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Logan – 2017 Mangold
- There’s a five (5) minute stretch near the beginning when they raid the hideout and there’s a brief car chase and escape- with the sand, the cars, the beating drum rhythmic soundtrack that you can’t help but think of mad max fury road. It’s a great sequence
- Clearly the film has roots in the western with tons of obvious tips of the caps and homages to shane (even the “bad” Wovlerine is in black like the Jack Palance character who is the archetypical “man in black”
- Mangold clearly directs the western very well as I also archived 2007’s 3:10 To Yuma which is an outright remake
- I had some small narrative issues with the fact that Logan (Jackman) and Charles (Stewart) seemed like they didn’t know they were being tracked for half the movie which would mean they didn’t know Caliban’s power.
- Mangold is a solid direct (along with Yuma I have walk the line in the archives) but he’s not Christopher Nolan or George Miller visually and I can’t say I’m dying to see what he does next
- The best X-Men film
- In the archives for but will not be in 2017’s top 10
- Recommend
Drake2026-01-24T06:46:24-05:00
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God just hearing the news about Patrick Stewart ruined my evening last night, such a legend and I’m glad I grew up on some of his work in film and television.
@dom- Like Christopher Lee before him Stewart had a very distinctive voice that made him unimitable. I mean he is loved by a lot of fans because of his work in franchise films (X-Men, Star Trek, or even David Lynch’s Dune) but I do think he should have done more original work outside of his franchise films. He is one of the great character actors.
RIP Patrick Stewart
@Malith- indeed- RIP- told some friends that the Green Room is on netflix
@Drake- I haven’t seen Green Room! Also, I would have more X-Men films in the archives than you do. These three in particular [X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)] and also X-Men: First Class (2011) which didn’t have Patrick Stewart in it and featured a younger cast. His work in Logan is even more impressive when you consider he was sort of dealing with the same issues and setbacks in real-life as well from what I read.
Logan has to be one of if not the saddest blockbuster ever made. Mangold should be appreciated more for the big swing he takes here. This could have gone horribly wrong especially with the X-Men fanbase. And Jackman and Stewart for the commitment they put into their roles here. They are disheveled, worn out and deteriorating.
“I had some small narrative issues with the fact that Logan (Jackman) and Charles (Stewart) seemed like they didn’t know they were being tracked for half the movie which would mean they didn’t know Caliban’s power.”
That’s because Logan and Charles think Caliban is dead. Due to Caliban not returning after going to dump the body and the bad guy telling them he put Caliban in the same ditch Caliban was going to put him in.
Both Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart are very strong here and should have been nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively. Especially since the film got into Best Adapted Screenplay. I would take out Denzel Washington for Roman J. Israel, Esq. and Richard Jenkins for The Shape of Water.
@Malith – did you have problems with Roman J Israel Esq?
@Harry- Yes
@Malith – worse than Velvet Buzzsaw?
@Harry- I haven’t seen Velvet Buzzsaw.
Weirdly enough I have seen every Hugh Jackman Wolverine outing aside from The Wolverine at least once. And most of them twice. I never got around to watching The Wolverine. Looks like it was also directed by Mangold. Need to fix this.