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Kick Ass 2010
Kick Ass is at the head of the tide of an epic spring-summer season for movies, it solves a lot of problems the book had, but comes up with some of it's own too.
There really was no dialogue saved from the book that could have been used in a movie without people out loud exclaiming "this is retarded". The script had a big sandbox to work with, changing major elements from the comic and keeping modified essential story arcs from the comic. The downside is that it caters to many action/comedy film standards of momentum and falls into a bad groove.
Without a doubt the action scenes are the high point of Kick Ass, Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz) plow through bad guys in glorious brutality. Everyone agrees Moretz pulls the most weight in the film, making Hit Girl an adorable, remorseless killer.
Kick Ass himself (played by Dave Lizewski), just gets the crap kicked out of him the whole time. After his first attempt of crime-stopping, he is put in the hospital and receives a plethora of metal plates (which he uses to go on and take even bigger beatings). Thankfully he isn't given the spotlight, because he's the least interesting of all the characters.
Kick Ass is at the head of the tide of an epic spring-summer season for movies, it solves a lot of problems the book had, but comes up with some of it's own too.
There really was no dialogue saved from the book that could have been used in a movie without people out loud exclaiming "this is retarded". The script had a big sandbox to work with, changing major elements from the comic and keeping modified essential story arcs from the comic. The downside is that it caters to many action/comedy film standards of momentum and falls into a bad groove.
Without a doubt the action scenes are the high point of Kick Ass, Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz) plow through bad guys in glorious brutality. Everyone agrees Moretz pulls the most weight in the film, making Hit Girl an adorable, remorseless killer.
Kick Ass himself (played by Dave Lizewski), just gets the crap kicked out of him the whole time. After his first attempt of crime-stopping, he is put in the hospital and receives a plethora of metal plates (which he uses to go on and take even bigger beatings). Thankfully he isn't given the spotlight, because he's the least interesting of all the characters.