Just to note, I posted this on the wrong thread...couldn't delete it though:
I saw Logan on premiere night. I was overwhelmed. I was a bit teary. Honestly though, I didn't know what to say. Did I like it? Well...yes. But I felt so conflicted. Did I dislike it? To some extent. But disappointed? I was mostly satisfied with the movie, but I was just disappointed from another angle. In many ways it was over-satisfying despite Logan's death, which should have been expected, but there were a number of things I took issue with.
I was of course sad to see that was Wolverine's final send-off. I was excited, but at the same time, I was upset that they had to end all of the other X-Men characters saga for the sake of Wolverine's story. That didn't seem fair. "Days of Future Past" was good but didn't feel like a proper ending.
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 the third movie, I wanted to see one final X-Men movie with the original cast all together and fighting evil. It felt incomplete.
We had this great final battle in "X-Men: The Last Stand" which unfortunately didn't have Cyclops, Rogue, Charles or any other characters in the fight because they were all dead...because of Brett Ratner...except Rogue though. Still curing herself...that sucked.
Back to "Logan"...
So "Logan" was rated R, but for me it wasn't just rated R...it was taking rated R to the next level. MPAA should have developed a new rating 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 that far with the violence?
I was okay with the entire extended R-rated cut of "The Wolverine", but in this movie...Jesus. One or two head-cuttings I think is enough but they certainly crossed the line here. Even the Batman v Superman R-rated Director's Cut had its limits. Batman punching the guy in the balls was cut off camera. No need to show it falling off.
Furthermore, must it be so ultra-violent? It gets to the point where I question this movie's ability to tell a story. Story versus action-porn. I wonder whether the people making this movie were seriously just engaging in violence for the sake of violence to sell tickets 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. The violence in itself. 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 but it was brutal)...it was really graphic and disturbing. It's not an image you like to see of a child being murdered. I would have cut that out.
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 been really upsetting and depressing.
That's another problem I had with the movie in itself. Did it have to be so miserable? "The Wolverine" was depressing to an extent, but I loved the movie, and it wasn't that 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 issue with this 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 through-out the movie and not loosen up (okay he did in the dinner scene with the family but) every other time, he just had to not give a s**t the whole time? It was pretty miserable enough.
Before these events, I imagine Logan never would have wanted to have a child or be responsible for supporting his child, unless he really liked the woman he had an affair with 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.
But he was kind of an a-hole the entire time. I get he was done helping people given the circumstances but when he flat-out refused to help the girl...I can't articulate why I was bothered so much by Logan's attitude but his attitude was just not like the Logan we know and love.
The death of Wolverine teared me up a bit, but it still happened somewhat too fast for me to feel upset. I wish the film had explained how the X-Men had become famous by this point. Everyone knows the Wolverine now, but it looks as though they won't know that he died.
I'm trying to figure out though by the end of the film, did he care, and love Laura by the end of the film? That part I can't figure out. The problem though, is that throughout, even if it's the case, he refuses to help, accept or love or not be that image Laura sees in the comic books.
Also...I obviously have to watch again, but was Laura born from a woman Logan had sex with, or was it just Logan's DNA people used to create X-23?
