Kick Ass

I don't go to the movie theaters much anymore. Sad, but doesn't overly bother me. I'm always interested in adding movies to my blu-ray collection if the price fits. My latest purchase was Kick Ass from a recent trip to Costco. At $22.50 (before tax), and checking with friends on the worth, I decided to get it.

It took me a almost a week before I even opened and watch it. All I knew about this movie was: it was some superhero movie, had a 13yr old girl that a few guys drooled over, violent, and made it to blu-ray rather quickly. Then I looked closely at it and noticed Nicolas Cage was in it (post-purchase). I sighed but turned on my PS3 anyways.

The movie itself: lame, cheesy, stupid, but kind of neat. As usual, the lead-up was atypical and stupid: dork/person with good intentions wants to be something, stuff happens, he gets stuff (powers, ability, chance, girl, etc) and voila. The action was neat, reminded me of Kill Bill (either volume). At around when Red Mist popped up, I got bored, so my brain went into auto-pilot. Then I (somehow) drew the analogy of Aaron Johnson's character to the poor slob that the Joker kills and hangs in Dark Knight. You know, the guy who tried to bust Scarecrow early on, only to fail and have Batman save him. The moment when Kick-Ass got captured, it reminded me a LOT of the Dark Knight scene when Joker filmed himself toying with the wanna-be Batman. It simply showed that: good intentions CAN get your ass kicked (... I think I just paraphrased Cage... f@ck...). So I guess compare Kick-Ass with Batman: normal-ish guys, with good intentions. Both get their ass kicked as well as kick some ass, but who really has the righteous intentions? Both are on some kind of high from a self belief of righteousness, although Batman's a bit of an emotional wreck and Kick-Ass is a hormonal teen. Wait, that's almost the same thing! To me, it seems that neither is of their right mind or inspirational. It's a sad attempt at trying to take a stand and change something, but isn't that what activists and (potential) politicians are for? Ultimately, these super hero movies that attempt to be humorous are lame. No you don't deserve to take down a crime lord and get an innocent-turned-slutty girlfriend who's always wanted a gay BFF. You deserve to get the crap beaten out of you, plain and simple.

Anyways, did I like the movie? So-so, I'd give it 3.75/5. It got me thinking on a tangent, and the fight scenes were cool. It was humanizing to see Hitgirl run out of ammo, Big Daddy burn, and Kick-Ass get his ass kicked. However, next time I watch it on my own, I'll probably skip a chunk of the beginning.

Over-Thinking Again...

... Or is it "over thinking... again..."? Who cares, I don't feel like starting on that one, lol. Anyways, we all over-thinking things in our daily, mundane lives. All the "should haves", "could haves", "would haves", "what ifs", "maybes". As soon as you say, think, or ponder any of those words: you've already over-thunk. (That's right, "thunk".)

So why? Maybe we're too smart, dumb, bored, paranoid, hung-over, drunk, high, whatever. We just do it. Although I'm sure most of you would agree that we seem to do it just before we sleep. Right? It's almost human nature to over-analyze. We're inquiring minds, we needs to know. We need to make sense of things.

Anyways, I'm bored, so let's start with that :)