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As a great man once said, wait till they get a load of me!

coolsomecoolsome
edited March 2012 in General Chat
Kick Ass 2 is confirmed to be shooting this summer.


http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/mark-millar-confirms-kick-ass-2-will-be-shot-this/260502

With a new director do you think it will be as good as the first?

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  • RAnthonyMahanRAnthonyMahan
    edited March 2012
    Wait a minute...Kick-Ass 2, Nemesis, and Chosen are all being made into movies? Egh.

    Mark Millar sort of rubs me the wrong way. I liked his earlier stuff when DC/Marvel/Grant Morrison kept him from going overboard, but his creator-owned "Millarworld" line has proven that giving him complete control over a comic is a terrible, terrible idea. He believes that being offensive means instant quality, leading to such lovely stuff as a uterus being rigged with explosives. I mean, I'm not some kind of prude who can't handle anything shocking, it's just that Millar's stuff is nothing but being as offensive as possible, with absolutely no substance.

    I admit I liked the Kick-Ass movie (or at least liked it better than the comic), mostly since they realized Millar's premise was ridiculous and turned it into a comedy instead of expecting us to take a ten-year-old girl going on a killing spree seriously. But all these movies...by selling the movie rights to all his comics Millar's made far more money than other, more deserving comic creators have.

    I guess I'll give the Kick-Ass 2 movie a shot, but if they make a movie out of "The Unfunnies," I'm out.
  • Darth MarsdenDarth Marsden
    edited March 2012
    Um.

    I've read the comic (so far) in Clint, which is basically printing a chapter of it a month.

    It's... it's not a nice story.

    And I know the original Kick-Ass wasn't particularly nice, but it didn't feature
    Kick Ass' dad getting arrested and then murdered in jail (extremely violently), Kick Ass' girlfriend (who told him to piss off in the comic rather than becoming his g/f after finding out he wasn't gay) getting raped by the bad guy's thugs, Red Mist renaming himself the 'Mother Fucker', lots of cops getting mown down in a hail of bullets and a ton of banks getting blown up, innocent people and all. The latest bit ends with a huge army of 'heroes' facing off against the Mother Fucker's paid mercenaries, and I can't imagine that going down without some serious violence.

    I cannot, for the life of me, see how the sequel would work unless they changed a huge amount, and then they might as well not even bother calling it Kick Ass 2.

    To be honest, I'd rather see a film version of Superior.

    EDIT: Oh, and I also read American Jesus, the other comic-to-film they're doing. It will not go down well.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited March 2012
    Oh. I thought this was a thread about P*rn. Nevermind then.
  • KuroShiroKuroShiro
    edited March 2012
    I enjoyed the Kick Ass movie, though to be honest I dislike the comics. They seem to be part of a wave of stuff that saw amazing things like Preacher and Transmetropolitan, but made the mistake of thinking that it was shock value that made them great.
  • MolokovMolokov
    edited March 2012
    Yeah, the Kick-Ass movie was great, so I bought the comic and was severely disappointed - the movie's backstories & climax were so much better. Haven't read the KA2 comic, but with luck the movie of it will keep the spirit of the first movie alive and modify what they need to from the comic.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited March 2012
    KuroShiro wrote: »
    I enjoyed the Kick Ass movie, though to be honest I dislike the comics. They seem to be part of a wave of stuff that saw amazing things like Preacher and Transmetropolitan, but made the mistake of thinking that it was shock value that made them great.

    This right here. I'm not a huge fan of Preacher, lots of it I think fall too far into the 'for shock value' element, but it still had a story to tell and a point to make.
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