{"id":192,"date":"2009-04-16T10:25:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T18:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:59:12","slug":"film-hick-confessions-of-a-superhero-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Film Hick: Confessions Of A Superhero (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Director: Matthew Ogens; Featuring: Maxwell Allen, Christopher Dennis, Jennifer Wenger, Joseph McQueen; Running Time: 92 Mins; Rated: R<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lookalikes get some real stick, and I’ll admit, I’ve dished some out myself. They’re kind of viewed as the most out there wannabes who obviously have nothing original to contribute – just look at them: they’re copying someone. As with most of these invisible sub-cultures, how often do you stop and ask yourself about the human being behind the phenomenon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what do you learn about them here? That they are brave, somewhat damaged individuals with big dreams. This documentary works in the way the best of these films do – it makes you care about the people and it actually makes you reassess your attitude to what it means to be a lookalike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a way Christopher Dennis has truly come to embody some of the best things about Superman, and I have to say I don’t see a problem in them getting some kind of remuneration for services provided. They make people feel better, pose for photos, provide amusement, so giving them a small tip is surely not much to ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\\’s nice to see Joseph McQueen (The Hulk) and Jennifer Wenger (Wonder Woman) having some small success in their acting careers; and you want for all of them to succeed. You see the double-edged blade of the attention their job (because it is a job) gets them when a group of them are arrested for aggressive panhandling – but them that gets some of them coverage on The Jimmy Fallon Show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be really cool if someone went back in a few years and gave us a progress report on where everyone is – let’s hope they make it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director: Matthew Ogens; Featuring: Maxwell Allen, Christopher Dennis, Jennifer Wenger, Joseph McQueen; Running Time: 92 Mins; Rated: R Lookalikes get some real stick, and I’ll admit, I’ve dished some out myself. They’re kind of viewed as the most out there Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61,170],"tags":[373,425,492,495,763,764,770,771,844,999],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-hick","category-update","tag-confessions-of-a-superhero","tag-documentary","tag-film","tag-films","tag-movie","tag-movies","tag-muse-hick","tag-musehick","tag-paul-grimsley","tag-skull-cull"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/confessions-of-a-superhero.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}