(NO
SPOILERS HERE. I'll probably put up a review at the end of the week
but this is just a short, general terms discussion of things that are
absolutely clear from the trailers and advertising).
Logan
is a good film. Actually, its a bloody excellent film but the problem
is that what makes it work is basically impossible to copy. Its not
the 18 rating (in the US, over here it passed as a 15), though it
certainly helps that Wolverine can finally use his claws on people as
well as props.
No,
what makes this film work is that Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart
have been playing these characters for nearly twenty years. Watching
these two living in a Mexican shack as broken old men has an
emotional resonance that just telling Ben Affleck not to shave and
trying to pass him off as an older Batman couldn't hope to.
This
is actually a pretty big problem for DC: they keep trying to
deconstruct things they never properly constructed in the first
place. They tried to do the big blow out fight between Batman and
Superman with a Batman we've never met before and a Superman we
barely know; they've commissioned a Nightwing movie without doing any
work on the idea of what Robin is so we can't appreciate what it is
in this world for Dick to have moved on from the role; we were
expected to care about Wonder Woman over a year before we got her
origin story.
Not
that I think DC are the only ones scheming away trying to work out
how to make their own Logan.
You can bet your arse that some misguided soul at Sony is trying to
wrestle Spider-Man: Reign
into a pitch document, an idea that might just have worked if Tobey
Maguire was still in the role but there's not enough make-up on Earth
to turn Tom Holland into Old Man Peter Parker so we'd end up with yet
another live action Spider-Man.
So
let's... not, okay? Let's allow a unique film based on unique
circumstances no one could have planned to remain the singular little
gem it is and move on to good ideas.
Please?
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