Super (2010)
★★★½
This review may contain spoilers.
I have been struggling a lot with feeling like I haven't achieved anything in my life, that I have been wasting away, like life has been to sad, Two perfect moments, is a soundtrack that radiates in my head over and over again, when we come to the end and we see all those moments in Frank's life all over the wall man does it hit really hard. I love this film, it's not perfect, it's really raunchy, language I don't really agree with, but I do think that it is needed for the world that we are habiting, this film is a very emotional one for Frank, he has to come to terms with the bad things that he has experienced in his life, to accept all the trauma that he has faced and that is a tough thing for him to experience, I truly think this one was a bit a head of it's time in that sense, but in another I can understand why no one would want to watch this one, why it got the backlash that it did and why it's his lowest grossing film. the film is great and I loved it and rewatching it every year is a bit of a treat for me, I always watch it when I am in a bad mood and it always cheers me right up, and I think that is what makes rating the movie a bit hard because it does have an emotional connection with me.
the writing I think is where this stands out to me even after all these years it is a very tight film, you really couldn't loose a single scene in this thing without sacrificing the emotional core at the center of Frank discovering that every moment is a perfect moment.
I did really appreciate the make up department and the role that they played in this film, wow did they do a pretty good job, especially knowing the budget that they were on at the time, it looks really good.
I also appreciated the stunt team in the film, while I did before seeing the behind the scenes for the film makes it all the more appreciated, the guy getting set a blaze, wow, the car slamming into that guys legs wow. and so much more.
but wow does Rainn Wilson make this work in everyway, the emotion that he brings to this performance is amazing, you feel like the character is real. Liz Tyler also do a great job as well they enhance there character and you can feel the goodness that she wants to get to but these people keep influencing her to do things she wants to do but doesn't need to do, and Elliot Page does a great job here, he is so funny, so energetic, the little excitement that he gets over the small things is amazing.
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- I really love this opening monologue, framing it around two special moments is amazing.
- I do really think that Rainn Wilson is perfectly cast in this film.
- I like that his monologue is lifeless, dull representing his state of mind at the current moment.
- I love the 2d animated intro with dancing it's so amazing, I love the style as well, but more important the fact that they breath after the song is really funny.
- I like the set for the kitchen, the grit and grime that it has is great, probably just the location scout being really great at there job.
- I'm glad that this film was shot shaky cam, it adds to the realness and rawness of the situations that the emotional core finds itself in.
- this scene where it opens up his brain is freaking craaaaazy dude.
- it is so comforting and kind of messed up to hear when you are at your lowest moment that there is a plan for you, that all the pain and suffering that you have gone through sucks but it's to make you stronger and better.
- I love Two Perfect Moments by Tyler Bates, great track and choice to the film.
- shut up crime. it's the crimson bolt.. crime..
- the fake beard is so good, I like that it is hanging off on the end but more funny I like that you can see through it lol.
- the film has a great sense of comedic timing.
- I love how the 2d cartoon things are brought into the film.
- you can really see how music influences his writing I feel more so in these earlier works than before, the film feels like a music album a bit.
- the freaking drawling of a muscular strong guy is very funny.
- make up department team did a great job on that hit to the forehead.
- I love the suit, how stitched and warn together it is, the patches, the sewn lines, amazing.
- I love how invested she is in frank's superhero story, they know your secret identity F--- god that's so good.
- also the fact that she just starts like essentially showing him her skills.
- Frank it's just like when you got shot.
- the make up team did a great job on all the violence and gore in the film.
- I think one of my complaints is that I wish that these title cards were more prominent.
- I like the tone for the movie, I like that it knows when to be more serious and it knows when to joke around.
- that ending monologue to Jacques that Frank gives is so cathartic for his character, he is not only talking to him but to the people that have wronged him in the past.
- but more cathartic the thing that makes this movie for me is this ending shot where all the images of frank's perfect moments scroll across the screen, how long they stay on screen, how much information that you get about frank in these small tiny moments, Frank is a pretty messed up character because of the things that he has been through and because of the things that he has done but even though he has done bad things, or things that he probably isn't proud of -- one asks themselves how much introspection Frank did after the things that he did at the ranch.
