"Kick Ass" Review
Despite getting married in a couple days, I still have plenty of time to review "Kick Ass" for you folks.
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I fucking love you Brad! Even being preoccupied with something as important as your wedding, you still managed to fulfill my wish of making a review of this movie. So happy that you love it as much as I do. If you were in front of me right now I'd give you a big wet kiss. Sorry Jillian. XD
Anyway wish you two, Mr and Mrs Cinema Snob, a great wedding and a long and happy life together.
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WOW , the tv commerical made it look like it was a Jonas brothers/ Diseny movie. Ok , after your review. I have to see it now !!
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Huh? You actually have me reconsidering my previous thoughts on Kick-Ass. What did you think of Watchmen?
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Good luck on the marriage man i'm pretty sure you're getting this all over the place but i hope it goes well and you just gave me hope for this movie(and i didn't even know it was based on a comic book)
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Strange as it may sound I actually thought the movie was way better than the comic. Every aspect of the story and characters was done far better than it is in the book.
I guarantee that in the not too distant future Mark Strong will be the next great character actor to win an Oscar. They guy is just so goddamn good in everything he does.
And Ebert's review is a joke. How he can spend paragraphs condescending to the film's intended audience (adults) and just completely blow off the fact that this movie is rated-R shows how misguided he is in this case.
But as Brad pointed out, when Ebert is wrong he is WROOOOONG! He gave DIE HARD two stars and THE USUAL SUSPECTS one and-a-half. Yet he gave both of those TOMB RAIDER abominations THREE STARS!!
And have a nice wedding, Brad. I'd say you've earned it after the psychological punishment you have subjected yourself to for our entertainment.
If only Pierre Kirby was alive to be your best man...
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Me and my friend Anthony got a private showing of this in Jacksonville at 10pm. I loved it but it just wasnt the comic. check out my review on youtube.com/weaponamerica or bannedfromthevideostore.com
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First off, congratulations on your wedding!
I saw an advanced screening of Kick-Ass last week and haven't stopped raving about it since. I even told my dad that we have to go see it when I'm home at the end of the month. He'll thank me later.
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I just got home from watching the movie and I was pleasently surprised to find out you had a review of it up already.
I gotta thank you for your review because it has helped me cement my own opinion of the film. There were several aspects of the film that I just didn't know what to think of but watching reviews always helps me to put things in perspective and come up with my own.
Thanks for the review. Great fucking movie it was!
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Now I'll have to check this out.
Congrats on the wedding.
P.S. Does everyone have one of those chairs?
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funny thing that you mentioned Ebert was offended by Hit Girl when, if you recall his review of Robocop 2, he was offend by the Hob character (that little kid that is part of Cain's gang)
I guess Ebert can't handle the concept of violent, aggressive children
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I don't want to be rude but yeah Ebert and you missed the point. Ebert missed it because the Hob character was necessary in Robocop 2 to show how screwed up the distopian world that they lived in was. You, on the other hand missed the point, that they created an violent girl in an present time, with her excuse that she kills people because her mother was killed in a violent way. Isn't there a moral that says we should get on with our lives no matter what, let the law handle it or should we all become vigilantes everytime someone is killed. The Hob character is a symbol of a pretend civilized future society that went the wrong way and he's not glorified for doing that. Hit-Girl is the wet fantasy of every frustrated child that doesn't understand how the world works and every pedophiles wet fantasy. Hollywood didn't make a satire with Kick Ass they just gave the dogs what they wanted with no higher morals.
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Wow Hollywood promoting: it's cool to see a 13 year old kid in spandex, killing adults just because they are evil and that makes her look mature, making her a perfect model of maturity for young children. Think about all the fanfic about this that will come out, from kids and adults. Keep it classy Hollywood, bunch of enforcing pedophiles who preach morals that don't stand up to them. At least now they made Boondock Saints a masterpiece and an epitome of morality.
Don't agree on this one with you Brad, don't go with Jillian to see this movie because it won't turn out well.
Hollywood has just created the downfall of cinema, not Avatar, not Toy Story ( don't get me started on a movie everyone went to see because it was all in 3D and if it was animated they wouldn't have given it 2 seconds), but this farce of promoting pedophilia that Kick Ass is. Just wait and see how screwed up Chloe Moretz will get in 2-3 years or she already is. Just look at Macaulay Culkin and Lindsey Lohan and they at least started their carrer doing children movies. Think about this girl that her carrer has an R-rated movie were she plays a pivotal role.
Well that the thing people don't have morality and don't think about the consequences, they just want to be entertained HAHA HAAAAA. I don't want to be a prude but Hollywood are the persons that dismiss people like Polansky and than do this kind of movies. Nothing against Polansky but if you do the crime ( and they find out) than be ready to do the time. SICK, DISGUSTING, IMMORAL, EXPLOITATIVE and DISTURBING movie that ruins a child life. Mind you I'm 23 and my experience of being mature at 13 was studying for one of the hardest schools in my town( probably the whole country), doing housework, having the responsibility to raise a dog and helping my grandparents to do agriculture on our land. That's maturity and all the people that think this movie is cool shouldn't breed and don't even think about the consequences the ordeal Hollywood puts young children when becoming actors.
Brad I'd like some consistency with the critics I know and after calling shit on Boondock Saints and you were right, this movie called Kick Ass is cool? So preaching religious zealots is wrong but a child in spandex, killing people doesn't seem sexual in a wrong way and doesn't give the wrong education to the child that's playing the role. But why the fuck people would care about that, they want to be fucking entertained.
Sorry to have been too critical but I'm right and I've read Ebert's review, yesterday after I was disgusted by this travesty to cast a 12 year old in such a perverse role. Consequences people or you really don't care, bunch of kids. Oh and I'll track down Orphan today to see if the 11 year old character has at least an excuse to be a prostitute.
Does Hit-Girl have a reason to kill people or does she only enjoy it?
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You do realize this movie was not made by Hollywood but was actually an independent feature film that was picked up for distribution by Lions Gate, right?
Not to mention this is essentially how the characters are in the comic book so you can't knock it for staying true to its source material.
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Also, don't forget that Kirsten Dunst playing Claudia in Interview with the Vampire or Linda Blair playing Reagan in the Exorcist. Yet they turned out just fine despite the material in the film. They are all actors/actresses who are made far aware of what each project entails and have the right to agree or back out of it if they so desire. Not to mention that in interviews, Chloe is aware of what her character was about and would never act like her or say half the things she does, especially knowing her mother would give her what for about it.
Not to mention if a parent is doing their job properly, kids will not be seeing this film to begin with or be having a long talk with their kids. Heck, I was watching R rated films since I was five and they never bothered/traumatized me any, because my parents were involved. If anything, it was the PG fare that got me more (like Poltergeist and Gremlins) in the way of traumatizing me.
You're honestly taking this much too seriously.
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To awnser your last question: She kills people because they are responsible for killing her mother...so yeah she has a reason.
Like Brad said you should probably see the movie first and THEN read the Ebert review...but not just because of spoilers.
It happends a lot that children enter the movie world....but with the propper guidance they will be fine...alright? There are tons of former child actors that don't have any issues.
Ok...what the hell does Polansky have to do with it? Thats a totally different situation and has NOTHING to do with a child actor playing in an R-rated movie. Don't drag in things that have nothing to do with it.
"So preaching religious zealots is wrong but a child in spandex, killing people doesn't seem sexual in a wrong way and doesn't give the wrong education to the child that's playing the role."
Excuse me what? First of all...I do not see the sexual wrong way...I see someone wearing a super hero costume...whats wrong with you? You know whats really disturbing? Todler beauty pagents...and those do not happen because of hollywood.
Secondly...the actress plays on the set...she knows it's all fake cause she SEES how they do the special effects....It's all fake dude. And she knows that firsthand.
You sir are seriously overreacting.
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Interesting point, but let's be sincere here Hollywood is fucked up and they fuck up peoplde. Kick Ass is also distributed by Universal Studios so here's Hollywood's ass stapled all over it. Kirsten Dunst role in Interview With a Vampire was genius, it was a metaphor of how people don't want to stay forever children or be left alone, you could even say it was the different side of Peter Pan, how eternal life for a child is not the best thing, better said without a mother. Also they didn't glorify the idea of a child vampire, they portrayed it more as a tragedy for a child to never grow up.
Linda Blair on the other hand was never a prolific actress like Culkin or Lohan probably because her parents weren't sponges or Hollywood didn't see to much future in her( she didn't become an icon like Culckin but Moretz will) or she didn't want acting to take over her life. Her role in The Exorcist is also a symbol of nothing in the world can't be perverted by "evil" and we feel sadness and sympathy about the character. Minor fact she had a double in the more controversial scenes, check out the net.
Another well know child actor would be River Phoenix, God rest his soul and I'm not going to get into that more because allot of people know about it.
Christian Bale also started as a child actor, he was incredible in Empire of the Sun. Wasn't as prolific as a child actor afterward and his career boomed in the 2000s but everyone knows what a mouth he has when he gets pissed off and his apology was just an publicity stunt. What I'm saying Hollywood likes to pamper their stars and makes them arrogant and profane, with lack of humility.
Yes I found out that her motivation is killing gangsters because gangsters killed her mother and that's a reason. Hello Batman is calling bullshit, he lost both his parents but he didn't lose his humanity so this would be an interesting comparison between a good movie and a really bad one that glorifies kids that resolve their issues by being violent, by stooping to a gangster's level. The morals are whacked in this movie.
As I said that motivation alone makes The Boondock Saints a masterpiece because at least they have an original reason and mind you I realize that it isn't the best.
The Polansky mention was the fact how pedophilia is a running tradition in Hollywood. Oh we have a young actress let's teach her the ways of being an adult. That's Hollywood and people are ignorant if they think their children won't be subjected to sexual situations. I'm not saying sex is bad but let the child be a child for a little longer. The way this actress will be advertised I don't even want to know how she'll turn in the near future.
My conclusion is that they don't present her character that much as a tragedy but they more glorify her listening to people how they say how awesome she was and how cool she was. She isn't a victim of bad education or a disturbed society she is seen as something all little children aspire to be.
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Oh and as a side note this picture is totally not sexual http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1540394496/tt1250777. No not at all. Maybe I'm just overestimating cinema and keep forgetting it's essentially exploitation to the core and it wants to make money. Setting high moral values and giving a well though and complex message in your movie will just get you bankrupt.
Entertainment it's what people want and as in the Roman times with the Colosseum when they didn't care about the sacrifices made for them to be entertained, people don't care now. What sacrifices are made now: will start will childhoods lost and will end with and untimely death caused by overwork by big business men that care only for their studious and will make even the actors death a money maker.
I'm just saying people say this movie is awesome but I don't hear no one how impressed they were by it's high moral values. They just say take a chill pill. Well I hope that 13 year old actress gets to live her life at the end of the day and not become another Judy Garland. But people don't think about that they just want their little entertainment.
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Is that picture really all that sexualized, Crimson? Maybe I am desensitized from watching anime, but Hit Girls skirt isn't even all that short and it isn't like she is wearing thigh high stockings with ribbons at the top and six inch stilettos. I went to a private Catholic school early on in my life and it is a pretty accurate representation of what an actual 13 year old girl would wear in my real life private school. Is it nothing but panty shots or something? If not, I am not seeing where the outrage is coming from.
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Unfortunately Pedophiles can be found everywhere. They arn't always dirty old men...they can be doctors, politicians, teachers, cops and yes filmmakers. It's not a Holywood tradition perse I would say. Altho I do agree holywoon has it's dark side (very dark in fact).
Yes Batman does not kill (mostly)...but he's the goddamn Batman. Different story, different characters, different world/setting....different rules.
Yes it's mostly best to let a child be a child. But I did hear Mortez is stealing the show in this movie. I get the feeling acting is something she really wants to do...she is probably living her dream right now. And like I said before I hope she has the propper guidance to let her live her dream a while longer. I doubt she is forced to act in this movie.
But there are other kids that ARE forced to become adults quickly and mostly outside of Holywood. Think kids with no/bad parents that have to look after themselves or have no-one to count on. And I think Mortez is in a better position then a lot of other kids.
Lets get one think straight tho....I'm not a fan of holywood...far from it actually. I'm kinda bored with Holywood most of the time. But thats a topic for another time.
But if you want a less violent story about revenge (but with a lot of humor) I would recommend something (non-holywood) like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smAaFkFqoW4
Wonder if that movie is playing in the USA at the moment....best movie I have seen in years xD
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Thanks for the Micmacs recommendation, the trailer looks outlandish and the destruction of weapons agenda by some odd people seems well presented. I must check it.
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I think I know Jillian better than you do.
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Well that answer makes me think only one thing....... you lucky dog you. Thank you, I truly deeply thank for bringing up that valuable point in this discussion. Hope you have lots of Hit-Girls and Kick Assess.
Sorry if I sound a douche but what do you expect from that kind of answer. That only sentences had to be addressed. Yes I need a douche.
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You REALLY need to start a donation thing on your site so your faithful viewers (who have jobs) can buy you a new camera.
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I'm sorry, Brad, but this is the first time in my life where I'm going to have to disagree with you even though I haven't seen the film. I am in complete disbelief that this film could be any good, for a number of reasons. First of all, the premise is just stupid. If a 13-year-old with no superpowers became a superhero and fought crime, he would get shot or possibly kidnapped within minutes. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief, but there is just no way I can buy ordinary kids fighting criminals like Batman. Even if it has lots of gore and profanity it's still little kids playing superhero. Secondly, it has the same premise of the Tim Allen film "Zoom" (except at least in that one, the kids had superpowers), and we all know how that turned out (ditto Mystery Men). Thirdly, I have not heard a SINGLE bad thing about this movie (but I have heard the comic is apparently awful), which makes me INCREDIBLY suspicious. I am probably going to see the film just for the sake of having an accurate assessment but I just can't believe any film, let alone this one, could be so highly praised even before it was released. I'll wait a few weeks to see if it holds up.
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"Zoom"? Really? Go see the movie and you'll see that that's like comparing "The Warriors" to "The Get Along Gang." Also if you see the movie, you'll see that Kick Ass gets his ass handed to him nearly every 10 minutes of the movie.
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Well, I DID go see it, and frankly I didn't like it at all. I was surprised that it had almost as much violence in it as "Ninja Assassin" did (though nowhere near as gory or over-the-top). But that a lot of it was directed at the ten-year-old girl just seemed creepy and disturbing. It also had shit like characters flying around and dodging thousands of rounds (like "The Matrix"), even though it's supposed to be a "realistic" superhero movie. Where do you think that little girl learned all of those skills so quickly? And the last fifteen minutes of the movie, with Kick-Ass riding in on a jetpack, were just flat-out fucking awful. I guess you might like it if you're a comic fan (although it's much more of a vigilante movie), but I can't recommend it as it otherwise just seemed like a lousy movie. I DO agree that it is not like "Zoom" at all; the first half kind of is, but the second half most definately isn't. Congrats on you and Jillian getting married, BTW!
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I wanna say it received high praise because it was released over 2 weeks in the UK before it was released in america, also I think if you go into a film determined to hate it you are gonna hate it no matter what.
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Nice to see Kick-Ass wowed you just as much as it did with the rest of us, I would like to give you all the best wishes on your wedding, I hope it turns out beautifully!
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First, would want to wish you best for your wedding.
And well, my first opinion when I saw the trailer, was like "If you combined superbad and watchmen." Even though I would see it JUST for Nick Cage, I still can't kick the "Watchmen did it" out of my head. That idea of what would happen if comic book vigilantes within a alternative modern universe. Might try to quiet those voices.
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Congratulations...
on your NES marathon.
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wow , youve given it so much praise that i simply MUST watch it ! aha
early congratulations with the wedding man i wish the two of you the best : )
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Good luck at the wedding Brad
Kick Ass kicks ass, loved it.
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Will definately try to see this movie sometime in the near future. Congratulations on your wedding. I'm sure Jillian will make for a beautiful bride, and you won't be such a bad-looking groom yourself hahaha just playing with you. Marriage is a wonderful thing and I pray that you have many happy years together and will have the privelege of growing old together. Any hopes of posting a review of your wedding?
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Congrats once more on the wedding, Brad. Don't feel forced to upload anything unless you want to; we fans will understand. Also, you're right, Deep Throat part 2 does have a rockin' sound track.
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Chloe Grace Moritz is the name of the actress who played Hit Girl. She is also going to be in the American remake of "Let the Right One In."
Congratulations on yours and Jillian's marriage and I wish you guys nothing but happiness in your life together.
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I actually read Ebert's review just before I checked out your review - and I was kinda surprised. I don't always agree with Ebert, but he really should know better in this case and get it. But then, several American friends and colleagues have been upset by the violence and especially the language in KICK-ASS. I'm a rugged Scandinavian, it's hard to offend me. I saw KICK-ASS at a press screening last week, and went back and saw it again on the opening night. Especially the young girls in the audience loved Hit Girl.
Whenever I read Ebert's stuff, I remember when he was sitting in front of me at the DREAMGIRLS party in Cannes. He had a drop of sweat hanging from his chin for like an eternity and he didn't wipe it off. He was wearing four sweaters and a jacket, and it was indoors in May on the Riviera.
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"but this farce of promoting pedophilia that Kick Ass is."
Only an ignoramus would legitimately think that the movie is outright promoting pedophilia. Just because a little girl gets in a costume doesn't mean that it's promoting pedophilia.
Or do you think that half of the anime that comes out of Japan also promotes pedophilia?
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Glad to hear its good. I saw a trailer for it when I went to see Shutter Island and thought it was a cool concept (never heard of the comic btw). I may not be able to see it in theatres, but I'll definitely be buying it.
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jeez....people are pointing the hitgirl thing as the why the movie suck...doesnt rally get the point of the movie.
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Hey Brad!
Long time fan, first time poster! Just wanted to wish you and your lady all the best on your big day tomorrow!
We will all eagerly await the return of the Snob!!
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The trailers is a piece of marketing genius, People think they're going to see another one of those stupid ass parody movies like Scary Movie but it turns out they're actually going to see Quality Entertainment.
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I freakin' LOVE Roger Ebert. However, the guy can be just wrong sometimes. Example?
He hates:
A Clockwork Orange
Blue Velvet
Brazil
Full Metal Jacket
He likes:
Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties
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Kick-Ass was even more amazing than I imagined it would be, and that was after going in with high hopes for it. I don't want to totally spoil anything for anyone, but there's a first-person shooter style scene in the movie that's one of the most amazing action set-pieces I've seen in years. Maybe it's ridiculous to hope for it, but I seriously hope there's a sequel for this. Kick-Ass could absolutely become a franchise if it takes off at the box office this weekend.
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congrats on getting married!
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Hey Brad, just so you know, the main theme for "Kick Ass" is "Stand Up" by The Prodigy. It's taken from the album Invaders Must Die. Awesome group!
Yeah, I just got back from seeing it and it absolutely blew me away. I loved it! I'll take this one over "Watchmen" any day of the week.
Congratulations on your wedding and have fun on your honeymoon!
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"Twenty-four hours, straight Nintendo, and then I'm going to get married."
A better bachelor party than getting drunk and some sleazy bar and not remembering what happened after tha huge stripper cake was opened to find the stripper passed out.
I'm not sure where I was going with that.
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Well, I will definitely have to check this movie out. The commercials do it no justice, making it seem like some Spy Kids thing. As far as the Ebert review, I am not surprised you brought it up. Several posts on IMBD are shredding his inconsistency. Evidently there was a UK review calling it morally reprehensible too.
Congrats on the Marriage. I am sure you are sick of hearing that from total strangers.
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There is one reason -and only one reason- why I am not seeing this film. The comic book Kick-Ass was written by the same guy who wrote the comic book (not the movie, film buffs!) Wanted. And I fucking hate Wanted (again, comic book, not the movie adaptation which I have not seen nor care to see) more than any piece of fiction ever written. I know that is a bit of a stretch; but when you read that comic a bit of your soul feels brutally murdered. Anything associated with Wanted will likewise have that horribleness associated with it.
Unfortunately, this film actually sounds good by all accounts (I don't care for Robert Egbert's opinions) and I am a big fan of superhero films being one of my favorite sub-genres.
God dammit!
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Roger Ebert also complained about kids committing horrible acts in RoboCop 2. No surprise he whined about Kick-Ass.
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I love the part where you act a conversation with Julliane. I think anyone with a not-so geek girlfriend can relate to that situation.
anyway, i hope your wedding is kick ass too!
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just got back form the theaters
no review can do this movie justice
it's just that good
I agree this movie more than likely will be 1 of the top 5 super hero movies of all time
hope your wedding goes great
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I remember the comic for this being really horrible. Of course, I only read a few of the first issues, but they certainly didn't make me give a shit.
Of course, this is the guy who did Wanted, and a lot of people that hated that comic thought the movie was good... maybe this guy is better at writing movies than he is comics.
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Went to see this after watching your review. This is one hell of a movie! Really really enjoyed it, even though I had to endure a bunch of screaming 14-year-olds behind me. It actually surprised me in it;s tone, where it start out af a parody of super-hero movies, becomes a comedy/thriller & ends up as a serious thriller, not bad for something involving a kid in a diving suit.
never thought I'd loved an FPS-scene in a movie after Doom. Chloe Moretz was really good in this, not that common to see such a great performance from a child-actor but she is really one of the highlights of the movie.
Nick Cage was awesome too, really glad to see him being a badass againg.
In short Kick-aas... well.. KICKS ASS!
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Oh almost forgot, congrats on the wedding you lucky Snob you.
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I have time now (even with the hockey playoffs going on). I WILL go see this. And congrats to Brad and Jillian!
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I just saw Kick-Ass last night, and while parts of it were pretty good, there were definite factors I think that detracted from this movie for me. Namely Nicholas Cage and Hit-Girl. Ever since Ghost Rider and then Bangkok Dangerous I cannot take anything Nick Cage does seriously, and in a movie where he is supposed to be eccentric or whatever he was going for when not wearing the BD costume just didn't do anything for me. I also couldn't suspend my disbelief long enough to believe Hit-Girl would make it through so much shit and be standing. The entire end sequence was really well done though, which made me forget about everything else up to that point
P.S. Congrats to Mr. and Mrs. Jones
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Good luck with the wedding Brad. Hope things go well.
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Brad- Hi. Good review. I saw a matinee of the movie yesterday. It was a kick-ass movie. My only complaint was that I could not buy the jetpack. I don't know why. My mind bought all the other stuff, but just not the jetpack. Now, I did by the jetpack in Rocketeer. But I should could not accept it in this movie.
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Jetpacks actually do exist, but they're very hard to actually pilot and they consume tons of fuel.
The thing I can't buy from the whole thing is how Kick Ass just somehow learned how to pilot one in such a short amount of time, possibly just from reading the manual.
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Who gives a shit what Robert Ebert has to say? Kick Ass kicked ass.
Congratulations on getting your marry on.
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I saw this movie a few hours ago and I must say, it was great. As much as I love your reviews, I had to refrain from watching this so I didn't have anything spoiled for me (even though I rarely give a crap about spoilers). Definitely a great movie with plenty of gratuitous, yet not stupid, violence and endearing characters all around. I'll probably have more thoughts about it on my blog soon enough but I pretty much share your opinion.
PS - I've never trusted Roger Ebert. Never.
PPS - Thanks to Wal-Mart's $5 bin, I now own The Black Six and The Black Gestapo (and about 12 other blaxploitation flicks that I got from a similar cheap set years back).
PPPS - Congrats on the wedding and here's hoping it all goes smoothly.
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Congratulations on getting married, Brad!
Just wanted to say I enjoy your videos, and I'm glad to see that you're a regular contributor on TGWTG.
I totally agree with your assessment of Kick-Ass, and I was amazed watching this how closely your review came to the discussion I had with my friend after we watched it!
Keep up the awesome work, Brad!
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Congrads on getting married duder and too the new Mrs. Cinema Snob =3
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Roger Ebert reviewing Kick Ass would be like Brad reviewing Gosford Park, although personally I enjoyed GP. I suppose it boils down to personal taste at the end of the day. The problem (and the great thing) with Ebert is that so many people listen to his advice.
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I've been wanting to see this movie and my husband has too, after your review and a few others I think that we're definitely going to try and see it in the theatres instead of waiting.
Also congratulations on getting married
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Congratulations Mr Brad to you and Ms Jillian on your marriage. May it be life long with many a happiness strengthening lesson as you both grow old together. Cheers!
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http://djshwann.blogspot.com/2010/04/first-look-big-tits-zombie-3d-trailer.html
this looks right up your field.
also i was wondering will you ever review Ichi the Killer OR Tetsuo the Iron Man?
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You should do a review on how good your wife was on your wedding night sex! LMAO jks, congrats man.
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Yeeeeaaah I just saw Orphan. Seeing that no one probably hasn't seen Orphan on this site or probably doesn't want to address the issue that Brad mentioned about Ebert being inconsistent about the Orphan and Kick Ass review, I'll say this: Brad is right, to make it short.
To make it long and with mild implied spoilers Orphan truly is at core a thriller/slasher movie that tries to be different by bringing up a twist that I saw a mile away, probably by the fact Brad said it was a twist that changed a few things and I've seen too many movies. The thing is the movie has a few sparks of genius, but it all comes crashing down to allot of cheap frights, stereotypical progression of story, no moral value and a story that is held by just one twist. Not going to spoil it but the twist is not even a good one. Let's just say there's no mannerism ( I know it's a crude term but I can't put it in another way to avoid spoilers).
In the end Orphan is a 6/10 for me or 2 out of 4 * or mediocre at most and also pretty disturbing that they even didn't put in some kind of symbolism or metaphor to the character of Esther they just wanted to be shocking for the sake of shocking. They forgot to even have a point or the point would be don't adopt.
After seeing the Orphan am I less repulsed or am I going to see Kick Ass...nope. Will wait it to hit the DVD stores. Did Ebert fuck up, OH YESSSSSS. Would I ask if Brad thinks the moral standards in Kick Ass are higher or at the same level as The Boondock Saints... nope. Because it's clear his opinion is in direct relation to how much he was entertained and how the movie was presented, not the moral fiber of the movie or the consequences to star a child in such a young role.
Well best wishes to Mr. and Ms. Jones, hope you have an incredible marriage.
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I was wondering if you know about A Serbian Film, or if you're going to review it. I've heard nothing but horrific things.
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Has anyone seen my soap box? Oh Crimsondusk why are you standing on it?(now its all scuffed up, with shoe prints on it.....)
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Yeah it's raining outside, I always forget to wipe my feet. =)
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Last Thursday night I was at a screening of “Kick-Ass,” a movie generating a considerable amount of controversy, with Roger Ebert calling it “morally reprehensible” and Leonard Maltin jokingly telling the Trib the movie signals “the destruction of civilization as we know it.”
Filmed in a frenetic style, “Kick-Ass” features an 11-year-old called “Hit Girl” who slices and dices and kicks and shoots the bad guys to pieces, all the while using language that would make Quentin Tarantino blush. (Or perhaps gush.)
I’ve seen more than a thousand movies in the last decade. Until “Kick-Ass,” I had not seen an 11-year-old use the c-word.
Late in the movie, there’s a scene in which Hit Girl and the title character are driving the car owned by Red Mist, who’s played by the kid who was McLovin’ in “Superbad,” and yes, I realize half of these names sound more like energy drinks or colognes than movie characters.
Anyway. The character of “Kick-Ass” has been bloodied, so he’s recovering in the passenger seat while Hit Girl is driving and they’re plotting their next move.
And that’s when the woman behind me at the screening said, “She’s driving! She’s way too young to be driving.”
So you didn’t say a word while Hit Girl was saying “m———–,” you didn’t utter a peep while Hit Girl was stabbing and crippling and killing one thug after another — but now that she’s driving you’re worried?
The headline on Mark Caro’s story in the Tribune read, “Is ‘Kick-Ass’ star a lil’ menace to society?”
“There was a kind of firewall between kids and violence, and that firewall is completely gone now,” film critic and author Neal Gabler tells Caro. “Kids sit around and kill people on video games.”
The Trib’s Michael Phillips “started hating this movie around the midpoint,” not so much for the language employed by Hit Girl as for “how stupidly relentless the gore is, from beginning to end.”
Gory, yes — but I found “Hit Girl” to be consistently entertaining, from the “real-world” set-up in which a high school kid with no superpowers whatsoever decides to try to become a superhero to the introduction of the Hit Girl character in a wickedly funny scene with her father (played by Nicolas Cage), through all the slam-bang action sequences.
Yes, “Kick-Ass” is relentlessly violent, but it’s framed and shot as a cinematic graphic novel, true to the style of the comic books that were created in tandem with the movie. (In fact, the back story of Hit Girl and her father is revealed as a character reads a comic book.) It feels hyperrealistic.
Many of the kills are executed, so to speak, in cartoonishly over-the-top fashion. The sequences in which Hit Girl whirls about, offing one mobster after another, are in quotes; they’re as stylized as the scene in “Kill Bill” where Uma Thurman’s Bride wipes out dozens of henchmen.
(Overall, “Kick-Ass” was actually received well by the critics, with a 78 percent “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Box office was fairly soft: about $19.75 mil.)
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Was I jolted by the sight of an 11-year-old girl using that language? Yes. Do I think most 11-year-old girls have heard those words, but know better than to actually say them? Yes again.
Chloe Grace Moretz, the actress who plays Hit Girl, is now 13. I met her in the WLS-AM studios last Friday as she was on a promotional tour for the movie. She seems like a nice kid. More self-possessed and confident than a lot of people twice her age — but that could be said of a lot of 13-year-olds these days.
“I would never in a million years say those words, because I was raised to believe cussing makes you sound like an unintelligent individual and I don’t want to sound like that,” said Moretz.
Note to self.
If the real issue here is the age of Hit Girl — well, this certainly isn’t the first time a child has been in a controversial, R-rated movie. Linda Blair in “The Exorcist,” Jodie Foster as a hooker in “Taxi Driver,” young Natalie Portman learning the ways of the hit man in “The Professional,” Dakota Fanning as a rape victim in “Hounddog.” All of those films were set in much more realistic worlds than “Kick-Ass.” (And in the fantasy genre, remember Kirsten Dunst as a child bloodsucker in the R-rated “Interview with a Vampire”?)
As for how these movies affect the child actors: Jodie Foster starred in “Taxi Driver.” Lindsay Lohan starred in “The Parent Trap.” Natalie Portman starred in “The Professional.” Danny Bonaduce was in “The Patridge Family.” I rest my case.
Of course there are dozens of factors that contribute to a child actor’s maturation process, but the type of material one performs as an adolescent doesn’t seem to hold much influence.
Richard Roeper
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Kick-ass is great. I found the stuff with Big Daddy and Hit Girl oddly moving. What I liked about the film was that it managed to be "dark" without being heavy handed to the point of camp or just physically dark. Please, someone tell the makers of the Dark knight films that there are such things as daylight and light-bulbs or at the very least that watching endless scenes of a man in black fighting in a blackout is a bit pointless, coz it means you a staring at a black screen instead of watching an action sequence. It's the Spinal Tap approach to film making. How much blacker can it be. None.
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good review.i love this movie. and i think the the film is better than the comic
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Kick-Ass: If only Fredric Wertham were alive to see it.
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great review brad. this movie will forever be one of my favorites.
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I love Mark Strong in the movie :3 He was one of my favorite characters.
This movie was epic, and I find it kind of funny that people find it horribly violent because the gore went so fast by, that it practically wasn't there.
I also saw Ebert's review after this and find it kind of funny that I'm kind of sadistic for laughing all the way through the movie even at the gore. Heck i did it the other day while watching CSI and a women fell down a ladder. I like Morbid humor but that's because I know it's not real. That's what Ebert needs to learn it seems...
I mean didn't Kick ass do a good enough job of setting the message that "Saving lives is serious business and that you can get hurt and may even die or will have to kill people."
Another thing is that my friend and I said the same exact thing about Nick Cage and how you always want more of him XD
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