Commentary: Kick-Ass, Defendor, Super and Griff the Invisible

[edward2962]

Very interesting commentary! I think the reason though these films lack "superhero heart", is because they are more satires ( although I think Kick Ass tries to straddle the line) than actual superhero films. They don't take the idea of superheroes seriously,thus the movie isn't about getting the bad guy or saving someone. It's about how messed up the lead is.

[TheRadman107]

Whadaya think about adding "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" to this list. In this film the girlfriend does have powers, but shes trying to hide her powers and not b the hero...until shes found out then all hell breaks loose.....

[entertainmentunivers]

Have you ever seen the movie Mystery Men? It's a Superhero comedy movie similar to these. It came out 1999, but it's kind of corny. :)

[sXeblues]

-These films in particular, are the perfect parallel, in that they scoff at the big budget films. 'Only low-budget films would try to take this material seriously.' It's a fine line I walk between wanting to support films like these and wanting a film where average folks of sound faculty can bust up criminally inclined for the greater good. The belief that that can truely be accomplished seen in the majority to be naïve. Art imitates life. Except when the reverse is true. How ironic. ;)

[sXeblues]

-and thus must signify a slow-progression in the learning faculties... Only someone 'slow on the uptake' would rationalize putting on long underwear and a towel for a cape and try to save the world. It's by now akin to an ancestral memory in our genes. George Reeves hated being Superman after a while because he felt he was a man jumping around in pajamas for kids and he felt disrespected and typecast. Cont.

[sXeblues]

I think there's a lot to be said about the mainstream view of comic books and super-heroes or fantasy & scifi as genres and how that pertains to these particular stories. By and large geek-culture is seen as an inferior form of escapism. Or that it's escapism at all implying one cannot or chooses not to deal with real world circumstances. Cont.