It has finally come down to this. We’ve had diaries of famous people exposed, a multitude of tell-all books and exposes’ about the rich, the infamous and the famous. It would seem that Superheroes are not immune to this latest craze.
“Confessions of a Superhero,” will be a documentary about four actors who have struggled through most of their careers trying to make a living in the profession they love the most. The docu-film will follow the lives of three men and one woman who have spent the greater part of their careers donning the costumes and identities of Superheroes. No, we’re not talking about those very successful actors like Christopher Reeve, Christian Bale, Michael Chiklis or Lynda Carter. These other unknown actors put on their superhero garb at every opportunity and roam Hollywood Boulevard, hoping one day to break into an industry that is harder to crack than Amelia Earhart’s zip code.
“Confessions of a Superhero” will be produced by Jamie Patricof (“Half Nelson”) and directed by newcomer Matt Ogens. The film will be funny, irreverent and poignant. Look for it in theaters on November 2, 2007 and then on DVD in January 2008. Arts Alliance America (AAA) and Netflix’s Red Envelope own the rights and will distribute the documentary under AAA’s “Morgan Spurlock Presents” banner.
the description makes it sound a little depressing.
It sounds kind of pathetic.
Check out the trailer for Confessions of a Superhero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPceD3CrQeg
I’ve saw it as SXSW. It’s absolutely TERRIBLE and impossible to sit through the entire movie, VERY BORING. I was looking forward to seeing it as I noticed these peple on my last trip to H’wood. I was shocked at how someone could take such amazingly insane people and make them so boring, I’m almost convinced they were told what to say by the filmmakers bad ideas. Plus its shot and edited terribly, the colors are bland, its full of bad styalized new-age musical interludes that constantly take you out of the story (what there little is of one).
And why take them away from the amazingly colorful scene of their environment on Hollywood Blvd.? The interviews are done in a pseudo-arty MTV-type setting that has nothing to do with the characters themselves, why does the filmmaker do that? And the Supergirl character is the most boring character ever in documentary history.
How Morgan Spurlock was able to sit through this entire film without pressing “STOP” is mind-blowing to me, Super-Size me was such a great genius piece of work. How could a filmmaker the caliber of Spurlock could lend his name to such a shoddy production its beyond what I can imagine. I’d think that he would pick another 30-days of McDonalds over setting this film again.
It is Pethetic! It’s boring, it’s cheap, and it’s edited shamefully.
The stories were manufactured by “bad editing”. At one point they edited two sentences together to make it look like one of the characters was saying something completely different.
The lighting sucks, the final cut they chose is boring and the scenes are unrealistic pile of Bat Guano.
BAN THIS FILM, even from your memory!
It is the worst Doc. film known for it’s pethetic display of cheapness, bad editing, and total disreguard for the characters it displays!
This was an absolutely wonderful film. I can’t imagine what these other people who posted saw, but it was not Confessions of a Superhero. (Their poor grammar and punctuation, notwithstanding, they don’t know what they are talking about). The photography was breathtaking and the stories were honest and compelling.
This is a film about real people, done quite well.
Congrats Matt!
Confessions of a Superhero finally debuts on DVD next Tuesday, Jan 22, but you can preorder online via our website at http://www.therealsuperhero.com
If you are a netflix subscriber we have a link to add it to your queue or you can buy it. It is also available at many local retailers for rental or purchase.
While many of you have seen the film, there are over 2 hours of bonus features including a commentary by our lead character Christopher “Superman” Dennis. So please buy or atleast rent.
And please forward this email to your friends and colleagues.
Thank you.
Matt Ogens
Director, Confessions of a Superhero
Remember, go to http://www.therealsuperhero.com to rent or purchase.
I know what these other people are talking about. The one from Maxwell Allen is from the Batman that is in the film. He doesn’t like how he came out in the film. That’s who he is. I didn’t make up what he said.
Supergirl the most boring character in documentary history? Get a life. She was wonderful and touching, by far the most interesting person in a brilliant docu. THe lighting “sucks”? The final scene was boring? For cryin’ out loud get a life, you pathetic whingers. This film is stunning.
This movie was both entertaining and touching. Growing up in Southern California, I have probably passed by each of these characters dozens of times, yet never gave them so much as a glance. I am now looking forward to keeping my eye out for them next time I visited Hollywood.
As far as Maxwell “Batman” Allen…I love his claim above that the director edited two sentances together to change what he was saying, and that the characters were shown in a different light due to creative (bad) editing. Maxwell clearly said, NUMEROUS TIMES in the movie that he worked for “men with long italian names”, that “I left a body count”, etc. You can NOT edit lines together throughout the movie to create these claims, my friend. This is the man who the documentary shows sitting in a session with his shrink (in FULL batman costume – freak), telling his shrink about the people he has killed. When the doctor says “So, are you telling me this is a confession, because there is no statute of limitations on murder”….Maxwell backs off instantly. Fraud. Also, please learn to edit your posts and check your spelling, sir. Nobody likes an uneducated panhandler.
To Ashley H.
First thing is…
YES, you can edit it badly to change the words and meaning, such as the director did in this one. Ask any of the other Actors in the movie.
Two: They wanted me in the Bat suit talking to the Shrink. I thought it was very stupid myself and didn’t want to do it, but that is what THEY asked for.
Here is something for you to think over.
A man gets drafted into the Army. Doesn’t want to be there, but has no choice, because draft dodging is a death sentence in military prison, so he goes. He learns a bunch of things, goes over somewhere and kills a bunch of “bad men” and gets out of it alive.
Now why is he a hero and I’m a zero? You don’t know what really happened in the past of mine, you don’t know anything, except what was “Edited Badly” in the movie. I see they didn’t put in the movie that I had no choice either…did they?!
Three: I happened to be a very highly educated, open minded person with a I.Q. that could put that Pee Brain of yours in a cellar of it’s own, so Piss Off! The spelling is fine, because this tells me right off, if it’s wrong!
See, it’s two-faced, back-stabbing, lying, thieving, rumor starting, arrogant, people such as yourself, who made this film and who keep leaving comments of a “Bitch” on the blogs.
Nobody on this film or I; are anywhere near as crazy, looney, screwed up or even in need of a “Shrink” as Confusions makes us seem. Well, Stupidman Chris, might be. LOL!
May The Lord Bless Everyone’s Everyday!
Maxwell “Batman” Allen