Kick Ass!

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Plus I had issues with being asked to find an eleven year old girl getting punched in the face by a crime boss entertaining. Perhaps that scene was supposed to be farcical, like much of the violence, but instead it was played (and scored) in the grown-up action-movie style. Totally jarring for me.



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Thanks for summing up how I felt better then I can.

Also had issues with Hit Girls first killing spree. The way Kick-Ass was playing it I thought he was appalled at Hit Girls unmitigated slaughter of apparently innocent (as far as we know up until that point), albeit lowlife victims. I was expecting some kind of "great power comes with great responsibility" or "you can't just murder random people" type speech from Kick-Ass but it seems I misread his reaction. We later find out that these lowlifes, quite coincidentally it seems, are somehow connected to the main villain, so that's all right then.

I was entertained in parts, especially the first half but it just went downhill from that and the ending just left me completely unsatisfied. Part of the reason for the strange mismatching of tones I think might have been the apparent need for obvious signposts for the future sequels in the franchise rather then a focus on the story at hand. Half-way through and a bunch of increasingly lame sequels and spin-off was never in any doubt.

5.5/10
 
Who cares about spoilers, seriously, how can someone expect to come into a thread like this without no spoilers atall. Still, each to their own.
 
Hit Girl didn't have any special powers. She was talented because she had been trained from a ridiculously early age to be a killing machine.

I thought Kick Ass struck a delicate and pretty impressive balance between comic book violence, and showing the real impact of such behaviour.
 
Went to see it this evening. Loved it. Even better than I thought it would be (and I had high expectations!!!). Easily the best film I have seen in the cinema this year. Will have to buy it on DVD when it comes out.
 
I saw the film at the Glasgow premiere tonight. McLovin was there and so was Aaron Johnson and did a short Q&A before the film began.

I'll post a full report tomorrow but it was AMAZING!!
 
I agree, Chloe was great, she was cute as Hit Girl (not in a sexual way) but was a great character :)
I think she'll be beautiful when she gets older.
I thought that despite her messed up childhood, she seemed a happy person and her father seemed loving, and she loved him too even if he went about things the wrong way, he thought he was doing the RIGHT thing.
 
Awesome film!
All the characters were brilliant in there roles but the person that stole the show for me was the little girl who played 'Hit Girl', she's my new hero..lol
It was like watching a mini version of whats her face from 'Kill Bill' :D
This film is certainly one of the most enjoyable and original films Ive seen for quite some time.
 
I agree, I think ultimately thats the point of the film. Hit-Girl's training also highlighted how naive Kick-Ass was as he sees being a crimefighter/hero is far more dangerous and violent. But he still wants to do the "right" thing, so does Hit-Girl too.
 
I hate these kind of things with a passion. Maybe I'm just getting old, but these slow motion things even if it's hand to hand martial arts fighting leaves me cold and at often causes me lose interest in the film completely.
Why not speed the film up by 2000% as well during action sequences as that will look real and believable too.:rolleyes:

Somebody pointed out to me that I have a tendency to look at my watch whenever these kind of scenes take place. I literally switch off in a few seconRAB. In big battle scenes I've been known to go for a pee break while they are on.
 
I was the opposite, I found the film started slowly and relied too much on the traditional superhero set-up of showing us the hero's back-story and his entry into crime-fighting. Once it got going and the plot moved away from traditional themes to something less conventional it became more interesting. It was suggested earlier in the thread that it was a film for comic book geeks but I'd say the opposite: it was aimed at mainstream film fans who don't care about super powers or whatever but want a strong story, some good laughs and a bit of excitement.
 
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