Hit-Girl Has a Potty Mouth
Hey, I’m back.
1) I’d like to thank Chris for taking care o’ business while I was on vacation. It was much appreciated.
2) I still haven’t seen Avatar. Sorry about that.
3) I still haven’t judged the TR contest either, but I will get to that tomorrow for sure.
4) This video is an R-rated preview for Kick-Ass, based on Hit-Girl.
5) Goddamn is it awesome.
6) I actually think Nic Cage is going to turn in one of his good performances here, and I’ll tell you why.
7) He looks goofy.
8) I mean, Nic Cage always looks goofy. But when he accepts that and allows himself to look shlubbier in a movie than he does in real life, I think he ends up doing a great job. For instance, Raising Arizona and Adaptation.
9) When he pretends he’s a regular leading man or, god forbid, attractive, he either ends up terrible or insane.
10) I’d say his old man haircut and creepy mustache put him squarely on the side of “goofy.”
11) I don’t know why I’m numbering all this.
12) Did I mention that this clip is incredibly awesome?
About The Author
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.