Kick-Ass movie discussion - Contains spoilers

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

As for the departure from the comic book - that could never have affected my enjoyment of the film - since I never read the comic. I'm glad I haven't. It's very difficult to enjoy the movie version of something you're already familiar with .... but much easier to enjoy the book or comic of a movie you've already seen.

I never read the comic either, but I thought the movie suffered from the same thing a lot of comic adaptations suffer from (Watchmen come to mind) - story compression. I could tell that there was a LOT left out for the sake of time. We saw Kick-Ass take out 1 set of street thugs, and the BAM, smack in the middle of taking down an organized crime boss. As CP pointed out, Red Mist went from sympathetic to Kick-Ass and feeling betrayed by his father - to happily jumping up to run interference while his father tried to kill a little girl with nothing in between to change that. Clearly large chunks of action and motivation were missing that would have been in the comic book. That bugged me through most of the movie, making everything feel rushed and disjointed.

And I was kinda put off by the gore. I'm not as a rule put off by over the top comic book gore (for example, I LOVED Kill Bill Vol. 1), but in this context it felt over done and unnecessary.