![]() If you're a frequent reader around these parts, you'll likely feel the same way. You might argue that they were only doing so because Gunn, Wilson, and Tyler were in the audience, but I'd disagree: seeing Frank mete out justice was cathartic, and while it's probably not nice to laugh at the sight of Frank dropping a cinder block on someone's head from a fire escape (they were dealing drugs), I was happy to do so. With each new criminal Frank "catches" (read: smashes in the head with his enormous wrench), the audience cheered. The audience I saw the film with loved it, though, and I was laughing hysterically throughout as well. The movie's hyper-violent, enough so that some- who don't get the joke- will be turned off by The Crimson Bolt's shenanigans. He sketches these two scenes with a handful of colored pencils and tapes them to his wall, hoping to begin each day by waking up to the sight of the two perfect moments in his life. He's also got a bit of a "do-gooder" streak, and when Wilson begins narrating the film, he tells us that the two happiest moments in his life were A) the day he got married, and B) the day that he helped a cop chase down a purse-snatcher. If you've seen the trailers, then you already know that Super features Rainn Wilson (of NBC's The Office) playing a dude who's a bit of a loser: he works as a short-order cook in a local diner, he's married a former drug addict/alcoholic, and he's got a penchant for sketching out the happiest moments of his life. ![]() There's nothing more dispiriting at a film festival than seeing a flick that you really didn't enjoy- it can take the wind right out of your sails- but Super singlehandedly reinvigorated my love for film at a point in the day where only a great movie would have been able to do so. Immediately prior to catching Super, I sat through another film that bored me almost literally to tears. ![]() James Gunn's Super was a breath of fresh air, and not because everything else we've seen at SXSW thus far has sucked. ![]()
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