 Yesterday I got done watching Logan. I wanted to take a full 24 hours to digest it then today The goal was to go out to Buffalo, Minnesota here filming a nice pretty area since it was gonna be 60 degrees out I have a t-shirt on which I I misjudged. It's not t-shirt weather. I did misjudge that But I was having a lot of problems with my mic. He was on the fritz. The wind was blowing things didn't work out So I took some pointless artsy shots and I'm back in my car I haven't done a car side review in a long time. We're just gonna call it an Adam review. It doesn't really matter at this point But I was trying to be better. So I apologize for this kind of rough ugly looking review, but and Logan deserves better honestly Logan Logan's everything I wanted to be and more slash less. That's the lead-in. This is approximately the 45th film He Jackman's done is Logan. He's been doing this for I don't know fucking two decades or so It's it's been a long time and it is about time. He had a proper send-off and a proper movie. It's too bad It's his final hurrah according to Hugh Jackman as many people know Because I think after this you could you just saw how much potential there was and comic book fans and people that knew the character Like I did. I'm not a comic book guy by any means, but I do know Wolverine. I know the X-Men pretty well Knew that we could get this movie if they would just push that r-rating that it desperately needed And some people argue, you know PG-13 movies are fine and their comic books and they're for kids and no Now when a guy has blades that come out of his hands You need to see that intensity You need to see that feral rage that courses through his body as he's killing guys left and right And he does a whole hell of a lot of that here So as I walked around the town of Buffalo and really thought about this flick really had a chance to digest it I came back with a couple things one. It's somber as hell, which I knew leaving the theater and two It's not how I wanted it to end it all but I'm glad that they went there I'm glad that James Mangaloy to think his name is is that right James It's the same director that did the Wolverine, which I did not like. I know some people did enjoy that one quite a bit. I think it was It had its heart in the right in the right place, but due to the studio once again making a PG-13 and They just weren't really ready to go there and it's a shame. Let's see here James mangled. I was way off Wow Yeah, he did the last film too. This is really weird. I'm filming in my camera and there's Three guys having a meal on a bench right in front of me They're having a nice little picnic together a couple bros having fun And then there's this asshole in his car talking to strangers on the internet about a film It's very weird. It's very strange. It's very surreal. Let's get into it. Let's dive down deep. I Don't want it. There's no spoilers. I'll talk about spoilers in a little bit Although I think people that are watching my channel probably have already seen the movie It's been out for a day and a lot of the professional critics I'm sorry professional critics have gotten their reviews out well over a week or two ago instead of breaking down a Plot for no reason. That's a little spoilery and it seems unnecessary. I'm gonna talk about the things. I liked Hugh Jackman Of course, I've always liked him but here you can tell he is he's all invested He's fully into this and he gives it everything. He's weathered. He's broken down and He's just a shell of what he used to be not that he really ever used to be anything too great And that's really what this film is about yet. There's a villain. There's a couple villains It doesn't matter and people will say that's a criticism like oh the villain isn't as memorable as he could have been He doesn't stand out that much. I don't care. The movie's not about them They're just in the way the movie's about the journey of Logan. That's why it's called Logan It's about his relationship with Patrick Stewart's character Xavier. It's about his relationship with this new girl that comes into his life X-23 she's from the comics. I know very little about her other than photos. I've seen where she's like a teenager She's hot. She wears, you know, leather and all that jazz, but here she's a little girl She's a little kid and the kid is amazing at what she does not just from Subtle gestures facial expressions, but just the way she kills guys the way she jumps from a body to body Sleshing their faces and it is intense is all hell Now this guy's taking a selfie. Oh my god. He's taking a selfie of his food and his buddy Get past it move past it Adam. I'm gonna move. I got it. I got a move. I got to get out of here These guys are They're flustered me. I'm gonna hold the camera and I can't hold the camera in drive. So the camera is just gonna move Camera is just gonna shift Patrick Stewart I'm gonna I'm gonna go out here and say this right now. He's my favorite actor of all time I I think Patrick Stewart is just phenomenal and seeing him here as a beaten-down Fucked up Xavier is incredible and now I'm in the in the shade now in the dark This is my first time using a camera and a car Moved again. We got it. We're here now. We're ready to go judging from the trailers I was expecting a buddy road trip of sorts, but it's not really that there's not a lot of buddy moments It's a very very somber affair. It reminds me of the road It reminds me of children of men which I think I'm gonna do a three-way versus feud on my show movie feuds So Logan versus the road versus children of men people have already requested that I do it against the dark night too Because they're saying it's the best movie since the dark night. I Think it's better than the dark night. Honestly. I think the dark night isn't maybe overrated, but it's not my I Like the dark night. I respect it I like I think that it set the the standards for comic movies going forward It was like look at you don't have to be a silly stupid little film. You can do serious Logan took a page from that book and it went all out. I don't even if it wasn't for a Character reveal later kind of an enemy of sorts later in the film. I would say this is The most serious and grout in movie but because of that which I'll get into later It does still have that comic booky feel and I think that was maybe not necessary in the film, but I'm gonna give this a 10 out of 10. Are there flaws in the flick? Yeah, I think so Does it end the way I wanted to know it doesn't necessarily but it makes sense in the context of the film They wanted to make in the story that they wanted to tell and it's shot brilliantly. It's acted perfectly It just all works you could you could argue that it's a little long I'm kind of getting sick of these movies that are running well over two hours now I think if you want to tell a good story you can do it within an hour and a half two hours But because it's it's been said it's the final hurrah for both Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman My god, I could have watched a four-hour movie of these two Let's pop this cherry on the spoilers now So if you haven't seen the film shut this off walk away go do something valuable with your time instead of listening to An asshole in a car if you have seen the film you want to do a talk. Let's talk. Let's do a talk Let's do it. Let's do a talk. The first thing I want to touch on is how great Xavier was with his You know his brain slowly deteriorating and he's known as a weapon of mass destruction Almost all the other X-Men are wiped out. It's been said it was said at some point kind of almost off hand that He was responsible for the death of six mutants presumably X-Men and countless others were put in the hospital I think they said 70 or 700 something something big I need to see this movie again to really pick up all the pieces the way Stewart plays it though just really goes to show how much of a An old-school actor. He is he has the the ability to just switch it on and off like that Playing these different roles of a guy who's lost his mind. He's babbling. He's going off. He's he's Pretending he's doing infomercials at one point and then in the next second. He's right there with Logan He remembers him. He's cussing at him. He's like, you know, fuck you Logan. Give me the pills then The chemistry between Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart have always been there It's always been there and even in the old movies Just the one minute or two minute scenes they get together are some of my favorite moments So having a meteor film with these two guys together in a car or going to Las Vegas together and doing some of these things on a farm It I just loved it. I absolutely loved it all The girl as I said was great The one thing and I and once again, I understand why they did this The one thing is we don't get that moment between Logan and X-23 we don't get that bonding father daughter moment You can argue that at the end when he's got the you know He's impaled that he gets that with her but she's so desperately for as you know Kind of messed up as this kid is growing into a lab environment and being trained to kill and to hunt And she's definitely got some some issues the girl desperately wants this father figure She's read about her dad in the comics. He's a super hero to her. She looks up to him. She idolizes him and The fact that he doesn't really give it in return just it's devastating You know, she holds his hand at one point. He let her his arm I guess not really his hand and he pulls it away She rests his head on her lap for a little bit and then she drives him further into Into the mountains so she can get to safety with him. She looks out for him He looks out for her but much more in a not so much a father way But just a general way how he would treat a soldier and I don't know I really wanted that connection, but I get it, you know, he's been alive for hundreds of years He's had loved ones come and go that he's known far longer than three or four days And he's just done he's been done for years. He's shot. He's drained Emotionally and physically he's deteriorating from the inside his claws aren't working the big villain reveal later was x-24 I think he was who is essentially Wolverine in his prime if you want to call it his prime physically I guess but mentally. No, he's a robot. He has no feelings of his own. He's emotionless He is just a patsy for the soldiers. He's a weapon and he kills. That's all he does is he kills There's a lot of activity going on. Sorry. I'm looking around everywhere There's a couple fights between him and old man Logan. They're great Old man Logan's gets his ass kicked constantly as he should he's not Equipped properly to take on a younger version of himself and I didn't Once again, I get why they went here Because it's it's just tipping the hat to Hugh Jackman He gets to play two roles in his final film He gets to play that Wolverine that we never really got to see the weapon X that they always hinted at The killing machine he finally gets to play him and he gets to play this older reflective version So seeing them go knuckle to knuckle makes sense claw to claw It just it was it wasn't done the best there. They introduced this guy like half-assed like oh, yes We built this guy. We were using kids as test subjects, but we realized why do that when we can just grow one. Oh Okay, there's there's not really a whole lot of back story into how they did this Why they have this tech and why they don't build more of these guys? But once again, it's I don't want to say it's comic movie because that's a cop up This is barely a comic book movie. It doesn't feel like one at all It feels like like I said like the road or children of men or something very just depressing through and through There are glimmers of of light my favorite scene in the entire film is of course Patrick Stewart Having a little monologue in the bed. He's laying down. He's all comfy cozy and he talks about how this is the best night He's had in as far as long as you remember in years I think he says the best night I've had in years Logan and of course It's not Logan and this one beacon of sunshine and hope is is taken down pretty quickly by a claws through the chest And it was it was a heartbreaking scene. It was devastating I'm glad they kept him alive just a tiny bit longer to get a little bit of a more Respective clothes and it was a hell of a lot better than that bullshit Death he had an X-Men 3 the last stand where he disintegrates slowly and he does nothing but abandon the X-Men basically is like well You know Jean's gonna fucking kill you all but Sorry, and then he just goes here. It was He was it was past his time to go. He didn't he didn't have a reason to stay alive either he just wanted to get Logan with his daughter and He hoped desperately that Hugh Jackman's character would find some relief in his life some happiness He even says he was look around you breathe it in Logan, this is what it's like to have a family and happiness and security and you know That that let's go to the Indian because that's the big that's the big thing that rub me the wrong way But I also once again I get it This movie was powerful man. It's really good really good stuff. This is why I love going to the movies Not so much the other stuff. I saw recently. I just There's there's movies that are fun and action-packed like John Wick 2 Batman Lego movie, but then there's movies like this that are so far beyond it also helps that after this I Watched whiplash at home with my wife I hadn't seen it and it's it's a few years old now won a bunch of awards and I kept hearing go see whiplash Or watch whiplash, and I did and it was very good. So I had a very good day of movies the ending though where Hugh Jackman dies and X-23 and the other kids run through the woods to freedom I I Really first off how fucking great was it when she took the cross and spun it to an X? Holy shit, that was awesome It could have been so can be but because of the setting and the mood and everything that the director and The actors have set up the cinematography the the camera guys is just it was so well handled And I'm glad he didn't wear that stupid yellow suit. It would not have transitioned. Well, I heard some people complaining about that Really? You want to see Hugh Jackman in that thing? It's gonna look awful on screen I don't care what you say and this was not the movie to do that in They did a very nice job tying it with the comics and saying look at this is all this is all my little pony shit You know, they're playing dress up in the comics and this is not how it happened almost almost all of this is incorrect So he dies but here let me give you what I wanted to happen and once again 10 out of 10 film But this is what I wanted to happen. I wanted him To survive this I wanted him to Go away with his daughter Get the kids to safety, but then he raises her I don't know if you've played bio shock or not bio shock is a fantastic game great story If you don't want to spoil her at bio shock turn this off for a minute But bio shock the good ending has the protagonist grow old with his daughters or the orphan girls that he saves He sees them grow up go to college get married all this stuff. That's what I wanted From Logan and it was hinted at from you know from Xavier is like He's so desperately wanted that character to get some redemption and some salt some solace in his life And that could have happened he could have moved to that beach house where Xavier wanted to go with him I mean they were gonna go out into the ocean or whatever, but still he could have raised her on the beach He could have watched her go to school and grow up and maybe she only becomes a teenager because I know x23 in the comics Is a teenager I think so that would have been a nice transition for Fox You know we slowly watch her grow up with Hugh Jackman over the years a nice little montage And then he dies with her by himself his side on a hospital bed or just Maybe not a hospital bed. He dies, you know out at the beach or whatever with her holding his hand Like she did earlier when he pulled away. He doesn't pull away this time. He's there with her and Then we get that transition to her going off starting her own school Maybe like Xavier did or maybe She she meets up with her friends again, and it just ends there with a toast it doesn't matter, but that's that was the That was the end game. I wanted I wanted I wanted him to get some peace He gets a little peace there And here's the way they went he dies. He looks at his daughter. He sees hope. He sees what he could have been I Guess he sees that you know you see he sees I Think he sees hope there with her because she's not bad. He knows that he knows that he is well Better off than he was at that age and so he just he lets it go. He's like I've been dead for years I've wanted to kill myself. I've lost everybody. I love I barely know this girl. She's gonna be okay I helped save the day. We got rid of all the bad guys, and it's time for me to go now So it is beautiful and haunting in its own right and I respect it Not how I wanted to end, but I respect it. It's a 10 out of 10 film I don't think I have anything else to say about it other than How great the action was too very Rated I saw the trails and I thought Okay, there's a part where she takes the cuffs off and he's going now Now now and you see a couple of the action scenes I thought that was gonna be like a 10-second scene honestly because of James's last film where the action was very sparse, and it wasn't very good Fuck this was awesome. That scene goes on for 15 minutes I think it leads into a car chase Pass the train and then later we get that woods action scene and there's some smaller moments The whole thing is so damn good. I'm definitely gonna go again And I haven't seen a movie twice in theaters in a very long time But well done everybody involved and Thank you for listening to me ramble on about this film gush over it But movies are my religion and I'm sure some of you feel the same So let me know in the comments. I'd love to hear what you thought Thanks for listening to this longer episode, and I'll try to do more Adam reviews I've been kind of lagging on them. So all right. Take care You