Okay, I just read the Kick Ass TPB. I never saw the movie, so I'm wondering -- how faithful to the book is the movie? Because that is some violent shit going on there.
Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.
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Steph L. - Sep 02, 2011 4:22:18 pm PDT #3778 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
DavidS - Sep 02, 2011 4:33:08 pm PDT #3779 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
how faithful to the book is the movie? Because that is some violent shit going on there.
Movie's pretty violent. Like, they don't shy away from Big Daddy's death.
Polter-Cow - Sep 02, 2011 4:58:37 pm PDT #3780 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Steph L. - Sep 02, 2011 5:05:55 pm PDT #3781 of 5059
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Movie's pretty violent. Like, they don't shy away from
That didn't seem as violent to me as the electrocuted testicles, or some of Hit-Girl's fight scenes, where she literally cut heads in half.
Also, by the end of the comic, I was kind of glad that Big Daddy got killed. Because, damn, what a sociopath.
t edit I'm referring to the comic, of course, since I haven't seen the movie. (Which is why I asked about it. Durrr. I think I'm stupid on painkillers right now. Gotta say, reading Kick-Ass helps take the edge off of root canal pain.)
DavidS - Sep 02, 2011 5:10:44 pm PDT #3782 of 5059
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I really like the movie. It's pretty violent though.
The hardest scene to watch actually is when Hit-Girl is getting beat up by the adult sized bad guy at the end. Seeing an adult male punching out a little girl - even a Hit Girl - is difficult to watch in a movie setting.
§ ita § - Sep 10, 2011 10:41:48 am PDT #3783 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So in JLA #1, GL meets Batman for the first time. Like, doesn't know who he is, or what his powers are (not). In JLI #1, Batman tries to talk Booster Gold into keeping Guy Gardner on the team.
Is there a guide to this?
Steph L. - Sep 14, 2011 11:39:03 am PDT #3784 of 5059
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§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 11:47:47 am PDT #3785 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DC has no sense of tone.
§ ita § - Sep 14, 2011 4:46:44 pm PDT #3786 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph L. - Sep 14, 2011 5:03:24 pm PDT #3787 of 5059
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I just had a hilariously pedantic discussion with Tim on the fact that there have been 2 female Robins.
Me: "I *know* I have told you this before! We've been dating for over 5 years!"
Him: "Uh, it may have slipped my mind."
Me: "Well, you know that only Steph Brown is canonical, right?"**
Him: [blank look]
Me: "Oh, for god's sake!"
This came out of the fact that there was a gigantic kink event in Columbus last weekend (way too big for me to handle the crowds), and apparently there was a superhero-themed party dealie. One of our friends told us that another friend, L. (who is a woman) dressed as Robin.
Of course my first reaction was "Oooh! Carrie Kelly or Steph Brown?!?"
They just looked at me like I was speaking in tongues. Finally I said, "It MATTERS, okay?!?"
And when I explained to them that there have been 2 female Robins, they were all like, "Oh, L. just thought she was being edgy." I decided to not even try to explain the whole canonical dress-Tim-Drake-in-drag dealie.
Edgy, my ass.
**(Actually, is Dark Knight Returns considered canon, but just...future-canon? Because I think of DKR as canon. Maybe I mean only Steph was Robin in current continuity.)