Infinate cosmic powers, tiddy biddy living space....
Just seen My Super Ex-girlfriend. Light hearted comedy about a guy who breaks up with a neurotic woman who happens to have super powers.
Enjoyable popcorn flick which I rate about a 2, 2 and a half stars.
The film lived up to my expectations which is the most disappointing thing of all. The film was overly predictable (okay completely predictable) including the happy "chick flick" ending. I walked out of the cinema mulling over the enjoyable parts of the film (I love what she did to the guy's car) but unstatisifed.
Many of you are aware of my love for comics. And most of you know that my all time favourite comic is Watchmen. For those of you who aren't familiar with the text, it's about a world where vigilantes were real, but so changed the fabricate of society that they are made illegal and with the excpetion of the one who worked with the US military and Dr Manhattan (the only "super powered" being) the only vigilante running around is a lunactic (one of the most interesting anti-heroes I have ever read about). As a result of these heroes the world is a different place (Nixon is preisdent during the cuban missle crisis and the US won the Vietnam war. I highly recommend reading it, though it is not a light read.
Another comic I was enjoy is Secret Identity. Set in the "real" world a young boy named Clark Kent (some parents should not be allowed to name chidlren) one day gains the powers of the ficitoinal character of his namesake. The comic follows his life as he tries to avoid the US government (who wnat to find out where he got his powers from, how to duplicate them and how to destory him) and help people with his gifts.
Both are good comics and go into depth of the consequences of these beings having powers/fighting crime on the indiviuals and on society as a whole but neither of them touch on the concept that My Super Ex does - a really emotionally screwed up, psychotic person gaining
super powers.
My Super Ex skirts this concept and uses it as a metaphor for "a woman scorned". And I didn't except it to do anything else. It wasn't until I left the cinema and I thought about the scene in Superman Returns when he's outside of Lois's house using his x-ray vision to peer in that I realsied that I really want to see or read a such a story. Person gets super powers. Does good, but is really screwed up and does abuse their powers in their personal life (stalk someone etc.)
If anyone knows of such a story please direct me to it. In the mean time if you're really bored and looking a light hearted way to spend and hour and a half see this movie. There's not much else on after Superman and Pirates at the moment.
Enjoyable popcorn flick which I rate about a 2, 2 and a half stars.
The film lived up to my expectations which is the most disappointing thing of all. The film was overly predictable (okay completely predictable) including the happy "chick flick" ending. I walked out of the cinema mulling over the enjoyable parts of the film (I love what she did to the guy's car) but unstatisifed.
Many of you are aware of my love for comics. And most of you know that my all time favourite comic is Watchmen. For those of you who aren't familiar with the text, it's about a world where vigilantes were real, but so changed the fabricate of society that they are made illegal and with the excpetion of the one who worked with the US military and Dr Manhattan (the only "super powered" being) the only vigilante running around is a lunactic (one of the most interesting anti-heroes I have ever read about). As a result of these heroes the world is a different place (Nixon is preisdent during the cuban missle crisis and the US won the Vietnam war. I highly recommend reading it, though it is not a light read.
Another comic I was enjoy is Secret Identity. Set in the "real" world a young boy named Clark Kent (some parents should not be allowed to name chidlren) one day gains the powers of the ficitoinal character of his namesake. The comic follows his life as he tries to avoid the US government (who wnat to find out where he got his powers from, how to duplicate them and how to destory him) and help people with his gifts.
Both are good comics and go into depth of the consequences of these beings having powers/fighting crime on the indiviuals and on society as a whole but neither of them touch on the concept that My Super Ex does - a really emotionally screwed up, psychotic person gaining
super powers.
My Super Ex skirts this concept and uses it as a metaphor for "a woman scorned". And I didn't except it to do anything else. It wasn't until I left the cinema and I thought about the scene in Superman Returns when he's outside of Lois's house using his x-ray vision to peer in that I realsied that I really want to see or read a such a story. Person gets super powers. Does good, but is really screwed up and does abuse their powers in their personal life (stalk someone etc.)
If anyone knows of such a story please direct me to it. In the mean time if you're really bored and looking a light hearted way to spend and hour and a half see this movie. There's not much else on after Superman and Pirates at the moment.
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