just engaging in violence for the sake of violence or trying to tell a good story.
Regardless of all the violence in this movie, there was really only one major problem I had with it. This movie still could have been rated R, I just wish they didn't actually have to show us X-24 killing the family including the children (one kid I remember, I don't remember if there were more)...that was really graphic and disturbing. It's not an image you like to see of a child murdered. I would have cut that out.
Even in some R-rated movies, they cut some scenes away, they let you know by giving you some scenario establishing that someone was killed or it was something brutal. (Batman v Superman for example...Batman hitting the guy in the balls)
So moving aside from the violence, did Professor Xavier think that Logan killed him. It was confusing and I couldn't tell, and I didn't hear Charles' last words. What were they? If Charles really did think Logan killed him, then that would be really upsetting and depressing.
Was Logan actually waiting for Charles to die? If there is any logic, it would only make sense somewhat if Logan had been mad at Charles because he accidentally killed all the X-Men and more mutants. I would understand that. I liked that Logan was taking care of him and treating him like family, and sort of like his dad.
That comes to my next problem with the movie though...Logan was a total dick. Too much of a dick. He wouldn't come to his senses one bit. Did he have to act like a total dick and not give a s**t the whole time? It was pretty miserable.
Before these events, I imagine Logan never would have wanted to have a child or be responsible for supporting them, unless he really liked her possibly...but this time...I guess it was only because he was afraid of people dying next to him after all he had been through.
He was going to leave Laura away and let her get shot at.
So was the chemical bottle that Logan drank meant to kill his healing power or just give him temporary indestructible power before wearing off? Or did that kill him in the end? How did he die?
If he had been removed from the tree branch he got stuck through his back and through his chest, would he have survived and healed? Or is it because his heart wouldn't have had time to heal itself?
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. He's answered quite a few of my questions.
