the movie kick-ass is a movie dream come true. it even has some great nick cage, or the artist formerly known as nick cage.
the main character is a 15 or 16 yr old kid, no mom, single dad who seems nice but sad, and he and his friends and everyone gets mugged all the time, etc, and he gets sick of it so he buys a scuba suit and decides to become a real live superhero and his nerd self becomes his secret identity. his friends are pretty great, they all hang out in a comic book shop and are nerds. anyway, he gets his ass kicked a bunch but then he starts kicking ass with the help of a few more vigilantes. he becomes friends with his crush because there's a rumor going around that he's gay (he's not) and aaron and i had this conversation about whether that storyline was homophobic. the verdict is: it wasn't homophobic. also in the movie there's an emo pseudohero and a mob boss bad guy and the most violent 11 year old girl in the history of 11 year old girls. her and the mob boss guy have a great fight scene. overall, kick-ass manages to be extremely adorable and very violent.
it says it takes place in new york city, i think brooklyn, which i didn't recognize any of. i did, however, recognize a bunch of toronto, because it was also filmed there.
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that's so sweet that you can recognize toronto. and, you're totally on to them about it not really being new york.
ReplyDeletei hadn't heard anything about this movie, but there are posters up everywhere. i guess it's because i haven't gone to the movies in a while so i haven't seen previews.
but, i'm itching to go to some $5 movies, so hopefully kick ass will be $5 soon.