Hey, guys.
Not much movie related to talk about today as I have actually written this blog entry a few days ago in preparation for my attendance at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo – or C2E2 this weekend.
Typically, it’s been a tradition for several of us web comic guys to go see a movie together while we’re in town. I don’t know if we’ll get the opportunity to see Kick-Ass this weekend but I hope we do.
If you’re in The Windy City, be sure to stop by my booth in Webcomics Pavilion. I’m at table WC-N in the same area as Brat-halla, Shortpacked!, Erika Moen and Lucy Knisley.
I will be selling shirts, books (Including Theater Hopper: Year Three), buttons and original sketches.
If you aren’t able to join us in Chicago this weekend, be sure to follow my Twitter and Facebook accounts. I plan on posting several updates throughout the weekend to let you know how things are going.
That’s all for now. Like I said, I wrote this two days ago. So, right now, I need to go to bed so I don’t nod off on the road between Des Moines and Chicago. I have a 6 hour trip ahead of me. Or, had a 6 hour trip ahead of me.
…because I’m in Chicago now.
But I wrote this… two…
WISH ME LUCK!
I'm sorry. I don't know what movie you're referring to.
Kick-Ass? The most hotly anticipated movie of the spring?
Feature a character dressed up like my friend, The Jolly Green Dingus over here?
I'm sorry. But to protect the sensibilities of our younger patrons, we have given that movie another title?
To what?
Kick-Tushy.
Good luck!
Also I was in LA by Staples Center and this movie’s title is totally censored at the Regal near LA Live.
Oh, I love Jimmy. His expressions are great in this. You made his expressions great. You make me love Jimmy. Thank you.
Having seen Kick-Ass, I kinda feel like the word ‘Ass’ being in the title should be the least of anyone’s worries.
The cinemas here in Australia have the big cut-outs for the movie, part of which has an image of Red Mist and Hit Girl with the text “You too can be a superhero! Take a photo!” which seems to be targeted towards the younger crowd. And lets just say that the movie itself isn’t really targeted that way. We’re talking Tarantino level gore perpertrated by an 11 year old girl.
I’m not saying I didn’t like the movie. I loved every moment of it, and it’s destined for my DVD collection as soon as it is out, but like I said: the word ‘Ass’ in the title is not really the problem here.
You said Tushy! I’m telling Mom!
I’m Swedish and I can honestly say I don’t understand USAians at all. It’s ok to let children see an ultraviolent movie/comic like Kick-Ass (I’ve only seen the trailers and they were to violent to my taste, thirty years ago the movie would have been censored to death if it were to be seen by teenagers in Sweden), but it is not ok to even mention a part of the anatomy that everybody has (again, thirty years ago in Sweden, “normal sex” scenes (that is, containing no violence or humiliation) were usually not censored even if a movie where to be seen by small children, showing “tushies” in the stately owned televisions childrens shows was the norm (whenever the plot required) when I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s).
Me thinks there is something fundamentally wrong with the US mentality.
(The reason I write “censored thirty years ago” is that with all the violent (US produced) childrens movies overflowing the market, the stately Swedish censors has more or less given up. But most contemporary Swedish parents still share the same aversion to show children violence, especially violence as entertainment.)
@m,
Isn’t Sweden the country that banned E.T. for 11 y.o. and younger because it depicted kids talking back to parents and they didn’t want it corrupting their youth?
Btw, I am NOT saying you don’t have a point. But I am saying that ALL country’s mentality is screwed up. It is just screwed up in its own special way.
Saw ‘Kick Ass’ last night. I haven’t read the comic, so the plot was a bit different than I was expecting, but I still had a fun time.
It’s still hard to believe that Jimmy went form being such a badass to being what he is now. lol
“The Jolly Green Dingus”. I love it 😀
Anyway, having watched Kick-Ass last night, I was a little underwhelmed. It was enjoyable enough, the jokes worked, the action sequences were good (especially the last few, those were outright excellent), and the characters… OK, most of them were just annoying, but Hit Girl and Big Daddy rocked. I just wasn’t as thrilled as a lot of the hype has said I would. I’m a fairly jaded individual, so Hit-Girl doing what she was doing didn’t seem so shocking to me (and in fact got a little annoying after a while, since it seemed to be heading into edgy-for-the-sake-of-edgy territory). But controversy is usually lost on me, so it’s not the first time here.
But whatever the case, good movie, worth a watch.
About Kickass… I have some cell phone shots of it being filmed behind my apartment here in Hamilton Ontario. Not much to look at, just a guy walking around dressed in that super hero costume. It was well over a year ago, and I hadn’t thought anything of it since.
Regal Cinemas in Tampa have it listed as Kick-A** on the marquee. I did not see any posters advertising it in the theater, either. When Jackass was showing there, that name was not censored. *boggle*
I expected this comic, tom, or something like it. I remember the comic about Jackass (http://www.theaterhopper.com/2006/10/06/because-the-word-butt-is-funny/).
To m-
Every country is different, and has different cultural norms. I am sure there are more than a couple things about you own that we can point out as being odd (as I have a swedish grandmother and my family name is Olson, trust me, I ain’t talking out of my butt. I got material).
A lot of it is is that you can’t really keep your kid from seeing a movie title. You can keep them from seeing the movie. I am sure the people protesting or who are uncomfortable with the title would be horrified at the actual contents of the movie.
You have to understand, the USA is not just a big culture. It is made of of numerous sub-cultures and the ‘cult of individuality’. So unless you can show me that the majority of the people uncomfortable with the word are the ones cheering on violence, then please do not point fingers. It makes Sweden look bad, and I do love Sweden. Mmmmm, St. Lucia rolls….
Saw the Movie last night.. and i have to say how much i loved it… a bit slow at the beginning but the second and third act did not dissapoint.. mindless violence with chaos and Mayhem.. and did i balisongs (butterfly Knives)
Actually, I work for a Regal Cinema here in San Diego.. and doing the outside marquee, i was told not to put the word “ass.” So i put “Kick Booty” but it sounded a bit too 80s… but not long after we got a email from corporate saying that we HAD to put up “Kick A” Leaving off the two Ss at the end of ASS… and our inside Marquees are censored to “Kick A**”
Fun thing about today and all Rated R Movies are kicking out the school Kids who arent old enough to see these movies… Yay for authority!!
What if the title censoring is not because of the word itself, but rather done as an indicator to parents who are less “in the know” that while Kick-Ass is a comic book movie, it’s not a kids movie. Jackass didn’t need that because everyone knew what Jackass was about; some of the trailers I’ve seen for Kick-Ass don’t indicate the level of violence I know the movie to contain, based on other sources. I know from my time working at a theater that most parents don’t always pay attention to the rating of a movie when picking something for their kids (which was almost inevitable when you consider the inconsistency of the ratings sytem), a bleeped word in a title may catch their attention before they take their 8 – 12 year olds in to see it
with this being the internet age, i wish parents would realize how easy it is to check out what outrageous stuff could be in a movie. I remember dealing with a lot of upset parents when Forgetting Sarah Marshall came out. I remember one parent actually telling me, “i’m okay with any cussing, violence, or even a regular sex scene, but I will not have my daughters watch a movie that shows penis!”
I’m more concerned with the violence myself than with the title, but the title was the first indicator to me that I should steer clear of this movie, so I’m glad they went with it.
Assuming a store (like, say, Wal-Mart) carries the movie Kick-Ass, I’m sure they’ll rename it to something similar. But more than likely, they just won’t carry it.
And then the parents think taking their kids to a teen superhero movie called, “Kick-Tush” is a good idea… until the mobster gets blown up and the underage hero has sex with his girlfriend on a dumpster.