{"id":7467,"date":"2012-03-31T15:12:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T19:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2012-03-31T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T19:12:20","slug":"super-2011-james-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7467","title":{"rendered":"Super (2011, James Gunn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shut up, crime!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rainn Wilson plays sort of a comic-book version of Michael Douglas in <em>Falling Down<\/em>, pushed to the breaking point by a dissolving marriage and life&#8217;s constant irritations. He becomes superpowerless superhero Crimson Bolt, armed mainly with a pipe wrench, and sets out to defeat wife-snatching drug-dealer Kevin Bacon, plus people who butt in line at the movies.<\/p>\n<p>An extremely dark comedy, hilarious and truly horrible, which manages to hold onto its heart through Rainn Wilson&#8217;s sheer lovability and the exceptional script. It&#8217;s possibly better than Gunn&#8217;s great <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/124\">Slither<\/a><\/em>. Can&#8217;t compare it to other fake-superhero movies like <em>Special<\/em>, <em>Defendor<\/em> and <em>Kick-Ass<\/em> since I haven&#8217;t watched those, but now I&#8217;m afraid to.  This one set the bar too high.  Can you tell I&#8217;m excited?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shut up, crime!&#8221; Rainn Wilson plays sort of a comic-book version of Michael Douglas in Falling Down, pushed to the breaking point by a dissolving marriage and life&#8217;s constant irritations. He becomes superpowerless superhero Crimson Bolt, armed mainly with a pipe wrench, and sets out to defeat wife-snatching drug-dealer Kevin Bacon, plus people who butt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1478,139,1532,1533,1530,1531],"class_list":["post-7467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-black-comedy","tag-comics","tag-ellen-page","tag-james-gunn","tag-kevin-bacon","tag-rainn-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7504,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}