Episode 48 - Project Power

Calling all Supes! Calling all Supes! Is that what they call them? I just realized that the people who get powers in this don't have the nicknames! Every person with powers in all these different alternative anti-superhero properties now all have nicknames, but they don't give the addicts in this movie any names! Very strange! Anyways, on today's episode of Talkin' TV, Chris & I sit down to discuss, as stated above, the latest installment in what I'm going to call the anti-superhero movement that we've been seeing in the last year and a half. Ever since Avengers: Endgame, we've been seeing property after property that seems to want to deconstruct out love of superheroes as part of pop culture and history, most of the time to the point where it makes us wonder what it is that's so special about superheroes in the first place!!! From The Boys to Joker to Watchmen to The Umbrella Academy and more, the current pop culture landscape seems to be doing everything opposite what Marvel was doing. And now we have the latest part of that rhetoric, Project Power. Project Power is directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, the infamous catfish people who directed 2016's "Nerve," and written by Mattson Tomlin, who is penning the new Batman script starring Robert Pattinson. It stars Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Dominique Fishback and takes place in a world, specifically New Orleans, in which pills capable of giving superpowers to people for only five minutes exist. The movie takes an interesting approach, treating the idea of having superpowers like a drug rather than a gift that most people believe it to be. And Chris and I went to town on this one, as we both certainly had our opinions. Does the film actually capitalize on its insanely original premise or does it simply devolve into cliched storytelling, character tropes we've seen before and poor filmmaking? Find out on today's episode of Talkin' TV!!!