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Rumor: Warner Bros. Offers Christian Bale $60 Million to Play Batman Again | /Film
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Warner Bros/DC is just SO ****ed. They are so afraid of anything not Batman, it's funny.

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?Kick-Ass 2′ Review: A Fun Sequel That Continually Trips Over Itself | /Film

Even though Kick-Ass 2 never quite clicks 100 percent, there are plenty of memorable moments, new characters and fun action scenes spread across the film. Ultimately, those make a slightly above average film entertaining. Kick-Ass 2 isn?t going to win over anyone who didn?t already like the world created in the first film, but fans of the the 2010 original will be happy to see the franchise back, even if it?s a much lesser version of the product.

/Film rating: 6.5 out of 10
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Man, I LOVE Hickman's stuff. He even made Fantastic Four good.

If you want to check out some of his stuff, I recommend starting with his Image books. Manhattan Projects (ongoing), The Nightly News and Pax Romana are ****ing awesome.
 
Review: Kick-Ass 2 offers a nasty, rowdy look at the ugly consequences of violence

If you're concerned that you might be offended by something in "Kick-Ass 2," there is certainly plenty to choose from. It is a happily offensive film. It makes no bones about giving the characters deep flaws as people. I don't for a moment believe that I'm meant to emulate anyone in the film, but rather, I think Millar's books tap into this merry prankster spirit, and what Wadlow does with that is commentary without necessarily choosing sides. He presents these characters with their flaws, their weaknesses, their hatred, their ignorance, and he lets them be those people without trying to pretty it up. I don't think Wadlow's telling us to emulate anyone in the films. He's just showing you what sort of moral free-for-all lies just beneath the surface, and what happens when you empower people to expose every part of themselves while supposedly safe and anonymous. I look at the characters in "Kick-Ass 2," and what I see is the Internet, a place where people get to choose their identities, a place where you are largely defined by choices you make. Your screen name. The sites you bookmark. The things you read. The things you choose to believe. The ongoing vendettas. The shocking casual racism and homophobia and misogyny. Maybe you will meet people who become part of your real life, people who become your family, your best friends, but chances are you will also meet people who enrage you, who become enraged by you, who push you just for the sake of pushing you. How you emerge from all of that, how you choose to process and react, that says a lot about who you are, and in this film, Dave, Chris, and Mindy are all forced to figure out who they are in the wake of everything we've seen go down between them. It is a surprisingly intimate set of stakes for a summer movie about superheroes, but by being that small, we can identify with it more, and "Kick-Ass 2" ultimately delivers some unpleasant truth in a way I wouldn't have expected.

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Yeah, I expect this movie to get lost in the cracks...pick up a sizeable cult following and eventually garner another chapter. (see Kick Ass for example)

That being said, it is the one big release this weekend as far as I know...next weekend is KILLER genre wise w/World's End/You're Next opening(and Kingsqueen out of town...you suck Kingsqueen), so maybe it makes some $$$ due to the sheer lack of competition. Carey really f'd the deal, not by refusing to do publicity(cause nobody really gives a rats ass anymore), but by playing that card (what) 2 months before it opens. Got a lot of publicity...but people have already forgot. Thanks douche.
 
**** all the Ultimate titles anyway. Just another way Marvel can repackage the same **** and sell more. Ultimates is to blame for the loss of the ORIGINAL Nick Fury and turning Hawkeye into a faceless poof.
 
jerseydevil said:
**** all the Ultimate titles anyway. Just another way Marvel can repackage the same **** and sell more. Ultimates is to blame for the loss of the ORIGINAL Nick Fury and turning Hawkeye into a faceless poof.
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But some of the books were ****ing awesome. The original Ultimates book is probably the best thing Mark Millar has ever written and the entire run of Ultimate Spider-Man is maybe the best thing Bendis has ever written.
 
adgy-san said:
But some of the books were ****ing awesome. The original Ultimates book is probably the best thing Mark Millar has ever written and the entire run of Ultimate Spider-Man is maybe the best thing Bendis has ever written.
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Nertz to that. Ruined Hawkeye and deleted one of the greatest characters(original Nick Fury) from continuity.
 
jerseydevil said:
Nertz to that. Ruined Hawkeye and deleted one of the greatest characters(original Nick Fury) from continuity.
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Hawkeye is fine. Just a costume change. The character has his own title and it's going strong (because it's great).

Can't argue the Nick Fury thing, but I think he'll be back. The recent Ennis penned Nick Fury series, My War Gone By, was ****ing awesome by the way. Highly recommended.
 
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