Logan (Full Reaction)
Added 2024-05-20 21:44:27 +0000 UTCIt's Movie Monday! This week, we are continuing with the X-Men series and watching the incredible Logan!
Logan was a very powerful movie that allowed us to see the Wolverine pushed to the brink of his abilities. This was certainly an emotional roller coaster with some unexpected twists and turns. Be warned, there is no post credit scene.
Watched on: Disney+ / Runtime: 2:19:29
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Hey, MCU nerd here. Fox was planning to end the old x-men franchise with the death of Logan. And then create a new franchise with The New Mutants. I thought The New Mutants was a really good movie. Now, everything I just said is gone now because Marvel got their characters back from Fox. X-men, Blade, Elecktra, Daredevil and the Fantastic Four. Dr Doom as well.
Lawrence Gibson
2025-03-17 06:22:14 +0000 UTCYou're right that this movie captured something sad but meaningful in the way Charles was buried alone. What a powerful movie!
Jacqueline
2024-06-29 02:57:16 +0000 UTCI like the Days of Future Past ending for him as well!
Jacqueline
2024-06-29 02:53:47 +0000 UTCWhaat? No!
Jacqueline
2024-06-29 02:52:57 +0000 UTCIt was quite a sad ending for them. It's such a powerful movie, but I wish they would have had a happier ending.
Jacqueline
2024-06-29 02:52:44 +0000 UTCThank you!!
Jacqueline
2024-06-29 02:51:30 +0000 UTCThat's so true! I had forgotten that Logan was so much older than Charles.
Jacqueline
2024-06-29 02:51:24 +0000 UTCI can see why there would be a debate about the timeline. It's sad that this is the path Logan's life took. I was rooting for him to have a better ending. Thanks for pointing out all the references to other movies. I hadn't noticed some of them. They really put a lot of thought into how this story fit into the timeline of the previous films.
Jacqueline
2024-06-29 02:48:33 +0000 UTCI didn't realize that Wolverine was the only one who remember the Statue of Liberty timeline. I had forgotten that Magneto was set on a different path. Thanks for clarifying some of the movie's events! Your behind the scenes info was fun to read! It's wild that Rice was able to use the tissue of mutants to give himself access to their power. That's pretty scary.
Jacqueline
2024-06-29 02:44:23 +0000 UTCI think it's much more fitting that Logan died in this movie, with his daughter. I agree that it was a powerful moment when he said that line.
Jacqueline
2024-06-29 02:38:47 +0000 UTCSomething about all the trouble the X-men went through to avoid the catastrophic ending of the Sentinels taking over everything. Just for the team to be destroyed by something so simple as a degenerative brain disease. It hurt so bad for the fate of mutant-kind to fall on Logan to save after being through more than enough. For Charles to have such a impactful & undeniable existence just to meet his end & be buried on the side of some random road in North Dakota by water was so raw, and yet so believable & real. I like to know as time moves on & we leave this iteration of X-Men to the past, it won’t be in vain as in my head canon Logan sacrificed himself for the X-men & mutant kind to live on❤️🐑
Abner Aranivar
2024-06-08 03:32:45 +0000 UTCAs much as I appreciate this film Wolverine's true end for me is in Days of Future Past. This is like an alternate universe, what if EVERYTHING went wrong scenario. I just dont see why people want the end of the Fox X-Men run to be all the mutants being wiped out... And this world seems less futuristic than the one from Days of Future Past!
George Baxter
2024-05-25 21:01:44 +0000 UTCDid you peep one of the gravestones during the funeral? "Rogers" 👀
emptysea
2024-05-24 04:59:37 +0000 UTCCharles told Logan to find some meaning for his life again, and he did - spending the last of his life to save a new generation.
Robert Inman
2024-05-22 02:28:52 +0000 UTCI thought the ending given to the characters was unnecessary and undeserved. Especially Charles. I think it was a revenge by the studio. They already knew that Disney was going to acquire them and left the characters unavailable at that time.
Luis
2024-05-21 20:54:33 +0000 UTCI saw the black & white version in the theatre when it came out and have never actually seen the color version (until I watch with Jax, that is)! There are a few great b&w versions of films I've gotten to see on the big screen, including the "Mad Max Fury Road" 'Black & Chrome' print and "The Mist", which the director originally wanted to shoot in black & white, but the studio said no, but he was able to release that version later. The one I really still want to see is the b&w version of "Godzilla Minus One" which I'm still mad I missed when it screened last year. Maybe the best Godzilla film ever made.
HeyHeyJK
2024-05-21 15:38:12 +0000 UTCI don't just cry at the end of this movie, I SOB. No single tear rolling down my cheek. Just full on ugly sobbing. In the theater, I cried and I cry any time I watch this movie. Even just watching people react to it makes me cry. This really is the best comic book movie in my eyes. It's wonderfully directed, powerfully written, incredibly acted. There was also a time where people really wanted James Mangold to direct a movies based on The Last of Us video games, also about a grizzled man trekking the country with a young girl, because of how well he told this story, but he said that he wouldn't do it because he basically already did. "So this is what it feels like" doesn't just mean him dying, but it was him doing what Charles told him to do in the house, stop and take a moment and let that love, that family in. Logan let that love for Laura in for that final moment in his life. And now I'm crying again!
Ed Scoglio
2024-05-21 09:43:11 +0000 UTCI’ma tell you a secret: I recently had Vince and Shoshana (The Perfect Mix) react to this movie. They’re working their way up the X-Men films, but I didn’t tell them that Shane is referenced in this film. I can’t wait to see when they realize that.
Aldo Gonzales
2024-05-21 07:16:12 +0000 UTCI think it was Montana in the original draft when Dafne was auditioning.
Aldo Gonzales
2024-05-21 07:14:29 +0000 UTCThe same director that did The Wolverine did this movie, James Mangold. He wanted to have Logan die in that movie but the studio wouldn't let him. The prophecy of his death originally only meant what happened in The Wolverine, but Mangold tied it into this movie very nicely. This was the perfect sendoff for Logan, we simultaneously saw him at his weakest and his most ferocious. "Don't be what they made you." Such a powerful moment.
Cameron
2024-05-21 06:38:41 +0000 UTCA few very minor corrections: They all made it to Eden before the end of the film. Eden was just that camp near the end of the movie. It basically functioned as the final waystation on this version of a mutant underground railroad. The implied reason why the kids would be safe once they crossed the border was just that Canada didn't allow Transigen to operate in their territory. The scientist in this movie(Zander Rice) was not Stryker's son. Rice's father was simply one of the nameless other scientists working under Stryker that Logan killed during his escape in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and/or X-Men: Apocalypse (these timelines are so confusing - lol). And just a note to everyone... As someone who has lived in North Dakota for several decades, I can say with absolute certainty that there is no place in this state that looks remotely like the location in the film. :D :D :D The single "mountain" in our state is really just a bump on the landscape(it's technically a plateau). And that region is also home to our single forest, which again looks nothing like the movie. And it's also about 100mi from the coordinates given in the film(the real location of the coordinates is a flat agricultural field surrounded by a hundred miles of other agricultural fields and near a "lake" that's really just a wide, very slow moving river). I have no idea why they just didn't call the destination Montana and give a different set of coordinates. That would have been at least somewhat accurate. lol
Michael Kemmet
2024-05-21 06:01:21 +0000 UTCJax, you got it! The "lightbulb moment" I commented on the "The Wolverine" post WAS the die with your heart in your hand quote by Yukio. Logan did die with his daughter's hand in his.
Andy
2024-05-21 03:13:08 +0000 UTCTries not to cry.* Cries a lot* I like how you remember the line from the 2nd move "you'll die laying on your back holding your heart in your hand." This film was tough for me to watch the first time around. I also love how Charles is like a father to logan but logan is way older than him.
Alvin Baca
2024-05-21 02:50:40 +0000 UTCOh, and an octogenarian is a person in their 80s. A nonagenarian is a person in their 90s.
Alex Ch
2024-05-21 02:24:45 +0000 UTCThe elegiac Western watched in this film is Shane (1953). One of the most acclaimed in the genre.
Alex Ch
2024-05-21 02:16:09 +0000 UTCYup, this is the End of the Fox X-men universe for me. After this the franchise was is development chaos for a bit as Disney got in line to purchase Fox's media assets. I don't think I watched Dark Phoenix until it was for another react channel, and I've still never seen New Mutants all the way through.
Steve J
2024-05-21 01:18:40 +0000 UTCgreat reaction! can't wait for Deadpool 2 and Dark Phoenix
Mister Lou
2024-05-21 00:58:34 +0000 UTCThis is a good ending. Watching the next one would ruin that. Dark Phoenix is horrible and replays so much of The Last Stand film. Somehow worse as well.
SquaredSpekz
2024-05-21 00:58:24 +0000 UTCI bought this on Blu-ray, when it came out. came with a black and white version of the movie. the whole thing was black in white. I really enjoy it. almost prefer it, that would've been a BOLD move, if they decided to release it in black in white..
Mister Lou
2024-05-21 00:57:16 +0000 UTCalso yep westchester was the school that they were at in the other films. and yep died with his heart in his hand
Liam Harrold
2024-05-21 00:17:36 +0000 UTCOh, Dearest Jax, don’t think for a minute I didn’t notice you channeling your inner ‘Vizzini!’
Lamar Smith
2024-05-21 00:09:41 +0000 UTCI’m NOT trying to be difficult, truly, but why can’t we? The logo has been out for quite some time. I completely respect you but am confused. The extended trailer is on Disney+, the exact platform Jax saw this on. I’ve even suggested she do a short on the extended trailer. Please know, I hold you in the highest possible regards.
Lamar Smith
2024-05-21 00:08:58 +0000 UTCDearest Jax, comfort eat some shawarma? You haven’t yet made it to ‘Deadpool 2,’ but how does this film prepare you for ‘Deadpool & Wolverine?’
Lamar Smith
2024-05-21 00:04:11 +0000 UTCCOMIC BOOKS: The comic books featured in this film were all custom made for the movie. Hugh Jackman himself called comic book artist Joe Quesada with the offer of drawing a few comic book covers and pages for the film Logan. Dan Panosian a comic book penciller and an inker was also working on the film as well who just happened to be Joe's first inker while he was at DC drawing his first comics. So Dan ended up inking Joe's pages giving birth to the comics we see in this film. Panosian stated that these comics were designed to look like comics of the 1980s his personal favourite X-Men decade. The comics we see in the film Logan were created by the X-Men Comics Group. We don't know who came up with the idea of making X-Men comics but I could see someone like Cyclops or even Colossus wanting to promote the X-Men while also having a product that Mutant kid to teenagers could read as entertainment and relate too while also showcasing normal humans that the X-Men are here to do good. in the comics Marvel Comics actually exists as a comic book company who made comics around real hero's within it's universe. I also love that these comics showcase more comic accurate designs to what we see in the X-Men films, showcasing a range of outfits that are pulled from the comics or feature original designs that are inspired by suits from the comics while also pulling from the Fox X-Men universe as well. It's pretty much how the X-Men should've looked like in live action and who knows maybe they actually wore these outfits during the 2000s to 2010s in this timeline. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BASED ON OLD MAN LOGAN: This film is loosely inspired by Old Man Logan a story that took place in an alternate timeline where the villains basically won, defeating all the hero's and dividing up the United States between villains. it was revealed in a flashback that Mysterio (Spider-Man villain) casted an illusion on Wolverine turning all the X-Men into Marvel villains so from Logan's point of view it seemed that the school was under attack by a bunch of Marvel villains. Logan didn't hold back and cut them all down only for it to be revealed that they were the X-Men with young Jubilee dying in his arms. After this the world fell to the villians and the story jumps ahead a good few decades to when Logan was an old Man living in Nevada with his family. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAURA (X-23) Laura is actually not from the comics but the X-Men: Evolution Animated Series from the early 2000s. She made her first appearance in "X23" (August 2, 2003) created by Hydra to surpass Wolverine. Thanks to growing up in a group like Hydra she was cold-hearted, calculating, and showed zero sympathy towards people. She went on missions against S.H.I.E.L.D and overtime she ran into the X-Men and met Logan. X-23 then took it upon herself to go after HYDRA for revenge on the people who experimented on her. Some other events happen involving the X-Men and Hydra and then was assumed dead allowing her to finally live her own life. X-23 was then added to the comics the same year with a differant origin story not involving Hydra. Dr. Sutter, Zander who we see in this film worked with Dr. Sarah Kinney in attempting to clone Logan giving birth to X-23. She was still the Clone/Daughter of Wolverine who was trained to be the Ultimate Assassin. So this film pulled more from the comics than the Evolution. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIMELINE: It was actually debated for a while if Logan was set within it's own timeline, a possible future for the X-Men and Logan himself or if the film took place after Days of Future Past's good ending. This was thanks to the film being inspired by Old Man Logan so people were unsure if this was the same Wolverine from the happy ending of Days of Future Past. But the director later revealed that it was indeed a follow up to the events of Days of Future Past apart of this new timeline of films. The film does make reference to movies within the original timeline as well: X-Men (2000) is referenced by Charles mentioning the Statue of Liberty event from the first film surrounding Rogue and Magneto that you caught. I imagine this event would've happened in a similar within this timeline to what we saw in the movie. The Wolverine (2013) is referenced thanks to Yashida's sword hanging in Logan's room. Logan went to Japan in this timeline as well who knows when thanks to X3 never happening and Jean being alive. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Is referenced in a deleted scene where Logan talks to one of the kids about Sabretooth who just happens to have a Sabretooth toy design pulled right out of the comics. I'm positive Logan mentions that their brothers. Origins was effected the most by the timeline change but Sabretooth and Logan seem to have the same history. And finally X-Men: The Last Stand is also referenced in a deleted dinner scene where after eating the wife asks Logan if he's married. Charles replies "He was, she passed" and goes on to say that she was a student at the school and reveals her name to be Jean Grey. Charles then ends the chat with "He Killed Her". But for one Logan never married Jean Grey as far as we know. And two Logan never killed Jean in this timeline thanks to her showing up at the end of Days of Future Past so I think Charles was just confused and recalling events from the original timeline that saw Jean killed by Logan during The Last Stand. Both timelines overlapping in the mind of Charles. Him thinking Jean was his wife could be Charles confusing Jean with Logan's first wife from Wolverine origins.
LittleGalaxyBoy
2024-05-20 22:25:26 +0000 UTCLets f**kin go!! Can't wait to get off work and get into this.
Alvin Baca
2024-05-20 22:12:54 +0000 UTCTwo years before we cried for Tony in Avengers: Endgame, we cried for Logan. Other reactors who have gotten into the X-Men movies over the last 3-4 years have felt the same way. Laila Naema, Sebscreen, Natalie Gold, Mary Cherry, VKunia, Addie Counts, Alex Hefner, and The Octobers didn’t have a dry eye by the end of the film. Ashleigh Burton should be reacting to this hopefully soon. After that, she only needs to watch Deadpool 2. Vince and Shoshana (The Perfect Mix) are almost here as well. In Days of Future Past, the X-Men were able to avert total disaster in their original timeline and prevent the sentinels from being created. As a result, when Logan said the events of the Statue of Liberty happened a long time ago he really meant long. He’s the only one who still remembers the old timeline. However, in this new timeline, mutants are still going extinct. This time it’s not because of the Sentinels. Rather, it’s Canewood corn syrup. There have been hints shown throughout the entire movie, but it wasn’t confirmed until Zander Rice brought it up. Any food that contained Canewood corn syrup such as the drinks and cereals he mentioned would reverse the mutagen because Alkali-Transigen would embed the counteragent into the genetically modified corn. To add to that, Charles started losing control of his powers in 2028. In the process, he accidentally killed some of the X-Men. As for Logan, it’s worth remembering that he didn’t always have metal claws. The reason why he’s physically struggling is because the adamantium had been poisoning his body. His healing factor fought the effects for so long, but the metal eventually started breaking down and poisoning his blood. As a result, not only has it affected his ability to heal but it’s also made him begin to age. By the way, the name he used for the limo driver ID is his real name James Howlett. I doubt almost anyone in 2029 would be wondering about his identity and age. I also can’t forget about Laura and her friends. The nurses were all they had as family. Rice ordered to have their biological mothers killed so that no one would talk. At least the nurses had heart and were determined to save them. They didn’t see them as experiments but rather as children and living beings with full lives ahead of them. Some behind the scenes trivia: 1.) Hugh Jackman accepted a pay reduction in order to give this film an R-rating since he didn't wanna hold back on the violence this time around. 2.) Hugh would have two stunt doubles – one for Old Man Logan and one for his clone X-24. When Hugh would portray one of the two, the corresponding stunt double to the other character would step in. 3.) We’re in 2024, but this movie was made about eight whole years ago. The car they used for the 2024 Chrysler E8 was actually a custom-made Chrysler 300. 4,) The water tower they used in the Juarez set wasn’t some random tower they found. They designed and built it from the ground up. The interior of the tower was even made to be modeled after Cerebro. 5.) The comics used in this movie were drawn by Joe Quesada and Dan Panosian. Director James Mangold was allowed to embed comics into the movie as long as they weren’t actual issues that Marvel published. (Also, it’s kinda funny that we see a comic book in a comic book movie.) 6.) The film that Laura and Charles were watching in the hotel is a 1953 western called Shane. Some of the themes that were explored in that film were incorporated into this one. 7.) Caliban’s power was that he could locate mutants. After he sacrificed himself, the drones that Rice used to locate the kids had some of Caliban’s tissue embedded in them. 8.) And finally, Dafne Keen was about 10 years old when she auditioned. She pitched in the idea to have Laura speak Spanish, and they gave her the green light. In real life, her father is British and her mother is Spanish. As someone who grew up in a Spanish speaking household, I felt that was a nice touch to her character.
Aldo Gonzales
2024-05-20 22:07:18 +0000 UTCWell I know how I'm spending tonight
The Dingo
2024-05-20 22:06:05 +0000 UTCBeen waiting for this and sorry for how it destroyed you jax 😅😥😥😥💕
Liam Harrold
2024-05-20 21:47:31 +0000 UTCYes! Easily in the top 5 best comic book movies of all time
Andy
2024-05-20 21:46:59 +0000 UTC
