Logan: 7.9/10
Definitely one of the better Xmen movies, going with the newfound (and in my personal opinion, welcomed) trend to make R rated flicks, Logan becomes a lot more of an emotional tale with more grit and darker themes like suicide, mental illness and loss. While the movie is great, I couldn't stop seeing parallels to The Road and the Last of Us, I suppose the genre is of post-apocalyptic travel from one end to the other is a relatively new genre that's taken theaters but quite quickly its becoming cliche. Both the Road, Last of Us and Logan follow very similar plot points, a grown man travelling with a child learning harsh lessons on the way, heading to some place that may or may not be real, getting into morally grey situations where one has to do something unethical to survive, and so forth. The main difference between these movies is the setting, with Logan occurring in an "xmen" apocalypse but the other humans seem all fine, Last of us occurs in a classic zombie apocalypse and The road intentionally doesn't specify what apocalypse it's in. Altogether the movie is great, one of the finest xmen movie, but in a way it boils down to basically the last of us or the road, which is fine, cause they're both good.
Ghost in the Shell 7.3/10
Anime movies are historically terrible, like the Drangonball live action movie or attack on titan one, these will never really live up to expectations, yet somehow GITS manages to just get in there with actually a pretty decent portrayal of the anime universe. All the changes made in the movie from the anime seem understandable given the change of medium, and yes the movies themes were dumbed down a bit, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, I know I was initially turned off gits because I didn't understand the sophisticated and intricate philosophy (I was 13 though). The movie is good, the characters are interesting, the visuals are phenomenal and the shot-by-shot anime-to-movie scenes are a thrill for those who have watched the anime. The movie also takes elements from the other adaptions of GITS, like Stand Alone Complex and 2nd gig, which is a welcome addition! Despite all these positives, it still falls into the same sorta problems that any hollywood anime adaption is going to run into. It's dumbed down, more emotional, and more standard. So while most of the stuff I've been saying are quite positive, it's more that "compared to other anime adaptions, this one is really good!", but that's not quite a high bar to set.