I am looking for a certain movie type. Calling all movie lovers

I am looking for a certain movie type. A story like a person with extraordinary powers that can't be beat by humans and that is a good person, stays out of the way and doesn't do anything bad or destructive unless he is messed with. Every effort by the powers that be fails in trying to get him subdued as he simply tries to be left alone.

Any ideas?

a reply to: godservant



Enjoyed this one as a kid.

"Save the Cat! (the last book on Screenwriting that you'll ever need)" by Blake Snyder -- devotes chapter 2 "Give Me the Same Thing... Only Different!" to describing that there are really only 10 stories:

1. Monster in the House [ Jaws, Alien, Exorcist... ]
   
2. Golden-Fleece / Quest [ Star Wars, Wizard of Oz, Back to the Future ]
   
3. Wish Fulfilled with Chagrine [ Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, Flubber ]
   
4. Small Guy with Big Problem [ Die Hard, Titanic, Schindler's List ]
   
5. Rite of Passage - every change of life story.
   
6. Buddy Love [ Dumb & Dumber, Rain Man, every love-story ]
   
7. Why Dunnit? (...why? is more interesting than who?) [ Chinatown, JFK, the Insider ]
   
8. Fool Triumphant / Wise Village Idiot [Forrest Gump, the Jerk, Amadeus, Chaplin-movies ]
   
9. Group / Institution / Family [ Animal House, American Beauty, Godfather ]
   
10. SuperHero (Big Guy - Any Problems) [ Superman, but also Dracula, Frankenstein, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind ]
    

extraordinary powers implies genre "SuperHero"... but your full description also reads like the plot of every Clint Eastwood western.

Other writers about stories have described that a good story is often about:
(a) an ordinary person in extraordinary times,
or
(b) an extraordinary person in ordinary times.

a reply to: godservant

Have you seen the Wraith with Charlie Sheen and Randy Quaid from the eighties?? I'd say it's about 80% what your looking for. Also got Man of Steel, Falling Down , the Day the Earth Stood Still with Keaneu Reeves.

All fun watches, I own them all in blu ray and more.

a reply to: godservant

Bruce almighty

a reply to: godservant

Samaritan - Trailer

Absolutely Anything - Trailer

Secret Headquarters - Trailer

Project Power - Trailer

Day Shift - Trailer

a reply to: godservant

SPAWN

Aqua man .

Hancock

With Will Smith?

Sorry,

Bally

I can't really think of any that match that description completely...
Push with Chris Evans? That involves a drug the military is testing though if I remember correctly.

I Am Number 4 with Timothy Olyphant? But that's an alien being chased by aliens I think...

There was another I was thinking of but it was even less related and totally slipped my mind, I'll post if I can remember...

Double.

WOOOOO triple post! I'm impressed.

a reply to: godservant

It's been a while, Freaks (2018) comes to mind. I found this movie thought provoking. There's destruction. but I don't remember her doing anything wrong. It's an interesting movie....

a reply to: godservant

"Phenomenon"?- J. Travolta...hit by lightening I think..developed powers.

a reply to: mysterioustranger

Wasn't that the one where he had a brain tumor? I think anyway.

I guess Powder kind of fits into this kind of movie? I'm terrible at this.

reminds me of the ST:TNG episode 'The Survivors'.

I recommend.

No super powers, but this movie fits your bill pretty well, and it's a fun watch.

Nobody


Laguage warning.

a reply to: godservant

here is the trailer for that movie.

This is actually one of my favorite movies ever and have seen it so many times the kids get annoyed now. I will sometimes use it as a threat of punishment when they don't act right. "Clean up that room or I am putting on the Wraith". They heard Ozzy so many times in that first race and Bowie later on its like the soundtrack of the movie.

a reply to: XipeTotex

Oh sweet Deity, why did you have to mention that particular piece of....film??? I've spent years trying to forget it ever existed....

A show called Carnivale on HBO with an incredible plot twist at the end.