(Spoiler alert: While every little surprising nugget won’t be covered here, there will be allusions to plot and characters from the film Logan. If you haven’t seen it and want to go in blind, bookmark this post for later. Otherwise, game on…)
It started with Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. Then, there was the dark atmosphere of Zac Snyder’s Watchmen. The flames have since been fanned by Netflix’s gritty Marvel properties Daredevil, AKA Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage.
Last year, Hollywood finally broke a long-standing taboo with the R-rated Deadpool, a film that forever altered the standard for comic book films, not through ground-breaking CGI or plot intricacy, but through its narrow targeting of an audience that skewed deliberately adult.