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.
eta: Terentino x-post.
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
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tommyrot - Apr 18, 2010 7:07:36 am PDT #7663 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2010 7:20:02 am PDT #7664 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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.
megan walker - Apr 18, 2010 7:20:49 am PDT #7665 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
85 on the first list, and 82 of the modern classics. I'm sort of surprised by the latter.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2010 7:37:51 am PDT #7666 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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.
megan walker - Apr 18, 2010 7:41:13 am PDT #7667 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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.
le nubian - Apr 18, 2010 8:02:27 am PDT #7668 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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?
Jessica - Apr 18, 2010 8:11:55 am PDT #7669 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Sue - Apr 18, 2010 8:18:37 am PDT #7670 of 30000
hip deep in pie
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.
Polter-Cow - Apr 18, 2010 8:26:06 am PDT #7671 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
megan walker - Apr 18, 2010 8:27:48 am PDT #7672 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
This made me go back to look at my Paris movie diary from the first time I lived there. Paris having something like 425+ movie screens showing everything you can imagine, I thought many might have come from that, but only 6 did (which is amazing, considering I watched 72 movies in 9 months).