Kick-Ass
 

Clearly, this movie deserves its own thread. It is definitely better than Mark Millar's other comic-movie, Wanted (although I thought that one was good). We saw it yesterday and the wife liked it better than Avatar.

Hit Girl simply stole the show.

Felt like Watchmen Jr. to me (which is a good thing, I'm a big fan of Watchmen). Was actually a bit worried at the start that a movie like this could inspire a lot of people to try this out in day to day life, but the "realism" that followed put a lot of those worries to rest. Found myself enjoying the movie more and more as it went along and may catch it again in theaters (a rarity for me) to see how it stands up to a second viewing.

Would have been much better if it were titled Hit Girl. Awesome when she was on-screen, dragged when she wasn't.

{scratches head} Based on the trailers, I've been wondering how this was going to pull .50 in revenue, I'm guessing that I'm definitely not the target.

I was unable to see it this weekend, but I will be seeing it next week. I'm a little wary of Nicolas Cage as Big Daddy. Never been a huge Nicolas Cage fan and I just did not picture him as the Big Daddy character from the comic. I'm still seeing it as the Hit-Girl character looks hilarious.

With the "R" rating and Cage you would think their target audience is the 29-45 crowd as a kind of "Hip single Dad" movie.

I myself, do not understand the logic of the "R" rating of this film. I think it would have been a better draw with a PG-13 rating, playing more to the 15-25 market.

I disagree. This was aimed at 18-35, which, of course, is a good demographic to try to catch.

It might have been a better draw as a PG-13, but I think the "realism" of the movie would have significantly dulled its impact.

My guess is strong word of mouth will spread on this one and buoy it a little more than most genre movies usually are in their second and third weekends. I don't know that many people were really too sure what this was all about, so they would need the push from friends to go see it.

So you've never read the comic then?

My wife and I saw it this weekend and we both loved it. Just about everyone in the theatre were at least late 20's and mostly 30's and 40's. Maybe that had to do with the theatre we went though, but it did seem to be targeted to the 20-40 crowd.

In the "Last Movie You Watched" thread, somebody said they didn't like Nicholas Cage movies; I agree. However, he was very good in this movie, especially in the Adam West mannerisms.

Nope , never read the comic.

Funny, from the previews I was thinking it was something I could take my 60 year old Dad to. I guess I better pick another movie.

I caught Kick-Ass this weekend at the theater. Having read the comic, I probably ruined the movie for myself since I really enjoyed the comic. The movie was definitely solid, but there were at least two major story lines in the comic that were different from the movie. In both cases I preferred the comic to the movie. Still I would recommend it as a budget movie or dvd rental later.

I read the comic last night, I thought it was fairly decent however not as groundbreaking as the 'WANTED' graphic novel.

Glad to hear the film is better than the Wanted interpretation as that sucked right royally imho, especially as the comic was just fantastic ... a really novel idea executed incredibly well imho.

He was saying how proud he was of his daughter and how much he loved her etc.

Thanks for the reminder. I keep wanting to read Wanted, but always forget to borrow it from a friend.

There really wasn't anything groundbreaking about Kick-Ass the comic, but I just loved the twists.

PS: Thanks to anyone who can explain how to add the spoiler tag.

{spoiler}{/spoiler}

but instead of {} use []

There was also talk about when she got shot and he made a comment about the velocity of the bullet.

use the fucking spoiler tags ppl