The SDCC Kick-Ass Clips Are… Well, You Know
Why did it take over a week for these crappy bootleg videos of the live-action movie of Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass shown at Comic Con to make it onto the nettertubes? I have no idea. But still, these clips (see the other three over at Worst Previews) are pretty damned swell, although I prefer the clip above since it features Hit Girl. I have a thing for adorable assassins, what can I say? It’s why I own two copies of The Professional. Still, the fact that no studio has picked the film for an actual release is kind of troubling — as you might know, it’s all being financed by director Matthew Vaughn at the moment. But I can’t decide if mass audiences want or are even ready for a movie of Mark Millar’s Mark Millar-iest comic. Will it — or should it — go straight to DVD? What do you think?
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.