DACrowe
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- Aug 24, 2000
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Super (2011)
I went in trying not to be so excited because of the mixed WOM and I enjoyed it for what it was but my friend hated it. It is compared a lot to Kick-Ass, but beyond the basic premise (loser tries to turn his life around by becoming a real-life superhero without powers, eventually teaming up with psychotic, homicidal "kid-sidekick" girl) they're very different. This is basically the second half of Taxi Driver if Travis Bickle put on a superhero costume and Jodie Foster was his estranged wife.
With that in mind, it's better scenes work really well, particularly the graphically violent finale that achieved the level of depraved and protagonist-altering violence it was aiming for. However, most of the time I just didn't care about Frank and was very passive about his journey in the film. What held this film above mediocrity, imo, was Ellen Page as Boltie. Besides the ending, all the best scenes involve her. She offers a demented bolt of energy into the narrative and in her fleeting scenes makes it actually fun to watch. Unfortunately, she's not in the movie enough.
6/10
And because it got buried at the bottom of a page a while back, I'm reposting this:
Suck (2009)
I had no expectations going in. This is the strangest little indie-rock-vampire-comedy thing you'll ever see. It's odd and demented and will leave you either thinking what you witnessed was wickedly brilliant or stupidly awful.
I fall into the former with its appearances by Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, awesome Rocky Horror-esque musical moments (but with better music), recreated album covers and all the humor of a band killing more people as they become more famous and it not mattering. Plus Malcolm MacDowell as a one-eyed Eddie Van Helsing tracking the band down.
Highlights include Moby playing a metal rocker known as "Secretary of Steak" as well as "Meat" getting his junk bit off and the band sitting down with a radio personality/music critic near the end. This was a lot of fun.
7/10
I went in trying not to be so excited because of the mixed WOM and I enjoyed it for what it was but my friend hated it. It is compared a lot to Kick-Ass, but beyond the basic premise (loser tries to turn his life around by becoming a real-life superhero without powers, eventually teaming up with psychotic, homicidal "kid-sidekick" girl) they're very different. This is basically the second half of Taxi Driver if Travis Bickle put on a superhero costume and Jodie Foster was his estranged wife.
With that in mind, it's better scenes work really well, particularly the graphically violent finale that achieved the level of depraved and protagonist-altering violence it was aiming for. However, most of the time I just didn't care about Frank and was very passive about his journey in the film. What held this film above mediocrity, imo, was Ellen Page as Boltie. Besides the ending, all the best scenes involve her. She offers a demented bolt of energy into the narrative and in her fleeting scenes makes it actually fun to watch. Unfortunately, she's not in the movie enough.
6/10
And because it got buried at the bottom of a page a while back, I'm reposting this:
Suck (2009)
I had no expectations going in. This is the strangest little indie-rock-vampire-comedy thing you'll ever see. It's odd and demented and will leave you either thinking what you witnessed was wickedly brilliant or stupidly awful.
I fall into the former with its appearances by Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, awesome Rocky Horror-esque musical moments (but with better music), recreated album covers and all the humor of a band killing more people as they become more famous and it not mattering. Plus Malcolm MacDowell as a one-eyed Eddie Van Helsing tracking the band down.
Highlights include Moby playing a metal rocker known as "Secretary of Steak" as well as "Meat" getting his junk bit off and the band sitting down with a radio personality/music critic near the end. This was a lot of fun.
7/10
