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To KICK ASS or not to KICK ASS
Mar. 31st, 2010 01:48 pmAnd we're back!
New Comics Day is going to be bittersweet. The final issue of BLACKEST NIGHT hits, but I'm trying to hold off reading it until Henchgirl catches up so that we can read it together. She still has to read FLASH: REBIRTH and all the GL stuff from RAGE OF THE RED LANTERNS onward. Let's see how long I can hold out.
I'm weighing the options as to whether or not to see a cheap matinee of KICK ASS. I don't exactly want to see the film, but like Henchgirl with ALICE IN WONDERLAND (or me with AVATAR), I feel like I kinda have to, even though I know I'm gonna hate it.
I don't know what prospect scares me more: if I like the film (very fucking unlikely), or if I hate it but Henchgirl likes it. I can understand somebody loving it if they haven't spent years following Mark Millar's degradation into smug, cynical, overblown asshole-with-a-budget fuckery of shit like THE ULTIMATES, CIVIL WAR, and WANTED. If this weren't the latest in a long fucking pattern of wankery that many fans can't stop eating up, maybe I too could enjoy KICK ASS.
But I understand it's faithful to the comics, and the comic doesn't have a shred of integrity nor worth.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
box_in_the_box--the only man I know who can turn comic rage into art--expertly delivered a point-for-point reasoning why KICK ASS is so loathsome. So why, why do I want to see this damn thing? Why do I feel like I should?
Maybe we can buy tickets for another film and sneak in, so Mark Millar won't get a cent of my money. That's a good plan, assuming we can get away with it.
New Comics Day is going to be bittersweet. The final issue of BLACKEST NIGHT hits, but I'm trying to hold off reading it until Henchgirl catches up so that we can read it together. She still has to read FLASH: REBIRTH and all the GL stuff from RAGE OF THE RED LANTERNS onward. Let's see how long I can hold out.
I'm weighing the options as to whether or not to see a cheap matinee of KICK ASS. I don't exactly want to see the film, but like Henchgirl with ALICE IN WONDERLAND (or me with AVATAR), I feel like I kinda have to, even though I know I'm gonna hate it.
I don't know what prospect scares me more: if I like the film (very fucking unlikely), or if I hate it but Henchgirl likes it. I can understand somebody loving it if they haven't spent years following Mark Millar's degradation into smug, cynical, overblown asshole-with-a-budget fuckery of shit like THE ULTIMATES, CIVIL WAR, and WANTED. If this weren't the latest in a long fucking pattern of wankery that many fans can't stop eating up, maybe I too could enjoy KICK ASS.
But I understand it's faithful to the comics, and the comic doesn't have a shred of integrity nor worth.
box_in_the_box--the only man I know who can turn comic rage into art--expertly delivered a point-for-point reasoning why KICK ASS is so loathsome. So why, why do I want to see this damn thing? Why do I feel like I should? Maybe we can buy tickets for another film and sneak in, so Mark Millar won't get a cent of my money. That's a good plan, assuming we can get away with it.
