Watched Super

[CaptainWacky]

Super (2010) - IMDb

It was pretty good. I can say people not liking it becaue the tone is kind of all over the place at times. It's about a man's life and mental health falling apart really, but it's presented as a comedy. But even though it's realistic some of it doesn't make total sense (the ending.) Some of it is very funny. Rainn Wilson was good and Ellen Page was ridiculously awesome and every scene with her in it was automatically great. And she was hot (at times in a disturbing way.) Nathan Fillion was funny in a cameo. I'D RECOMMEND IT BUT PROBABLY EVER SO SLIGHTLY LESS THAN HESHER BUT A LOT MORE THAN PAUL.

 

[The Tomtrek]

Interesting film.

I mean as Wacky said it's a film that's presented mostly as a comedy but it's actually about the declining mental health of a depressed man, and how he takes other people (Ellen Page's character) down with him.

Let's do some spoilers:

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Ellen Page's character obviously has her own issues, which you can see both in how gleefully she enacts hideous violence against people, and in the fact that she comes on to and actually rapes Frank. She's obviously someone who uses her superhero persona to blur the lines between fantasy and reality, and it's a real credit to Ellen Page's performance that she still comes across as very likable and also very funny (if a bit disturbing at times), meaning that when dies it's actually a very effective moment.

The blur between reality and the comic book superhero world is very much the key theme of the film, I feel, as while it's clear that we see the action presented through Frank's eyes - complete with comic-book like onomatopoeia popping up - we as the audience can look at the scenes of actually pretty damn horrific violence detached from that. What the film does well is that it never clearly states if we're supposed to agree or disagree with Frank's vigilantism, but instead let's us come to our own conclusions.

This film has a lot of things to say about how people use comics/film/TV as an escape from reality, and how they can take those things too far. Yes, in a similar way to Kick Ass. But while the film of Kick Ass ended up in a total comic book world with minigun jetpacks and the boy getting the girl (which as I understand it was not how the graphic novel went at all), Super goes the other way and gets more realistic as it goes on, with the extreme violence that started being played for laughs being very real and disturbing by the final action scene. And he doesn't end up with Liv Tyler because, well, he's actually pretty fucked up. And he realizes that. And that's good.

BUT even if it does have all that to say doesn't mean it was an enjoyable watch.

I mean, it was, though. Mainly due to the performances of Ellen Page and Rainn Wilson who were both very good.

I liked it. It wasn't fantastic, but it was okay!

Also Ellen Page is like the cutest thing ever but she's so small that the cutest is just densely packed making her EVEN CUTER.

 

[CaptainWacky]

My problem with the ending was...

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He really should have ended up in prison. I mean how many people saw him changing into the costume and attacking that guy at the cinema? And that cop was murdered after going round to his house (but I guess cops never take a note of where they're going in movies.) And Libby was hanging around at his work and he showed up at her place acting strange at her party then she goes missing. So really he would have been caught.

But it didn't ruin the movie or anything!