10 Movie Sequels That Avoided Obvious Mistakes
1. Going PG-13 - Logan
Even though James Mangold's Logan - a quasi-sequel to both The Wolverine and X-Men: Days of Future Past - was shot with an R-rating in mind, fans were understandably skeptical that this rating would stick, considering how much of a ceiling it would place on the movie's box office prospects.
But to their credit, Fox indeed allowed Mangold to deliver an R-rated finale to Hugh Jackman's linear tenure as Logan - excluding his upcoming role in Deadpool 3, which is set before the events of Logan.
Rather than be yet another neutered PG-13 movie about a man with metal claws stabbing people to death - one of the chief complaints about 2013's The Wolverine in particular - Logan put its R-rating to damn good use with ultra-violent action and liberal use of appropriately colourful language.
The result was both the best Wolverine movie and Jackman's greatest performance in the role to date, while it also went on to become one of the X-Men series' most commercially successful films.
Basically, everything worked out for the best because Fox didn't cynically try to make a post-apocalyptic Wolverine movie appealing to children.