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I've seen 92 of the all-time greats. (Titanic being one of the unseen.)
I found nothing amusing or entertaining about casual murder.
How many people do you casually kill in Assassin's Creed? Answer: 0. How many people killed in Kickass: 0. All fictional deaths. Of course they're different media, but people have made that claim about shooter games. Were you upset by the slaughter in Kill Bill?
Sean, are you a fan at all of Tarentino or John Woo? The violence of Kick-Ass seemed on that level to me - kinda' cartoonish in its absurdity.
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Kickass: To me, the part that was most upsetting was what Jessica's husband pointed out: the Daniel Pearl visual references. That was at once a bit unnecessary and did not really advance the plot. On the one hand, nothing about that setup needed it to be "televised." On the other hand, given the movie's constant references to MySpace, and youtube, etc. I think the scene was faithful to the movie even if I found it unnecessary.
85 on the first list, and 82 of the modern classics. I'm sort of surprised by the latter.
holy cow, I've seen 68 of the movies on the all time list. I would have thought I'd be in the 40s.
I watch a lot of movies, but I can't beat Megan.
Truly, I'm surprised I'm so high on either list. If only I watched more Asian cinema, I'd be even higher.
Of course, the real shame is that some of the classics I haven't seen are Italian. Don't tell my boss.
yeah, I watch a fair amount of Asian cinema, but not movies that are on these lists. Despite the fact I think the lists are deeply flawed, I keep wondering: man, am I watching shitty Asian cinema or something?
I've seen 74 on the Modern Classics list. Most of the ones I haven't seen are horror films, which means I probably won't ever fill in those gaps.
The number I saw in theatres drops off sharply after 2007.
62 on the first list, and 68 on the other. Which is strange since there are big holes in my movie watching...70s, westerns, war movies.
68 on the modern, 58 on the all-time, which is more than I expected. Huh.
Yeah, so I found Kick-Ass to be highly disturbing and upsetting. I found nothing amusing or entertaining about casual murder.
How was it casual? They were killing bad guys. Often to avoid being killed by them.
Sean, are you a fan at all of Tarentino or John Woo? The violence of Kick-Ass seemed on that level to me - kinda' cartoonish in its absurdity.
Right. I will say that some deaths made me a bit uncomfortable, but overall, besides the fact that there was rampant, bloody violence committed by a child, the violence itself wasn't that different from other movies of its ilk.