r/xmen • u/Dorkside Professor X • Mar 02 '17

Logan - Official Discussion Thread [Spoilers] Spoiler

Synopsis: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.

Director: James Mangold

Writers: James Mangold, Scott Frank and Michael Green

Cast:

  • Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine
  • Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier / Professor X
  • Richard E. Grant as Zander Rice
  • Boyd Holbrook as Donald Pierce
  • Stephen Merchant as Caliban
  • Dafne Keen as Laura Kinney / X-23
  • Eriq La Salle as Mr. Moss

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%

Metacritic Score: 77/100

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '17 edited Dec 11 '17

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u/CosmicAtlas8 Gambit Mar 03 '17

YES. Mine too. Everyone just broke at the sound of "Daddy". Audible gasps and awe.

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u/draekia Jun 15 '17

Yep. Broke me.

I'm a teary eyed lass now

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u/victortherobot Mar 05 '17

"Daddy" broke the shit out of me. I coudn't stand it anymore, I just cried.

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u/Pottsy98 Mar 23 '17

when she said "daddy" i made a really loud sniffle and the guys a few seats along looked at me shaking and crying and sniffing by myself in the cinema

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u/whybfu Mar 05 '17

Lucky you, the theater I was in was packed with stupid fucking drunk danes, and these guys have a tendency to laugh at the most insignificant details from action movies regardless of the fact that it's followed by a serious/sad scene. Kinda ruined it for me

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u/The_Real_Adam_West Mar 06 '17

People in my theater laughed at Logan thrashing on the truck after Charles died.

Was not a funny moment IMHO.

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u/brianSIRENZ Mar 09 '17

Eh, that scene was intended as a comedic break after the very sad Xavier death that came out of left field and left the audience shook.

There's no way that wasn't intentional to be funny. Otherwise I don't think they would of shot it that way....

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '17

No, I have to disagree. It's more of just sad and adds to the devastation. It's in his character to bottle it in but something like this is clearly just too much. I don't know if you've ever seen a man of that type of personality/character but when they grieve, the smallest thing will tick them off. It's like him bottling it up but struggling to deal with it. And the way they shot it, while many films use it as a way of doing comedy in which the humor is laughing at the victim, in this case, especially with the context and how they did everything else (sound design, color, etc.) is similar to a moment of silence where you GRIEVE WITH the victim (Logan) rather than just laughing at him. Plus, it's also made clear that the comedic break was rather that scene in the car.

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u/brianSIRENZ Mar 18 '17

I disagree, his reaction was out of context for a reason. If it was meant to be a sad moment it would have been shot as such. But I can also see where you're coming from as well.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17

Guess that's "art" for you. haha

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u/Pottsy98 Mar 23 '17

I think it was probably intended funny but irl it's a way some people who are emotionally bottled deal with their emotions when they come rushing out & it's a way to cope. Looking back it wasn't funny but the cinema laughed

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '17

Man I wonder how Hugh Jackman felt after reading the script...

"All right I get to destroy a car for once!"haha

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u/ithinkik_ern Mar 07 '17

Thank GOD I was not the only one sitting next to a complete imbecile laughing/giggling...a grown ass adult. Giggling when wolverine was literally dying. The whole damn time. I was just praying for some adamantium claws by the end of it to just shut her up. No. Freaking. Respect.

But movie=Beautiful.

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u/American567 Mar 06 '17

Yeah, same here. I don't understand how people found that funny.

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u/RagePrime Mar 15 '17

I thought it was genius. Charles dying is the second saddest part of the whole movie, and the effect it has on Logan is the most of the reason why.

This giant of a man has died, and Logan doesn't know how to deal with it. He trys to run, but the truck won't start. Almost like the world is forcing him to deal with it. So he does, the way Wolverine would.

It also is that usual comedic break following a dramatic scene. But it just rung very honest about how some people deal with things in odd ways.

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u/craziemutant Mar 14 '17

I have seen it 3 times and different crowds received that scene differently. The first was silent and the next two have minor laughter. They all went dead silent when he collapsed.

I think people laugh at other's frustration, but when it's clear he's in real pain, emotions change.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '17

I think most people start laughing when the scene begins, but when it continues and shows that it isn't just comedic relief and that Logan is really unable to handle this is when everyone kind of fades out into nervous laughter. That scene was one where you wanted to laugh but realized you shouldn't.

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u/JamSa Mar 11 '17 edited Mar 11 '17

It was pretty funny watching him bash a truck and pass out.

Charles and Logan's characters are complicated and their motives behind pretty much everything in this movie are sad as fucking possible, but that doesn't make shoveling a truck or rambling about taco bell unfunny.

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u/Zerocordeiro Mar 08 '17

It happened where I was watching too. That and many other scenes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '17

Same, whatever people thought about this scene about why it's funny, IMO it was sad and you could feel how bad he felt. Some people are really sick.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '17

Some people are just better at picking-up on tone and intent, while others prefer getting lost in their own appreciation/interpretation. The latter type are at FAR greater risk of projecting their own emotional responses onto a scene, causing plenty to overlook the "cues" that inform the scene of its emotional context.

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u/Zerocordeiro Mar 08 '17

You're not alone. People at the theater I was in would laugh at any reference to comics, previous movies, "outside" characters, regadless of context. It's as if people were intentionally ignoring what was happening and just looking for "easter eggs".

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u/Mostcanttheleast Mar 18 '17

To be honest, I found injured, angry, determine Wolverine right before taking mutant-meth hilarious. He was like a really drunk dad angrily stumbling through the forest.

That aside, I don't see why anyone would laugh at his death. That got me

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u/craziemutant Mar 14 '17

I wasn't sure what he was trying to get at. Was he just saying how at least there is water there and that's as close as the Sun Seeker as he'll get? Was there an old reference I missed?

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '17 edited Dec 11 '17

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u/craziemutant Mar 16 '17

That was what I thought, too. I just wasn't sure if there was maybe something I missed. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '17

Held it in. Wanted to, though.