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Kick *spoon* - Hit Girl Mature Trailer

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comix4fun

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I don't get it. Kid is swearing like a Mo Fo, gratuitous violence, anarchy.

 

Why is this great again?

 

 

 

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cshepard81

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I know I'm in the minority, and I never read the comics the movie is based on, but the trailer didn't appeal to me.

I loved "Battle Royale" and liked "Lone Wolf & Cub" so violent kids aren't a big hangup, but if what I saw in the trailer is the extent of the plot, I won't be contributing any money to Nic Cage's next island-castle purchase.

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I know I'm in the minority, and I never read the comics the movie is based on, but the trailer didn't appeal to me.

I loved "Battle Royale" and liked "Lone Wolf & Cub" so violent kids aren't a big hangup, but if what I saw in the trailer is the extent of the plot, I won't be contributing any money to Nic Cage's next island-castle purchase.

 

I think if there was an ever a line of demarcation between the current Generation and all those that came before, its movies like this. I'm sure it will do well at the box office, just like I'm sure they'll be a bunch of 12 year olds in the theatre giggling at the bloodsplatter because it takes those kind of visual extremes for them to respond to anything.

 

 

 

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I know I'm in the minority, and I never read the comics the movie is based on, but the trailer didn't appeal to me.

I loved "Battle Royale" and liked "Lone Wolf & Cub" so violent kids aren't a big hangup, but if what I saw in the trailer is the extent of the plot, I won't be contributing any money to Nic Cage's next island-castle purchase.

 

I think if there was an ever a line of demarcation between the current Generation and all those that came before, its movies like this. I'm sure it will do well at the box office, just like I'm sure they'll be a bunch of 12 year olds in the theatre giggling at the bloodsplatter because it takes those kind of visual extremes for them to respond to anything.

 

 

 

I could see this movie causing a lot of controversy, resulting in theater chains cracking down on who's allowed into R rated films.

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How is this any different from the Omen movies? Wasn't Damien a kid in those movies (and a murderer)?

 

There are any number of movies with children who kill.

 

 

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The comic book is a good read. Hit-Girl and Big Daddy are really ancillary characters.

 

Kick- is the heart of the story... a kid with no real skills or athletic prowess who just wants to be a hero.

 

 

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How is this any different from the Omen movies? Wasn't Damien a kid in those movies (and a murderer)?

 

There are any number of movies with children who kill.

 

 

Yes, and I know teenagers who laugh their asses off when watching a movie like the Exorcist. Its funny to them. It doesn't scare them at all.

 

A movie with a pre-pubescent girl saying c*nt and hacking people in two is going to be flat out hysterical for that crowd.

 

I guess I'm just showing my age, and weeping for the future, all in the same breath.

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jools&jim

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BTW, in case you haven't seen the Big Daddy trailer...

 

Cute stuff. Child endangerment/attempted filicide is always good for a laugh or two I guess. :screwy:

 

Look, I appreciate satire as much as any former college English major (well, at least as much as one who is still more-or-less capable of rational thought after enduring the whole lobotomizing experience), but this is really only a step or two removed from flat-out child pornography in the sense that it's essentially a vulgar exploitation of a pre-teen girl, in this case for comedic effect.

 

Even if it's just one small part of a larger movie which ultimately redeems itself by telling a great story or making an important sociological point or two, it's still indicative of the increasingly predictable--but none-the-less despicable--cultural lows we're serially reaching with each passing year.

 

Would I feel this way if I were still in my late, lamented 20s, and wasn't the father of a 10 year-old girl? I dunno...I hope so. But maybe not. I guess the bottom line is that I have finally become the old fart of my nightmares, and am simply not amused by, nor indulgent of, this particularly easy brand of "edgy" anymore...

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VintageComics

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Would I feel this way if I were still in my late, lamented 20s, and wasn't the father of a 10 year-old girl? I dunno...I hope so. But maybe not. I guess the bottom line is that I have finally become the old fart of my nightmares, and am simply not amused by, nor indulgent of, this particularly easy brand of "edgy" anymore...

 

I don't know. I'm pretty sure I had pretty strong opinions on what was right and what was wrong and would have come to the same conclusions in my 20's. There were things like this even when I was a trouble maker myself that bothered me.

 

I watch today's "kids" shows (just tonite with my 4 kids and Lou's 2 kids) and it was not funny. It was sad. Terrible humor, more child exploitation and stupid innuendo. Stuff that kids have trouble handling today, and it's being served to them on a silver platter.

 

Sure I snuck nudie mags when I was a young teen, and played superhero and "fought" but this stuff was never served as the norm.

 

I find today's most popular humor...the mainstream crape that people laugh at today, to be entirely NOT funny, NOT intelligent, NOT original and NOT entertaining.

 

What was funny about two women beating themselves up on a San Fran bus?

 

:screwy:

 

I think it has nothing to do with being older or being an old fart, cause most people including my 8-14 year old kids think I'm pretty fun and pretty dang funny. I can have them rolling around laughing with a little effort.

 

I think it has to do with a lack of effort in being truly creative.

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Hey... wait a minute. If you're talking about the African-American woman fighting the Asian woman on the SF Muni Bus, that wasn't meant to be humorous. That was the Asian woman standing up for herself when the African-American woman refused to make room and was taking up both seats. The African-American woman also started insulting the Asian woman and waving her finger in her face.

 

(It was a local thing.)

 

 

ADDED: The African-American woman also took a cheap shot at the Asian woman and threw the first punch/slap. (To her detriment...)

 

 

 

 

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Mr 9.8

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I watch today's "kids" shows (just tonite with my 4 kids and Lou's 2 kids) and it was not funny. It was sad. Terrible humor, more child exploitation and stupid innuendo. Stuff that kids have trouble handling today, and it's being served to them on a silver platter.

 

I know what you mean. That ''Planet 51'' trailer bothered me when the astronaut said ''What the... Duck?'' I just felt that was a little too far.
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Hey... wait a minute. If you're talking about the African-American woman fighting the Asian woman on the SF Muni Bus, that wasn't meant to be humorous. That was the Asian woman standing up for herself when the African-American woman refused to make room and was taking up both seats. The African-American woman also started insulting the Asian woman and waving her finger in her face.

 

(It was a local thing.)

 

 

I had an idea that's what happened. I watched the video as it was posted here the other day.

 

What I was commenting on (and found a little disappointing) was that board members found it really funny and thought it was worth repeating. It's that sort of humor that people seem to consider mainstream and top notch these days.

 

I just never did personally find it funny when someone is suffering, unless the person suffering is also in on the joke.

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