Is The Old Man Logan's Effective The Trailer?

It’s been a good week for superhero movie fans. First, the “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” teaser trailer finally dropped and it was brilliant. Then, only a day later, Twentieth Century Fox released its first teaser for 2017’s “Logan.” This glimpse of the film, which is based heavily on the “Old Man Logan” comics, shows an older Logan/Wolverine living in a world without mutants. According to the plot description on IMDb, Logan and Charles Xavier must cope with a world devoid of mutants and their own deteriorating bodies (Logan can no longer heal as fast as he once did and Xavier has Alzheimer’s). The film sees Logan work with Laura Kinney, a female clone of Wolverine, to defeat Nathaniel Essex, the man responsible for destroying Logan’s world.

It succeeded in getting me excited for “Logan,” despite the fact that it’s directed by James Mangold, who made the underwhelming The Wolverine in 2013. The problem is how effective the trailer was.

In the storyline this movie will be based on, Logan lives in a post-apocalyptic world that is missing many of the key elements that make the X-Men universe what it is. He’s also grappling with his own mortality, as he can’t heal nearly as fast as he used to. It’s the end of the line for everyone’s favorite tri-clawed hero.

That’s some heavy stuff that carries a lot of emotional connotations, and based on this trailer it seems like “Logan” will tap into it masterfully.

But I don’t know that I want it to. For me, like many other superhero fans, it’s uncomfortable, saddening and downright disconcerting to see your favorite characters beaten down and vulnerable on the big screen. Every time I watch the first fight between Bane and Batman in “The Dark Knight Rises,” for example, I squirm in my seat and feel the urge to look