Yes I am back from the dead! I am still in school and one of my electives in school is debate in which I have to go to a lot of tournaments.Typically I still try to do these blog updates but because the lead up to this tournament has been awful and my brain has been frazzled I am just getting back to this today so sorry. Also yeah this is going to be a movie from Netflix movie review because being at a point in school where I still can't drive by myself I'm at the whim of my parents who invited both grandparents tonight (on Friday my dad wasn't home and Foxcatcher wasn't playing anywhere near by.)
The film death of a superhero stars Andy Serkis (Hail Caesar) and Thomas Brodie Sangster (Simon from Nanny McPhee or more recently one of the better characters and actors of Maze Runner Newt.) Thomas Brodie Sangster is a terminally ill cancer patient Donald Clarke who slowly is falling out of his messed up reality into his superhero imagination and is desperate to have sex once before he dies, worried his parents send him to Dr. Adrien King (Serkis) for help.
A couple months back I reviewed The fault in our stars and was for the most part very positive about it and said it was very genuine. After seeing this movie later and watching The fault in our stars again, TFIOS has kind of gone down in my opinion and seems a bit more cheesy. Death of a superhero is extremely genuine, extremely good, extremely heartfelt and extremely melancholy as well.
The premise seems like that cheesy hallmark movie type synopsis with the golden therapist bringing up the young mans spirit about an impossible situation. Well not really actually. While Dr. King does bring Donald some compassion and companionship this is Donald's story and ultimately he brings himself to accept what might occur. This is one of the most genuine stories about a cancer patient I've ever seen, it brings the anger, and pain that comes with the inevitability of death.
The characters of this movie are very good and they are all very relate able and very like able realistic people, they're people first above all else which is what characters should be. In this the star is Donald (Brodie-Sangster) and the person you like the most is Donald which is credited not only to the writer of this movie but of Brodie-Sangster's performance as Donald and the realism and insight he brings to what could have been a hit or miss Character. Serkis is really good in this and is actually in the movie very little but creates a strong impact. All the performances are very good especially in a film that is basically the slice of life of a cancer patient but at the same time still a good one.
Now this being titled death of a superhero there is actual animation in this film and it's actually really good and it brings the metaphor of Donald's life out and fleshes it out. With Donald feeling cancer is like being a superhero so he can't "get" with any girl.
The script of this movie is very good with very crisp and fast yet slow and relate able dialogue with just a plain good story and characters.
If there is one problem with this movie is that the ending is a bit cheesy and my problem with these kind of films is the end (literally and figuratively) and how it's portrayed. I'm not going to get into too much detail except that while I can get it's upsetting to show something like that but from the start the movie is willing to show some dark stuff and I wished they had gone big or gone home. Yet that's just me.
I once put this up as a netflix pic and called it one of my new favorite movies which it is, so go see it on Netflix.
I give this movie a 9/10~ eh ending but great movie overall.
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