Topic: Kick-Ass *****

[Achim]

I read Ebert's review and, while I don't know his usual style, he certainly makes a few "non-points" in this one. :shrugs: Seeing it then in comparison to what he said on the other films makes it really ridiculous.

[lovemunkey187]

You know, so many of my friends have watched this and said "the trailer made it look like a comedy, it wasn't funny"

I LOL'd quite alot through this.

[Critter]

You know, so many of my friends have watched this and said "the trailer made it look like a comedy, it wasn't funny"

I LOL'd quite alot through this.

I laughed quite a lot as well, but I think what those people mean is that the marketing lead them to believe this would be a straight out comedy. They probably were expecting more of a silly Meet The Spartans type parody. Kick-Ass however did deliver plenty of laughs but also had a deeper, more emotional level to much of the plot which I think worked perfectly, but may not have been what people were expecting.

[Jimmy]

They probably were expecting more of a silly Meet The Spartans type parody.

Sophie please never used again "Meet the Spartans" and "parody" in the same phrase, thank you

This is not a parody, this is not funny and this is not even a movie. My oppinion on it had changed a lot after a second viewing (not that it was that good after the first). They don't do movie anymore (thanks to the Disaster Movie flop), it's a good thing and no one want them back (maybe the braindeads who finds them funny want, but like they probably find a blank screen funny too their oppinions doesn't really count).

[Critter]

They probably were expecting more of a silly Meet The Spartans type parody.

Sophie please never used again "Meet the Spartans" and "parody" in the same phrase, thank you

This is not a parody, this is not funny and this is not even a movie. My oppinion on it had changed a lot after a second viewing (not that it was that good after the first). They don't do movie anymore (thanks to the Disaster Movie flop), it's a good thing and no one want them back (maybe the braindeads who finds them funny want, but like they probably find a blank screen funny too their oppinions doesn't really count).

I do apologise Jimmy, won't happen again. I haven't even seen any of them myself, I think I watched one once, it was so poor that I have been avoiding them ever since. I honestly don't know how anyone can find the type of humour where all they do is drop a cow on Iron Mans head funny. Although, that being said I think the original Scary Movie does have some merit as an okay spoof of the genre, they just seemed to go downhill from there.

[Jimmy]

I have seen 4 of them in two days almost one year ago... It was a traumatizing experience and all that because Pete had written a bad review for Date Movie

Worst weekend of my life

[Critter]

Dear God Jimmy... you poor man. If anyone ever tried to make me watch even one of those films it would not end up well to them. Looking at that list reminded me of the one I (attempted) to watch. I got about 20 minutes into Epic Movie before I had to take it out of the DVD player as quickly as I could.

[Critter]

So yesterday I saw Kick-Ass in a cinema complex in Melbourne with my sister who wanted to see it and wow! I have never even been to a cinema in a complex like that and it was really cool and different to the cinemas I have in my town. I saw it in a cinema called an 'Xtreme Screen' and it blew me away. It was the fourth time I had seen Kick-Ass but I think this viewing may have been my favourite, it made even the biggest cinemas in my town seem of low qaulity. These screens have 10,000 watts and state of the art Dolby 8 channel surround EX system. The screen was just massive too, and the chairs were really comfy. It was also a packed crowd and everyone loved it, they all laughed at the right places and cheered and clapped at the end. It was one of my favourite cinema experiences, I hope to see more films in xtreme screens in the future. There were only two of these screens in the whole cinema, and not too many in all of Melbourne so I was quite excited when I found out Kick-Ass was showing in one.

[Achim]

I saw Kick-Ass again yesterday (for the second time only ).

While the freshness is gone (obviously) and the amazement about the story (mainly the opening section) slightly lessened (for having seen it just a week earlier) it allowed me to concentrate on other aspects. The acting is really god in most places, with mainly some side characters not being quite up to par (e.g the two thugs we see in the beginning are a bit wooden) and the delivery from the main characters in some scenes being a bit odd (the latter may be on purpose, at least in some of those cases). the second half of the film pulled me in entirely again, with the climactic scene being every bit it was the first time around (incl. the excitement when Kick-Ass shows up to help Hit-Girl).

[Tom]

I just came back from my third viewing. The movie gets better and better with each viewing. Too bad I have to wait until December for the Blu-ray release (at least that is what amazon.de tells me).
Also I have read the comic four times already (also from this one I still didn't get tired off).

[Najemikon]

 

[dfmorgan]

Chris Tookey, The Daily Mail film critic, responds to cyber-bullying following his review of Kick-Ass here

Dave

[Jimmy]

And he miss the point again... What he wrote was not a critic but a no point attack against a movie, many so-called critics do this frequently and when it's happen they are critiqued for writing with an agenda and un-professionally. Roger Ebert had done that frequently (just read some of his fulci's movies review or his Day of the Woman review) and he had lost a lot of credibility for that. If you want to be called a movie critic you review a movie without an agenda and if you want to attack freely a movie you become a blogger... Not that I've something against them since I am one, but I don't consider myself to be a critic and I can say whatever I want in my works if it's the truth.

Kind of funny that I defend this film without watching it, but it's more the fact that the guy can't understand he did an un-professional job...

[Najemikon]

It also proves what I said before. The Mail are so out of touch; he actually makes some fairly good points about cyber-bullying, which is an awful problem, but there's so much spin on that article, you'd think the Internet is a mucus filled cesspit smack bang in the middle of a fiery Hell, populated by inbred maggots!

Granted, our well-balanced and intelligent fellow member, Dave , is a Mail reader, but I have to say, "Live by the sword, die by the sword". They spend all their time provoking people, what sort of response does he expect?

[dfmorgan]

And he miss the point again... What he wrote was not a critic but a no point attack against a movie, many so-called critics do this frequently and when it's happen they are critiqued for writing with an agenda and un-professionally. Roger Ebert had done that frequently (just read some of his fulci's movies review or his Day of the Woman review) and he had lost a lot of credibility for that. If you want to be called a movie critic you review a movie without an agenda and if you want to attack freely a movie you become a blogger... Not that I've something against them since I am one, but I don't consider myself to be a critic and I can say whatever I want in my works if it's the truth.

Kind of funny that I defend this film without watching it, but it's more the fact that the guy can't understand he did an un-professional job...

It also proves what I said before. The Mail are so out of touch; he actually makes some fairly good points about cyber-bullying, which is an awful problem, but there's so much spin on that article, you'd think the Internet is a mucus filled cesspit smack bang in the middle of a fiery Hell, populated by inbred maggots!

Granted, our well-balanced and intelligent fellow member, Dave , is a Mail reader, but I have to say, "Live by the sword, die by the sword". They spend all their time provoking people, what sort of response does he expect?

  both very good responses and so right.

Dave

p.s. Oh by the way, as a Daily Mail reader, I did think that the Internet was a mucus filled cesspit smack bang in the middle of a fiery Hell, populated by inbred maggots! but then again maybe not