Millar! JRJR! Cage! McLovin! KICK-ASS!

Isn't Vaughn also doing the Thor movie, too?

I'll most likely ignore the hell out of this one, btw.

A report.

I think I started a sister thred to this one, so here's the stuff:

http://www.pajiba.com/trailers/kickass-trailer.php

http://www.pajiba.com/trade_news/new-kickass-clip.php

http://www.pajiba.com/trailers/kickass-red-band-trailer.php

This comic is put out by Disney now, right?

aaahhahahahaha

Pulp Fiction was put out by Disney, right?

also, Snow White.

This really made me feel dirty. I think I'll pass on the movie.

I read one issue and it was pretty typical non-major-license Millar in that it oscillated wildly between well-written uncomfortableness and outright disgusting violence porn.

It stopped oscillating and stayed on the violence porn side. I'm really concerned that this is going to set the notion of comics as good source material for films back 10-20 years.

Ebert:

Then the movie moved into dark, dark territory, and I grew sad.

A little later, I reflected that possibly only Nic Cage could seem to shoot a small girl point-blank and make it, well, funny.

The movie was terrible ... Not only is KICK ASS as a comic nothing special it took all the immature yet dark turns the comic made out ..making it way lamer

I thought it was a lot of fun myself. Very well-directed. I've not read the comic.

i liked cage and hit girl and basically the rest was lame. didn't give a shit about the kick ass character, found the narrative plodding and the flow uneven and there was far too much voice-over exposition - just generally found the script a bit lacking. worst bit in it for me was kick ass using the term "taking a kicking". i know the director, writer, cunt that played kick ass etc. are all english but please never have a character who is an american kid use such a britishism in a film.

and as to being well directed, hell, i dunno, maybe the guy who directed layer-cake is a viking at mise-en-scene but it must have passed me by.

What’s the deal with Kick Ass 2? Is it on a much broader canvas?
Yes, it’s gangs going all over New York filming atrocities on their cell phones and putting them on the internet, trying to outdo each other, all at the behest of Red Mist. My idea for Red Mist was to introduce a supervillian that made Heath Ledger’s Joker look like Cesar Romero’s Joker. He’s basically Charles Manson as a supervillian.

http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/original/44336.jpg

How does Christopher Mintz Plasse feel about this?
Chris said to me he hates the fact that people always call him McLovin’. So my aim was to give him a new name for people to call him. And the villain calls himself The Motherfucker. Chris is The Motherfucker, the worst of all supervillians. But at the same time we continue the story of Dave and all the complications in his life as he gets deeper and deeper into this dangerous hobby he’s got where he dresses up as a superhero and gets beaten up every night. So he forms a gang and what you’ve got then is all the heroes versus all the villians in a big gangfight.

What a dick

So my aim was to give him a new name for people to call him. And the villain calls himself The Motherfucker. Chris is The Motherfucker, the worst of all supervillians

this is so amazing

In Light of Sandy Hook, Jim Carrey Won't Support Kick-Ass 2

Without getting into all of those issues of movie violence vs. real life violence and all that, I think the fact that a major star in 2013 would do this is kinda remarkable.

i watched kick-ass a few months ago. i pretty much hated it... its like this artistically and morally bankrupt tonal nightmare where some moron decided to smoosh together solondz + apatow + raimi spiderman, getting in a few insincere, faux transgressive yukz while indulging every mainstream crowdpleasing tendency of a modern batman or iron man movie

i liked it