Kick Ass!

[Mesmer]

Looked kind of stupid on the commercial, but I may have to give this a chance since it's been received so well here.

[Razzy]

It was pretty entertaining. Far too predictable, but fun. It could have been a lot better, but it also could have been far worse.

One thing that really bugged me is...

*SPOILER*

When Red Mist sells out Daddy & Kick-Ass he wants to spare Kick-Ass's life. He begs his dad to leave him. Then 10 minutes later in the movie, in the final scene that takes place the same night, suddenly Red Mist feels differently, fights Kick-Ass, and in the end becomes his arch-nemesis. That just didn't really make sense to me and seemed like a very cheap way to set up a sequel.

[cookinwithgas]

That's because Kick Ass comes back to the house and helps Hit Girl.

[blackcatgrowl]

It was pretty entertaining. Far too predictable, but fun. It could have been a lot better, but it also could have been far worse.

One thing that really bugged me is...

*SPOILER*

When Red Mist sells out Daddy & Kick-Ass he wants to spare Kick-Ass's life. He begs his dad to leave him. Then 10 minutes later in the movie, in the final scene that takes place the same night, suddenly Red Mist feels differently, fights Kick-Ass, and in the end becomes his arch-nemesis. That just didn't really make sense to me and seemed like a very cheap way to set up a sequel.

I don't think that's too unbelievable. He seemed to have felt some sort of friendship towards KA. But he knew KA and HG were there to kill his Dad. Hmm.... Loyalty to Dad versus a friendship that's lasted a few weeks.... hmm.

Not really a hard to see why he fought KA.

[Razzy]

I don't think that's too unbelievable. He seemed to have felt some sort of friendship towards KA. But he knew KA and HG were there to kill his Dad. Hmm.... Loyalty to Dad versus a friendship that's lasted a few weeks.... hmm.

Not really a hard to see why he fought KA.

Very true, I guess I was just dissappointed there wasn't a supervillain. I mean, that's what they are setting RM up to be in the sequel but I hope they introduce someone else because realistically RM is just another goofy teenager who doesn't know what he's doing. After someone's penthouse was almost literally blown to poo and an RPG exploded out in public, the police would probably be there in about 5 minutes, seizing RM. RM would then be relocated to a foster/relatives place and all of his funds would be seized up in a large drug bust/homicide case. :willy_nilly:

[NFL_UKfan]

there is a video interview with Mark Millar (creator) and he said that for a sequel both book and film the idea is flipped so its what if villans start becoming supervillans which the ending gives that idea.

i loved Kick Ass and hope they keep they have a better time making the sequel cause supposedly they struggled to get it made.

[Captroop]

It's been a month since this came out and I happened to look at the Box Office Mojo page for it. $45 M gross? on a $38M budget? Wtf? How is that possible? I loved this movie. Not saying it's a great movie; it's an above average flick at best, but how has it only made $45M?

Is it really suffering from the R-rating? Is it because of all the people upset that a little girl drops the c-word? Is the key demographic just downloading it? Or does this movie just blow and I am totally delirious? How has it only barely recouped it's cost? Wanted your thoughts.

[rodeo]

$45mil is really not bad. it was #1 opening weekend.

[Jangler]

It got a lot of bad reviews. Now, I don't pay attention to reviews. But a lot of people do, and if some reviewer says wait for the DVD, people do.

Of course I can't see spending the money they want for movies anyway, when I can wait 6 more months and pay a dollar. Last movie I saw in the theater was Star Trek, before that is was the first Hulk. The next movie will be the next Star Trek movie...

[God]

lol @ "bad reviews". the only people who gave it bad reviews were 60 year old prudes who were "offended" by a 10 year old girl blowing everything up.

[uncpanther]

Just watched this last night and it is a MUST SEE. Rotten Tomatoes is the only review site I like and they gave it a good review.

[Jbro]

I saw it the other night, thought it would suck but I was very surprised on how good it is.

[Brokenbad]

Very true, I guess I was just dissappointed there wasn't a supervillain. I mean, that's what they are setting RM up to be in the sequel but I hope they introduce someone else because realistically RM is just another goofy teenager who doesn't know what he's doing. After someone's penthouse was almost literally blown to poo and an RPG exploded out in public, the police would probably be there in about 5 minutes, seizing RM. RM would then be relocated to a foster/relatives place and all of his funds would be seized up in a large drug bust/homicide case. :willy_nilly:

Heres the plot to Kick-ass 2:

“The idea of Kick-Ass was ‘what would happen if people in the real world tried to be superheroes?’,” says Millar. “Kick-Ass 2 is ‘what if people tried to be bad guys?’, as a reaction to the superheroes. The same way these guys were contacting each other on Facebook and trying out superhero costumes, what if bad kids starting doing this? So you’ve got this horrible Clockwork Orange scenario where these kids are happy-slapping, out there with their mobile phones dressed as villains doing horrible things to people, recording it and putting it online and that becoming massively viral all over the world. And these superheroes, who are maybe 15 year old schoolkids, having to do something about it, with the police wanting to close them all down.”

There most certainly will be the whole question of all the public damage, but somehow transformers managed to cover up a MASSIVE robot war in the middle of New York with only about hundreds of thousands of witnesses...

Link to Kick-ass 2 plot: http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=11932