whatever you want, just please stop hitting me
I had a lot of fun with zoetr0pe over the course of the weekend. Laserquest, french food, dollhouse, chatting, smoking, walking, snapping shots of things on the top of an NCP car park, etc.
Pity about the choice of movie.
I kinda liked the premise, and the fact that Matt Vaughn (Layer Cake) had directed this without a lot of US backing. Speaking of Layer Cake, spot the amount of Brit actors trying to pass themselves off as New York mafiosi, Fletcher and Fleyming are the big two but there were others who I recognised but didn't know the names of.
The story was good, and the actor who plays Kick-Ass was cool being himself. The girl was great, Nic Cage did his part and there were no obvious clanging performances.
But the violence was, well... and it pains me to say this = horrible.
I am not that squeamish, my dvd collection contains a fairly large amount of cert 18 bloodbaths but this was just vicious.
and here's why.
Hit-Girl is carving up the drug den with her soga, slicing and dicing the bad guys, and I say cool. And then she turns on the guy puffing on a bong on the couch. Guy's terrified, has no weapon, and puts his hands out in a 'shit, don't kill me' gesture.
She disenbowles him without pausing for breath.
And the demise of the moll in the red dress was a horrific example of how this film was laying down its rails for later.
Moll in question has no weapon, she breaks a bottle in self defense then - seeing how pointless such a thing would be against this knife wielding psycho - runs for the door.
Cut to outside the door and 2 knives and a lot of blood giving us the impression she's been impaled.
HUH?????
We can see all the men being diced but the only woman dies off-screen, without a weapon, while trying to run away?
Yeah - I'm feeling a lot of sympathy with this film.
The worst - WORST - scene in the film is the torture scene. I KNOW Vaughn is showing how hypocritical the media is for portraying and sensationalizing violence for the masses, but then editing it lest it become too real but this was not funny to watch.
And when Cage gets slowly immolated, screaming out at the top of his lungs while his daughter kills everything standing all while this emotive music is on the overplay...???
well i turned away and shut my eyes at this point, and I wish i could shut my ears too. And the only other time I've ever done that is when Mira Sorvino commits suicide in The Grey Zone by running onto the electrified wire, but she was doing that to save the lives of her friends who were being systematically executed by the SS.
BTW the music was very similar to that used on the Sunshine Soundtrack when Kaneda dies trying to fix the solar panels.
After that I was just wanting the film to be over.
I don't know. I've worked quite a few full body burns and they are not pretty. they smell horrific and you feel so bad for the person trapped in that shell cos you know that their chances of living are about 2%.
In all the FBB's I've done over the 3+ years of my career only 1 (ONE!!!) has survived.
But I guess I'm now considered a prude or someone who doesn't understand the yoof of today. Cos when I see that mothers are taking their 15 year old kids to see this film I do worry if we have our priorities skewed again. But the movie companies want to make money so everything violent is a 15 unless it has drugs or fucking in it.
So violence is the watered down equivalent for the kids. And we wonder why we are the way we are?
not my film of the year, sorry to say
Pity about the choice of movie.
I kinda liked the premise, and the fact that Matt Vaughn (Layer Cake) had directed this without a lot of US backing. Speaking of Layer Cake, spot the amount of Brit actors trying to pass themselves off as New York mafiosi, Fletcher and Fleyming are the big two but there were others who I recognised but didn't know the names of.
The story was good, and the actor who plays Kick-Ass was cool being himself. The girl was great, Nic Cage did his part and there were no obvious clanging performances.
But the violence was, well... and it pains me to say this = horrible.
I am not that squeamish, my dvd collection contains a fairly large amount of cert 18 bloodbaths but this was just vicious.
and here's why.
Hit-Girl is carving up the drug den with her soga, slicing and dicing the bad guys, and I say cool. And then she turns on the guy puffing on a bong on the couch. Guy's terrified, has no weapon, and puts his hands out in a 'shit, don't kill me' gesture.
She disenbowles him without pausing for breath.
And the demise of the moll in the red dress was a horrific example of how this film was laying down its rails for later.
Moll in question has no weapon, she breaks a bottle in self defense then - seeing how pointless such a thing would be against this knife wielding psycho - runs for the door.
Cut to outside the door and 2 knives and a lot of blood giving us the impression she's been impaled.
HUH?????
We can see all the men being diced but the only woman dies off-screen, without a weapon, while trying to run away?
Yeah - I'm feeling a lot of sympathy with this film.
The worst - WORST - scene in the film is the torture scene. I KNOW Vaughn is showing how hypocritical the media is for portraying and sensationalizing violence for the masses, but then editing it lest it become too real but this was not funny to watch.
And when Cage gets slowly immolated, screaming out at the top of his lungs while his daughter kills everything standing all while this emotive music is on the overplay...???
well i turned away and shut my eyes at this point, and I wish i could shut my ears too. And the only other time I've ever done that is when Mira Sorvino commits suicide in The Grey Zone by running onto the electrified wire, but she was doing that to save the lives of her friends who were being systematically executed by the SS.
BTW the music was very similar to that used on the Sunshine Soundtrack when Kaneda dies trying to fix the solar panels.
After that I was just wanting the film to be over.
I don't know. I've worked quite a few full body burns and they are not pretty. they smell horrific and you feel so bad for the person trapped in that shell cos you know that their chances of living are about 2%.
In all the FBB's I've done over the 3+ years of my career only 1 (ONE!!!) has survived.
But I guess I'm now considered a prude or someone who doesn't understand the yoof of today. Cos when I see that mothers are taking their 15 year old kids to see this film I do worry if we have our priorities skewed again. But the movie companies want to make money so everything violent is a 15 unless it has drugs or fucking in it.
So violence is the watered down equivalent for the kids. And we wonder why we are the way we are?
not my film of the year, sorry to say