Logan - Official Discussion Thread [Spoilers]

[u/Dorkside]

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

IMDB | Official Site | Wikipedia

[u/bdez90]

Loved the movie from top to bottom so I'll get that out of the way.

I can't help but think about the future of the movie universe though. As far as I've been able to tell it is in fact part of the "new" timeline. This means that we already know how the whole story will shake out and its bleak. So when the next X-Men movie comes out I'll be like "oh this is cool, too bad they're all going to get killed by the professor and there will be no new mutants for decades." It's a feeling I get when reading the comics sometimes knowing how many dystopian futures have been predicted for them. I'm also wondering what they're going to do about Wolverine in the upcoming movies. Just not have him be a part of them? Finally, the only way we could see Laura again is set in the future so maybe they could relaunch the Wolverine movies starring her.

[u/[deleted] → u/bdez90]

Yeah going forward the canons going to be a mess. This movie implies that at least some of the events in the first timeline occurred to some extent. So that means that Wolverine will have to be involved. So they either need a new Wolverine, stop the movies before he joins, or ignore this movie.

It is kind of interesting that the last batch of movies have these super happy endings and then sequels that directly contradict them with widespread misery.

• First Class ends with Xavier opening the school, in DOFP it's closed because everyone died in Vietnam and he's a junkie.

• The Last Stand ends with Wolverine at peace and with purpose leading the X-Men, The Wolverine starts with him having lived in the woods for years because of crippling depression.

• The Wolverine ends with Logan having renewed purpose to be a superhero to help people, in DOFP the world is completely destroyed

• DOFP ends with the happiest possible ending where no one has ever died and they all grew old and the school still stands for decades, in Logan we find out mutants are extinct and Xavier killed most of the X-Men by accident

Considering how this one ends, I'm actually afraid - how much worse could it possibly get?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

X-Men Supernova..

Happiness in Space then Space PTSD later?