Logan (the movie)

Will I enjoy this movie if I don't know anything about the character or X-men or superheroes in general? Would some backstory be helpful? Or can the movie stand on its own?

I thought it was a very good movie and I didn't know much if anything about Xmen and never saw the other movies. It's extremely violent though so if you aren't into that, it's not for you.

yeah, I'm not a X-men fan but I knew the basic background of the two main characters. I thought it was a good movie. It is extremely bloody though (I guess to be expected when your hero's main weapons are knives that come out of his hands) No guts really - just a lot of blood and very graphic slashings, stabbings and gougings . Some heads roll, literally.

kthnry said:

Will I enjoy this movie if I don't know anything about the character or X-men or superheroes in general? Would some backstory be helpful? Or can the movie stand on its own?

Probably not.

Without the backstory you won't know why anyone is doing what they are doing, and why it's important or interesting.

Out of the 2 hours of the movie I can't think of a single scene that doesn't take some backstory to make it make sense. I'm a big X-men fan, and I had some WTF is going on moments, because I haven't watched the last two X-men movies.

I'm going to change my "Probably not" to "Nope". The emotional highs and lows of the movie will just be a flatline of "Why are the doing that" and "Why should I care about this person/event?"

I did not see Xmen or wolverine nor did I have more than a very basic understanding of who wolverine was and I liked the movie and didn't feel lost really

The story stands on it's own. It's a somewhat different story, of course, than what the X-Men fan will see, but it's there nonetheless.