14 Things to Depress Yourself With After WatchingLogan

Logan breaks new undercoat for comic - book moving-picture show , but it has plenty of company in the domain of film and other media — work that share its unforgiving and weary worldview , as well its themes of maturate ungraciously , improper families , and anti - heroism . Want to keep the Logan bummer alert ? Check out this list .

Just in case you have n’t seen Logan yet …

1) Children of Men

The parallels here are obvious . Alfonso Cuarón ’s dystopian taradiddle pack place in 2027 , two years prior to Logan . Both films imagine a meter in which babies are no longer born . In Logan ’s instance , of row , it ’s specifically mutant babies , but the threat of quenching still feel the same . The grizzled protagonists also divvy up some fundamental trait ; Clive Owen ’s glow - out bureaucrat has a haunted aspect that Logan would recognize . Both men take on the role of protector for the untried cleaning woman who are pierce into their forethought — but only for hard currency , at first . Ultimately , they both end up dying for the cause .

2) Shane

Another obvious choice , because it ’s the film that Laura and Charles watch in their casino hotel elbow room , and the source of the eulogy that Laura tearfully delivers over Logan ’s tomb . The choice of a classic 1950s Western — in which Alan Ladd ’s gun for hire comes to the aid of a frontier town besiege by a cattle baron ’s brute squad — is evidently meant to underline Logan ’s own Wild West lean . There ’s also the not - insignificant patch item of Shane befriend a small boy in the town , who learns the same moral that Laura carry to mettle for slimly more personal reasons : “ There ’s no living with a killing . There ’s no fit back from one . Right or incorrect , it ’s a brand . A brand stick . ”

3) The Road

Cormac McCarthy ’s Pulitzer Prize - winning novel The Road has the border over John Hillcoat ’s film version , but both works hold plot points that Logan fans will discern : a desperate Church Father and his kid travel a round - up next land where dangerous masses hellbent on tearing them apart lurk around every corner . Also , McCarthy has say thathe was inspiredto write The Road after a visit with his young son to El Paso , Texas — the very place where we regain the quondam Wolverine slumming as a chauffeur at the start of Logan .

4) No Country for Old Men

Another McCarthy novel that became a film , No Country for Old Men is less overtly like Logan . But it has that same Western noir vibration and is largely fix in the kind of place where , say , a trio of mutants could take over an abandoned piece of property with an overturned pee column and hardly anyone would mark . Also , it has a key scene set in El Paso , Texas .

5) and 6) High Plains Drifter and Unforgiven

You ca n’t talk about Westerns that feature orphic , angry man without bring up Clint Eastwood , who stars in and directed both of these films . Both works deal heavily in revenge , beatings , and gunplay ; in 1973 ’s High Plains Drifter , Eastwood ’s never - make character is intemperately suggested to be a man whose need for retribution has brought him back from the dead . Unforgiven , made well-nigh 20 years subsequently , is about a former Wild West criminal who is lured out of retirement by a lucrative bounty - hunting gig , though his restoration to his old mode proves a weighty incumbrance . Drifter is spooky while Unforgiven is just very gloomy , but both echo Logan ’s investigation of a man who is irrevocably tether to his trigger-happy past .

7) and 8) True Grit (1969) and True Grit (2010)

The gruff sure-enough dude / spunky young dame dynamic in the True Grit film mirrors the family relationship between Logan and Laura in sure vista . U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn ( John Wayne , and Jeff Bridges in the remake ) is only after the monetary reward when he agrees to help oneself teenager Mattie ( Kim Darby , Hailee Steinfeld in the remaking ) to ascertain the man who off her father . But the line of work eventually turns personal , in large part because Cogburn begins to honour the tough girl who insist on riding along , and show herself to be amazingly capable of holding her own .

9) The Wrestler

Darren Aronofsky ’s heartbreaking tale of a wash - up pro wrestler determined to make one last counter , no matter the price , is a film that Logan star Hugh Jackman and theater director James Mangolddiscussed in early talksabout what tone their film would take . And the comparisons are there : Mickey Rourke ’s title character has an age strongman ’s body that ’s go after decades of pain and self - medication ; he ’s also got a boatload of pent - up mental anguish over his damaged human relationship with his daughter . At least Logan founder you a smidgen of salvation at the end — The Wrestler offers no such katharsis .

10) Léon: The Professional

The ultimate “ short girl who ’s also a lethal assassin ” movie , Luc Besson ’s 1994 action thriller also has a Logan - esque character in Jean Reno ’s solitary hitman , who reluctantly agrees to help his neighbour ( Natalie Portman in her film debut ) after a stooping DEA broker ( Gary Oldman ) slaughters her sept . When she made Léon , Portman was only slightly elder than Dafne Keen , who make a likewise auspicious mental picture ( and collects a higher organic structure numeration ) in her own first feature .

11) Lone Wolf and Cub

The Hellenic , epic manga about a blade - swing father - and - son ( really , Father-God - and - baby ) assassinator team roll for hire ( and revenge ) in Japan ’s Edo stop exhort several flick and a TV serial . Logan ’s awful tandem bicycle natural process vista call to mind the delightfully gory fights in Lone Wolf and Cub , in which many an interloper pick up the fatal mistake of contract to close to the babe handcart .

12) The Walking Dead: Season One

Not the TV serial — the synergistic survival title from Telltale Games , which is also based on Robert Kirkman ’s The Walking Dead amusing series , but follows different characters and dangerous undertaking . Protagonist Lee Everett , a college professor who also happens to be a convicted sea wolf , devise a bond with an eight - year - old girl call Clementine as they schnorr their room through the zombie Revelation . At the rootage Clementine is naive and needs lots of protection , not unlike Laura , who has spend her entire life inside a research laboratory and does n’t cognise how to interact with the outside human race . But like Logan , Lee ( whose choices are run by you , the player ) becomes a maternal figure — and , perhaps more importantly , someone who give her the guidance she ’ll necessitate to outlive in the world once he ’s no longer around to facilitate her .

13) “Death of Wolverine”

Sure , Old Man Logan was the comedian rubric most - often reference in the run - up to Logan ’s release . And Hugh Jackman ’s Logan is in spades a much sr. version of himself than we ’re used to seeing . But the “ Death of Wolverine ” storyline has maybe even more plangency with the film , as it detail the fibre ’s waning health as he loses his power to immediately cure himself . As we see in Logan , the passing of that power is both physically and mentally draining , and it at long last leads to his death onscreen , too .

14) Johnny Cash’s “Hurt” video

So much of Logan ’s sober , largely monochromous marketing reference Johnny Cash , specifically his previous - in - spirit American Recordings releases . “ Hurt , ” an exceptionally plaintive and lyrically appropriate Nine Inch Nails cover , appeared in one of the preview . For the full experience , pop on Cash ’s very last record album in the series , released a yr before he died — American IV : The Man come Around , whose title song appears under Logan ’s terminal credits — and just let the whole affair wash over you .

Thanks to the io9 faculty for their contribution to this list .

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