Review – Logan (2017)

Logan

by Nile Fortner

You know something; time really does fly by when you’re not thinking about it. It feels like just the other day the year 2000 was here. In the year 2000, we saw the birth of Britney Spears with “Oops!…I Did It Again”, the fear of Y2K, crop tops and low – rise pants for women, and spiked bleached hair for boys and men.

I remember those days. The days of playing video games on PlayStation 2, putting batteries in my CD player and Game Boy, and sh*tting my baggy pants. All at the beautiful age of 45. I’m just kidding. To be honest, I don’t remember much about this era, because I was only six years old at the time.

I’ll tell you what I do remember though. I remember seeing the kickoff of the big budget superhero film genre. I remember being a little kid with my parents at the theater. I remember the kick off of the X- Men film franchise.

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Review – Logan (2017)

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by Old King Clancy

In the summer of 2000, a comic-book movie based on Marvel’s X-Men series was released featuring a then unknown actor called Hugh Jackman who had been brought in last minute to play the role of Wolverine. 17 years, 9 cinematic outings and a lifetime of being regarded as one of the most perfectly casted comic-book characters ever put to film, and Jackman takes his iconic role to its final swan song with Logan. Whether this is Jackman’s last turn as the character or not remains to be seen, but if it is, then finally being able to see a no-holds-barred, R-Rated Wolverine movie would’ve been enough but this last ride gives enough poignancy to stand out from the brutality, giving us one of, if not the absolute finest chapter in the X-Film History.

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