My Take Radio

Oh no, here we go with another comic book movie. Wait a minute, it’s not about any estab­lished Mar­vel or DC char­ac­ter and it is not a remake (about the first no-remake this year); maybe this one has hope. In fact, it has way more than hope—Kick-Ass does exactly what its title sug­gests. The premise is beyond sim­ple: just about every kid pre­tended to be a super­hero as a kid and plenty of adults wish they could do some­thing about the things they see on the news and in the streets. Kick-Ass is about an ordi­nary high school kid who has no spe­cial pow­ers and has no money for cool Bat­man gad­gets who decides to make a dif­fer­ence. By him­self he is not going to accom­plish much and he real­ized that: enter Red Mist, Big Daddy and Hit Girl, who round out our cast of vig­i­lantes. Obvi­ously I am going to tell you why, but you need to see this flick. You shouldn’t even be read­ing this…you should be out watch­ing this movie—go…NOW!

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With the pop­u­lar­ity of comic movies and lack of cre­ativ­ity from hol­ly­wood a new trend is start­ing. That trend is movies based on niche char­ac­ters. From Spawn to Con­stan­tine to Wanted to the upcom­ing Jonah Hex and Preacher niche comics are becom­ing the new “it” thing to make movies from. While I can give hol­ly­wood shit for the what they are doing I actu­ally have enjoyed these films because the char­ac­ters they are based on have more adult con­tent and most direc­tors stick to the story for the most part.

In the same vein as Wanted I present Kick-Ass( Based on the pop­u­lar Icon comic of the same name) a movie about a kid who wants to be hero and has no idea what he’s got­ten him­self into. Mark Mil­lar who cre­ated Wanted brought his own brand of humor and social awk­ward­ness to Kick-Ass that was so preva­lent in Wanted.

Based on the trailer I see a ton of poten­tial for another comic book to trans­late well into film. Do you agree/disagree?