a thread for this movie because I'm still in love with Ellen Page. And because Nathan Fillion is totally awesome.
This panel is also equally awesome.
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a thread for this movie because I'm still in love with Ellen Page. And because Nathan Fillion is totally awesome.
This panel is also equally awesome.
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trailer
Looks like Kick Ass.
Subverting the comic book genre has just become as trite as the actual thing.
It kind of looks like the reverse Dr.Horrible, without the singing.
I loooooooooooved Kickass and this looks highly amusing too.
[+] closer to next rating / [-] closer to previous rating
- Dark (S3) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Fall (Mann, 2022) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Ms. Marvel (S1) ✦½ [+]
- Dark (S2) ✦✦✦✦
- Moon Knight (S1) ✦✦½ [-]
- Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Prey (Trachtenberg, 2022) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Black Bird (S1) ✦✦✦✦
- Better Call Saul (S6) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Halo (S1) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Slow Horses (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- H4Z4RD (Govaerts, 2022/BE) ✦✦½ [-]
- Gangs of London (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- We Own This City (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Thor: Love and Thunder (Waititi, 2022) ✦✦ [+]
I feel as though I am having Deja Suck.
No, this doesn't look like Kick-Ass. This looks like the movie Kick-Ass should have been.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Also, that trailer makes it look more lighthearted than what I think the actual tone is. One clip I saw is Rainn Wilson standing in line for tickets when a guy spots a friend at the front of the line and joins her. Wilson changes into the Crimson Bolt, smacks the guy in the head with his wrench, leaving him writhing with a bloody head, and Crimson Bolt goes, "Don't cut in line!"
So it seems like the movie's going to go to a pretty dark place, more about a mentally unbalanced guy thinking he's doing the right thing than about a regular Joe trying to be a superhero. Less Kick-Ass, more Observe & Report.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
That's impossible because according to me, Kickass is awesome!Quoting number8 (view post)
[+] closer to next rating / [-] closer to previous rating
- Dark (S3) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Fall (Mann, 2022) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Ms. Marvel (S1) ✦½ [+]
- Dark (S2) ✦✦✦✦
- Moon Knight (S1) ✦✦½ [-]
- Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Prey (Trachtenberg, 2022) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Black Bird (S1) ✦✦✦✦
- Better Call Saul (S6) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Halo (S1) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Slow Horses (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- H4Z4RD (Govaerts, 2022/BE) ✦✦½ [-]
- Gangs of London (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- We Own This City (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Thor: Love and Thunder (Waititi, 2022) ✦✦ [+]
I'm glad you said it first.Quoting number8 (view post)
That doesn't make it sound any better.Quoting number8 (view post)
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Just watched the trailer and I still hate Rainn Wilson. Looks bland. I wanna have sex with Ellen Page. Needs more Nathan Fillion.
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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WTF guys? This movie looks friggin' awesome.
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
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Agreed.Quoting Raiders (view post)
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Recently Finished: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4) A+ / Life is Strange: Ep 4 (PS4) A / Bastion (replay) (PS4) B+
That is exactly what I said after I saw the film. It's what Kick-Ass should have been.Quoting number8 (view post)
And, yes, that's pretty much the tone of the film. Rainn Wilson's character is severely unstable, delusion, and is influenced not so much by comic books in general in the film, but rather the religious Christian programming he watches on television (which features a Christian superhero of sorts helping children battle Satan). His inspiration to fight crime occurs when he is literally touched by the finger of God during a hallucination/dream.Quoting number8 (view post)
Giving up in 2020. Who cares.
maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka) ***½
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Beckett (Ferdinando Cito Filomarino) *½
Night Hunter (David Raymond) *
Can't fucking wait!
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
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You sold me on it.Quoting Stay Puft (view post)
TV Recently Finished:
Catastrophe: Season 1 (2015) A
Rectify: Season 3 (2015) A-
Bojack Horseman: Season 2 (2015) A
True Detective: Season 2 (2015) A-
Wayward Pines: Season 1 (2015) B
Currently Playing: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (replay) (XB1) / Contradiction (PC)
Recently Finished: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4) A+ / Life is Strange: Ep 4 (PS4) A / Bastion (replay) (PS4) B+
Although I liked Kick-Ass, I agree. A story like this could really go places with a darker tone and sense of humor. I was entertained by Kick-Ass but found most of its humor to be uninspired.Quoting number8 (view post)
I liked the trailer and it made me laugh, even if it made the movie look lighter than it really is. I was interested before but now I'll definitely check it out.
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) - ***
The World's End (Edgar Wright) - ***
Yeah, hearing it starred Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page initially put an image in my head of the dreadful opening scenes of Juno between them speaking indie quirk (white pop-culture jive) back and forth, just with them wearing superhero costumes.
But NOW, between that trailer, Stay Puft's thoughts having actually seen the movie, and letting it sink in that James Gunn is behind it, I'm definitely looking forward to it.
I'd go Observe and Report > Kick-Ass any day.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
I'm game. Slither was pretty damn good, and comparisons to Observe & Report are enough to get my interest up.
James Gunn = me interested.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
ritch:Quoting Stay Puft (view post)
James makesmewanttoputaGunntomyhead.
I really want to see this. It looks quite funny, and like it could have an intelligent edge to it.
James Gunn writes very funny, clever stuff.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
As much as I do like most of what I've seen of James Gunn's stuff, are we all going to conveniently forget that two of his only film writing credits to date are BOTH of the Scooby-Doo movies from the early aughts?
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Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)