I Liked Kick-Ass. A Lot.
Update: I seem to have totally forgotten to link to my longer post on the film. It’s here!
It’s not for everybody, but it’s delightfully crazy and violent and smarter than you might expect. If you didn’t like Mark Millar’s ultraviolent comic, there’s a good chance you won’t like the similarly ultraviolent movie. But if anything, Vaughn’s adaptation actually draws out the story’s weird, fascinating emotional textures better than the comic.
It’s so weird that we agree on everything but Megan McArdle. (But best of luck to ya, you crazy kids.)
— Chet · Apr 17, 01:03 AM · #
I’ve heard several critics describe it as “ultraviolent”. What exactly does that mean for this movie? Are we talking Watchmen ultraviolent, Kill Bill ultraviolent, or Sin City ultraviolent?
Because there’s a certain threshold past which it starts to turn my stomach. Somewhere just north of Kill Bill and definitely south of Sin City.
— Ethan C. · Apr 17, 06:26 AM · #
Somewhere between Watchmen and Kill Bill ultraviolent, I’d say. It’s actually not that the violence is that bad, but it’s at a higher level than you’d expect, both in terms of how goofy the rest of the movie is at times, and the characters who are doing/receiving the violence.
— Chris · Apr 18, 03:45 PM · #
I haven’t seen it, but the commercials make me feel queasy about the portrayal of the 11 year old girl in the way Manohla Dargis describes in her review.
— Freddie · Apr 19, 12:29 PM · #