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Kick-Ass Directed by Matthew Vaughn Stars Aaron Johnson, Nicholas Cage, Chloe Moretz, Lyndsy Fonseca and Christopher Mintz-Plasse Distributed by Lionsgate and Universal Pictures |
When I came home last Sunday, I bought a couple of DVDs with Kick-Ass on it. I haven't watched the film before and I knew right away that I had to buy that freaking dvd once I saw the movie logo.
Since this is the film adaptation, the movie pretty much follows the plot of the graphic novel by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr - which is a story of an ordinary guy wanting to be a superhero in the real world and what happens when you mess with thugs, criminals and the Cosa 'Fucking' Nostra (also known as the Mafia) - except for a couple of tweaks that I thought "enhanced" the whole thing. You just can't go copy the source material in these kinds of adaptations because again - there are some elements in the comic book that would not work in a film.
So Vaughn focused on the element that the original comic book didn't care much about so his movie would be more effective and cohesive: character development.
