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I only found this subject line in a search in the Comics section. I figure since it's a movie trailer... well...

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810063108/video/17522078

Hit Girl's red band trailer is better. (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=26575)

Looks fun.

I'm all over this movie.

This is a must see movie.

This looks so much better than that poorly drawn comic it's based off of, bleh.

No thread for this yet?

Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrKHu2UX1vA)

I've been hearing positive things about this.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=18582.msg752922

Bleh, I did searches for Kickass, Kick Ass and Kick-Ass and somehow missed this. Sorry

None of the trailers did it for me, but this clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CVu-AzMnDY) will at least have me reading reviews.

Link now comes with more blokt. Any back up?

Here's someone vaguely official looking (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQNnY6-dFu8). Also here's a terrible bootleg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ZViz-6wjw).

Great film. Manages to handle a wide range of film tones (absurdist comedy, inspirational speeches, ultra-violence, brutal violence, high school drama) without anything seeming out of place.

Cage's Big Daddy out-Batman's "Dark Knight"'s action scenes, IMO.

"Kick Ass" also really shows up how poorly "Spider-Man" dealt with Peter Parker - Parker was always a 'special' nerd that people took interest in. Aaron Johnson's Dave is a nerd that is special in absolutely no way (before he puts on the costume, anyway) which makes things ring with a lot more impact.

I'm not so enamoured with Hit Girl as some people, but the Big Daddy / Hit Girl relationship is the best superhero / sidekick relationship I've seen and makes its own twisted kind of sense.

I pretty much agree with UnSub. This movie unequivocally kicked ass. It's enormous fun to watch and pokes at a wide variety of genres. It's incredibly contemporary in the way it pieces together all the things the film industry has learned from teen comedies and comic book films - especially the films of Michael Cera and Sin City.

I went to a 1 AM sneak preview showing and it was totally worth it.

Also, it has McLovin.

Just saw this today, loved it.  One of the better superhero movies out there by far. 

Although they could have just named this movie Hit-Girl.   :awesome_for_real:

Enjoyed this quite a bit.  Definitely going to buy it on DVD so I can look for all the sly little nods and jabs.  I almost LOLed when I saw "The Spirit 3" on a marquee.

Going to see this tonight.  I suspect my wife is going to hate it.

Two thumbs up from my son & I.

Is the comic it is based on any good?

On a scale of 1 to Kill Bill, how violent is this movie?  I want to see it, but have a tough time paying to watch gratuitous violence.

It's pretty violent, but I don't think it's overdone like Kill Bill was. 

Just saw it.  Fucking Awesome.

Saw it.  Liked it quite a lot.  It's violent, but not stupidly so.

What did the wife think of it?

I, too, enjoyed this movie.

They're already talking about a sequel.

She was somewhat positive about it.  Kinda liked it, I'd say.  It's hard not to like.

Great movie.  I was not prepared for it to be as much a super hero movie as it was. I was going in thinking it'd be an utlra-violent parody throughout but it takes itself seriously at times and has a good story.

There is the wire-fu violence - people losing body parts to a naginata - and lots of stabbing / shooting.

Then there is the more brutal torture bit. It's not "Saw", but it is very much people getting stomped on.

Lots of blood splatter all round. I think it is well done - if you are going to go around fighting crime by beating people up, there will be blood. Also, even the minor league criminals can do massive damage to you.


My friend and I laughed at this too. After the film he was talking about how it'd be great to have "real" superheroes and I commented that for this to happen, "The Spirit" would need to have not just one, but two sequels. We both agreed that this price wasn't worth paying.

I saw this today and enjoyed it a lot.  MUCH better than I thought it was going to be.  It does, however, earn its R rating and some people might find the violence, esp. regarding Hit Girl, to be too much.  Still, if you're going to see an R rated movie with violence in it you shouldn't be too shocked when you see it.  I was kind of disappointed to see many kids in the theater, most around the same age as Hit Girl or younger, with their parents.  This is NOT a movie for kids that young, even though its about super heroes and school aged kids.  Take them to see How to Train Your Dragon or something.

They were checking IDs at the theatre I went to.

Awesome movie. I actually expected a 'sillier' movie, but it has some very serious scenes to it.  I routinely went from laughing to wincing.

Hit Girl will become an iconic character that is talked about for years. That 12 year old girl kicks more ass, and better, than most 'action' stars today.

This.  Even if it was wildly over-the-top, Hit Girl was great.

Haven't seen the movie but I have read the comic and based on the reviews I've read I'd say the comic does a better job of parodying ultra-violent superhero stuff simply be being more realistic. Hit Girl has got some obvious martial arts skill in the comic and fucks people up but it seems like the did the same treatment Watchmen's fight scenes got with lots of Wire Fu and slow motion impossible to achieve manoeuvres. The comic also spends quite a lot more time following Kick Ass himself and has a pretty good portrayal of what you'd expect the life of someone without powers or training that decided to become a costumed hero.

I'm willing to bet they're both entertaining but the film sounds more like mindless action, though the comic itself is pretty clearly aimed at getting turned into a film rather than just being a graphic novel.

That was fantastic.

Comic was pretty boring. Not nearly as bad as Scott Pilgrim was though. The movie (for the latter) looks like trash.

No...the film captures all of the above pretty well, I'd say. 

The only problem with the 12 year-old girl slaughtering so many grown men is the fact that she is a 12 year-old girl.  That, in and of itself, is completely ridiculous.  The movie is still good (great?).

The movie is a parody and it's not.  There are some parts that are in fact as incredulous as comic books(hit girl for instance)  I think though that the movie does a good job of blending the realistic and the fantastic

The reports that it came in at #2 at 19.8 million? Turns out it was #1, and How To Train Your Dragon was falsely reported at #1 with 20.0 million (it's 19.6 million).

The comic was a better story; it was uncompromisingly realistic in its view.  The movie basically pussed out in spots and made the violence ridiculous to dampen the impact; a hallway full of people gunned down Woo-style is pretty squeaky-clean compared to the unkind deaths in the comic.  The hero didn't get the girl, who was a shallow bitch anyways, and who he just liked because she was hot.  Big Daddy and Hit Girl had a vastly better origin.  Since the whole deal with the story was a 'what if people really dressed up and tried to fight crime?', losing that realism made me sad.

Still liked the movie just fine, of course.  I just wish they hadn't made the changes they made.

That sounds too much like a teen coming-of-age movie to me.  Which always get it utterly fucking wrong.

Monocle crowd at io9 where bitching about this.  I wonder about the kinda person who finishes watching the movie and thinks "That really could've use more realistic violence."  Comics are inherent unrealistic medium so any attempt to add realism is tempered by the medium.  Movies are different. I am glad this movie isn't Sin City or Kill Bill, that'd kill the fun.

Sin City and Kill Bill are both the opposite of realistic violence.  The violence in the comic wasn't glamorous or awesome, it was scary and bloody and unfun for the people involved.  Exactly what would happen if some kid in tights busted into a drug dealer's apartment.  It was that unflinching realism in the comic that gave it its edge.

I dunno, I felt that pretty strongly in the movie.  During that scene (until Hit Girl showed up) every nerve in my body was screaming GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT.

And even that scene when Hit Girl did enter it was still pretty scary for Kick-Ass.  That was the only real scene where Hit Girl is pretty fearless too.  The girl who played her was awesome, in pretty much all the violent scenes that followed with her you could feel how scared and worked up the character was, calculating the risks, taking in her environment.  Sure the choreography was stylised for the film but the fear was definitely still there.

Saw this tonight and absolutely loved it.

I don't think it was particularly better or worse than the comic -- it was a different take on the story (not quite as dark in a number of ways, in particular compare the origin story of HG & BD in the comic... wow), but it still worked for me. 

I think if they represented the violence as starkly as it was done in the comic it would have been rough to watch. They seemed to strike a reasonable balance between scary and cartoony.  I think being 1:1 with the comic would have been just over the top gruesome in places.

I did like the comic book sequence showing us the origin story BD was drawing.

I was blown away by the theme song they used for that scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL2WeRHqqXo&feature=related).

Yup. Some of the good scenes punched me in the gut with thoughts like "This is what could happen if someone is stupid enough to do this IRL" Especially when kickass got stabbed by random punk. What I had to suspend my belief for is someone able to overcome the trauma from being stabbed and rammed by a car only to run out there and do the same thing again right after recovery.

But the 'batman with guns' scene put me back in action movie mood instead of realism.

I think kickass put it very well, just like a serial killer he was compelled to do it again.  It's kind of a watchmen nod to being a superhero as a sort of fetish.

Saw this today and it was goddamn AWESOME. The final action scene had me laughing my ass off. The story had Mark Millar's fingerprints all over it and I loved it.

Wanted to see this before it left theaters. Just got back and, man, this movie was much more than I expected. I haven't read the comics yet. On it's own, Kick Ass was well worth the price of admission.

I think "Kick-Ass" really benefited from just having Millar's fingerprints on it, rather than his whole hands. Ultimately the film liked its characters more than the comic did e.g. in the film the guy gets the girl, in the comics the girl hates the guy and has her boyfriend kick the crap out of him when he reveals he's not gay and Kick-Ass.

That was nice, though technically in the end he 'doesn't' get there girl, she's with one of his friends.

Um, what?  If you are referring to the movie, he most certainly gets the girl.  Wasn't the last scene a shot of him with the hottie girl and fat kid with the other girl?  Pretty sure it was.

Yeah, it's easy to miss though.  It actually took me about 3 times watching the end to realise that Kickass is the guy with the girl on the right in the booth, NOT the guy by himself centred in the shot on at the end of the table.   Blame the framing and the shortness of the shot.

The fact that he fucked her in an alley wasn't also a tip off he got the girl?   :awesome_for_real:

haha, i dunno.  during the ending monologue i sorta got a whole "things don't always work out perfect but hey its alright"  vibe.  so in that way him not getting the girl seemed fine.  Either way it's a minor detail.

I appreciated that bit - the one friend who doesn't get a girl. At least he still has comics.  :grin:

Remember, he is saving himself for Hitgirl.

Three straight days of "La  La  La, la,la la la" repeating in my head...

Best part of the movie - the big bodyguard's facial expressions, especially just before saying "I'm getting the bazooka"

The Banana Splits Theme song? (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1677397039105454127#)

Hmm.. apparently so..  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wwTps0B5cQ) Hilarious.  I use that to torture my kids and wife or sing it while farming in WoW.

Rise from your grave!!!

Just saw this on DVD. I'm glad I didn't see in the theater, because it's not the sorta thing I see in the theater; more like, sitting at home in my sweatpants, drinking a bunch and laughing and going "oh shit" all the time. Very freaking fun. If the comic was more realistic, I'm glad they didn't go that route. That's just not a fun movie. (I'm glad they upped Watchmen's action too.) When you see a fight in a movie, it's more a representation of the intentions. Real fights are weird and confusing and even a little bit boring. It would have been a better payoff to see the bad guys in more fear rather than just exploding blood bags, especially the boss screaming before he blew up, instead of a long-shot. That's my only gripe.

I just caught this one too, loved it like everyone else.  I hope they are cranking out the sequels before the girl who plays Hit-Girl gets too old, you know as soon as she gets any boobs they are going to sexualize her and one of those "this long until shes 18" countdown websites is gonna pop up.

Saw this last night. I enjoyed it. I never read the comic so I cant compare, but I enjoyed the mix of "this is scary shit" and comedy.

Clearly you are new to the internet sir, allow me to welcome you.

Yeah i kinda figured as soon as i posted that i was crazy for thinking that site didn't already exist.

Saw it. liked it. IMO it had less to do with wanting to be a superhero and more to do with wanting to run around and hit people with sticks. Dressing up as a superhero is just the demented justification for that.

And it still doesn't answer the question of what would happen if someone actually tried to be a superhero, since everything after Kick Ass recovers is hollywood magic.   :why_so_serious:

I just realized that Kick-Ass's "super power" was the same as Oofty Goofty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oofty_Goofty)'s.

It's a pretty frequent topic at 4chan. Frankly, some of the outfits (such as a miniskirt with a "powergirl" style boob window) she's worn on talk shows lend credence to the theory that she's intentionally trying to sexuallize herself already.

Anyway, the movie version of HG creeped me out, I thought book version was a lot better.

Creeped you out?  I never read any book/comic to compare it to, but I absolutely thought the HG character was wonderful, in a very non  :pedobear: sort of way.

 :facepalm:

Care to explain that a little bit? English may not work exactly the way you think it does.


Eh, the movie version just seemed like an adult character stuck into a kid's body. Other than the one little bit where she's working the balisong and saying "Look at me daddy, look at me, you're not watching!" there wasn't anything childlike about her. It looked and felt like an old chubby neckbeard at a D&D session trying to roleplay what they imagined a little kid would act like. I guess what really creeped me out was it brought back a lot of creepy sessions where people would roleplay kids or hot women, but were just horrible and icky about it. Anyway, the book version was all little kid that just happened to be great at killing people, especially when she cried about loosing her dad.

At this point I would ask what bobs experience as a little girl was like growing up and how it differs from the portrayel in the movie.

Joking aside, hitgirl was NOT supposed to be a normal girl, she was effectively brainwashed by her father into being a killing machine, that's the point.  You would get glimmers of an actual child in there if you pay attention but they are brief and rare. 

She looked very childlike whenever she screwed up or was in actual danger.

I think that was a limitation of the actress and not the character.

When she did the "Lookit the balisong daddy, lookit!" I thought it was a gag rather than a moment of innocence. Like "After bullet training let's get ice cream!"

I doubt that a 13 year old girl would "sexualize" herself "intentionally". Even today.

Or did you just mean that she hit puberty ?

If anyone's trying to intentionally sexualize her image, the smart money is always going to be on her agent and/or parents.

Ya because girls never imitate what older women do.

Are you serious? I'm just going to choose to believe it's a difference between Germany and America and leave it at that, though I find that a stretch since google says your age of consent is 14. Normal, everyday girls here are starting to sexy themselves up by then, let alone celebrities.

My daughter is 11 now, 12 in a month and a half.  Based on her friends 13 is late to start it.  She asked to begin shaving her legs a few weeks ago and wanted to do it last year but we said no way.

Her 13 year old friend up the street looks like and wears clothes I remember girls of 16 doing when I was that age.  Yes, indeed, 13-year-olds can and do tart themselves up. Unless belly tanks with spaghetti straps and those terry cloth daisy dukes are the only attire in the 13-year-old clothing aisle.  (Hint, it's not.)

I don't want to argue semantics. In my mind, to "sexualize" oneself is not the same thing you and others are talking about. Teenage girls and puberty (and all that comes) with it are not the same as sexualization(imho).

This I agree with.

What a "normal" girl gets away with and what a child actor does in scheduled TV appearances are not comparable.  I guarantee you that the clothes she puts on before she has any sort of public appearance are at least approved, if not carefully selected, by her parents or some other adult authority figure.

Are we argueing or are we in agreement ? I can't tell anymore.  :awesome_for_real:

You and I are in agreement.  Everyone else is clinging to the fantasy that this little girl is offering herself to them of her own free will.

Can't we all just agree to blame 'society' and get along?

Saw this tonight. Was very impressed with how good of a film it was.  The violence was a bit over the top, I don't think he spent enough time looking around for crimes, but they did do a fairly good job with him looking for "Bitey".

Best superhero film I have seen all summer! (Note I have not seen Ironman 2 yet).

Caught this on Netflix and loved it.  It felt very original, with a fresh take on superheroes.   Plus, a lot of references to comics and comic book movies.  The last line was the best!  Great acting, though the main kid was average.  Nic Cage did good!  I actually believed he was someone other than Nic Cage.

I don't know anything about the books, but I'd love a sequel. 

Book sequels are happening. Movie sequels are...probably?

http://movies.ign.com/dor/objects/32667/kick-ass-2/videos/MarkMillar_KickAss2.html

Watched this last night on DvD and was pleasantly surprised.  I would have preferred less gore, but the pace and action were as interesting as the story.  I expected not to enjoy this and really fell in love with it. 

Exceeded all my expectations. Loved it.  I didn't prepare the wife very well and the share was a bit "wtf?" at first, especially when Kick Ass gets graphically stabbed and hit by that car.  I liked the final fight between HG and the crime boss.  They didn't try and gloss over the fact that a grown man would have to really be a pansy to lose to an 11 year old girl in hand to hand, no matter her skills.  Nic Cage did a good job with a small role. 

I love it when movies combine parody and strong violence. Am I broken?