The Oscar push for Logan might have started early but it needs to drive forward until the very end. This movie deserves the nod more or less because it’s not just another superhero movie, it’s the end of a superhero that a lot of people have come to love throughout the years. You might be thinking that superheroes have died in movies with a lot less fanfare in the past. After all, Superman died recently and there was hardly a peep because people knew it was coming. Plus, there’s also the knowledge that because he’s SUPERMAN that he’ll be coming back.
But Logan, especially as Wolverine, is someone that a lot of fans thought would be sticking around for some time to come. The plot point of him being poisoned by the same metal he’s relied on so heavily for so long was something that a lot of fans weren’t read to face simply because for so many years Wolverine seemed indestructible, even when he’d been torn apart, blown apart, or even reduced down to a few drops of blood that allowed him to regenerate.
He was more or less the guy that you just couldn’t kill for the longest time. I mean this was a guy that couldn’t even get a tattoo because it would just heal over and be gone within a day or so, since tattoos are in a way just another scar with bright coloring. Fans expected him to have a lot more lasting power, and they had no inclination that his own bones would be killing him from the inside at one point or another. That’s the problem with made up elements, sooner or later there has to be a downside that will balance them out.
But then we get another glimmer of hope that there will be someone to carry on his legacy in Laura, X-23. She’s the same as Logan since she is his clone after all, but she’s unlearned as of yet in the ways of the world. What little teaching he does manage to give her might enough to allow her to become a decent person, but Logan’s loss is still a big blow to every fan that’s ever read his comics or watched the movies. He’s been the guy you thought would be around long when everyone else was dust in the wind. He was actually, but more or less because he was the only one left standing.
This Oscar push needs to happen in a big way and ignore the fact that the movie was released earlier in the year. It’s significance is too great to just let it be blown away by those films that have the advantage of being released later on and kept fresh in the public eye until the Oscars are finally decided. I could say something about it not being a fair shake for those movies that came out earlier, but that would sound too much like whining. Instead, those that came out earlier in the year should be given the nod or ignored based on their importance to the audience, and not by the fact that they were actually punctual in their timing.
It’s time to once again vote for the BEST films, not just the ones that the aging judges tend to remember.
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