Kick-Ass

BlueMaxx wrote:Jetpack? Wait...you're telling me Millar took a book of actual super-people and made that movie unsuper in the comicbook sense, and then took a movie that is about unsuper-people being very comicbook-ish? *sigh* It's okay, I'm still gonna see it. Just breathe, Ryan. Just breathe.

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Demonweasel wrote:Jesus, reading this thread makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills. While I didn't necessarily like the comic, I *loathed* the movie. It was chock-full of lowest common denominator stupidity, and the changes from the comic made me appreciate the comic more. The pacing was weird, the acting sub-par (the Wicker Man-like scene was painful to watch) and the "story" was just window dressing for action set pieces and KEWL jokes.

I'm sure I'll get Ye Olde Message Board Dogpile over this, and I know I'm in the minority, but I left the theater shaking my head and thankful that I saw it for free.

Astro13Zombie wrote:
But the jet pack part was a huge "WTF?" moment.

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Joshua wrote:

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No one is asking how it got there, it just seemed really ridiculous in the context of the movie.

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Tomer Soiker wrote:
Then again, there was nothing realistic about this whole story/movie in the first place, no matter how hard Millar screams it is.

Tom wrote:

Tomer Soiker wrote:
Then again, there was nothing realistic about this whole story/movie in the first place, no matter how hard Millar screams it is.

A geek dresses up as a "super hero" and gets his ass kicked isn't realistic?
And the villain being a mobster?
Hit Girl isn't realistic?
Maybe the Matrix style moves aren't, but have you never seen a 5 yr old that's a black belt?

C'mon dude.
Yes, there was some unrealistic things about the movie, but overall, this movie was pretty close to being believable.

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Joshua wrote:

(._Y_.) wrote:

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No one is asking how it got there, it just seemed really ridiculous in the context of the movie.

Demonweasel wrote:

Tom wrote:

Tomer Soiker wrote:
Then again, there was nothing realistic about this whole story/movie in the first place, no matter how hard Millar screams it is.

A geek dresses up as a "super hero" and gets his ass kicked isn't realistic?
And the villain being a mobster?
Hit Girl isn't realistic?
Maybe the Matrix style moves aren't, but have you never seen a 5 yr old that's a black belt?

C'mon dude.
Yes, there was some unrealistic things about the movie, but overall, this movie was pretty close to being believable.

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jaydee74 wrote:Actually, the plot of the story is about a guy (Kick Ass) wondering why people look up to real life jerks like Paris Hilton and not noble yet fictional people like Spider-Man and why people don't try to help other people. Also, Kick Ass is not given $300,000 to buy a jet pack.

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I will agree that the trailers does not match up completely with the tone of the movie and it should have because the movie is pretty good. It's not like the comic but if I do feel that if the comic never came out, people would have a different view of this movie. I really do.

Tomer Soiker wrote:I meant it was just entertaining...

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BlueMaxx wrote:Jetpack? Wait...you're telling me Millar took a book of actual super-people and made that movie unsuper in the comicbook sense, and then took a movie that is about unsuper-people being very comicbook-ish? *sigh* It's okay, I'm still gonna see it. Just breathe, Ryan. Just breathe.

The whole movie/comic was based on "It's just like if it happened in real life" and there's so much that stretches realism that it's just ridiculous. Plus, and this was one my biggest annoyances with the movie...

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