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[Mudkips]

You know that How to Train Your Dragon already came out this year, right?

If you want something done right you have to do it yourself.

 

[Label]

I just watched this for the second time this afternoon, was as good as it was the first time. God damn I love this film

 

[Dresden]

Saw the commercial for this, and tbh, it didn't show the movie in a good light. If it wasn't for the overwhelmingly positive reactions here, I'd probably wait for it to hit blu ray or something.

As it is, day one.

 

[Dabookerman]

Came back from this a few hours ago. Awesome movie. Hit girl steals the show, and a lot of the characters were great.

Everyone must see this. Truly awesome.

 

[Necrovaar]

Just got back from watching this first time.
Amazzzzzzzing, seriously, you should all watch it at least once, it has everything in it.

 

[Dabanton]

I see Kick Ass fever has hit this thread lovely to hear more good impressions. Also loved reading that Daily Mail review this morning Christopher Tookey has some very strange sexual issues that he maybe needs to sort out. :lol

 

[Medalion]

Says the man sporting a 12 year old schoolgirl with pigtails in his avatar for months.

 

[Dabookerman]

Says the man sporting a 12 year old schoolgirl with pigtails in his avatar for months.

Sarcasm right?

 

[Medalion]

Sarcasm right?

It sorta was.

 

[Dabanton]

Says the man sporting a 12 year old schoolgirl with pigtails in his avatar for months.

Why you. :lol

 

[Dabookerman]

I am shocked.

Aaron Johnson, the guy who plays Dave in this film. Is British. For any american's who have seen this, does he pull off a good american accent? Because I never would have guessed. I honestly thought this guy was american.
Anyway, he's also 19 and he's engaged to a

Spoiler

42

year old.

He's also not very comfortable being interviewed. (watching him on wossy now).

 

[Veidt]

I am shocked.

Aaron Johnson, the guy who plays Dave in this film. Is British. For any american's who have seen this, does he pull off a good american accent? Because I never would have guessed. I honestly thought this guy was american.
Anyway, he's also 19 and he's engaged to a

Spoiler

42

year old.

He's also not very comfortable being interviewed. (watching him on wossy now).

I've also noticed this. Crazy, I figured he'd be as American as Saudi Oil. He's engaged to a 42 year old?

Oh, even better! He's expecting a baby!

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6979162.ece

Jesus christ! He's well nervous on Wossy. Check it out on BBC iplayer. Keeps scratching himself :lol

oh whoa.. that's very interesting.
He looks like JGL from that angle too. Must check Wossy.

 

[Dabookerman]

I've also noticed this. Crazy, I figured he'd be as American as Saudi Oil. He's engaged to a 42 year old?

Oh, even better! He's expecting a baby!

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6979162.ece

Jesus christ! He's well nervous on Wossy. Check it out on BBC iplayer. Keeps scratching himself :lol

 

[Medalion]

Vast age differences... how appropriate. :lol

 

[Dabookerman]

Christ. This is seriously uncomfortable viewing.

It's on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2io8vrkc98

Watch it, and squirm uncomfortably.

 

[gerg]

I've known that Aaron Johnson was British for a while (and that he was expecting a child with his 42 year-old fiancée :lol) but, boy, does he mask that accent well. Few Americans seem to realise that Hugh Laurie is British, too.

 

[Veidt]

Christ. This is seriously uncomfortable viewing.

It's on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2io8vrkc98

Watch it, and squirm uncomfortably.

Poor guy. :lol
He seems really mature for his age though.

 

[Bleepey]

I was thinking he was mad for marrying a woman old enough to be his wife, but then i see he knocked her up.

 

[Expendable.]

elguapo1

New Nicolas Cage hairdo!! http://twitpic.com/1czn30

Oh my. :lol

 

[Dabookerman]

Is this film not out in N.America yet? Thread's awfully quiet.

 

[Veidt]

Is this film not out in N.America yet? Thread's awfully quiet.

2 weeks left.

 

[Expendable.]

Is this film not out in N.America yet? Thread's awfully quiet.

Not for another 13 days

 

[Dabookerman]

Not for another 13 days

Sorry to be a dick, but:

Spoiler

That's for Pixar

 

[Expendable.]

Yeah, it's painful. They are screening The Back-up Plan and Death at a Funeral too, but no Kick-Ass

 

[Veidt]

Yeah, it's painful. They are screening The Back-up Plan and Death at a Funeral too, but no Kick-Ass

wtf? lol

Man. I feel for you

 

[Expendable.]

wtf? lol

Man. I feel for you

I begged our publicist to set up a screening. I want to get the word out there! Still, I'll be seeing it first thing on the 16th.

 

[Decado]

I was thinking he was mad for marrying a woman old enough to be his wife, but then i see he knocked her up.

Wha...? :lol

 

[Expendable.]

my dad just asked about this movie, he never does that. :lol

 

[Veidt]

my dad just asked about this movie, he never does that. :lol

Tell him all about it.

 

[Expendable.]

Tell him all about it.

I told him it was ultraviolent and a 13 year old girl says cunt. Now he doesn't want to see it. :lol

 

[Empty]

This film is the most fun i have had at the cinema in many many years. As soon as it finished i wanted to stay in the cinema and watch it again, as did all my friends. It really is a film that deserves a HOLY FUCKING SHIT reaction. I knew nothing going in and was blown away, it was like the last 20 mins of Hot Fuzz turned up even further and spread across most of a film. Just brilliant.

It kinda lulls you into a false sense of security by starting off super generic with the high school and the crush and whatever, and all that stuff is done well and is enjoyable, though the central romance was the weakest part of the film by far despite how ridiculously hot the girl was. Then it moves away from an entertaining and fun origin story, one that's maybe a cut above the usual and does it with a sense of humour, and goes into batshit insanity awesome which lampoons the entire genre while a;so being tense and actually rather touching. Every scene with Hit Girl was a classic, and the corridor scene climaxing with

Spoiler

"Fuck It, i'm getting the bazooka"

was pure cinematic joy. It goes in the complete opposite direction with the superhero film to the excellent The Dark Knight, but you know what, i enjoyed Kick Ass more.

edit: This sounds like i'm way overhyping it, but i wrote it as i was still buzzing from the film, and this is how excited i makes me feel.

 

[Spayro]

This film is the most fun i have had at the cinema in many many years. As soon as it finished i wanted to stay in the cinema and watch it again, as did all my friends. It really is a film that deserves a HOLY FUCKING SHIT reaction. I knew nothing going in and was blown away, it was like the last 20 mins of Hot Fuzz turned up even further and spread across most of a film. Just brilliant.

It kinda lulls you into a false sense of security by starting off super generic with the high school and the crush and whatever, and all that stuff is done well and is enjoyable, though the central romance was the weakest part of the film by far despite how ridiculously hot the girl was. Then it moves away from an entertaining and fun origin story, one that's maybe a cut above the usual and does it with a sense of humour, and goes into batshit insanity awesome which lampoons the entire genre while being exciting and actually rather touching. Every scene with Hit Girl was a classic, and the corridor scene climaxing with

Spoiler

"Fuck It, i'm getting the bazooka"

was pure cinematic joy. It goes in the complete opposite direction with the superhero film to the excellent The Dark Knight, but you know what, i enjoyed Kick Ass more.

I thought this movie did some things better than The Dark Knight. for one, the

Spoiler

warehouse scene

in this hit me way harder than

Spoiler

the warehouse scene

in TDK.

 

[Bleepey]

Wha...? :lol

??

 

[Expendable.]

I had a dream that I saw Kick-Ass and I was actually in the movie, then it ended when it got awesome. It was sad

 

[Gav]

Just read that Daily Fail review... christ :lol

Saw the movie this afternoon. Loved it, really brilliant. Some great shots in it too.
And the

Spoiler

jetpack

:lol

Was it just me or were there lots of soundtrack moments that sounded alot like Sunshine?

Edit: Just read this http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/mar/19/kick-ass-film-sountrack
Thought i heard 28 days later in there too!

 

[Veidt]

Just read that Daily Fail review... christ :lol

Saw the movie this afternoon. Loved it, really brilliant. Some great shots in it too.
And the

Spoiler

jetpack

:lol

Was it just me or were there lots of soundtrack moments that sounded alot like Sunshine?

No it's not just you. They used tracks straight from Sunshine 28 Days Later and For a Few Dollars More among others.

I had a dream that I saw Kick-Ass and I was actually in the movie, then it ended when it got awesome. It was sad

haha. You're so gonna love this shit man. The hype is feeding your existence right now.:lol

 

[Decado]

??

"I was thinking he was mad for marrying a woman old enough to be his wife, but then i see he knocked her up."

 

[Zenith]

saw it, liked it, but the joke-to-violence ratio was the wrong way round.

 

[Ashhong]

Just read that Daily Fail review... christ :lol

Saw the movie this afternoon. Loved it, really brilliant. Some great shots in it too.
And the

Spoiler

jetpack

:lol

Was it just me or were there lots of soundtrack moments that sounded alot like Sunshine?

Edit: Just read this http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/mar/19/kick-ass-film-sountrack
Thought i heard 28 days later in there too!

Has Sunshine music been used much in trailers? that article makes it sound like a lot of movies have used it. The only other movie i can think of is Inception..

 

[Wes]

saw it, liked it, but the joke-to-violence ratio was the wrong way round.

Depends what genre film you were expecting when you went in?

 

[Bleepey]

"I was thinking he was mad for marrying a woman old enough to be his wife, but then i see he knocked her up."

Shit how did i miss that:lol

 

[Stinkles]

The movie's writers want us to see Hit-Girl not only as cool, but also sexy, like an even younger version of the baby- faced Oriental assassin in Tarantino's Kill Bill 1. Paedophiles are going to adore her.

One of the film's creepiest aspects is that she's made to look as seductive as possible - much more so than in the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr comic book on which this is based. She's fetishised in precisely the same way as Angelina Jolie in the Lara Croft movies, and Halle Berry in Catwoman.

As if that isn't exploitative enough, she's also shown in a classic schoolgirl pose, in a short plaid-skirt with her hair in bunches, but carrying a big gun.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...cal-revels-abuse-childhood.html#ixzz0kDF1h3he

This guy honestly needs to take a seat over there. Seriously - if I was his editor I would ask him to consider counseling. The entire efficacy of her character relies on her very conventional little-girlness. The costume designers go out of their way to do the OPPOSITE of what he;s implying. Her mask fits badly, her clothes are too wrinkled, etc, etc.

I'm not naive - what he's talking about happens in The Professional, deliberately, to elicit discomfort, not eroticism. But in this case, he's projecting something deep seated, gross and WILDLY off the mark.

Also, Jane Goldman is a ripoff of Gary Whitta:

Career

Goldman worked as a staff writer on the multi-format computer games magazine Zero, circa 1990-1992.

(She's actually super nice and a hardcore gamer. Or was.)

 

[Juno]

Went to see the film last night. In a word: awesome!

Great score too. Loved the use of Surface of the Sun

 

[Dabookerman]

(She's actually super nice and a hardcore gamer. Or was.)

And she's very pwetty and I want to marry her. Damn you Wossy!

 

[voodooray]

Has Sunshine music been used much in trailers? that article makes it sound like a lot of movies have used it. The only other movie i can think of is Inception..

A variation (sounds like a cross between Sunshine and 28 Days Later) was also used in the remake of "The Last House on the Left".

The piece in Kick Ass also sounds slightly different too.

Maybe I'm just being prudish, but is anyone else surprised that this is rated as just a "15" in the UK?

 

[gerg]

A variation (sounds like a cross between Sunshine and 28 Days Later) was also used in the remake of "The Last House on the Left".

The piece in Kick Ass also sounds slightly different too.

Maybe I'm just being prudish, but is anyone else surprised that this is rated as just a "15" in the UK?

I was surprised about that as well.

Still, apparently the film got a "PG" rating (or equivalent) in France, which leaves me really puzzled.

 

[Decado]

saw it, liked it, but the joke-to-violence ratio was the wrong way round.

Not enough violence...?

 

[Dresden]

So guys, could someone tell me why it wasn't released simultaneously? Budget reasons? I didn't really follow this film until all the positive impressions got to me, I have no idea why they're forcing Americans to wait until the 16th.

 

[ZeoVGM]

So guys, could someone tell me why it wasn't released simultaneously? Budget reasons? I didn't really follow this film until all the positive impressions got to me, I have no idea why they're forcing Americans to wait until the 16th.

I could be wrong but I think it just took them longer to secure an American distributor.

 

[gerg]

So guys, could someone tell me why it wasn't released simultaneously? Budget reasons? I didn't really follow this film until all the positive impressions got to me, I have no idea why they're forcing Americans to wait until the 16th.

It's retribution for Up. ;P