WHOA. That picture of Ellen Page I linked, below

I found that while looking up the film "Super", which I've just watched. Dear me: dear me indeed. What a disturbing film.

See, it's the third "ordinary People Being Superheroes" movie I've watched in quite a short space of time, a year or so, though the write-ups claim it was written before the others, which of course they would.

I saw Kick-Ass first, and it was hilarious. Then I saw Defendor, quite soon afterwards, and that was really sad: if you haven't seen it, you can swerve it, it's about a mentally ill man who goes around attacking bad guys with a hammer, basically. It was a little unpleasant to watch.

Super is weird, because it is often as funny as Kick-Ass, but less than one minute later it's startlingly violent. It doesn't matter how accustomed you've become to seeing people drop in a hail of bullets, or be blown out of a plane by a shotgun blast, because that's cartoon violence, it could be Tom & Jerry.

The Crimson Bolt's initial weapon of choice is a monkey wrench, and things feel a lot more real when he bangs someone across the chops with it. Again and again, in fact. So much so, that when he upgrades his weapons towards the end, the increased realism kind of stays with you. It isn't like actually being there, at close hand when someone's bones break - you aren't going to have nightmares - but don't let your kids watch this.

As for Ellen Page in her sexy canary outfit: she's a really troubled young lady. That was the most disturbing part, I think.

Well it's certainly an experience, this movie. Shudder.

Posted By: Sugbad The Bad, Sep 4, 20:15:01