#LollipopChainsaw - CHECK!

Finally grabbed a copy of Lollipop Chainsaw today!

Yoink!

Been thinking about it since I saw it in store this past Monday.

Go grab it, like now!
It's a fun old school arcade hack 'n' slash game, from co-creators Suda51 (No More Heroes) & James Gunn (Slither)!! Need I say more?!

#AwesomeCosplay Pics of the day: Lollipop of the Dead

....aaaaaand Lollipop Chainsaw is finally out today in most place. (more or less~)
Go grab a copy of it!

It's approved by George A. Romero himself!!

Here with official cosplayer Jessica Nigri~

#Gaming NEWS! new Lollipop trailer

Here's a new Lollipop Chainsaw trailer, this one's purely a James Gunn-sorta video. Or Suda. Well, both men have sort of the same mindset anyway...

It features the lovely Jessica Nigri once more cosplaying as Juliette. And is quite weird...



Haha, both hilarious, and kinda disturbing...

For the actual real life "fanboys" that look and act like those guys: You guys are truly f***ed up! (and we know they exist, you know who you are, out there!)

#Gaming NEWS! "Behind the Lollipop Apocalypse"

Here's a new promo video for the upcoming Lollipop Chainsaw, featuring none other than James Gunn and his "brother from another country", Suda51!

In which they talk about the game, what's behind this idea and how it plays out:

Get More: GameTrailers.com, Lollipop Chainsaw - Behind the Lollipop Apocalypse, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

They really seem to had some genuinely fun making this crazy game.
It's all sounding pretty epic so far, can't wait for it!
Probably one of my most expected release for the year

#Gaming News! new Lollipop Chainsaw trailer!!

And a silly cosplay-wearing humorous one!
James Gunn-style!



"Dirty cheerleader? Clean her up, with Zom-Be-Gone!"

You really feel the James Gunn-aspect of the game in this video :P
This new epic Grasshopper Manufacture is expected soon on PS3 & Xbox 360!

Mmmmh.. She does really look the part, our zombie slashing cheerleader heroine, Juliet is played here by Jessica Nigri.
And I personally don't mind the silly tone/acting here, it does suit the tone of the game :P

Gamin' NEWS! James Gunn interview

Destructoid has had a pretty interesting interview with movie director and writer James Gunn regarding his upcoming joint venture title Lollipop Chainsaw with Suda 51.
Check it out, it's pretty fun!



Seems like he's pretty involved in this game's development, writing the entire script by himself.

Can't wait!

MR Super (2010 film)

If there were superheroes in real life, and I mean actual "realistic" vigilantes not comic book-ysh-super powered flying people, how far would such individuals go?
Could they make a difference? Wouldn't they be considered just nutjobs, "psychopaths" by our society standards?
How detached from reality would one go to be able to live such a fantasy?

That's the kinda question director James Gunn tried to ask, amongst many others in his superhero/comedy/drama Super.
Be warned, this is a film strictly for a mature audience only!

Movie: Super
Directed by James Gunn
Release date 2010
Genre Indie comedy/drama
Country USA

In development since the early 2000s, Super is an idea James Gunn has been trying to develop and put to screen since a very long time.
Mostly due to a lack of investors and no interest from producers.
One of the earlier versions even ended up as a non-Gunn directed film called The Specials in 2000, directed by Craig Mazin.
Finally thanks to the success of his 2006 scifi comedy/horror film Slither, James Gunn was finally able to produce this 2002 script into a low-budget independent film.

Written and directed by Gunn, it features an all star cast of such actors as Rainn Wilson (The Office,.), Ellen Page (X-Men 3,..), Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon and even a cameo from Nathan Fillion (Castle, Firefly)!

But,
What is it about exactly?

Super tells the story of this cook from a little local dinner called Frank D'Arbo (Rainn).
Frank never had much going on in his life.
The movie opens with Frank telling the audience he actually only had two relevant moments, two good memories in his entire life. (which he is putting up on the wall as lil' drawings he made)
Marrying this beautiful girl Sarah. And that time he helped the police catch some thief.

Sarah is a recovering addict.

One day, Sarah leaves Frank for this mysterious guy named Jacques (Kevin Bacon) who owns a club (and some other "less legal" businesses).
Frank loses all interest in his life, things don't make sense for him anymore..until one night when he's literally touched by the hand of God in a terrifying (and very graphic) dream. Was it only a simple nightmare or an actual divine intervention?
Inspired by another local TV "hero" from Jesus Network called the Holy Avengers (Fillion), Frank decides to become an actual superhero.
Frank believes he was chosen for a purpose. He goes at the nearest comic book shop for research. There he mets Libby (Page)...

Frank finally dons a secret identity as the Crimson Bolt and armed with a wrench, starts to fight crime in the streets.
Simple drug dealers, child molesters and even more trivial law-breaking persons all suffer the wrath of a Crimson Bolt on a criminal-punishment spree.
As he slowly starts to use his vigilante persona for more random reasons (and gradually acting more like a psychopath than anything), he is finally joined by Libby who goes as his sidekick Boltie...

Super is a sort of R-Rated deconstruction of superheroes.
While it originally didn't make much sense to make a movie out of this subject back in 2002, nowadays, with all these Marvel and DC movies on screens, it is a much more interesting form of analysis of what makes one "super" hero or not.

While other movies use the usual secret origin story to base future installments of on-going franchises, Super uses it mostly for the personal journey-aspect.
Super tells this journey of self-discovery Frank undergoes. Frank isn't really an altruist person, he uses this mask the costume provides for more selfish reasons.
Harmful purposes.

In a way it may start from the same premise as Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass, but it only shares the same concept at the start. It deconstructs the superhero myth and genre.
Frank is closer to an actual psychopath when your really think about it. He goes on this crazy journey.
What his right and what his wrong - Frank's logic which we follow through the movie might tell us one thing, but then we met Libby who's go her own perceptions of right and wrong.
Libby makes a great contrast with her mentor, with her love for violence and profanity - in opposite to Frank's ideals. 

It is also a spiritual journey.
The movie as a lot of relgious content.
"Some of his Children are Chosen" as Frank put above the closet in which he hides his costume.
It's nothing new  really, superheroes always had their own share of religion-inspired themese (Superman has often been seen as a Christ figure, and Batman as a martyr figure). The difference is that here James Gunn is quite explicit about the kind of themes you can decide to read superheroes. (the Crimson Bolt has his own disciple, Boltie,..).

It also mocks the glorification of violence surrounding this type of action movies/superhero characters.
Quite violent, often graphic but mostly stylized with onomatopoeias.
The Crimson Bolt goes awry playing superhero, using this freedom Frank never had, imitating superheroes. There's a danger in date.

The film ends in a bloodbath, in a spectacular crazy Grindhouse-style climatic battle.
(in which the director doesn't forget to remember us and our hero death is real)

It's a great interesting movie for fans of the genre.
Tyle Bates provides a simple but epic enough score (alongside various music from divers artists).

Overall, it's a very fun ride.
A black-comedy like you don't see much of anymore.

James Gunn asks various questions and take us on a darker more violent analysis of the genre than Kick-Ass. (probably closer to the original comic book than Kick-Ass' live adaptation)
Mark Millar (Kick-Ass' writer) actually defended Super of not copying Kick-Ass.

The movie features an high-range casting, including fun cameos from Nathan Fillion as this parody of an actual "costumed hero" called Bibleman in real life.
It's a fun, gore and trash movie. Similar to the old Toxic Avenger movies from Troma Entertainment (Gunn actually worked there for a long time and wrote several pieces there).

A great exploration of the genre.

I give it:

2.5 / 3 Films!

Movie NEWS! Super trailer

The trailer to James Gunn's Super is finally out!

Did a new breed of superhero movies start with the adaptation of Kickass?

Most of the movie's details have been kept secret until now. Anyway, some new updates appeared recently on the official website, so here's two pics first to have a good look at our heroes:

Rainn Wilson (The Office) and Ellen Page (X-Men 3) rockin' the Crimson Bolt and Bolty costume respectively.

This indie movie was started long before Kickass, but due to its indie nature, was sort of short on budget and went on hiatus for a while. Guess the success of Kickass was able to drag in producers on this project.
The movie is aiming a more realistic and violent tone than Kickass (but probably a completely different approach and tone).

Here's the video now:

Movie NEWS! Another SUPER clip

Remember that movie Super I talked about not long ago, but so secret nobody seems to have info about.
Rainn Wilson is keeping it secret, director James Gunn doing the same...
There isn't even a proper trailer of it and it's supposed to come out soon!

Well, there's a new clip of Super around. It shows the realistic tone the movie is going for.
Warning! Mature Content not suitable for kidz

More brutal than Kick-ass and less hollywood-ysh.
Here's the clip of this superhero indie movie:



What happens when there isn't a big name studio behind a movie~

Movie NEWS! Super "clip"

There's a new super hero in town.
The Crimson Bolt-

 Dun dun duuun~

You may know him from The Office.
It's Rainn Wilson starring as this down-to-earth hero in his new flick "Super".
With all those Kickass and Watchmen, you had to expect some more superhero movies being made, and not just adaptation.
With an upcoming (highly anticipated from me) TV show called The Cape, a fantastic four ripoff called No Ordinary Family and a ton of movies in production, it's the golden age of the live original super heroes!

"Super" is a sort of Mystery Men meets Kickass, that is, a realistic yet comedic movie. More grounded in reality unlike Kickass' jetpack, however not that serious.

 
And here's the synopsis:
"A guy named Frank has his wife Sarah leaves him for a criminal drug lord named Jacques.
Frank decides to become a superhero, "The Crimson Bolt" and fight for truth, justice and the American Way.
He starts his crusade against criminals and wrong-doers using his own-made costume and a wrench tool
Then he's joined by a local comic book store employee, who becomes his sidekick "Boltie".

The two team up against Jacque in the streets of crimes."
It was described as a dark comedy by its director James Gunn, and I'm personally getting quite interested in this movie.

They didn't reveal much for now only that Nathan Fillion, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon, and Andre Royo will also star along Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and even Rob Zombie!!

And here's a little clip:



Gotta admit, this could turn pretty kickass! (no pun intended...or is it?!)