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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Christopher Nolan – “No Joker While He’s At Helm”
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Nolan Says "No" To The Joker
In his interview with Empire Magazine, Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, unhesitatingly stated that the Joker will not be in Batman 3 or any other subsequent Batman film while he is at the helm of the Bats. He stated, “I just don’t feel comfortable talking about it.” … I think they forgot to put a big, “WAAAAAAA!” at the end of his statement. Cry me a river Nolan.
.. First of all… It’s ridiculous that Joker isn’t going to be in any of the future Batman movies. WTH!? Just because Nolan lost a friend, that we all loved and cherished and exalted over his performance as the Joker in Dark Knight, he now feels bad about putting in another Joker??? Well, what about us Batman loving fans who are expected to now fork over goddamn $15 per ticket that’s ultimately going to be in an overpriced 3D format?? No Joker?? Gimme a break.
Get over it Nolan. This isn’t about you and your feelings and your… “I miss Heath and it would be dishonorable blah blah blah, yaddy yaddy yaddy…” Give me a friggin’ break. It’s THE JOKER MAN!! This isn’t about you and it’s certainly not about honoring Heath either. It’s about putting together a believable movie about The Goddamn Batman which includes plausible story lines that involve Bats’ rogue gallery, including the Joker, in an enjoyable, tense, dark and wicked superhero movie that will entertain the living shit out of all of us. You don’t get it… Joker never dies, NEVER! (… Kingdom Come aside)
The Joker gives Batman meaning… “completes” Bats. What’s Nolan going to give us? Are we going to see Mad Hatter, or maybe… Calendar Man? ooooo, that’s a supervillain if I’ve ever seen one. What about, Penguin or…… I know!!!… How about THE VENTRILOQUIST?! You know.. the psycho guy with the sock puppet that shoots better than most Army Rangers?
The Ventriloquist!... Oh Boy!
There are plenty of ways that Joker could be depicted.. I can’t think of any right now, but I’m also not incentivized with a million bucks pointed at me. All I care about is that I’M NOT GOING TO SEE THE JOKER and I, and every geek out there who’s reading this post, deserves to see better. It’s like… like back in high school where a girl breaks up with a boy and tells ALLLLL of her girlfriends, “I’m done with him! I’m never seeing him again… but none of you can see him either!” What, just because his heart’s broken he now has the audacity to inject his wallowing pity and sorrow into my Batman film? And everyone just rolls over and doesn’t say anything in honor of Heath.
Yeah, we love Heath. Yeah Heath nailed the Joker. And yeah, nobody can fill his shoes, but life goes on. We’ve had like… what… four different Batmen? And two Supermen so far, with a third on his way? let’s get real, life goes on and when Nolan is well on his way to filming some other film five years down the road, we’ll look back and think, “GODDAMNIT, we should have been given the Joker instead of the Ventriliquist or Penguin or Riddler or even Calendar Man!
Regarding Superman, Nolan went on to say,
“…What it is, while David Goyer and myself were putting together the story for another Batman film a few years ago, you know thrashing out where we might move on from the Dark Knight, we got stuck. We were just sitting there idly chatting and he said ”by the way, I think know how you approach Superman”.. and he told me his take on it.
I thought it was really tremendous. It was the first time I’ve been able to conceive of how you’d address Superman in a modern context I thought it was a really exciting idea. What you have to remember about Batman and Superman is that what makes them the best superhero characters there are, the most beloved after all this time, is the essence of who they were when they were created, when they were first developed. You can’t move too far away from that.”
…. This better be good! I don’t want to see anymore Gay Undies Calvin Klein Superman model in skivies up on my silver screen damnit!
Honor the goddamn comic universe Nolan! And get over your self pity.
Megan Fox…. Will NOT Be In Transformers 3
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Megan Fox
Sonofa F!$%@* Sh!#
Spider-Man Reboot – New Writer On Deck
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Spider-Man
We mentioned before that Dunst and Toby were getting booted, along with Sam Raimi, and that the Spidey franchise was getting rebooted. Well, it looks like Marvel and Sony got themselves a new (old) writer!
Alvin Sargent, screen writer for the original Spider-Man movie series, has signed on to ruin what the reboot was designed to save in the first place. Why do I say that? … cause he’s one of the same friggin’ writers who ruined the initial Spider-Man movies in the first place!! That’s why. Come on people. It doesn’t take much to realize that the written story is what makes the movie, given that you have decent talent to act the parts, but no amount of great acting will save a film from ruin if the writing just sucks Mcnuggets!
Word on the street is that it will be “more emotionally anchored and realistic than the previous movies.” …. What in the HAIL does that mean? … More emotionally anchored? Does that mean we won’t see emo-Peter dancing in bars? Or crying? (please god NO!).
More realistic? … Look, there’s two types of reality in superhero movies; the reality that allows us to suspend our disbelief, like a man flying or climbing walls or actually doing something to stop criminals, and then there’s the stupid reality that stupid writers dream up that would never work in real life, like… Superman fighting a radioactive bad guy on the moon, or Richard Prior going to computer night school and hacking into anything with a keyboard, or even something closer to home, like a guy in face paint forcing the mayor to lock down the city so nobody leaves or enters… for their own safety. (Gasp, did I just criticize Heath Ledger and the Dark Knight? Sacrilege!)
So, god-only-knows what “emotionally anchored” and “realistic” means with these guys. This all came from the Hollywood Reporter by the way. They also said that, “Peter Parker will be a 17-year-old high school kid struggling with shifting hormones and an outsider status.” Ok, aside from the shifting hormones, the “outsider status” is right on point, with respect to the original story. You can read (and then buy) the digital comic here at Marvel if you’re interested in catching a glimpse of history. Just click on the “play” button.
So, sure Sargent has a writing resume a mile long. So what! Did that stop George Lucas or Steven Spielberg from ruining my life? Look, if he was part of the problem back then, I highly doubt that he’ll be rebooting the franchise to a great start. But, I hope I’m wrong. Also, Marc Webb — the director of “(500) Days of Summer” — is supposed to be directing, but still no word on who’s playing emo Peter.
… and oh! It’s going to be made in 3D. Mother F#@!$##$@^. We went to go see Clash of the Titans couple weeks ago. The ticket guy said, “That’ll be $27 dollars.” I said, “No, only two tickets… two!” He responded, “…. uh huh… $27 dollars.” Forgetting that I had mastered basic subtraction, addition and even division back in Mrs. Morrison’s 5th grade class a bajillion years ago, I quickly asked, “…er… how much is each ticket?” He looks at the screen and says, “$13.50.” My only appropriate response was to put my card back in my wallet, which went back in my pants, and said, “We’re not paying that.” My wife and I then went to rent Inglorious Bastards and something else that I don’t recall, .. think it was foreign. So, No, I won’t be paying $13.50 for a 3D movie when a perfectly good 2D movie was perfectly good 6 months ago. It was even perfectly good for Avatar.
Stupid 3D!
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Spider-Man Reboot!
Sunday, May 16th, 2010You HAVE GOT to see this. CollegeHumor.com has done it again. They’ve captured the perfect perspective that’s perpetually ongoing towards the out of touch movie makers that manage to get their hands on superheroes, ruining franchises all for god knows what. You can catch this beautiful caustic satire (or is it parody?) of Hollywoods flub up of Spider-Man here at CollegeHumor.com. If only we had real life superhero-movie-damage-control-doctors like this.
Upcoming Superhero Movies – 2011/2012
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – December 16
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are back as Sherlock Holmes and formidable colleague, Dr. Watson, in “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.” Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room until the new criminal mastermind at Professor Moriarty (played by Jared Harris, TV’s “Mad Men,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and also played the voice of Ridley in Tales of the Black Freighter) shows up. Moriarty is Holmes’ intellectual equal with a capacity for evil and complete lack of conscience proves to give our renowned detective a run for his money.
Holmes’ investigation into Moriarty’s plot becomes increasingly more dangerous as it leads him and Watson out of London and across Europe, to France, Germany and Switzerland. But Moriarty is always one step ahead, weaving and spinning a web of death and destruction, which, come to find out, is all part of a greater evil plot that will change the course of history…. or, in their case, the future. See, it’s changing our history, or, our fictional history which ties into Holmes’ stories but since it hasn’t happened yet… ugh… it’s just like in the Start Trek movie with changing time and stuff.
Guy Ritchie returns to direct “Game of Shadows,” .. you thought I was going to say Game of Thrones, didn’t you.
In her first English-speaking role, Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, who gained international attention in the Swedish film “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” plays Sim. Stephen Fry (“Alice in Wonderland,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”) is Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s older brother.
“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” is written by Michele Mulroney & Kieran Mulroney. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were created by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and appear in stories and novels by him. Go out and start reading some Sherlock, it won’t disappoint.
The Adventures of Tintin – December 23
The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by the Belgian artist Georges Rémi (1907–1983). It is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century, translated into more than 80 languages and more than 350 million copies of the books sold to date. Set during a largely realistic 20th century, the hero, Tintin, is a young Belgian reporter who ends up on adventures to far away places. With him is his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy.
Additional cast include cynical & grumpy Captain Haddock, the intelligent but hearing-impaired Professor Calculus, two incompetent detectives Thomson and Thompson. The author, pen named Hergé, himself is featured in several of the comics as a background character, thinking of Alfred Hitchcock here. Appears to be a promising family flick.
2012
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – February 17
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter – Feb 22 Read the book. It’s pretty good.
The Avengers – May 4
Men In Black III – May 25
John Carter of Mars – March 9
Prometheus – June 8 Prequel to Alien, directed by Ridley Scott
G.I. Joe 2 – June 29
Amazing Spider-Man – July 3
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises – July 20
Total Recall – Aug 3 starring Colin Farrell
Dredd – Sept 21
The Hobbit Pt.1 – Dec 19
300: Battle of Artemisia
Akira
Dark Tower
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – Feb 17
Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, Nicolas Cage will reprise his role as Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider. It is the second film to be released under the Marvel Knights banner after 2008′s Punisher: War Zone.
Set several years after the first film, Johnny Blaze, a tormented soul who is convinced that his powers are a curse, is in self-imposed exile from the world. Blaze is approached by Moreau, a member of the monastic order of Michael, the warrior angel. Moreau seeks a protector for a mother and son duo who are being hunted by a figure named Roarke – a fellow with a detailed knowledge of the Ghost Rider and his different identities over the centuries
Official Ghost Rider Movie page.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter – Feb 22
This isn’t from the movie, it’s just an ad for the book.
The Avengers – May 4
Written and directed by Joss Whedon, featuring an ensemble cast, including Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury).
When an unexpected enemy emerges who threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, the director of the S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division), finds himself in need of a team of superheroes and ends up recruiting Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America to pull the world back from the brink of disaster and destruction.
Tom Hiddleston is back as Norse god of mischief, and adopted brother to Thor, Loki who comes to Earth to subjugate it, to rule the human race as their king. About his character, Hiddleston said, “I think the Loki we see in The Avengers is further advanced. You have to ask yourself the question: how pleasant an experience is it disappearing into a wormhole that has been created by some kind of super nuclear explosion of his own making? So I think by the time Loki shows up in The Avengers he’s seen a few things.”
Cobie Smulders is S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Maria Hill who works closely with Nick Fury. Regarding her preparation, Smulders stated, “I hired this amazing black-ops trainer to teach me how to hold a gun, take me to a shooting range, how to hit, how to hold myself, how to walk and basically how to look. I don’t do a ton of fighting in the movie, which is why I wasn’t offered a trainer, but I wanted to look like I had the ability to. And I really just got down and dirty with the character, but then I finally went on set; when you’re about to roll, all the “blubbity blue” you’ve been working on kind of messes with you. And you become a little bit detached.”
Note: S.H.I.E.L.D. the espionage and secret military law-enforcement agency was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Strange Tales #135 (Aug. 1965). The acronym originally stood for Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division. It was changed in 1991 to Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate and when the Marvel movies started hitting the scene, it changed once again to Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.
Battleship – May 18
Based off the Hasbro game. … no, we’re not kidding.
Battleship is directed by Peter Berg who’s done a lot of TV, Prime Suspect (TV series), Friday Night Lights (TV series) & Trauma (TV series), but not much for producing movies. Alexander Skarsgård, who’s done Straw Dogs, and played Eric Northman in True Blood (TV series). Taylor Kitsch, John Carter, Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine , Friday Night Lights (TV series) and smoking hot Brooklyn Decker, Jessica Simpson clone, plays Sam(antha).
In the Hawaiian Islands, the naval fleet engage in intense battle against an alien race known as “The Regents”. The aliens come to planet Earth, to build a power source in the Pacific Ocean. The film is to show both sides of the story, the aliens’ as well as the humans’ so the audience knows exactly where the opponent’s ships are.
John Carter of Mars – June 8
You might remember Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights (TV series), or better as Remy LeBeau/Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. What’s interesting is that Edgar Rice Burroughs, played by Daryl Sabara, actually wrote himself in his own books as a surrogate nephew to John Carter.
John Carter
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Barsoom series of John Carter from 1912 – 1964. Captain John Carter is an Earthman, was a Virginian who fought in the American Civil war as a Confederate soldier. After the Civil War, Carter moved to the SW United States to work as a prospector. In 1866 he and his prospector partner strike wealth; but the partner is killed by Indians and Carter takes refuge in a cave where he is overcome by smoke produced by an Indian woman. Carter wakes up to find himself on Mars. While on Mars, Carter was believed to be dead by those who knew him on Earth, but he re-emerges in New York 10 years later in 1876, settling on the Hudson River.
John Carter appeared to die in 1886, leaving instructions for a Burroughs, who refers to him as an ‘uncle’ of the family, to entomb him in a crypt, and leaving Burroughs with the manuscript of A Princess of Mars with instructions not to publish it for another 21 years. He has no memory before the age of 30 and seems never to age. If you haven’t read the books, you can start with A Princess of Mars or you might be interested in the recent John Carter comic book, Warlord of Mars.
Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus – Jun 8
Director Ridley Scott’s sci-fi pic Prometheus has been shrouded in mystery for some time, up till now as the first crop of actor-revealing images appear in this week’s EW. We get a look at stars Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender in spacesuits on an unknown planet, a gigantic head statue, and what look to be primitive forms of the eggs seen in Alien. “What are they?? …. they look like eggs of some sort that house a creature that might kill all of us. .. let’s take a closer look and see.” We also get a peek at Charlize Theron and Idris Elba.
Long said to be a prequel to Scott’s sci-fi/horror classic Alien, the director recently revealed that the last eight minutes of Prometheus will “evolve into a pretty good DNA of the Alien one.” Keep an eye out for the trailer. Prometheus opens in 3D on June 8th, 2012.
Dredd - Sept 21
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In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO
As in, Judge Dredd! Karl Urban, who played McCoy/Bones in Star Trek (2009), Vaako in The Chronicles of Riddick, and Eomer in The Lord of the Rings, is playing Judge Dredd. Apparently, all you’ll see is his lower face since he’s not removing his helmet through the entire movie since it is verbotten, says the comic geeks, to show Dredd without his helmet. Directed by Pete Travis, who directed Endgame & Vantage Point. Also starring Olivia Thirlby, from Juno,
Dec 19 – The Hobbit Pt.1
2013
The Wolverine – Jan 1
Iron Man 3 – May 3
Man of Steel – June 14
RED 2 – Aug
Hancock 2 – 2013
The Flash – 2013
Teen Titans – 2013
X-Men Origins: Magneto – 2013
The Hobbit Pt.2- Dec 1
June 14 – Man of Steel
Henry Cavill is playing Superman in Man of Steel. You can check out our Analyses of the Superman Suit, here.
Man of Steel - Henry Cavill is Superman
Rumored
Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam
Venom
Flash Gordon
Luke Cage
Justice League – Mortal
Runaways
Lobo
Die Hard 5
Dorothy of Oz
Dracula 3D
Flash Gordon
Gambit
Green Lantern 2
HALO
Star Trek 2
Hellboy 3
Logan’s Run
Oblivian
R.I.P.D. – A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov. R.I.P.D. is a Dark Horse publication. Staring Ryan Reynolds. … yes, Ryan Reynolds.
Deadpool (2014)
Sin City 2
Ant-Man (2014)
Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall
Wanted 2
Doctor Strange
Iron Fist
Nick Fury
Silver Surfer
Sub-Mariner
Thundercats
Kick-Ass Movie Review
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Kick Ass: A Must See!
Spoilers
“Contact the mayor’s office, he has a special signal he shines in the sky—it’s in the shape of a giant cock.” – Hit Girl.
GOD I LOVED THIS MOVIE! It puts all of the “legitimate” superhero movies to shame. This low budget movie is successful on so many freakin’ levels, I don’t even know where to start. … regardless, I’ll attempt to explain what the Kick-Ass is about while weaving in the cast, social implications and awesome fight scenes, finishing off with, “Why this movie is so goddamn awesome I can’t wait to take my 17 year old daughter to see it.”
Kick-Ass Poster
This movie is perfect. Yeah, I said it…”perfect!” in the sense that it comes face-to-face with the question we all think about, which is “why don’t everyday people have the balls to get involved, to do the right thing when it comes to helping other people who are in need of help?” We all would like to be a superhero, but “Super” or not, is it possible to step up to the plate and help others in need?
The movie, I can’t comment on the comic book since I haven’t read it yet, goes on to show exactly what can/WILL happen to someone who does decide to try and make a difference. If you’re unlucky, you’ll end up dead. It takes more than heart and a costume to make a difference … unless you have what superheroes have, which is having an “edge” which enables him, or her, to escalate a bad situation to a really, really bad situation faster than the bad guys can. Peace through superior power, brains and high-speed equipment.
No, you can’t be Green Lantern, because you don’t got no powerful ring and you can’t be no Superman since you don’t have any superpowers and you can barely make a run to the fridge, but maybe, just maybe if you’re driven enough, and you prepare and train your body and mind, and you have a butt load of money, resources equipment and bullets, and most importantly if you happen to have a sense of compromising morals, you just might be able to become a Batman archetype, or more realistically a Punisher with a mission.
This just so happens to beg the question that we here at Superherostuff.com have been working on for a blog series, which is, “what is the criteria of a superhero?” What exactly does it take to be a superhero?
Kick-Ass Comic
Kick-Ass, the movie, is based on a comic book series written by Mark Millar with artwork by John Romia Jr. (which I simply can’t stand). Protagonist Dave Lizewski, played by Aaron Johnson John Lennon in Nowhere Boy (2009), through as sense of naive idealism, becomes “Kick-Ass” the superhero by donning a scuba suit, mask and rubber gloves and wielding duo night sticks.
We see, real quick, why normal people with no superpowers, special training or expensive equipment (or guns) don’t try to stop crime. … you end up really dead, really fast! Criminals have little patience for human speed bumps and are stereotypically overzealous in their desire to dish out pain to their fellow human bings. Basically, if you’re not packing heat vision, or heat of some sort, you best leave crime fighting to the cops who have a medical plan.
Kick-Ass: Successfully Saves The Day
Kick-Ass’ first encounter with criminals lands him in the hospital. (Told you there were spoilers here! But you read on anyway!) This is pivotal as it is the “spider bite” scene that not only helps Lizewski wake up to reality while he loses his naivete yet at the same time he transforms himself, an “upgrade” of sorts, into that which will be more likely to survive on the streets, just what he needed to help him fight crime. Every superhero has his motive, many, if not most, have had a catastrophic episode of great loss to help spur them into action.
The second time around, Kick-Ass, in hot pursuit of rescuing a lost kitty, accidentally finds himself in the role he’s been waiting/training for; to help someone from an inescapable beating from thugs. A scrap ensues where he is taking on three guys, pussies they are not, in a parking lot where he is captured on phone and surveillance cameras defending the guy on the ground. Kick-Ass instantly becomes an instant icon, a (super)hero as people see him on video sites across the web.
Big Daddy and Hit Girl
His actions capture the attention of real crime fighters Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage) and his daughter Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz). If you’re up on your Batman history, you’ll instantly recognize Cage’s nod to Adam West (from the 1960s tv Batman, and more recently the Mayor of Springfield on the Simpsons) as he mimics West’s trademark halting speech patterns… NOT to be confused with Captain Kirk’s halting speech patterns that SOME idiot bloggers are suggesting. fools!
Hit Girl Taking On Mob Boss Frank D’Amico
You might remember Hit Girl, Chloe GraceMoretz in 500 Days of Summer (2009), and Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010). As Big Daddy’s side kick, Hit Girl, absolutely steals the show. I love this girl. As caustic as her little mouth can be, and as lethal as she is in killing bad guys, the audience grows to love her as well, as well as respect her spunky and tenacious ability to kill by slitting throats, dismember bad guys and shootting them in the head. Even villain-antagonist Frank D’Amico (played by Mark Strong) respects Hit Girl when we hear him say, “God, I wish I had a son like you.”
Hit Girl was trained by Big Daddy, to join him in his revenge against crime boss D’Amico. Her training included being highly proficient in the double bladed staff, firearms of all sorts, knife fighting and even the Asian spikey thing on a chain (that you throw at people and then yank, somehow killing them in the process) that you see in Kung Fu movies. Her training also includes being shot at point-blank range, three times, while wearing a bulletproof vest. She is also a master in martial arts and all forms of melee combat. Kick-Ass is truly a reference to her ability bring down pain and death … and that purple wig with black Robin mask is soooo damn cute!!!
Frank D'Amico
Strong did an outstanding performance in playing a believable, ruthless mob boss without resorting to cliche. You might remember him as Lord Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes (2009). He will also play Matai Shang in upcoming John Carter of Mars (2012) AS WELL AS Sinestro in Green Lantern (2011)!!!!!!! YEAH BABY! We cannot wait! Pants will be peed in anticipation.
Red Mist/Chris D’Amico
“Teaming up” with Kick-Ass is Red Mist/Chris D’Amico, (Christopher Mintz-Plasse who was McLovin in Superbad (2007) and Fishlegs (voice) in How to Train Your Dragon (2010). He does a surprisingly good job but that’s all I’m saying about him.. don’t want to give anything away. I loved the part when he’s driving Kick-Ass around, listening to music in his red, $240,000, supercharged 500 hp Mustang with Lamborghini gull-wing doors, modified for drag, street and canyon driving.
Keeping in step with the Tarantino approach to movies, with cool shoot-em-up, martial arts scenes, and eye popping, shocking acts of violence from protagonists, Kick-Ass does more than just glorify violence. Yeah, sure Big Daddy and Hit Girl share in dealing out carnage but they also have an adorable relationship out of hero character. Aside from her swearing like a combat veteran, which is expected for someone who can kill with no remorse, you can see the twisted love between them as being genuine and sincere. She has complete faith in her daddy, knowing that he is training for a better good and he has complete faith that she can handle whatever he throws (shoots) at her. They both rise to each others expectations.
Hit Girl: From Comic Artist John Romita Jr.
Would I appreciate my daughter swearing and talking like that? .. Nope. Would I like it if she could fight like that when needed and handle herself in a firefight/knife fight? Hell yes! Who wouldn’t want their daughter to be able to, not only, defend themselves but actually make a difference in society?
See, this is where the movie shines. It hits you right in the friggin’ face and shows you what it takes to be a superhero. It’s not the costume, as young Lizewski, and many comic readers, would originally think, though a bullet proof vest and night vision goggles do come in handy in a pinch. What makes the difference is what’s inside, the heart, the desire to do good…. NOT! As one of Lizewski’s friends answers his question of, “why doesn’t anyone go out and be a supererhero?” with a pragmatic response, “Probably because they’ll get their f**king Asses Kicked and get killed!” we see that if you do not have an edge over the bad guys… say like… oh, I dunno… a Bazooka, then you will be seriously hurt, maimed or killed if you suit up to go toe to toe with baddies.
Kick-Ass/Dave Lizewski, played by Aaron Johnson
It takes more than heart and the desire to do good as a crime fighter, much less a superhero. To really make a difference, and to do so consistently, and to avoid being a one time martyr, it takes an edge! That edge is an enhancement of three things:
- You: You have to be physically capable of beating the living snot out of 3 bad guys at once, because you know where there’s one bad guy that you just might happen to get lucky to take down, there’s two more of his buddies right behind him ready to gank you in a heartbeat and take your lunch money! You need to be in shape and you have to know how to fight.
- Equipment: You have to have the goods, the weapons, the tools of the trade. Kick-Ass starts off with one club and then upgrades to two clubs (oh boy) and a tazer. Batman has his utility belt, tons of gadgets, computers, a cave, several flying machines and suits that can do everything from deflect bullets (in the movies) to change camouflage to match the terrain. The Punisher just has a ton of guns and knives and the emotionless ability to bring down serious pain on bad guys.
- Funds: Bullets, Batmobiles and Jet Packs aren’t free you know. You need more than a teenager’s allowance to pay for the training, the weapons, the monitoring devices, the vehicles and to outfit the “lair” or base of operations you work from. Cops don’t do it for free babydoll!
This is why Kick-Ass is such a great movie. Hell, it’s better than 9/10ths of the big budget superhero movies out there already. Jesus Christ did you see the abortion they did to Wolverine in the Origins movie? I’m not eeeeven going to go on about Catwoman, Elektra and Tim Burton (necrophiliac idiot. That man is disturbingly in love with dead things, I tell you what!).
No, what makes Kick-Ass great is that it brings superheroes down to earth and says, “Here, you wanna play with bad guys, then this is what it looks like… a friggin’ bullet in the head! BAM! There, you still wanna play in the streets and fight crime? Then you better learn to bring a gun to a knife fight, real fast!”
People, like legendary film critic Roger Ebert, don’t like to see 13-year-old Chloe Grace Moretz’s killing people. He sees her performance as Hit Girl as crossing a line. In an interview, Ebert asked, “Will I seem hopelessly square if I find ‘Kick-Ass’ morally reprehensible and will I appear to have missed the point?” The answer is, “no, you won’t.” We do have to draw the line somewhere, I drew it when Natural Born Killers (1994) came out. I don’t need to see gratuitous mindless bloodshed. … besides, they didn’t have masks and capes. But, Kick-Ass serves a purpose and is a lot more than just catering to the lowest common denominator; uneducated, testosterone laden, American young males.
Then why isn’t Kick-Ass kicking ass at the box office? HA! They are! Latest reports state that Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon pulled down $19.6 million and Lionsgate’s Kick-Ass came in first, Wiley E. Coyote style, skidding in sideways at an impressive $19.8 million. Not too shabby for a low budget movie. A huge amount of importance has been attached to being “the box office winner,” because 1) people can’t think for themselves and they end up picking a stupid Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) movie to go spend their money on and 2) people don’t have enough money to see a truly decent, violent cape and mask movie especially after seeing something as stupid as Beverly Hills Chihuahua .
Kick-Ass & Hit Girl
Kick-Ass has been doing well in the U.K. and Australia where it is making almost as much as it is here in the States. It is well on its way to being a profitable success, especially when compared with the majority of films that we’re being fed these days. Kick-Ass has also inspired more sales of a graphic novel than any Marvel or DC movie to date. GO BUY THE GRAPHIC NOVEL!
Kick-Ass is 118 minutes, is rated R for strong, brutal violence throughout, pervasive profanity, sexual content, some nudity (we see some nice cleavage of his Kick-Ass’ girlfriend along with his English teacher’s boobs! Woo Hoo!} and some drug use, some of which involves children (Red Mist smokes a joint but Kick-Ass turns it down! yaa Kick-Ass) … interesting how the ultra-violent is ok yet other subject matter such as sex and drugs are still taboo.
Kick-Ass T-Shirts arriving soon.
Joss Whedon To Rewrite Avengers Movie
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
The Avengers Movie 2012
Avengers Comic #4
As you have already heard, Marvel Studios’ upcoming superhero movie ‘The Avengers‘ will be hitting the screens 2012! It will pull many of the superheroes, we’ve recently seen, together into one very cool major story line, starring: Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, Iron Man 2), Chris Evans (Fantastic Four I, II) as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek: George Kirk/Jame’s father) as Thor and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.
It’s also rumored that Edward Norton “might” make an appearance as The Hulk and Lou Ferrigno “might” provide some of The Incredible Hulk’s voice! You didn’t hear it from me, but the new Spider-Man is also rumored to swing on by… but don’t quote me on that, ‘specially since it’s just wishful thinking.
One of the OH-SO EXCELLENT parts of this story is that Joss Whedon, my master, is going to, not only direct the Avengers movie, he’s also going to replace Zak Penn and rewrite the script! TFG!!! Zak Penn provided the original story for The Avengers movie. … Zak Penn?? Lemme tell you a little about Zak penn the “writer.”
The Avengers Poster
He writes screenplays, and he must be sleeping with some very powerful dudes because he’s been doing it in the superhero universe now for a quite some time. He wrote or created the screenplays for The Last Action Hero, with Governor Awnold: Rotten Tomatoes (RT:39), Inspector Gadget (RT:29), X2 (RT:88), X-Men: The Last Stand (RT:57), and Elektra (RT:10!), Hulk (RT:61), and The Incredible Hulk (RT:66)… why is this guy allowed to even come near comics much less comics made into movies??
Joss, My Master, Whedon
Why will The Avengers be the greatest thing since Netflix and Tivo? One word… Joss Friggin’ Whedon!! If you don’t know who Joss Whedon, my master, is, you’ll still recognize his work we’ve been lucky enough to view over the years. He created, wrote and directed all 145 episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” (1997) featuring uber-smoking-hot babe Sarah Michelle Gellar. Totally missed her in Maxim, but I should be able to pick one up from Brian.
The Buffy “Hush” episode was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2000 for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, featuring 28 minutes without dialogue, where some fairytale demons, “the Gentlemen” steal voices, and the hearts (literally) from the people of Sunnydale.
Buffy Comic Season 8
Even more impressive, Joss wrote the lyrics and music for the Buffy musical “Once More, with Feeling.”
Who cares? I’ll tell you who cares, and it’ll explain why everyone now worships Whedon because you CANNOT watch “Once More, with Feeling” without saying it’s one of the best gorram shows ever written! The original airing of “Once More, with Feeling” had 5.4 million viewers and was ranked at number 14 by TV Guide for “TV’s Top 100 Episodes of All Time.” It was voted the 13th greatest musical of all time in a recent poll from Channel 4 (the British TV Channel). and was nominated for a Hugo award – but lost to LOTR: The Fellowship of the Rings, which says nothing because ANYTHING pitted against LOTR will lose! It also win the Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in Television – Music, Episodic Live Action. In short, that one episode KICKS TOTAL ASS!
Buffy Comic Season 8 - Zander w/Nick Fury Look
In 2002 Whedon created and directed “Firefly,” an American space western television series set in the distant future 2517. The show is set where humans have found a new star system, exploring the lives of 9 crew members living abourd the space ship Serenity who fought on the losing side of a civil war who now make a living on the outskirts of the society in the space-pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system.
Firefly/Serenity Crew
It is a future, created with amazing foresight, where the United States and China are the only two surviving superpowers, which have fused together to form a central federal government, called the Alliance. Whedon went on to create “Serenity,” the movie based on the Firefly series and if you haven’t seen it I HIGHLY suggest seeing the entire Firefly series first! To get a feel for Firefly… imagine a story that circumnavigates around Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, throw in some Western pioneering tales, mannerisms and ol’ style speech, throw in some revolver pistols, cowboy boots and suspenders add some uber hot babes, sprinkle a smattering of Chinese-English Pigeon and you have Firefly, one HELLOFA tv show.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
In 2008 Whedon created and directed “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,” a musical tragicomedy short film made exclusively for Internet distribution. Dr. Horrible is a story of an aspiring supervillain, obviously named Dr. Horrible (remember Doogie Houser who later became the empath in Starship Troopers?), along with Captain Hammer, Horrible’s arch nemesis (who also just so happens to be Captain Mal Reynolds on Firefly); and Penny, their mutual love interest. It has been touted as “a site-crashing success” by all geeks and uber-geeks alike.
In short, you need to put all these on your Netflix queue; Buffy, Firefly, Serenity and go watch Dr. Horrible here, and go read the Buffy Comic Season 8! The Avengers is now expected to be a panty dropping, pants peeing success. I for one, will be picking my panties up repeatedly in anticipation for this flick!
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