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Just came back from the showing. I admit that without Hit-girl this would be boring. I want to see More of big daddy inthe sequel (flashback scenes) would be cool.
 
Funny how the
Jet pack
moment is being moaned at by a section of the US audience. That got a huge laugh by the audience when I watched it. We all saw it coming and it was how tacky it was that made it hilarious.

Our sense of humour differs on so many things. Just quirky.
 
GhaleonEB said:
I saw it more as a deliberate juxtaposition. The life of a teenager in high school, even one that dresses up as a super hero, is never going to be as interesting as a highly trained father-daughter costumed duo going up against an organized crime ring. That tension - ordinary guy with ordinary life getting sucked into stuff that's way over his head - is what made much of the movie so amusing. The lead character is the guy the audience can relate to; when Hit Girl is wiping out everyone in her first scene, Kick-Ass is reacting exactly the same way as the audience. As stuff got crazier and crazier, the contrast become more stark. It led to a lot of really great inter-cutting late in the film.

I thought it worked.
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I agree and think it worked too. But it still doesnt change my feelings that the Kick-Ass stuff could have been much more engaging and on the level of the other stuff with a few small changes. He seemed to be on the right track after the YouTube fight, but once things got real with the drug dealer's posse and Hit Girl had to clean up his mess, he went to the sidelines for almost the rest of the movie. It also kind of annoyed me that it wasnt until the final action scene in the entire movie that he stopped standing around watching Hit Girl and finally did something.
 
I thought it was interesting that Kick-Ass eventually knew his limits as a superhero. When he was in the restaurant talking to his friends about not needing to have super powers to become a superhero, it turned out to be a severe flaw. Kick-Ass realized that and just gave up being a superhero; he was being rational. Compare that to BD and HG, they were living in their own world where rational and irrational were blurred together. The two had their objective. They were superheros going after the big bad guy. They could fight, jump from building to building, and had all of the cool gadgets.
 
I just read about how 19 year-old Aaron Johnson is engaged to a 43 year-old woman who is pregnant with their child.

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Apparently Aaron and Kick-Ass both lust after middle-aged women. :lol
 
I am so glad I'm not a comic book geek. Life is a lot better this way. :lol

Saw it again and loved it just as much the second time.
 
Solo said:
Haven't read through the thread yet (will soon), so it might have already been mentioned, but did anyone else think that it wasn't "Surface of the Sun" ripped directly from Sunshine? What I mean is, it sounded like a different arrangement, more guitar driven. And I also noticed that John Murphy got a credit (alongside 3 others) in the opening titles for the music. So Im wondering if its not a re-arranged, re-recorded version of the cue.
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Yea the arrangement was slightly different from Surface, but I think it was an arrangement still featured in Sunshine itself.

I think the others credited had their own music featured like Murphy. But of course i have no proof of this. Either way it was amazing.

equap said:
The girl in my icon, she's in any other movie? She's fucking hot!
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well first off, as you can see here

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20813878&postcount=721

you're late to the party on the avatar =P

she is from How I Met Your Mother in a very small role, Desperate Housewives i think, and apparently Hot Tub Time Machine. Linsday Fornseca or something like that

Solo said:
This movie also had a shitton of Spider-Man/Spidey 2 riffing going on in it.
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is that why his neighborhood looked just like peters in SM1/2? or coincidence?
 
I decided to say "What the Hell" and see this tomorrow. First movie since Avatar came out I'll see. I loved Layer Cake, and adore Stardust. And with the positive word of mouth, might as well. Nothing else coming out interests me that much.
 
I am seeing this AGAIN tommorow, and paying for a friends ticket. I havent done that shit since the dark knight and Avatar. I usually only see a movie once and wait for dvd. But i just have to see this again.
 
Dead said:
It would be okay if it was changed well.

The love story, jetpack, etc. Awful
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I agree, those are the only two points I couldn't stand in the movie. I don't care that they changed the 'love story', it's the way it was quickly patched together.. seemingly because they said 'we better make this happen, but we don't have time to really expand upon it in a meaningful way'.

And the jetpack was awful. Nothing more.
 
Just came back from checking out the movie, and it was good fun. It was one of the best comic book movies I've seen, and its full of life and is genuinely funny. I would say it features excessive language if you are against that.

It also had a terrific climax, one of the best final fights ever.

And loved the little cues to other comic book movies, the opening theme has hints of the SUperman theme, the driving theme has hints of the Batman theme, and the fighting theme has bits of Batman Begins. Nic Cage speaks like Adam West's Batman and the final line is straight from the original Batman movie.

Some of the things were changed from the comic book, but to me actually made the movie better than the comics IMO. On the same hand, didn't read it all in a while so may change my mind.

I say give the movie a watch. I will buy when it drops on Blu.
 
I tend to include the Rescue Scene of Kick-ass/Big Daddy part of the final act, it's a bunch of action rushing to the end of the movie.
 
EvilMario said:
I agree, those are the only two points I couldn't stand in the movie. I don't care that they changed the 'love story', it's the way it was quickly patched together.. seemingly because they said 'we better make this happen, but we don't have time to really expand upon it in a meaningful way'.

And the jetpack was awful. Nothing more.
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Yes. I was absolutely loving the movie till that part. Such a buzzkill :lol

The whole time I was "THERES NOT ENUF FUEL THATS SO DUMB". but in my head
 
xDangerboy said:
Yes. I was absolutely loving the movie till that part. Such a buzzkill :lol

The whole time I was "THERES NOT ENUF FUEL THATS SO DUMB". but in my head
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OMG!!! i know right?! that shit really ruined this fine documentary about a 9yr old girl killing machine.

you're dumb ass!
 
equap said:
OMG!!! i know right?! that shit really ruined this fine documentary about a 11yr old girl killing machine.

you're dumb ass!
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It's happening more and more than you think, preteen killing machines...albeit not wearing schoolskirts and purple wigs... or maybe...?
 
Saw it this morning and loved it. My theater was packed in the early showing, but they did have it in a smaller theater. It was so sad when
Big Daddy died. I wanted him to live.
Hit Girl stole the show. My theater was cracking up pretty much the entire movie. Everyone was laughing at
LOST
:lol P.S. people at my work last night were talking about movies coming out and they all said they wanted to go see that shitty Chris Rock movie coming out and I said Kick Ass was coming out and they all kind of looked at me like WTF and then began to say how the movie looked stupid etc. People have no taste.
 
The actress would grow-up, assuming like the sequel will make the character grow up too since they try to be more based on 'reality' than a Simpsons universe where everyone stays the same age.
 
The scene where Hit-girl and Big Daddy are buying the mini-gun/jet-pack online was funny... particularly the part when BD says "add to shopping cart" at Mindy.

Makes you realise how much the internet has affected our lives.
 
Solo said:
Thats the issue though. When the movie was focused on Kick-Ass is when it was at its weakest. When it shifted to HG/BD, or Mark Strong, it got much more entertaining.
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I thought the HG/BD and Strong scenes only worked so well as a result of the direct contrast with the earlier scenes. Whenever HG was on screen, or mysteriously absent (the warehouse scene), the build-up to the 'oh fuuuuck' moment was awesome.

I just loved the hostage warehouse scene. I almost want to see the movie again for that sequence alone.
 
I wanna go see this again. So fucking great. The numbers on Friday were solid but not amazing so I'm hoping it picks up.

I was telling everyone at work to go see it and a lot of people were like "really? it was good? the commercials were stupid".

Ugh.
 
omg rite said:
I wanna go see this again. So fucking great. The numbers on Friday were solid but not amazing so I'm hoping it picks up.

I was telling everyone at work to go see it and a lot of people were like "really? it was good? the commercials were stupid".

Ugh.
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lionsgate :lol
 
I just got back from seeing it and thought that it was really good. It starts slow, and I wish there had been more BD and HG scenes, but I still really bid enjoy it.
 
As someone who read the series, in issues, from #1, the film is leagues better. It captures the action and absurdity of the comic and injects some much-appreciated heart in there to keep it from becoming mindless (a problem I had with the series). I could have done without the relationship stuff, but it was stretched thin enough to avoid being annoying.

So yeah, as for the changes from the comic:
1.
Big Daddy's origin from an obsessive comic collector to a Punisher-esque badass was completely fine. In the series, it's a very inside indictment of collectors. Putting it in the film wasn't necessary.
2.
Dave getting the girl was kind of meh, but it didn't really bother me that much. I was much more disappointed that Clarke Duke got that other girl. I mean, let's be real for a goddamn minute. That dude isn't scoring that kind of tail.
3.
Red Mist being known as a double-agent from the beginning certainly made it better for me, having read the series already. Instead of waiting for them to reveal that he was the mob boss's son, they just tell you right away, so it becomes less about the reveal and more about the tension, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
4.
Hit Girl doing coke would've been too much for most people. And since it adds basically nothing to the character or story, I don't really care that they took it out.

Also,
the jetpack
was awesome.
 
I don't think she'll reach the heights of either Foster or Portman sadly.

Judging by the sheer amount of films she's coming in now she's just going to burn out and we'll all get sick of her like Dakota Fanning.
 
I thought it was a pretty sweet film, two major gripes though:

1) The movie's exposition built on how realistic it was towards the beginning, "what if actual people tried being super heroes?" But later on scenes where Hit Girl was
reloading ammo by throwing clips in the air, running up walls,
and the entire
RPG shot at the end kinda pissed me off for some reason.

2) There was rarely any character development between Red Mist and Kick-Ass. It just kinda... Happened.

Really great action sequences though, kept me "on the edge of my seat" etc.
 
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