Iambaytor Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 So...... the actor that plays Kick-Ass just knocked up his 43 year old fiance Now that is Kick-Ass It's good to see that more kids these days are following in Ashton Kutcher's footsteps. What a good role model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 I genuinely agree. This is a positive trend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilsAdvoc8 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Saw this last night and I was pleasantly amazed, not a straight from the book adaptation but unique and awsome in it's own right. A must-see. 5 stars. Two thumbs up, etc. I want to say "KICK ASS kicked ass!" but will I be the 1st? No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalHeart Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 I'm very excites!! I can't wait to see it Sunday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 Kicked lots of ass! Loved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsmithx Posted May 16, 2010 Share Posted May 16, 2010 saw this last night... both pleased and disapointed. On one hand i didn't like how they went from the book towards the end(both some great lines left out and some great sences) and how it got way more insane then the book did. Some really cool shit happens though and it's a much more feel good ending then the book had. It stands on it's own as a movie but it's not as powerful as the book. Plus I thought kick ass, kicked a bit more ass in the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I've read a lot of criticisms and praises, and what I'm wondering is why NO ONE MENTIONS THE FUCKING JETPACK?!? Is everyone just cool with it I guess? It's like a bad joke about Hollywood stereotypes "Hmm. Okay guys,we're gonna lose the audience here. I need a 68% increase in drama levels and sense of dread and, uh, why don't we have the main character SHOW UP IN A JETPACK LADEN WITH MINIGUNS AND FLY HIT GIRL ACROSS THE CITY!!" It's something a 12 year old would come up with. Made me wanna punch a baby. I'm surprised they didn't give him heat vision or inviso-breath or something. You know, just for fun. Besides that and the fact that Big Daddy was infinitely less interesting and much more absurd in the film, it was tolerable. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 yeah, it was jarring, but this is Millar's stuff, so it's hard to go so far over the top that someone calls shenanigans. on the list of deus ex's available to Kick-Ass at the moment Hit-Girl has clearly bitten off more than she can chew...i guess it struck me as less offensive than say super-powers? also, Big Daddy i was ok with, though his cop-friend & all that was a bit too Sin City-light for me. really though, you were better with the minor character who was a full-of-shit fanboy with no real training (unless im forgetting he had it somewhere)? he was more subtle, sure, but then he gets chumped & dies...let me ask you this, were you ok with his girlfriend not being a horrible cunt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reverend Jax Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Like I've said many times, if it works in its own right, it doesn't have to be taken straight out of the source material. There are Motion Comics nowadays if that's what you want. The bit with his gay cuddle buddy being a total cunt worked great in the book, and it may very well have worked well int he movie, but it's also possible that it could have come off as too dark, and fans of the book would have given it a pass cause it was accurate, but it might not have made for the best possible movie. In a world with so many shitty adaptation, including some that break your heart for months after you see them, I'm happy just to get good movies based on these books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 yeah, it was jarring, but this is Millar's stuff, so it's hard to go so far over the top that someone calls shenanigans. on the list of deus ex's available to Kick-Ass at the moment Hit-Girl has clearly bitten off more than she can chew...i guess it struck me as less offensive than say super-powers? also, Big Daddy i was ok with, though his cop-friend & all that was a bit too Sin City-light for me. really though, you were better with the minor character who was a full-of-shit fanboy with no real training (unless im forgetting he had it somewhere)? he was more subtle, sure, but then he gets chumped & dies...let me ask you this, were you ok with his girlfriend not being a horrible cunt? It wouldn't have been more than she could chew if they would have left in her Code Red! It's a super secret formula, developed by SCIENTISTS! Now there's a deus ex I can get behind :P I totally prefer the full-of-shit fanboy Big Daddy in every possible way. It makes things plausible and it's a lot more interesting to me. We know nothing of his training, I'm not sure if I recall him doing more than operating a sniper rifle. He leaves the fighting to his kidnapped daughter that he's brainwashed into being a monster because he thought it would be fun. He is not a good person. To me, the book seemed to be addressing the reason that there are no real costumed vigilantes. You crash to the ground when your wings don't work, get stabbed when you try to beat the shit out of some black youths doing something that's barely a crime (since you won't be stumbling across many actual crimes), get tortured by the mob when you fuck with them, and the guy that seems legit and sounds like he ripped off The Punisher's origin totally did. As for the love interest, I can live with it. Still woulda been cooler if she was more unlikable. I think it was 'Baytor that made a good point: if he had revealed that he was Kick-Ass in the book she probably would have happily spread her legs. (my words) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 I've read a lot of criticisms and praises, and what I'm wondering is why NO ONE MENTIONS THE FUCKING JETPACK?!? Is everyone just cool with it I guess? It's like a bad joke about Hollywood stereotypes "Hmm. Okay guys,we're gonna lose the audience here. I need a 68% increase in drama levels and sense of dread and, uh, why don't we have the main character SHOW UP IN A JETPACK LADEN WITH MINIGUNS AND FLY HIT GIRL ACROSS THE CITY!!" Just rewatched it and while I agree on this front... I find it more believable than the fact that The Spirit 3 has been released in this universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 (edited) I really disagree w/ Logan's hatred of the ending change, especially the jetpack. I thought it was a good payoff. It's been a while since I saw it in the theater and I may change my mind once I see it again on Blu-Ray, but I thought it was a great device and a very memorable moment int he film. I knew about half-way into the film the book's ending wasn't coming when the chick became his gf once he revealed he wasn't gay. I always thought her reaction was a bit much in the comic. Would this girl who volunteers her time and is so understanding and caring really start hate fucking a jock and sicking bullies on Kick-Ass at school? Not likely. I know, I know--what room does plausibility have in these kinds of books/films? But I thought that aspect of the comic at least was improved upon in the film. I also agree the Big Daddy Punisher rip-off origin was a bit lame, but again--a bit more plausible in my book than the comic's explanation that some random fanboy was able to train Hitgirl into a lethal mini-assassin. In the end you knew deep down Hollywood wasn't going w/ the deliberately anti-Hollywood ending from the comic. Millar went out of his way to make Kick-Ass a chump and loser. But realistically, no one really wants to leave a superhero/action film feeling like they just spent 2hrs of their lives rooting for a complete tool like he was made out to be in the comic. Edited August 5, 2010 by Mr. Hakujin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Would this girl who volunteers her time and is so understanding and caring really start hate fucking a jock and sicking bullies on Kick-Ass at school? Did you just not know any girls in High School? She was already fucking a jock, probably because he's a prick and young girls love pricks. She wasn't "understanding and caring", she was a self absorbed, judgmental little cunt who felt betrayed because she was tricked into spending time with someone she considers a loser. I guarantee she only volunteered her time because A.) Her parents forced her or B.) It looks good on a college application. But realistically, no one really wants to leave a superhero/action film feeling like they just spent 2hrs of their lives rooting for a complete tool like he was made out to be in the comic. I DO! And he wasn't a tool, he was a teenage boy. They're easy to get confused. I assume he's a loser because there's some growing to do. Big Daddy was a tool, and that reveal woulda been awesome. I swear, you people are fucking fragile. This is just another case of "I want to relate to that guy, and if I can't I don't like it cuz I didn't escape enough and if I do relate then that means I'm a tool too, NOOOOOOOO!" I'm not all gung-ho about panel-by-panel adaptations, I just get irritated when things are "improved" in order to make more money. Appealing to the lowest common denominator irritates me. It's fucking insulting. It's not a bad movie, and it wasn't meddled with that much, but I feel that it was de-fanged to make it more palatable to yokels and I'm gonna bitch about it, godammit. Coulda been better. At least Hollywood seems to be moving away from the notion that 'anything that's a comic book can't possibly be written well enough to be a movie, so lets just take the characters and write a real story that has nothing to do with the shit that those comic losers write' *cough*League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Howard the Duck, Man-Thing, Steel etc etc*cough* P.S. The jetpack is still stupid as fuck and adds about a million plot holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 To be fair, his getting beaten up to beating people up ratio was skewed far higher in the comic than the movie. In fact he never really kicked anyone's ass in the movie. Also, what I get from Millar's perspective on this whole thing is that the stupidest things are the ones he's jealous he didn't come up with first, so let's not give him too much credit here. I still maintain that Big Daddy was the same guy from the comics, because: 1. Frank D'Amico did NOT kill his wife, sure he was wrongly imprisoned but turning your daughter into a whirling harpy of death is not the obvious jumping on point for even the craziest of vigilantes. 2. This was kind of glossed over in the movie, but Hit Girl was a really fucked up kid. Hit Girl wasn't afraid because to her, this whole thing was just a game, a pretend fairytale that she got to live with her father. The movie made a plothole by having her raised by the other guy first because it was far more realistic that she had been snatched as a baby and this life was all she knew. But during the part where he says "okay, no more homework, we have work to do" you see she's reading one of those comic books that the partner picked up earlier in the movie. Her entire understanding of the world is based on the information her father feeds her, she kills who he says when he says and enjoys it because to her, it isn't murder. So really the only thing that got taken out of it was the most ridiculous chunk, the idea that a lazy deadbeat dad could train his 10-year-old daughter to be some kind of monster ninja assassin based entirely on a knowledge of comic books. Not to mention that the movie's Big Daddy is a much more complete riff on the Punisher than the comic's. I liked the point Millar was going for there, but I think it's hard to type complex ideas with his big fat retard fingers. I think when he starts getting too deep he just starts typing "ASSFUCKBLOODCUNT!" and adds another gunfight in much the same way Frank Miller covers plot holes and bad ideas with prostitutes and lengthy inner-monologues about internal bleeding. Though her doing coke before the final confrontation would've been a nice touch, I was disappointed that didn't get included. The jetpack was stupid but I'll be damned if it wasn't entertaining and at that point in the story, the movie (and the comic for that matter) had already moved past the "this is real life" idea. It just apparently takes place in the same universe as Punisher MAX. I could have done more with the girl being a selfish socialite cunt but I'll allow a flowery romance and a jet pack for what was otherwise an improvement on the source material Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Apparently the sequel is inevitable. Vaughn won't be directing though as he has bigger comic book fish to fry w/ the X-Men franchise. I still haven't read the K-A2 comic... Millar discusses the film and comics in length here. There are some very controversial scenes in the Kick-Ass 2 comic book. Will it have to be toned down for the screen? "Every horrible scene in the book will be in the film. The c**t line in the first one, everybody said 'there's no way you're getting that in the movie', but it happened and it's the same thing with this. How much material from the Hit-Girl spinoff comic is going to make it into Kick-Ass 2? "Hit-Girl will be the first 30 minutes of the movie and then the next 70 minutes is Kick-Ass 2. So Hit-Girl is structured as the first act." What does the future hold for Kick-Ass in comic books? "The third book of Kick-Ass is the last book, there won't be any more after that. Even though it's the biggest book I've ever done, I've really always thought there's an end in sight, so I plan on finishing it in a year's time." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Kick-Ass 2 was not very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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alive she cried Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Saw Kick Ass 2 last night. I'm a fan of the comic, I really enjoyed, I seem to be alone there though. The movie was fun (enough), enjoyable, but nothing spectacular, worth watching, but no need to see it in cinemas. It's nowhere as dark as the comic, the tone is way lighter, too light. It's especially noticeable in the rape scene and the death of Colonel Stars & Stripes. They're almost portrayed as mundane events and the characters barely have a reaction. All in all though, 7/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted August 17, 2013 Share Posted August 17, 2013 Just saw it today. While it doesn't get as crazy as the first one I thought the story was better. I hadn't read the second book, so I don't know the differences between the events. concerningASC's spoiler I agree about Stars and Stripes' death. Thinking back it didn't seem like they gave a shit. I took it as though red mist/motherfucker didn't rape night bitch though (in the movie). They used the impotence joke to get out and just beat her up it seemed. Unless that did happen in the book. also Mother Russia kicking ass to the tetris theme was great It was cool to see Jorah from GoT also in a different part, as minor as it was. ASC gives it a fair rating though. I'd recommend seeing it in the theater though, but that's just a personal preference of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Agree w/ ASC that Kick-Ass 2 is an easy pass for the theater, and I'd save it for video. Mother Russia kicking ass to the tetris theme was great Agreed. That was probably the best scene in the film that didn't involve Hit Girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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