This week’s video is bought to you by Sundance Now. Both of the these comic book movies were
released in 2010 and were directed by a director who went on to direct a Marvel movie. Matthew
Vaughn directed X-men: The First Class and James Gunn went on to direct Guardians of
the Galaxy. Also, another fun fact is that both of these movies star a character from
season 9 of the office. This movie’s about a group of superhero with no super powers.
When his wife becomes addicted to drugs, a man decides to just say no to crime. The hero
without powers recruits a young girl to fight by his side and together, they kill the bad
guy’s henchman off one by one. It’s real inspirational because origin stories in comic
book movies usually makes it feel like you have to have dead parents in order to become
a super hero, so it sucks for the kids whose parents are still alive. This movie tells
you there’s more than one way to become a hero. The main character in the movie is
the biggest loser like the show on NBC. He spends his morning, noons, and nights watching
awkward porn alone in his house. When he’s not doing that, you could find him chillin’
at the local comic book store learning about his favorite comic book characters. One day
at the comic book store, him and his friends have an interesting discussion and wonder
why so many millionaires have had dead parents in the real world, but for some reason, the
real world has yet to receive a real superhero. It’s mind boggling (audio). Then one day
he forgets how to mind his business and stands up to some gangsters. The bad news is he gets
embarrassed, the good news is he vows to never let it happen again, but the as for more bad
news, he lets it happen one more time after that, but more good news is, third time’s a
charm. He reaches his tipping point and after some intensive reconstructive surgery he’s
a new man. He puts on a some boots and dri fit clothes and fills out a job application
to become a crime fighter. He believes in liberty and justice for all, but when he first
starts crime fighting it looks like he’s racist and only fights crime in black neighborhoods,
but trust me, he’s not racist and is probably only fighting the bad guys from darkest to lightest or something
because his diversity targets are eventually reached before the end of the montage. He gets super
popular and his story ends up on every local news station. A hero’s identity is supposed
to be kept secret so they’re personal lives aren’t put in danger. It’s way too easy
to find the heroes in the movie and that’s a problem. A police officer finds one of the
hero’s address with barely doing any research. And the girl finds out his identity in the
bedroom scene, so there’s no point in having a secret identity if it’s not a secret.
A wise man once said with great power comes great responsibility, but luckily the crime
fighters in this movie have no power so you could argue with no power comes no responsibility.
The decides to quit crime fighting for good. The bad guys still want him dead though. They gangsters
think they’ve found him and (sound effect of shot gun) shoot ‘em. Unfortunately for
them, they’ve shot the wrong guy (audio). The good guy unretires and that same day, he gets into
it with the bad guys. He runs for his life, but gets captured. The bad guys start beating him
down and luckily, the girl hero steps in and saves his life. After that, they
drive the red car back to their secret hideout. It’s here where they decide to become partners
and defeat the drug lord. To fight fire with fire, they pack as much guns as they can carry
and one of the teammates spends time reading a manual on how to use their secret weapon
(audio). When they arrive to the drug lord’s house, there’s a gun men on every corner.
The mission looks impossible, but it’s not. To get past the gunmen, the hero acts
like a little girl to distract the guard (audio). After that, the girl starts killing everybody.
Me personally, as a father of 3 daughters. I used to tell my baby girls they could be whatever they
want to be in life. However, after watching this movie, I now tell them they could be
anything except superheroes. When any one of them gives me any lip, I just show them the
scene where the girl hero in this movie got shot and they get real quiet all of the sudden.
After most the gunman are killed, the leader of the bad guys starts to panic and forces
his right hand man body guard to go out there and kill the hero himself. It looks
like the last few henchman have the good guys right where the want them, but the hero sneaks
up on them through the window and starts shoot up the place like ba da da dat ba da da da
dat. The drug lord gets what he deserves and gets suffers multiple stab wounds and eventually
dies to death. At the end, the hero walks away uninjured, but has to carry his teammate
into the sunset because she’s physically unable to walk on her own at that point. Those
are 24 reasons these movies are the same. You agree, yes, no, maybe so? If not, politely
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