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  • Ovation
    Super Senior Member
    • Sep 2004
    • 2202

    Logan

    Watched this last night. Loved it. Forget the rest of the X-Men movies, if you don't like superhero movies (I like the X-Men movies, to varying degrees, but they are unnecessary to view Logan). Best way to describe this film is Unforgiven in the present, with a flavour of sci-fi (but no more than many TV shows these days). Acting by the leads (Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart) is superb--as is the girl who is the focal point of the story.

    It is NOT for the squeamish, though it's more Peckinpah than horror/gore movies. Has many stylistic elements reaching back to 60s and 70s filmmaking (first decade post-Hayes code, so 65-75).

    NOT a "kiddie superhero movie" (the R rating is there for a reason).

    The BD comes with a special edition black and white (properly colour-timed--not just drained of colour) called Logan Noir. Will be watching that soon.

    If you like elegiac stories with a western flavour, you'll probably like this one.
  • aud19
    Twin Moderator Emeritus
    • Aug 2003
    • 16706

    #2
    Keep reading good reviews of this and despite being utterly sick of the super hero genre, might have to actually give this a watch.
    Jason

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    • Ovation
      Super Senior Member
      • Sep 2004
      • 2202

      #3
      Originally posted by aud19
      Keep reading good reviews of this and despite being utterly sick of the super hero genre, might have to actually give this a watch.
      There's no superhero vibe to it. One can watch it without any prior X-Men knowledge or movie watching. It works entirely on a small-scale sci-fi/action film, with an elegiac tone, excellent acting (especially by Stewart and Jackman) and, overall, it is a strongly crafted film. It doesn't re-invent the wheel (it clearly and unashamedly borrows from earlier film classics) but it does what it sets out to do (provide a swan song for Logan) and does it well.

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