Logan

Hugh Jackman's swansong as Wolverine is nothing like any superhero comic book movie ever. It's a brutal, gory, painful look at the life of an ageing hero, a man whose life consists of numbing his pain with booze whilst caring for a frail, elderly, dementia suffering Charles Xavier. You feel every inch of their suffering and vulnerability in a world where mutants are no longer born and where Charles is so unpredictable they've declared his brain a weapon of mass destruction..... And so we meet Laura - a young mutant very much like Logan, a young mutant who brings Charles joy and gives Logan a reason to not walk away from this fight. Fox Studios could have made a standard CGI-filled world-ending standard superhero movie. The fact they chose to make something so personal, so character-driven and so emotionally-weighted with real world stakes was such a massive risk. It paid off. Critically, commercially and, most importantly, for characters we've known and loved since 2000. We need to see more studios make more movies like this. I would love to hear your thoughts on Logan! You can get in touch on Twitter @verbaldiorama Instagram @verbaldiorama Facebook @verbaldiorama YouTube @verbaldiorama Letterboxd @verbaldiorama or you can email me general hellos, feedback or suggestions: verbaldiorama [at] gmail [dot] com You can rate or review the show in iTunes or at Apple Podcasts and I'd very much appreciate that! My website is at https://verbaldiorama.com (I always forget to say it in the episode!) Thanks to the following for their contributions to this episode: Twitter peeps Andy from @geeksaladradio @capunderstands @trivia_chic @derekjones198 @MoviesWork @robinhoodpod @cinema_recall @kevin_thecritic @GenuineChitChat @SSOUITSpodcast @gtthpod Instagram folk @thosemovieguyspodcast @moviesatthematt Theme Music: Verbal Diorama Theme Song Music by Chloe Enticott - Compositions by Chloe Facebook Lyrics by Chloe Enticott (and me!) Production by Ellis Powell-Bevan of Ewenique Studios. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podscribe - https://podscribe.com/privacy OP3 - https://op3.dev/privacy