I haven’t seen Logan, but please don’t let the movie producers walk away with the idea that we need “darker” movies. More adult or mature themes, maybe, but too often “darker” to them is just adding black frosting to a cake made with the wrong ingredients. DC has gone waaay too dark with its movie verse. I mean we had the 80s full of grim dark and it got old fast (though it gave us great parodies like TMNT)
Comics run the gamut of lighthearted fun and action, to gratuitous violence and sex, to mature drama, to surreal, to deep and meaningful. Just like movies. Comicbook based movies shouldn’t be one thing or another. They can really be anything with the right story. Even characters that are normally more “kiddie” can have a mature story line, and vice versa. They need to stop thinking comic movies have to be a certain formula to work. Some times some formulas do work better for certain characters, but IMHO the sky is the limit. While I enjoy the Marvel movies, they are a bit too similar in tone. It would be nice to mix things up (guess I need to see Logan, right?) And yes, one can make a mature themed movie based on comics, and if its good, people will see it.
A common thread among my friends is that Logan wasn’t really a comic book movie. It was treated more like a standard film, where it just happened there were some mutants in it.
