Holy crap just got back from Kick Ass, one of the the best movies I've seen.

Like, good enough that I can't watch anything right now with out thinking how it doesn't live up to Kick Ass. Just holy shit.

Also introduced me to the song "Omen" by The Prodigy.

been listening to it over and over for a while.

Oh yeah for the most part I was really really impressed with the choice of music.

In the last two days I've watched Primer, Andrei Rubliev, Solyaris and ..... . .. ............... date night. My father gave me a CD full of Tarkovsky movies (and another of Kurosawa movies that I haven't watched yet) that he said I should watch and they've been incredible so far.  There's still mirror and Ivanovo Detstvo that I'll watch this week some time.

Primer was a really good movie, too - and it's really impressive that the whole movie was made on a budget of only $7000. It wasn't as confusing as you guys were saying, though; only on the logistics of how the time travel actually worked but it made sense as the movie progressed.

i just got back from kickass and really i don't understand any of the good reviews it got. I absolutely hated this movie.
Other than the main kid and the main badguy the acting was terrible and unbelievable, and I was cringing pretty much the entire movie.

Like really I know it's a comic book movie and isn't supposed to be amazing but I am pretty lenient on these movies in particular and I really couldn't even enjoy it. I felt really embarassed that the whole theatre was cracking up at this little girl saying the f word because it wasn't funny at all. Actually pretty much every time the little girl spoke I was embarassed. And she was no doubt the most likeable character in the movie.
Like when joan jett's "bad reputation" came on as the little girl was killing people. jesus christ.

I haven't read the comic but I don't think this movie suffered because of the topic! It really seemed to me that the movie tried to be more juvenile than it should have been, trying to get cheap laughs from the youngsters and being incessantly violent to appeal to older people. I'm no savant but I wanted to type this out cause imo the reviews are waaaay off

Holy crap just got back from Kick Ass, one of the the best movies I've seen.

seriously?

Yes, I though it was really good. I thought the acting was fine... if not really good... didn't cringe at all...

Also, I didn't go into the theater thinking it was a comedy. I did however think some parts were funny.

The only thing I thought was weird (but not necessarily bad) was the "bad reputation" song. It did seem a tad odd of a choice of music thinking back but at the time of watching I don't remember caring enough about that particular thing to matter.

Watched Last Ride, was pretty good. Pretty goddamn depressing too.

Yes, I though it was really good. I thought the acting was fine... if not really good... didn't cringe at all...

Yeah for a superhero movie the acting was really good I thought.

"For a superhero movie."  Interesting clause


I do want to see Kick-ass as well, but I'm a bit more skeptical, even though just everyone I've talked to who has seen it says that it is really good.  Apparently the graphic novel is pretty good as well, but I doubt I'd ever actually go ahead and read it.  I haven't read a graphic novel since reading through Watchmen a few years ago.

I also recently re-watched Fight Club.  It was my second time watching the movie, and one of the people I was with had never seen it before, so I had to make sure not to spoil the ending.  It was interesting though, especially picking up on all the hints and things that you are oblivious to the first time and completely miss, but then make complete sense once  you get to the end of the movie.  I don't know what all you guys opinion is of this movie, but for what it is worth, it is pretty well put together and it is a fun time

"For a superhero movie."  Interesting clause


I do want to see Kick-ass as well, but I'm a bit more skeptical, even though just everyone I've talked to who has seen it says that it is really good.  Apparently the graphic novel is pretty good as well, but I doubt I'd ever actually go ahead and read it.  I haven't read a graphic novel since reading through Watchmen a few years ago.

I say for a superhero movie because it's not like it's a serious drama and good action movie acting is a lot different than good dramatic acting.  But no one in the movie got on my nerves and the movie itself was incredibly entertaining.  I don't read graphic novels though, so I don't know how it measures up to that.

Well, I mean I don't either generally.  I find them visually appealing, but I have gotten very burnt out on the whole super hero genre a while ago, so I tend to avoid them unless I know that they happen to be very good, or something that somebody I trust recommends to me. 

My point was more along the lines though, that even though there are generally less serious roles in a less serious subject matter, it is entirely unfair to call it less valid acting, or anything that would imply that it is such.  Acting is acting, regardless.  There is definitely a line between good acting and bad acting, but I don't think that you can necessarily say that acting for one genre is any less acting than it is for another genre. 

My point was more along the lines though, that even though there are generally less serious roles in a less serious subject matter, it is entirely unfair to call it less valid acting, or anything that would imply that it is such.  Acting is acting, regardless.  There is definitely a line between good acting and bad acting, but I don't think that you can necessarily say that acting for one genre is any less acting than it is for another genre. 

I guess so.  People sometimes see it like that though.  It's not what I'd call "Oscar worthy", put it that way, but it's good acting.

gamingw: discussing the merits of Kick-Ass

Everyone in the theatre i was in laughed when Nicholas Cage's character tried to speak, (he was all burnt up/dying)

This happened throughout the movie; I really think that says it did a bad job conveying it was time to be serious rather than the theatre was full of morons (which it was)

Also can anyone verify that the comic is or isnt a Spiderman spoof? It was pretty obvious I think they say something about great power/great responsibility but aside from that the movie borrows pretty heavily from the original Spiderman movie circa 2001 or whatever.

gah I shouldn't have looked at those spoilers I haven't read the comic... oh well.

And yeah it doesn't surprise me that the comic is better. It how it usually goes with any movie based on a novel or comic.

Still liked the movie a lot.

Everyone in the theatre i was in laughed when Nicholas Cage's character tried to speak, (he was all burnt up/dying)

This happened throughout the movie; I really think that says it did a bad job conveying it was time to be serious rather than the theatre was full of morons (which it was)

I suppose I was lucky? I don't think I heard anyone laugh at that part and my theater was packed.