Batson's Blog

I realized that I wrote this back in March, but never published it.  So, two reviews in two days: Well, Wolverine finally got a great stand-alone movie! I was worried, after seeing the first trailer for Logan , that the movie would be a slower pace than some of the other X-Men movies.  With the 'R' rating, it seemed to possibly bring a darker theme and slower pace than the last couple of X-Men movies, which featured comedic, slow motion Quicksilver montages. While Logan was darker and did have a slower pace, I think it was, by far, the best story to come out of the X-Men franchise. I t had the storytelling that you'd find from one of the first Marvel movies -- where everyone had a role and every scene had a purpose. There were some new characters (a couple of them being mutants) in this movie.  None of them were ones I'd recognized from the animated X-Men series from the '90s or from comics I'd read.  One of them was Caliban, played by the ent...