kickass was extremely sad
I watched kickass for the first time last night. i was under the impression that this was a funny superhero movie about a teenager who wanted to fight crime. i thought he’d save cats out of trees and break up petty arguments. Even the intro, showing us that he’s really not that good at fighting and this is just a kid who lost his mom (slightly autistic) and this is his interest to not think about loosing his mother. then you get into his first “superhero moment” where i thought when the one guy hit him in the gut, it was just a really hard punch, come to find out he gets stabbed, it’s gory and violent, he gets hit by a car and the person after seeing he’s hit someone drives away. this isn’t the world where superhero’s exist, it’s about a dumb kid who shouldn’t be messing around with dangerous people on the street. the scene where he gets taken to the hospital was so heartbreaking. it honestly shifted the tone of the entire move for me. i was soooo shocked that after his recovery he went back to it and kept getting himself in very dangerous situations. he could have ended up dead . does no one think about that. it was in no way a comedy movie for me. down to big daddy being just a complete sociopath.
when he eventually got the girl and changed his mind about wanting to fight crime i thought that was rlly sad !! this is a kid who lost his mom and felt like he didn’t have anything to fight for, now that he had a special person in his life, he realized that he didn’t want to throw his life away.
Did anyone else just not find the movie funny at all or is it just me. i also watched it in the clouds so maybe that’s why? the violence was extra gruesome to me