The New York Times review liked Nic Cage and his interactions with the girl more than anything else in the movie, which I thought was interesting.
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Gris - Apr 17, 2010 7:32:42 am PDT #7635 of 30000
Hey. New board.
quester - Apr 17, 2010 7:34:36 am PDT #7636 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Roger Ebert hated the movie.
Dana - Apr 17, 2010 7:59:10 am PDT #7637 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I think it was the Slate reviewer who said something like "I never thought I'd say this, but Nicolas Cage gives the most nuanced performance."
Jessica - Apr 17, 2010 8:19:26 am PDT #7638 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH's review of Kick-Ass is here. He had mixed feelings.
Volans - Apr 17, 2010 9:35:07 am PDT #7639 of 30000
move out and draw fire
The Escapist's review said that Cage's Big Daddy was possibly the best on-screen Batman.
le nubian - Apr 17, 2010 10:43:28 am PDT #7640 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
It isn't quite clear to me why Ebert's review is so negative. I agree with Jessica's DH, but I didn't have high expectations of this movie being deep, so I had no disappointment.
Polter-Cow - Apr 17, 2010 12:16:49 pm PDT #7641 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The New York Times review liked Nic Cage and his interactions with the girl more than anything else in the movie, which I thought was interesting.
They were definitely the best thing about the movie.
Kick-Ass was awesome. Really good, better than I was expecting. I thought it would just be a bunch of crazy violence and a foul-mouthed child, but everything had its place, and it turned out be a really good superhero movie. Unexpectedly emotional, and pretty intense.
Also, Hit-Girl reloading her pistols with clips in mid-air was one of the most badass things I've ever seen.
Gris - Apr 17, 2010 1:08:52 pm PDT #7642 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I think Ebert was sad solely from the "glorification of a child being trained as an assassin" point of view. She kills with gusto, at an age when it's pretty universally agreed that she doesn't have the maturity to decide what movies she should be able to see. At least Batman traditionally tries to avoid killing whenever possible (though that is less true in the films) and has lots of angst about it. He seemed to be going in a "young kids WILL see this, will enjoy watching Hit-Girl, and will become even more desensitized to violence" direction. Most ultraviolent movies don't really try much to appeal to the preteen set, but Ebert seems concerned that Hit Girl's age will make this one do so.
I haven't seen the movie yet, so I'm basing this entirely on what he wrote.
Polter-Cow - Apr 17, 2010 2:26:35 pm PDT #7643 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Also: OH MY GOD THE LOVE INTEREST IS THE DAUGHTER FROM HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. No wonder she looked strangely familiar. She's grown up.
le nubian - Apr 17, 2010 6:19:50 pm PDT #7644 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Gris,
I get that, but Buffy wasn't much older than Hit Girl (and one might say was nearly the exact age as Hit Girl) when she became the Chosen One she was killing demons each week. Sure it was screwed up to see a girl running around being a little badass, but it isn't completely out of left field from a pop culture point of view.
BTW, the actress was 11 when she was in the movie, but the character attends high school. So it isn't clear to me how old the character is supposed to be.