Kick-Ass movie discussion - Contains spoilers

innerSpaceman · 04-22-2010, 02:29 PM

The whole Kick-Ass's alter-ego subplot was certainly the low mark of the movie. That said, while the play-gay thing was tired, it at least had a little more going for it than 6 other standard teen boy-gets-girl ploys they could have lifted from the playbook. There were a couple of funny lines involving that storyline, but yeah - it was relatively dull.

Again, since Kick-Ass was the classic audience entry point of normalcy to a world of weird, I accept that sort of thing. In truth, I'm rather tired of the widespread entertainment notion that the audience MUST have a straight-man entry point to project themselves into the story. I think that's bogus. But I certainly don't expect a comedy to break from that nearly-unbreakable norm of story-telling.

So yeah, more of Red Mist and Hit Girl/Big Daddy would have been better - but I don't think they were far off from the ideal balance. I would certainly have liked it if the Kick-Ass teen story had been better and funnier. But it gave me a chance to catch my breath.

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.

So, in the comic, is there a counterpart of Big Daddy's old cop buddy who tries to warn him off vigilantiism and takes in Mindy (Hit Girl) in the end, so she's not orphaned?

Ghoulish Delight · 08-29-2010, 08:52 AM

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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.

04-22-2010, 02:29 PM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	The whole Kick-Ass's alter-ego subplot was certainly the low mark of the movie. That said, while the play-gay thing was tired, it at least had a little more going for it than 6 other standard teen boy-gets-girl ploys they could have lifted from the playbook. There were a couple of funny lines involving that storyline, but yeah - it was relatively dull. Again, since Kick-Ass was the classic audience entry point of normalcy to a world of weird, I accept that sort of thing. In truth, I'm rather tired of the widespread entertainment notion that the audience MUST have a straight-man entry point to project themselves into the story. I think that's bogus. But I certainly don't expect a comedy to break from that nearly-unbreakable norm of story-telling. So yeah, more of Red Mist and Hit Girl/Big Daddy would have been better - but I don't think they were far off from the ideal balance. I would certainly have liked it if the Kick-Ass teen story had been better and funnier. But it gave me a chance to catch my breath. 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. So, in the comic, is there a counterpart of Big Daddy's old cop buddy who tries to warn him off vigilantiism and takes in Mindy (Hit Girl) in the end, so she's not orphaned?
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