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I hate Kick-Ass. No, not in my normally bitchy way; in fact, I'm looking forward to the movie. But that title! It just destroys any potential article titles that aren't effectively "Kick-Ass is looking kick-ass! HYUK HYUK HYUK!" I allowed myself one of those, but I can't in good conscious do any more; unfortunately, they're all I can think of whenever Kick-Ass comes back on the nerd radar, and the worst part is I know I'll be covering it a lot more in the future. And pulling my hair out trying to think of a clever article headline that isn't "kick-ass," per se. I am pretty confident I will fail.
But yeah, these character posters are looking swell. Although isn't Nic Cage packed pretty damn tight into his Big Daddy outfit? I hope whatever assistants and interns who had to squeeze him into that thing got some kind of hazard pay. Thanks to Halfazedninja for the tip. (Via IGN)
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Wesley said:
Mark Millar is such the uber-Hollywood shill. So much for writing comics just to write comics. *sigh*
Abraxas said:
how about renaming the series for snarky purposes? something that reflects its lameness like (not)kick-ass or kicked-in-the-ass.
Halfazedninja said:
Yeah, the most original thing I could come up with when I sent it in was "IGN has some Kick-Ass posters". That was the only thing I could come up with...
Mechabeast said:
How about. Kick ass...it's like a cruise except theres no boat and you don't actually go anywhere
steventeen said:
The IGN article tagline is "These new character one-sheets are, well, kick-ass." UGH.
Anonymous said:
whoa whoa Wesley. how is he a Hollywood shill? you know he had to front a bunch of money himself and take donations to get this movie made right? Hollywood wanted him to make Hit-Girl some 16 yr old and tone down the violence and do other typical Hollywood butchery to a good idea. He went around them, got the money, and made the movie he wanted to make. which from what i hear is damn close to the comic.
Jerry said:
How come fans of things are always so pretentious?
For me its Firefly.
JOBSQUAD said:
Yeah, I LOVE the comic and I can't wait for the movie, but I
NEVER really got behind the Title. Just doesn't roll off the tongue right. It KINDA works as the title of the book, but it seems dumb as the characters actual name.
"This looks like a job for....Kick-ass!"
meh.
NeverPlayedWOW said:
Funny the smallest of the group has the sickest weapon
Fisty Dollars said:
I saw one of the first screenings of this a couple months back at the AMC in Woodland Hills, and the thing that surprised me most about this movie was how good Nicholas Cage's Adam West impression is.
DoctorSmashy said:
I've seen the leaked Comic-Con clips in all their shitty internet glory and I've gotta say, it's looking good.
Brion said:
I'm sorry. Maybe it's just me, but I think those posters look terrible.
Still excited for the movie though!
BladeWing said:
Who about "Kick-Ass" honored by thy name? or something like that?
Geoff said:
Not normally a fan of Millar's writing (aside from his brilliant Superman Adventures tenure, which made sense since Superman's the only hero he actually likes), but this looks decent enough. Although it took the promise of naked-and-dripping-wet Angelina Jolie to get me to see his last movie, and I doubt this has anything like that.
Kick Me said:
I'm McLovin' the posters! when does the trailer come out? Saw the Comic-con video and it really comes close to the look of the comic. -Kick me
JohnMatrix said:
The name of the title character is supposed to be cheesy. It's the name a deranged youth makes up for himself (Or is it the web/media who name him) when he decides to start fighting crime in a wet-suit in a world where superheroes stay in the comics.
Millar is more of a shameless self-promoter than anything else, but it usually revolves around his Hollywood aspirations.
The Wanted comic/graphic novel was way better than the film adaptation (with the exclusion of the last page...) but I guess it would have been impossible to film that.
Anonymous said:
Hit-Girl reminds me of Stephanie from Lazy Town.
