Logan 2017

I don't get off on trashing movies often. I wish they were all good. But I love that I can trash this piece of shit.

I enjoyed the 1st third of this film. It was automatically the best shot and acted Marvel film. Generic and derivative, but I kinda dig the idea of Wolverine doing Skyfall. There are so many macho, dumb, faux-gritty, angry-white-man-in-the-future movies in the wake of Mad Max Fury Road, what damage could one more do? But then the charm of Logan wore off.

The script is such cliche-filled, overly-sentimental, racist nothingness. We've seen this movie played out 30,000 ways. I can imagine the pitch:  

"Its a modern noir/Western/jiu jitsu road movie about fatherhood and sacrifice and old school American values in a degrading post-Obama world. But the next generation will be like Wolverine! Girls can be tough too, if they act like men. And there will blood, tears and lots of sweat. Some blacks will sacrifice themselves for their superiors. And the bad guys will be real Nazi militant types to show WE aren't Nazis!" 

Between all of the corny tearjerker lines and white trash humor there are some amusing bits of senseless gore and practical action setpieces. This movie (minus the Emo Cowboy meathead shit) is almost indistinguishable from Deadpool. Replace the romantic subplot with the daughter subplot and boom! Fox specializes in these conservative fratboy lovefests that stroke white male egomania.

Look, I am not anti-white or anti-male. I fucking love film, the most white male centered artform there is. But fuck! The genre is dead creatively because its saturated in ridiculous, moronic, repetitive, juvenile white manbaby power fantasies and deathdreams. Thats why I didn't even bother to review the equally boring and stale Dunkirk.

Everything remotely watchable about this film can be found in The Toxic Avenger. Troma did the whole "gory, working class superhero" thing long ago and made it way more fun and way less pretentious. So sorry if I'm not impressed with your regressive propaganda. John Wayne is dead. Its 2017. Grow the fuck up.