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Kick Ass

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I thought it was decent. Not a bad movie, but not a good one either. I did not think the violent 12 year old was too too bad, but kinda wish she had been cast at a similar age as Kick Ass and Red Mist. I thought what really hurt the movie was too much senseless stuff. I get the picture of the 17 year old masturbating, but it wasn't necessary for the 5-6 minute insight. Killing 10-15 would have been just as impressive as killing the 40. I thought the concept of these ordinary people trying to be super heroes was cool though. Good concept that sounds like it works in the comics, but translating to the screen was a little lackluster.
 
Poulsonator said:
Yea - one's a movie (cinema) and the other's a game. All cinema is art. Games are not.

Is the Giants / Dodgers game being played right now art? Was the Cleveland / Chicago game earlier today art? In the case of video games...video games are played. Because they're fun. Yes, they share similarities to movies, but so does professional sports (plots, characters, acting, etc.).
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You're lumping all games into one genre which is ignorant and bullshit. Are things like Madden, Need for Speed, and Halo art? Not very much... but when you look at things like Mass Effect that aren't just about the gameplay but about the characters, locations, morality, themes, etc then it's just as much art as any movie. Most games aren't art but at time goes on more of them are getting there.
 
Big Daddy + hit girl -> play on Batman and Robin

"wait till they get a load of me"

so the mobster's kid is like the Joker?!
 
Printer Bandit said:
anyone read the kick ass comics? the movie follows it pretty closely.
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Ehhh. I didn't like what they did with
Big-Daddy's origin story, how they changed the whole torture bit (but that's acceptable for American audiences I guess), the Red Mist reveal, or the fate of Kick-Ass's relationship with Katie ....

But my friends who'd never read the comics enjoyed the movie, so.
 
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Saw the movie last weekend, didn't know what to expect (spur of the moment decision)

Was kinda confused at the start, thought it would be more of a family type movie
(it's rated 12+ here, not 17+ like in the states)

got mixed feelings about it, still not sure I would recommend it for anything other than a beer movie...
 
timosyy said:
Ehhh. I didn't like what they did with (spoilers removed just to be safe).
But my friends who'd never read the comics enjoyed the movie, so.
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I heard pretty early on that they were going to cheer up the ending with Katie and Big Daddy and make it less Mark Millar cynical (if you read his other stuff you will know what I mean). You also have to remember that this got greenlit before the 3rd comic was even on the news stand and they were filming with more than half of the book not even finished. You notice how at a certain point it veers off significantly from the book.

In my opinion this was done both purposely (to make it more fun popcorn movie-sh) and also because the last parts of the script were being written off of Mark Millar's general idea of what was going to happen in the last 4 issues or so.


IMO I don't think the comic story would have went over quite as well as what they did here and I really enjoyed the supplemental ending.
 
SirStev0 said:
IMO I don't think the comic story would have went over quite as well as what they did here and I really enjoyed the supplemental ending.
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Yeah. I was explaining to the friends I went with the differences between the comic & the movie and they were like "well the comic sounds terrible" haha.
 
classy said:
She looks 13 there and that skirt is inappropiate. We live in sad world that would look at this young girl in some kind of sexual manner. I can see a teenage boy her age, but for grown men to be lusting after her is sick.
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i agree. wtf is going on here?!
 
Aharami said:
i agree. wtf is going on here?!
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Who the hell is lusting after her? 😕 If you are talking about in the film, there is the one kid that says he is in love with her, but it is dealt with in a funny and inoffensive manner.

I did not find the film offensive at all. There are countless films that push the boundaries much farther than Kick Ass ever does. Heck, even a movie like Let The Right One In is more disturbing in many ways.

KT
 
Printer Bandit said:
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katie.

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JEDI said:
what happened w/kaitie?
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Not sure if you've only seen the movie or just read the comic. I'm just going off of what I can remember when I read the wikipedia page, but...

In the movie, Katie ends up being Kick-Ass's girlfriend, where in the comics, after Kick-Ass reveals himself to her, her current boyfriend just beats him up. In the movie, Big Daddy ends up dying by the mobsters during the whole interrogation thing, but in the comic, Big Daddy gets interrogated and it's revealed that he's not an ex-cop but some accountant or something like that.

KeithTalent said:
I did not find the film offensive at all. There are countless films that push the boundaries much farther than Kick Ass ever does. Heck, even a movie like Let The Right One In is more disturbing in many ways.
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I don't find it offensive at all either, but I guess some people can't separate the reality (just actors...) from the make-believe. I'm actually quite disappointed in Ebert (who I find to usually be a pretty good critic) in that he let some silly moral ideal get in the way of truly reviewing this film. I mean, he actually sat there blabbing on about how the character "shows no remorse." Ebert... it's a fucking make-believe character from a violent comic book... MAKE-BELIEVE. Just because the character is a young (minor) female does not magically make it any different.

Some people just have an odd sense of purity/innocence. I wonder what would happen if you told Ebert that kids younger than 13 are having sex these days... he'd probably go insane 😛.
 
Aikouka said:
Not sure if you've only seen the movie or just read the comic. I'm just going off of what I can remember when I read the wikipedia page, but...

In the movie, Katie ends up being Kick-Ass's girlfriend, where in the comics, after Kick-Ass reveals himself to her, her current boyfriend just beats him up. In the movie, Big Daddy ends up dying by the mobsters during the whole interrogation thing, but in the comic, Big Daddy gets interrogated and it's revealed that he's not an ex-cop but some accountant or something like that.



I don't find it offensive at all either, but I guess some people can't separate the reality (just actors...) from the make-believe. I'm actually quite disappointed in Ebert (who I find to usually be a pretty good critic) in that he let some silly moral ideal get in the way of truly reviewing this film. I mean, he actually sat there blabbing on about how the character "shows no remorse." Ebert... it's a fucking make-believe character from a violent comic book... MAKE-BELIEVE. Just because the character is a young (minor) female does not magically make it any different.

Some people just have an odd sense of purity/innocence. I wonder what would happen if you told Ebert that kids younger than 13 are having sex these days... he'd probably go insane 😛.
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Plus the fact his death in the comic was a helluva lot less dignified than in the movie. There wasn't a black guy in the comic either that was a friend/partner.
 
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