God Bless America (2011)
7.3 IMDB 105 min/episode
The movie combines elements of political satire
with black humor. On a mission to rid society of its most repellent
citizens, terminally ill Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in
16-year-old Roxy to whack reality TV stars, bigots and others they find
repugnant.
Super (2010)
6.8 IMDB 96 min/episode
After his wife leaves him, a fry cook emulates a TV
superhero and transforms himself into a costumed vigilante. With the
help from a crazed sidekick and absolutely nothing in the way of
superpowers, he beats his way through the mean streets of crime in hopes
of saving his wife.
God Bless America and Super are two of my favorite movies, primarily for the well deserved violence. I found a few similarities between the two that's worth a mention. Both have kid sidekicks. Both kid sidekicks are bloodthirsty psychopaths. The male vigilante/mentors are both named Frank. Both sidekicks are romantically entangled with their respective Franks but only Libbie takes romance to a new level when she rapes Frank with the rational that Boltie and the Crimson Bolt are completely separate from their real life selves and sex is ok, as long as they're in costume. Boltie also laughs maniacally when slashing her victims with Wolverine-like blades or cutting the legs off the bad guy with a Buick. Compared to Batman's Robin, this is clinical insanity. Roxy isn't much better when her first kill is disemboweling a reality show mom with a smile on her face. Both Franks were screwed over by society and reacted the best they could, under the circumstances, but Roxie and Boltie got these Franks to justify their behavior for some savage killings you won't find in any mafia movie, fer sure.
But the similarities end there. God Bless America is a thoughtful film about killing people who weren't nice. Super was about killing the guy who stole his wife and anyone near by. One guy used a gun. The other used a pipe wrench. Cracking a guys skull with a pipe wrench for butting into line is one thing but shooting a guy for taking up two parking spaces is another, but just as viable.
It's like watching an evil brother out do his equally evil brother. One is slow and deliberate and the other is fast and furious. Super took 45 days to shoot, which gives you an idea of how cheap this film was, despite the A list actors that fell over themselves to get a part in this low budget blood fest. I mean the hero kills the bad guy with repetitive stabbings with a knife while his wife watched in shocking disbelief. Real horror show stuff. He then accepts the fact that his wife never loved him and leaves him again.
God Bless America... Frank and Roxie both get gunned down by the police, live, on American Superstarz. But ya know, Frank and Roxie deserved it cause it was on tv.
I should point out that both Franks would never have racked up the body counts if not for the urging of their respective psychopathic kid sidekicks.
Frank was ready to off himself after killing Chloe. It was Roxie who wanted to kill some Kardashians, people who do high fives, and NASCAR fans. They compromised by killing Chloe's parents.
If not for these sweet, clinically insane girls, the body count for both movies would've been three. Chloe and both Franks.
Roxie: Isn't this more fun than killing yourself?
GBA Frank: Yeah. I guess.
Libby: Let's go fight some crime.
S Frank: I'm still healing from getting shot.
Libby: Don't be a pussy, Frank! Let's fight some crime!
How the cops never got these guys can only be explained as a total suspension of disbelief.
Feel free to click the links if you want to see one or both films.
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