Kick-***

[Texas0407]

Anyone seen this movie yet? I was dragged to see it, thinking it was a silly teen comedy...

Wow. It...well, kicks ***. Big time. Go see it.

 

[l00p]

Really? I am not doubting you, just curious. From the previews I thought I wanted nothing to do with it. What about it kicks *** without giving spoilers?

 

[halsteadfrost]

Every person I know who's seen it says it kicks ***. I haven't seen it, but the previews obviously play it up to be an almost kid-friendly super-hero spoof of a movie, and I've heard it's basically one of the best super-hero movies period. On par with The Dark Knight.

Loop, have you checked out the red band trailers?

 

[l00p]

No sir, I have not. I think I will now if they are on youtube. I guess I will go check this movie out now.

 

[CanaTigers]

I wouldn't call it kid friendly, my kids did love it though. It was gratuitously violent, vulgar, and offensive. Everything that makes a movie highly entertaining.

 

[Texas0407]

It's over the top and graphic, but done nicely (not like those ****** Saw movies). I found it very Tarantino-esque.

I would suggest NOT watching the redband trailers-- they will spoil the movie. Go in blind like I did. Knowing nothing. After seeing it, my brother said he wished he hadn't seen any previews for it.

 

[l00p]

That was close. I realized I did not check out those trailers when I clicked on this thread again and almost went to do so before reading your latest post. I wanted to be prepared for any info you may have provided. Luckily I did not and now I won't. I will see the movie though. I had no idea it would be what has been described.

 

[thadccab]

saw it on Saturday. awesome! best movie i've seen this year IMO

 

[dxspaz]

loved it. i think i liked it more than any recent comic-movies too, including the dark knight

 

[RomaVicta]

Don't watch any trailers or let anyone tell you anything about this movie. It takes many twists and turns that you would rather just experience in the theater.

I saw it this afternoon after reading this thread. Thanks for the recommendation. It's a very well put together movie with a ton of energy and tempo. My only quibble is the overuse of voice-over in the beginning. I'm bored with all the TV shows and movies that feel compelled to tell me things instead of dramatizing them.

In short, hell of a ride.

Watching it made me realize what Avatar was missing. Energy and tempo. Cameron had both of those working in his Terminator movies and Aliens.

 

[X-Ray_Horn]

Digging up an old thread because I saw this today at the local cheapo second-run theatre.

It was great, an orgy of violence (I had heard inklings of such, so I was prepared).

Rated "R", but there were several kids in the crowd: it earns the rating. It makes those old Peckinpah movies, once the gold-standard of film violence, look like a Pixar flick.

(If memory serves, the initial ad campaign did seem to make it seem kid-friendly: this wasn't made for children, but for Tarantino and violent video game fan boys. My inner 14-year old boy loved the hell out of it!)

And I don't want to spoil it at all for those who haven't seen it, but one character steals the damn movie in about as cool a fashion as I can recall.