Kick Ass!

Hit Girls about 13 isn't she?

The screenplay was part written by Jonathan Ross's wife, the Daily Mail are already going crazy over it (in a bad way).
 
The trailer does not do it justice, it makes it look like a crappy super hero spoof when in fact it's a very slick (and very funny) action film.
Don't miss !!!!
 
wow i loved this film lots of action and violence
i did feel a little weird watching hit girl being batterred as she was dressed as a school girl. It seemed so wrong despite how bad ass she is as looked really vunerable on the table.
will definetly see this again
 
I saw this at the premiere on Monday. I'm not a movie fan at all and never read graphic comics.
But I thought this film was fantastic. It is full of blood, gore and swearing, but also laugh out loud moments and heart in your mouth moments.

I particularly liked Big Daddy's take off of the 1960's Batman in the way he spoke, hilarious.
Go see it, recommended!
 
I echo what many others are saying, Kick Ass was fantastic, much better than the tailors made it out to be, I think, and Hit Girl was fantastic :D.
 
Hit Girl didn't have any "special powers" but think back towarRAB the end of the film when she goes to the bad guys lair. You have that long corridor with book cases on either side. In reality she would have got cut down but as per usual the bad guys c an't hot the side of a barn from 2ft away. Even if you let that one go you see her running and leaping up onto the bookcases, doing various flips way beyond the capabilitiues of a girl her age. She is 13 or whatever but appear to have the leg muscles of an olympic athlete.
In the film Daredevil there is a scene (I think it's in a church?) where either him or Bullseye runs and jumps and leaps about 8 feet into the air which isn't possible.
Spiderman has various powers including proportional "Spider Strength" so you can push credibilty with hm but neither Bullseye or Daredevil do and you just know that its cobblers!
As I said in my original post the slow motion shows in films even more how ridiculous these things get.

Action films require us to stretch our imaginations enough as it is. Gun experts have said that what you see is total cobblers when it comes to gun. You can't run shooting guns with that accuracy because the impact of the running is making your arm shake and move about.
I was watching a film called soemthing like History in film or War in film. Something like that. Basically they take a film that is supposed to be based on fact and syas what really happened compared to the film version.
In he film they were talking about a war film. I think it may have been The Longest Day.
In the film you have these parachutists that are landing whilst shhoting machine guns.
The experts said that was total cobblers. They would be dead before they hit the ground. Even if they wasn't they would have been injured because you didn't move so fast and decent shot with a rifle or a machine gun would pick you off. Even without that they would have ripped the parachute to shreaRAB with all the machine gun fire.
When you think how big aa parachute is how did they manage to fail to hit that when standing almost underneath it even if they couldn't hit the man underneath?

This is why for me the film had an interesting idea. A kid becomes a superhero/crimefighter with no super powers. He's not like Bruce Wayne who spenRAB millions on gadgets. He's a normal guy that has two sticks but is trying to make a difference. In the film he became an hero thanks to the clip on Youtube and the TV. It made people stop and think. He was in his own way being a revolutionary encouraging people to stand up and fight and take back the streets and the neighbourhood.
That is where the story could and IMO should have gone then along comes Hit Girl and it all goes belly up into another standard seen it before comic book film. I'm a "normal person" but in a room where there are hundreRAB or thousanRAB of bullets flying about not one will touch me because I'm wearing an non-bulletproof snazzy costume.
 
Cunningham will correct me if I have this wrong, but I don't think he's saying that Hit Girl does have actual superpowers. The point is moot - she is so ridiculously brilliant that she may as well have superpowers. It's so far beyond what training could ever accomplish for an adult, let alone an 11 year old girl - never mind that the only training we ever saw was taking a bullet in the chest. And this is a shame, because Cunningham is quite right - the film was working better when it was grounded is some kind of reality.

She was a fabulous character and an instant icon, but on reflection I agree it was her that undermined the film. I'd have preferred a conceit which relied more on being smart than having - effectively - superhuman skills. Only once did she really use her apparently innocent 11 year old girl persona, which was a waste. She could have so easily wrong-footed villains in different surprising ways - her age was her real fighting asset, but it was ignored at the expense of just going with the isn't-it-hilarious-that-an-11-year-old-acts-like-a-superhuman-killing-machine. Yawn.

One more thought - I didn't like the use of commercial music in the film. Compare with The Matrix, where the commercial tracks were so seamlessly integrated into the score and the film itself that you barely noticed them. The Banana Splits seemed like a really cheap shot to me, and served to take me out of the film - "oh right, ironic use of music, ha ha" rather then actually getting immersed in the story.

EDIT - cross post!
 
Has anybody compared Hit Girl to Mezzo, Japanese anime TV series in 13 parts about a schoolgirl assassin working in Tokyo with a detective agency working from a London Bus. It was a follow up to the pornographic Mezzo Forte anime.
 
It was such a strange movie
it started off as a teenage comedy like 'accepted' and suddenly went all superhero
i didnt like the way it completelty changed to guns and the fire OTT stuff
 
Not sure about that.

Dave lied on a massive scale to get very close to her yet she's like 'Hey, let's have sex.' Sorry - that wouldn't ever happen.

She just enRAB up becoming a nerd fantasy sex object.

And the basic point of the story in the book is that fantasies - acted out to extreme levels have very serious consequences.



I'd disagree again.

The actions of both the movie version and the book version are terrible.

He takes a little girl and turns her into a sociopathic killing machine.

But the movie version is painted as pretty much being justified because of the tragic backstory.

I prefer the book version, because it shows Dave what he could end up becoming.



I prefer the book version, because it's a nice twist. But done that way in the film - they couldn't have built up the character.

I'm fine with that.



Yeah. In the book, I always felt there was going to be some reveal on how the costume came off - as he clearly couldn't do it himself. That just seemed like an unresolved plot point.
 
Good god.

So you basically dont like any action in a film. Nor any references to old films of the genre. Nor even any kind of martial arts. What you do want to see, in a movie, is realism. Even though the majority of films are escapism / hyper real?

Why not stick to films like Remains of the Day, or The Care Bears movie?
 
I saw it earlier this evening, I personally thought it was amazing! It's hilarious, the fight/action scenes are outstanding and the characters/acting brilliant. Hit Girl is quite clearly the best character, some of the things she does/says are so outrageous!

I'm tempted to go see it again actually.
 
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