{"id":3362,"date":"2012-01-04T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2012-01-04T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:01:51","slug":"kick-ass-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=3362","title":{"rendered":"Kick-Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gotta say, that movie <a title=\"My review of Kick-Ass\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1942\" target=\"_blank\">Kick-Ass<\/a>? Was an extremely faithful adaptation of <a title=\"Kick-Ass by Mark Millar, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kick-Ass-Mark-Millar\/dp\/0785134352\/\" target=\"_blank\">the comic that spawned it<\/a>. I can&#8217;t even think of much new to say. Ultra-violent? Check. Extremely funny? Also check, and probably often at the same time, which I suppose says something about me.[1] While it was not nearly as much of a meditation on the place of costumed heroes in the world, I do not know if that&#8217;s because the movie actually did something overt on the topic or because, having already had the thought, it wouldn&#8217;t make any sense to think of it again for exactly the same reason. The art was cartoonish, which both softened and emphasized the massive quantities of blood and also gore.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, sorry, I even tried talking about art, but that never gets me very far, and the truth is, they really are this much the same on story\/character. So I can either cut and paste or else leave you here. But to be clear, I would recommend either unreservedly (there&#8217;s the violence, but I already mentioned it and now trust you to take it into account your own damn self), and I am looking forward to the sequel! (To the book for sure; I think there&#8217;s a movie sequel coming too, though?)<\/p>\n<p>[1] Not anything <em>new<\/em>, but still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gotta say, that movie Kick-Ass? Was an extremely faithful adaptation of the comic that spawned it. I can&#8217;t even think of much new to say. Ultra-violent? Check. Extremely funny? Also check, and probably often at the same time, which I suppose says something about me.[1] While it was not nearly as much of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,22],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}