LOGAN : Fan Reviews/Reactions (Spoiler Alert)

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Is that when he found out that she could actually speak and they have their first oral argument?

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Did you ever see the movie Cuaron's CHILDREN OF MEN about a dystopian future where the extinction of children was a key theme?

Jeff Wells of HOLLYWOOD ELSEWHERE bemoans the lack of similar type of movies ( re its impact on the public) in present-day Hollywood which is filled with what he calls are paycheck-flicks.


hollywood-elsewhere.com/2018/04/mass-audience-is-a-moron/


I thought that when I saw LOGAN, there was the same air of desolation as we saw the child mutants being hunted ... and the life Logan and the Prof were leading.

It looks like one major superhero movies site saw another aspect of LOGAN that is a little similar to Children of Men's dystopian air --

www.cbr.com/films-that-influenced-logan-movie/

Director Alfonso Cuaron, who would later win an Oscar for his work on the film “Gravity,” first tackled the science fiction genre in “Children of Men.” This dystopian thriller is set in a world whose entire populace is infertile, and the fate of the entire species rests on the shoulders of Clive Owen, tasked with transporting a young pregnant girl across the border amidst a refugee crisis.

Though some have attributed the look of Logan’s world to the more recent “Mad Max: Fury Road,” 2029 is less a wasteland than a decaying metropolis, much like the United Kingdom traversed by the characters in “Children of Men.” From its ominous border wall and armed guards to the dilapidated buildings that seem to rattle at every rumble of passing cars, “Logan” borrows heavily from “Children of Men,” both worlds not dead, but just beginning to die. Like Logan himself, these worlds are finally showing outwardly the poison devouring them from within.

Btw, Jeff Wells was a fan of LOGAN. He rarely praises superhero movies.

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Set visit by mini-Logan

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More fan art --

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It's amazing how quite a few fans deliberately postponed watching LOGAN because they say they cannot accept the thought of Wolverine leaving their lives, even if only on a fictional basis --

Replies --

Charles Roland Bielinski
@chazb54
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Replying to @johnnorthrup4
It was rough watching it with my daughter. She looked at me after and said "I am not okay dad."


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John Northrup

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I can imagine hahah but I 100% agree with her. The pain and somehow satisfaction I feel... I’m unsure I’ll recover properly.

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Charles Roland Bielinski

@chazb54
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The black and white version on DVD is amazing. It is a fantastic film.

How they can choose a movie like GET OUT for a Best Picture nod and ignore LOGAN is beyond me


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"hauntingly beautiful masterpiece"

Sometimes it is hard to watch it again *tears*

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More of a reflection...than a review --

www.chieftain.com/life/religion/barnabas-powell-sooner-or-later-we-all-face-the-judgement/article_3ed99448-952d-5447-8e07-b6699c886d32.html

BARNABAS POWELL: Sooner or later, we all face the judgement day
Barnabas Powell Faith Jun 29, 2018 Updated 23 hrs ago Comments


This column will be unlike others I've written, at least in terms of subject. I'll explore a film that's been on my mind long after the credits rolled.

It wasn't some artsy, European odyssey of self-discovery, though it did evoke existential introspection. I'm talking about "Logan," the final installment in Marvel's "Wolverine" franchise. And no, I'm not kidding.

You must understand that in my childhood, comic books were a treasured escape -- as for many of my nerdy peers. And far from being an obscure fetish, Hollywood's capitalization on superheroes shows how integral a facet of our American popular psyche they've become.



Regrettable though it is, superheroes have in many ways supplanted the saints as our role models and objects of veneration. Their struggles and exploits consistently show how good must ultimately triumph over evil, though evil seems to prevail for a time. They also suggest we're each called to do extraordinary things to serve the common good.

The release of the first "X-Men" film while I was in college was the fulfillment of a childhood fantasy. I remember watching it with friends, as with subsequent installments. The franchise was a generational phenomenon.

But as sequels emerged and the original cast grew older, I wondered where this would go. Even superheroes (or the actors who play them) cannot escape age and mortality.



Which brings me back to "Logan."

I expected another action-packed presentation of "evil looks unstoppable, but good will triumph in the end." And though it worked out that way, there was still an incredible price.

Spoiler alert: Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is old, gray and walks with a limp. He still heals from wounds that'd kill any other mortal, but not like he used to. And his visible scars correspond to invisible ones within.

Living in obscurity, he cares for an elderly Professor Xavier (reprised by Patrick Stewart), and they've got one last mission in them.


"Logan" grapples with age, regret and legacy. What happens when superheroes get old and the unlimited promise of youth falls behind? For that matter, what happens when the same thing happens to us?

Jackman and Stewart both decided this would be their last time in their roles. And they decided to go out not in romanticized fashion, but in a way that would deconstruct the illusion of superhero invincibility.

There's still a great deal of violence (this isn't for youth groups), but the violence isn't glorified. The tone reminds one of Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" or John Wayne's "The Shootist" -- final installments of each actor's Western career that renounced the delusion of a violence without consequence.

Maybe it's a guy thing, but "Logan" left me humbled and sobered by the realization that for all of us (even superheroes) life in this world must end. Sitting through the credits as Johnny Cash sang about Judgment Day, a mindfulness of death summoned repentance.

Requiem aeternum, Wolverine. And thank you for the lessons.



The Rev. Barnabas Powell also is a freelance writer who began his career at The Chieftain while pastor of Pueblo's St. Michael's Orthodox Church. He now lives in Washington state, and may be reached at [e-mail].

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Very poignant, stirring, and compelling!

You can feel his pain!


It is indeed one of Hugh Jackman's top 2 film portrayals!



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Someone rejoicing that Logan (who wears glasses with price tag on ) is back to life

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Quite a few posting similar messages -- fans not wanting to watch or postponing watching LOGAN because it meant the end of the road for WOLVERINE as portrayed by Hugh Jackman!

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Jul 28, 2018 17:34:46 GMT -5 jo said:

Someone rejoicing that Logan (who wears glasses with price tag on ) is back to life

?? What are you talking about, “wears glasses with price tag on.” That white shape is probably a reflection of his cellphone in the glass behind him!

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Lol - I did refer to " Logan", not Hugh Jackman

In the movie LOGAN, Wolverine/Logan puts on reading glasses on which he forgot to remove the price tag ( which quite a few fans thought was very funny). It was a very endearing image to see Wolverine aging in this way.

That is why the tweeter jokingly said " logan back to life? Logan's glasses" -- meaning to say that Wolverine/Logan must have been resurrected from his grave because he was seen recently with his glasses on

So many fans want him back or at least Wolverine back -- hence, jokingly or seriously, they express this wish to see him return.


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Okay, I get it now. Forgot about that scene in LOGAN (have only seen the movie once)

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And --

Don't laugh now -- but the other day, I saw a rerun on cable TV -- and I couldn't bear to rewatch it yet!


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A tragic superhero movie? Or was it more like a Shakespearean tragedy playing out?

owlcation.com/humanities/Shakespearean-Tragedy-Definition-and-Characteristics-of-Shakespearean-Tragedy


Did Mangold and co-screenwriters and actor Jackman think of the same artistic goal when the movie was being made?


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Did the success of LOGAN, with Patrick Stewart as an important character which was so well acted help revive the interest in him to return to his most famous TV role as Capt. Jean Picard?

www.darkhorizons.com/patrick-stewart-returning-as-captain-picard/

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