Kick-Ass
I've been eagerly anticipating this movie for months now, and I finally saw it last night.
It was VERY goodyou know that feeling you get after seeing a movie with your mates, when you're standing outside and everyone's in a great mood because the movie was so AWESOME and you're all still seeing the scenes and hearing the lines in your head?
yeah, it was like that- been a while since the last time =)
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Yep I liked it too.
Nicolas Cage was very funny when he dressed up in his costume. Any old Batman fans will know why
All those moments lost in time... like tears in the rain
There was bucketloads of coolness in this movie. First time ive left a movie having genuinely enjoyed it in ages.
"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
It's gotten a few bad reviews here, but I have trouble believing the bad reviews. The Red Band trailer makes it look so weirdly awesome.
I saw it, fully expecting it to be horrible. I wasn't impressed the first half hour or so, and I thought it was dragging, right until he got. After that it just got continuously more and more ridiculous, though Nick Cage played his role well.Spoiler:
Starting to hate this trend of turning graphic novels into movies, especially good movies. Makes more work for me
Gives the likes of us more production and thus more penniesOriginally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Starting to hate this trend of turning graphic novels into movies, especially good movies. Makes more work for me
My gaming group and spouse and I saw this over the weekend.
We Loved It!
Hit Girl was awesome.
Did you think it was immoral to have an 11 year old girl say those things? And to put her in a position where she's probably being lusted after by some subset of older boys/dudes?
Fiction.
Fuck Dread, just post all of Ebert's reviewWhile you're at it, post his quotes about video games not being art.
I didn't know Ebert said anything about it...or that.I just read that it was "controversial". It certainly doesn't seem hard to imagine why based on the red band trailer.
about as "controversial" as Hermione, or Pocahontas
But she's not remotely made to look "hot"...The only way someone would lust after her is if they were a pedophile.
Hope is the denial of reality
Yeah, but they are also deliberately making her seem like an "adult" woman action hero in a kid's body. Her lips are made-up all to be all puffed up, plus the way she's told to squint is sorta provocative. She's obviously an 11 year old, which is part of the catch but I don't underestimate some dude's ability to find it really attractive.
Like I said, I highly doubt anyone who's not a pedophile (or 11) would find her attractive.
Hope is the denial of reality
No, it's part of the movie where there is a character conflict about her having no childhood.
Only an idiot or pedo would mistake her for an adult.
Gah...
Get yer facts straight dudes, Chloe Moretz (hit girl) is 13 years old, not 11. Though she woulda been 12 for much of the filming.
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Didn't realise that this was co-written by Jonathan Woss's long-time wife; Jane Goldman. Now that his career is on the back-burner with the BBC unlikely to renew his contract, this seems rather timely. Not that they lack for money however.
I read that she was 11 for much of the filming as she turned 13 just two months ago. Why would the BBC not renew the contract of a guy I've never heard of over this?
Jonathan Ross - his BBC contract (non) renewal is totally unrelated to this.
Purely a tangential aside.
Ross is a famous BBC TV presenter/chat-show host/comedian of sorts & BBC Radio host.
I hadn't realised that his wife, Jane Goldman, was one of the two co-writers of Kick Ass.
That is all.
Wossy is overpaid anyway. Who gives a crap! In fact, why don't they pay me HALF of what he gets!
He does/did get paid fairly vast sums. Considering it is the BBC who are paying him ..
His current contract is worth £2m-£3m a year.
I'm indifferent to Wossy really. His friday night chat show had good guests and he was an ok interviewer.
Film 200x which he did for years and years was ok. Again he's an ok presenter.
All a bit meh really.
I thought he deserved a Knighthood for asking David Cameron on his Friday Night chat show if he had ever had a wank while thinking of Margaret Thatcher.
But then Sachsgate put me off him considerably. He did apologise profusely for it (moreso than fucking Brand) but it was still a shitty thing to do.
People who have met him have said he is personable and pleasant enough.
Anyway. Blah blah.
Oh. And his 3 children (by Jane Goldman) are named Betty Kitten, Harvey Kirby and Honey Kinney.
That last bit just put me right off him. What a prick
"Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
I liked the movie a lot
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
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