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Kick Ass (the movie)
Alex C:
Yeah, I hate to say it, but the comic tries waaaaay too hard. The movie is just openly dedicated to basic male power fantasy: A dude with a painfully ordinary life becomes a bad ass who hangs out with Angelina Jolie all day. Not exactly the most creative film concept ever, but at least it portrays the theme vividly.
Caleb:
The premise of Wanted the graphic novel was AWESOME.
All the super villains got together and killed all the superheroes. So now it's all just super villains running around in a world that doesn't even know they exist. One guy finds out that he is the son of a villain and has the unique ability to become the perfect killer. Amazing stuff happens.
The movie was pretty good and it was worth seeing in the theater but I don't think it was good enough to be confused with the graphic novel. They should have named it something different.
Now with Kick-Ass I never read the comics, so who knows. I remember the preview in the theaters was a lot more bloody and fun looking.
Surgoshan:
Ultraviolet, Equilibrium, and Wanted.
I've seen all three and appreciated all three in their own way, each to its own degree.
Ultraviolet I approached as something more or less a Uwe Böll movie. I know it wasn't, but it came out at about the same time as Blood Rayne and I had as little expectations. The movie had almost nothing in the way of plot and the action, though decently choreographed, was unexciting. The action didn't even attempt to impress; it was whatshername being a little quicker and stronger than others. The final boss fight* was worse than boring. Nothing about the movie made me chortle with glee.
Equilibrium brought the awesomeness of Batman Christian Bale and, for a short time, Boromir Sean Bean, but it was 1981 with niftier guns. The plot was unoriginal. However, I quite enjoyed the action. That the guy's kids didn't rat him out was a nice double-twist (sorry for actually not spoiling it for you). In the end, the action was all the movie was worth, and at the end even that got dull. 1) Why was "father" a master of the new martial art? 2) Why did "father" allow him anywhere close? 3) Why the fuck did the alternately cross and uncross his arms as he walked out of the ... temple.? There was some fun action, but there was way too much, too belabored political bullshit.
Wanted put in a bit of backstory, a bit of "why", and then let the guy (a pansy, everyday, lackaday, fuckass) learn how to kick utter ass. Then he proceeded to kick all sorts of ass. That's the only reason why the movie worked. The plot was comic hackney (Yes, it deviated from the graphic novels, which is good, because the graphic novels sound like post-Moore *shit*), but it worked enough for the guy to kick ass, kick ass, kick more ass, then kick some more ass while continuing the minimal development needed in a movie full of ass-kick.
Frankly, I think Wanted is comparable to The Matrix. M had better plot and better action and was a better movie, but they're of a type. W just happens to stand at one end of the scale and M stands at the better end.
* the movie was as predictable as a JRPG, and the bad guy didn't even have the decency to be as bad as Kefka nor as pretty as Sephiroth.
FIXDIX:
Big Daddy looks a whole lot like Midnighter.
Caleb:
http://www.moviefill.com/New-Kick-Ass-Poster-Featuring-McLovin-As-Red-Mist-19637/
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