[MINI REVIEW] Kick-Ass

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I bought the Blu-Ray of this because Kathy rented it from Blockbuster and actually said it was her favorite movie of the year. And I'm a good guy, so, boom, bought.

She was excited to watch it a second time, so I got to be brought into the party this time.

Let's end it here, for the masses: Good movie. Very good movie. Funny, witty, very clever story about real-life people deciding to be super heroes and suffering the consequences (and rewards).

THREE AND A HALF (***1/2) OUT OF FOUR STARS.






And yet...




I remember reading Ebert's review of this when it came out and thinking what a maggot he was. He was the ONLY mainstream reviewer who didn't absolutely ooze all over the thing. And his point was, this movie features an 11 year old brutally murdering (and trying to be murdered by) people, and he found that distasteful.

Well, he is a maggot, because he missed the point.

But god DAMN is this still a very distasteful movie.

There is an 11 year old brutally murdering (and trying to be murdered by) people. Which I guess is kinda cute and funny out of context. But this movie makes the very interesting choice of giving us context. And that context is Nicolas Cage, the girl's father, whose wife was murdered, but they saved the little girl she was carrying.

So this sick twisted fuck spends the girl's entire childhood teaching her to be the biggest badass on the planet. She knows more about weaponry and how to use it, and how to slit fuckers throats and blow fuckers' heads off with it than any 10 previous "superheroes" combined, and she puts it all to use.

And you're like, ha, cool.

But you might also be kinda like, whoa, this is pretty goddamn sick. Think, girl raised to be a prostitute, but instead of sucking guys off at 11 years old, she's shooting them in the fucking brain with a 9mm.

Anyway. I could be wrong! Am I wrong? I thought it was a fine movie, but one of the more unpleasant ones I've seen lately, due to the whole "Hit Girl" dynamic.

REACT TO ME.

[savvyraven]

dark comedy
n.
1. A comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements, especially one in which a character suffers an irreparable loss.
2. A comedy characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.

It's just a movie, man...One that played into every fantasy I had as a 10 year old! You used to know what a dark comedy was. How very sad :(

[AArdvark]

So that means the all the GTAs are dark movie videogames.


I have never watched the fat myopic Ebert show and could offer no opinion on his movie critiques save for the fact that the reason he's so fat is that he's full of himself. The majority of the people could get along fine without television based movie cheerleaders to tell us if they suck or not.



I'm waiting a little longer till I see this movie. Hafta finish Mafia 2 first.


THE
DARK COMEDY
DOES NOT STAR EDDIE MURPHY
AARDVARK

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Ebert hasn't been fat for 15 years, and now he don't even have a face.

TOTAL WEIGHT = TOTAL WEIGHT - FACE

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

But you might also be kinda like, whoa, this is pretty goddamn sick. Think, girl raised to be a prostitute, but instead of sucking guys off at 11 years old, she's shooting them in the fucking brain with a 9mm.

Anyway. I could be wrong! Am I wrong? I thought it was a fine movie, but one of the more unpleasant ones I've seen lately, due to the whole "Hit Girl" dynamic.

REACT TO ME.

So, we can't have a movie with that in it? Because it is sick?

Every other movie in the world (well, not really) doesn't bother to give you any motivation on the part of her character. I have a real hard time with reviewers like Ebert who see something that repulses them and then scores it negatively because of that. (And I understand you did not do that.) I can't fault a movie for making you feel something, even if that something is revulsion.

[Bugs]

Who is Kathy?