DEFENDOR
The best “superhero” movie you’ve probably never heard of. And better than most of the ones you have.
The last couple decades have seen the the super hero/comic book movie take over Hollywood. Every year they are releasing and rebooting more super heroes and every company that can is delving into whatever comic vault they can find looking for a comic hero that they can turn into a movie (and hopefully a franchise of course).
And when a film genre starts to get really big, what happens next (after everyone tries to make a movie in said genre)? First you get the parodies: Superhero Movie. Then you get films that some might call post-modern parodies (although, I appreciate that the term, “post-modern” is somewhat overused and/or used incorrectly much of the time).
These are films that take a reflective and self-aware look at the genre, deconstructing it while playing within it. The “everyman” superhero theme is a big one here and films like Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World come to mind. And then there’s Defendor.
Woody Harrelson plays Arthur Poppington. A man who comes to believe he is a superhero, Defendor. He…
