The Logan trailer has become somewhat of a joke to me, not because it is the most played trailer in Odeon cinemas but the trailer as a whole does give me a bad feeling for 20th Century Fox and the Comic Book genre as a whole.
Lets start off with talking about the last couple of X-Men films, from First Class up to Apocalypse.
X-Men First Class is a fine film with a few problems but overall it does not offend me as some other blockbusters would, it had a decent cast and it's plot was decent, with the only real problems being the special effects and the 60's aesthetic felt like a parody more than a period piece but overall a good place to rebuild a crippled franchise.
The Wolverine again is an average film with a very strong first half but the last act does let this film down in a major way. Special effects again are a big problem in this film and other than the Japanese backdrop the film just lacks character.
X-Men Days of Future Past is where we start to see the hopeful return slightly take a turn for the worse. Bryan Singer was back to attempt to cement this return of the X-Men franchise that he pretty much built. Days of Future Past has major problems, again its not a terrible film, i would actually say its better than First Class but only because the special effects were far more refined in this one. But something was off, and its hard to describe what it is, this film should have been the best X-Men film but the fact that it just didn't quite hit the mark was a telling sign. Also i would like to add that i personally hated the Quicksilver scene, i can't understand why people were impressed with something that was done 15 years prior. Again overall a pretty ok film.
Apocalypse, ironic due to it feeling like the end of a franchise, its clear that 20th Century Fox wanted a Marvel movie and attempted to build a cinematic universe with this one and attempt to up the scale, to the films detriment. Apocalypse was the worst film of 2016, and thats saying something because 2016 was the worst year for film in the 2010's. Singer and Fox dropped the ball on this one, from frame one it was bad, the special effects were on par with mid 2000's Fantastic Four films and the film suffered from a lack of tone and vision. The 80's backdrop was also distracting, it took away from the film itself and tried to use the era as a form of comedic relief. So all of the problems that had plagued these last few X-Men films were amplified in the complete mess of a film. Overall it is one of the worst big budget films i have ever seen.
This now brings us onto Logan, in a way the film looks rather lacklustre, the film looks to be an independent film with a recognisable cast of characters and really off putting modern action. My problem with it, is that rather than attempting to make a good superhero film and give Hugh Jackman one last performance as Wolverine they seem to have tried to scale the entire project back to something that resembles Hell or High Water, which is a terrible film, and then interspersed with awful looking action scenes. Leave the small scale character stuff to the people that can do it, if they are doing a variation on the Old Man Logan storyline, why couldn't they make it look grande and exciting. All we have got is a film that looks like 120 mins of pointless and dull action scenes coupled with poor character moments in a film that just looks cheap.
With that all said, we can have it all, their empire of DIRT.
Someone at Fox needs to take control of this and start making blockbusters of a high calibre again, they only have a couple of years left of this, they need to strike fast before its too late and they have a Cutthroat Island situation.
Written By
Ashley Harvey
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