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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.
11 is the age I've seen bandied about for Hit Girl's character, but I don't think they ever said in the movie how old she was.
How old was what's-her-face, I mean, Natalie Portman in The Professional? IMDB says the character was 12.
Ebert had similar qualms about The Professional. I think it's not so much "think of the children!" as he personally finds it distasteful to see kids engaging in graphic violence as entertainment.
Which, fair enough, but that's kinda why I often find his reviews entertaining, but unhelpful as reviews. Ethan's review was a lot better in terms of giving me enough info to judge whether I should make an effort to see it in a theater. (...Probably not.)
I think it's not so much "think of the children!" as he personally finds it distasteful to see kids engaging in graphic violence as entertainment.
Well, Ebert and I differ on that point.
Kick-Ass upset me quite a bit. That's all I can say about it tonight.
Saw Men Who Stare at Goats last night, quite liked it. I think it's like Last Action Hero, the ad people had no clue how to package it, so most of the movie audience would have been baffled by it. It strikes me as in the same class of movie as Brazil (though not quite as brilliant as that) and Toys, in that you need to have a particular mind set to appreciate it.
From Yahoo: 100 Movies to See Before You Die: The Modern Classics
All these movies are from the last 20 years. I've only seen 57 of them. The list is organized by year - apparently I went to a lot more movies 1990-1999 than 2000-2009.
apparently I went to a lot more movies 1990-1999 than 2000-2009.
Plus you've had twenty years to catch up to them if you missed them in the theater.
But me too. I saw almost everything on their list from the early nineties before Emmett was born.
Wow, I've only seen 37 of them!
I've seen 53. What surprises me is how many of those I saw in the theater.