{"id":261,"date":"2010-04-24T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2010-04-24T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T00:10:17","slug":"kick-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cwknight.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Kick-Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sometimes, it’s the movies that I like best that are the most difficult to write about.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to pull apart and examine films that aren’t great. How to Train Your Dragon<\/em>, for example, was a decent, though not spectacular, family-oriented animated romp. Its visuals were great, though lacking the polish of a Pixar film, and its story was cute enough, but it dragged somewhat to start and could’ve had a stronger script. C+, B- is its final score, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

See? Easy.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, approaching a film like Kick-Ass<\/em>, a film so superbly crafted, so incredibly\u00a0choreographed\u00a0and so wittily incisive, is a tall order. Where do I start? Do I focus on its excitement, its beautifully bad-ass fight scenes that pit interesting, flawed, yet relatable heroes against shrewd enemies? Should I instead choose to focus on its commentary, the brainy aspects behind its perfected pugilism, and laud the fact that it examines and challenges the idea of vigilante justice in a similar way as Watchmen<\/em>? Or maybe I should begin by talking about its quasi-realistic, Tarantino-esque style that intermixes images of brutal violence with the fantasy of superheroism?<\/p>\n

I suppose that the most succinct way for me to communicate how I felt about Kick-Ass<\/em> is to say that I’ve seen it three times, and believe that it was well worth it. It takes what I thought were the most interesting parts of Watchmen<\/em>, namely the critical examination of normal people acting as a vigilante, costumed superheroes, and throws away all of the “inside baseball” type comic industry and culture trappings that make Watchmen<\/em> somewhat difficult for non-fans to understand and take seriously. If you have any interest in watching an exciting action movie with interesting characters, you should definitely check it out.<\/p>\n

In an entirely unrelated observation, anthypophora<\/a> is so useful, rhetorically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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