Kick Ass - what did people think? (MASSIVE SPOILERS)

[Aur0ra145]

I just got home from watching Kickass, and it was totally fucking awesome! I went into the movie not expecting much at all. Boy was I wrong, it's just so over the top it's freaking superb.

Definatley one of the best movies of 2010, I really hope they win some awards for this cinematic masterpiece.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I just got home from watching Kickass, and it was totally fucking awesome! I went into the movie not expecting much at all. Boy was I wrong, it's just so over the top it's freaking superb.

Definatley one of the best movies of 2010, I really hope they win some awards for this cinematic masterpiece.

As much as I agree with you, I can't see it getting recognised by the 'serious' cinema institutions.

Then again, they might surprise us!

 

[Doomsday11]

Well, I wasn't expecting it to be as violent as it was, but damn it, it was fun as hell and a nice affront to good taste. Very well directed too. Much better than a lot of recent movies with the same concepts. I think it succeeded mainly because it was so violent, it actually satisfied the audience in that regard.

Incidentally, the Daily Mail's article tearing into it is hilarious. I believe the term for it would be 'Completely missing the point'.

Here we go

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/reviews/article-1262948/Kick-Ass-Dont-fooled-hype--This-crime-cinema-twisted-cynical-revels-abuse-childhood.html

Once again, the Daily Mail proves their ability to link absolutely anything to paedophilia, knife crime and Jamie Bolger. Paranoid rubbish, but hilarious.

I love the verdict they give it. "Verdict: Evil"[/quote

ah the daily mail what would do without your constant scorn,hatred and casual racism

I to hated that they killed big daddy(I mean common it's nick freaking cage)though the scene in the dark was posibble the greatest moment for me in my cinema watching carrer add the cod esc night vision + pistol and kitchen knife combo and big daddy singing out instruction's to his "Baby doll" as he died I won't lie by saying a single manly tie rolled down my cheek

plus am I the only one who was expecting nick to turn up at the end and beat the crap out of the guy beating up his daughter?

 

[Marik2]

Another highlight for me was the night-vision FPS sequence where Hit Girl turns into Soap McTavish.

That was an awesome scene I was not expecting that from a comic book movie.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Another highlight for me was the night-vision FPS sequence where Hit Girl turns into Soap McTavish.

That was an awesome scene I was not expecting that from a comic book movie.

And it was done a hundred times better than anything in Gamer...

 

[littlelacysurprisepageant]

It's... by Sithis was that a great movie!

Alas Daily Fail, you appear to have sunk even lower then I had actually thought possible.

 

[Marik2]

Another highlight for me was the night-vision FPS sequence where Hit Girl turns into Soap McTavish.

That was an awesome scene I was not expecting that from a comic book movie.

And it was done a hundred times better than anything in Gamer...

Yeah that movie sucked and this is a scene that doesn't come close to the scene from hit girl, mostly cuz the movie sucked, but it was way better than Gamer in IMO.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Another highlight for me was the night-vision FPS sequence where Hit Girl turns into Soap McTavish.

That was an awesome scene I was not expecting that from a comic book movie.

And it was done a hundred times better than anything in Gamer...

Yeah that movie sucked and this is a scene that doesn't come close to the scene from hit girl, mostly cuz the movie sucked, but it was way better than Gamer in IMO.

You might enjoy this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.182897-Miracles-Whip-Gamer

 

[Marik2]

You might enjoy this:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.182897-Miracles-Whip-Gamer

I had the same thought as yourself. I knew the movie would be bad but not God awful.

 

[Quaxar]

Saw the film just this evening at the pre-premiere here. Mindblowing awesome, truly deserves its name...
Someone know where I can get this kind of jetpack? I can't find it anywhere! Jetpack with gatling gun... that's like equipping Chuck Norris with Batarangs. I never believed awesome can have a maximum, but this thing sure reached it.

I think Kick Ass was a great movie if a little unbalanced between comedy and serious drama but grade A entertainment. The last line of the movie from Red Mist won me over because I knew you HAD to be a proper nerd to get it

"Wait till they get a load of me" Come on you all know it.

Yay, I am a proper nerd! I mean I had to look it up again on Google because I wasn't quite sure, but I knew I knew this quote.

 

[MrDarkling]

Oh I certainly loved the film, just the whole intense violence and funny cliches.
For some reason one of my most favourite scenes would have to be the part with Kick-Ass in Red Mist's car nodding to Crazy by Gnarls Barkley; Bloody brilliant that was.

 

[gorfias]

Good article, especially, "Oh, and one of the male teenage characters acknowledges that he's attracted to her (11 year old hit girl). "

I found the movie morally problematic in so many ways, but, because I am a major comic book geek, loved it anyway. G-d help me. I loved it.

The action scenes, (the strobe one in particular) were among the best I've seen since Dark Knight (kidnap in China being my favorite). I laughed at the right spots, thought it kept to its ideals well (Kickass doesn't morph into a particularly competent fighter).

But, again, the sexualization of Hit girl, the abuse Big Daddy did to her, very sick.

A writer artist named Rick Veitch did a similar deconstruction 20 years ago, where "Batman" really was sexually abusing "Robin", who endured it to learn the ways of crime fighting. Terrific series. The "Superman" brought up in Kansas by farmers was actually a super threat to his adoptive parents. As an infant, he would suckle a finger like any other baby, but with his super strength would accidently bite the finger off, etc. Bratpack. Very unsettling even then in only comic book form, never mind a big screen treatment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratpack_(comics)

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Best movie I've seen this year so far. Easily. Plus it's the most fun I've had in a movie theatre for a long, long time.

I have to say I was a little worried about Kick-Ass, simply because the comic had started strong and then kind of descended into a mediocre over sadistic wreck. The movie by passed this by changing it complete. The first act was the same but the second and third took a completely awesome turn and managed to add a lot of heart to something that could potentially just be punishing and hard to see like the comic.

The best part of the movie was obviously Hit-Girl. Best concept for action star I've ever seen! Made every awesome action scene with her in even better, but they were all brilliant on their own anyway. Especially loved the segment with the night goggles and the First Person Shooter segment, which i would was genius, especially as a video game nerd. Plus the epileptic fit inducing scene that followed it was brilliantly shot.

It was great to see Nick Cage finally doing something decent for once as well. When that guy chooses the right script he's genius, unfortunately I think his method of role finding involves throwing a bunch in the air and grabbing one from the midst. He got luckily this time though. While I liked him best out of costume (especially with the bullet proof vest scene) it was hilarious for any Batman geek when he played as Big Daddy. I wonder how many people caught the Adam West impression...My only misgiving about the character is that he actually was a cop. One of the big reveals in the comic was that Big Daddy was a completely insane comic book nerd like Kick-Ass and had invented the cop story and stolen his daughter away so they could become superheroes. He had been getting the money to buy shit by selling a bunch of very old comics online. I thought that was a brilliant idea and it was a little sad to me that the movie didn't pull though on this. Not a big issue though.

I think the best thing about Kick-Ass is that this is a big mainstream blockbuster that feels so weird, almost like a instant cult classic. It helps that it was very funny and brilliantly violent. Awesome movie.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

I wasn't expecting it to be so funny, dark, violent and tragic all together.

That was about what I was going to say. It was funnier, more fun, mroe clever, more unpleasant, more violent and more mature than I expected.

I walked out while the credits were rolling so I don't know whether there was anything after them. I was hoping to get past some roadworks before they closed the road. They closed it early. I could have stayed. I did stay long enough to read the first few pages of credits. Included among the characters are Huge Goon, Scary Goon, Sporty Goon, Ginger Goon and Baby Goon.

"Wait till they get a load of me" Come on you all know it.

He made it obvious he was quoting someone and I was rather annoyed that I couldn't remember whom he was quoting.

For anyone outside the UK who hasn't encountered it before, the Daily Mail hates everything. If something exists, it's for sale on ebay, there's porn of it and the Daily Mail hates it. They will rant against anything and everything. People unite against common enemies, and the Mail exists by providing something every day that people who dan't be bothered to think can hate. Then the people doing the hating feel at one with the Daily Mail and keep buying it. Hyperbole is their lifeblood ... or lymph, anyway ... and research, fact-checking, intellect and subtlety are their enemies and their poisons.

 

[thenoblitt]

i thought the movie was pretty damn awesome, i didnt know there was gonna be that much action in it though

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I wasn't expecting it to be so funny, dark, violent and tragic all together.

That was about what I was going to say. It was funnier, more fun, mroe clever, more unpleasant, more violent and more mature than I expected.

I walked out while the credits were rolling so I don't know whether there was anything after them. I was hoping to get past some roadworks before they closed the road. They closed it early. I could have stayed. I did stay long enough to read the first few pages of credits. Included among the characters are Huge Goon, Scary Goon, Sporty Goon, Ginger Goon and Baby Goon.

.

Looks like they had all the Spice Girls, I mean Goons...

 

[Shoqiyqa]

I'd have been more impressed if they'd also included Eccles, Bluebottle and Seagoon, but you can't have everything, can you?