About a month ago we mentioned a new superhero film slated for release called Super. There was a Super panel this weekend at WonderCon along with the limited release premiere of the film with a post-show Q&A with the director, James Gunn, and I was fortunate enough to attend both events. Super has been aptly referred by its leading man on several occasions as a "fucked up, raw version of Watchmen" and I'd agree. This is a film that is not for everyone. It's unrated; they couldn't get the MPAA to give it an R rating without major cuts. Though, you know, I think that's a little unfair. I have never really understood the MPAA's rating system and I feel like the violence in this film isn't that off from the stuff you see in other R-rated films. Super is wicked funny, majorly messed up, kind of blasphemous, and actually has quite a bit of heart. It's an "indie" film in the respect that all the actors worked for scale. Everyone who did this film did it because they wanted to make it, this was certainly not a paycheck film.
