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so...Kick-Ass...
Apr. 13th, 2010 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mustinvestigateI didn't enjoy Kick-Ass nearly as much as I thought I would.
(Also, have there officially been enough disingenuous 'real people become costumed vigilantes and wackiness/serious business commences!' works for it to qualify as a separate genre from 'superheroes'? And does this genre have a less unwieldy title?)
I don't know what left the sourness for me...the sexual politics (there are no nerdgirls! and, Nice GuysTM, hot personality-less girls totally owe you a wild sexual relationship when you do nice things for them, even if you've been lying about who you are to get close to them!), or the 11-year-old serial killer...who I kind of liked, as a character and a concept...but it should at least be acknowledged that being fundamentally brainwashed into cold-blooded murder and kept from interacting with the outside, non-murdering, world from a very young age is a Very Bad Thing. Hell, Buffy was only killing demons, and she had entire seasons to mourn her lost potential as someone who didn't spend her nights killing other sentient beings!
And also the adolescent Kick-Ass had no issues with becoming a killer either. But he chose vigilantism for himself and was also sort of a dumbass, so that was more of an irritation with the writing than the gut-deep worry I felt for wee Hit Girl.
And yet I kinda think it's a little worth it if a pre-teen girl distains Bratz in favor of a butterfly knife.
I am conflicted.
And possibly just very old and not getting it.
(Also, have there officially been enough disingenuous 'real people become costumed vigilantes and wackiness/serious business commences!' works for it to qualify as a separate genre from 'superheroes'? And does this genre have a less unwieldy title?)
I don't know what left the sourness for me...the sexual politics (there are no nerdgirls! and, Nice GuysTM, hot personality-less girls totally owe you a wild sexual relationship when you do nice things for them, even if you've been lying about who you are to get close to them!), or the 11-year-old serial killer...who I kind of liked, as a character and a concept...but it should at least be acknowledged that being fundamentally brainwashed into cold-blooded murder and kept from interacting with the outside, non-murdering, world from a very young age is a Very Bad Thing. Hell, Buffy was only killing demons, and she had entire seasons to mourn her lost potential as someone who didn't spend her nights killing other sentient beings!
And also the adolescent Kick-Ass had no issues with becoming a killer either. But he chose vigilantism for himself and was also sort of a dumbass, so that was more of an irritation with the writing than the gut-deep worry I felt for wee Hit Girl.
And yet I kinda think it's a little worth it if a pre-teen girl distains Bratz in favor of a butterfly knife.
I am conflicted.
And possibly just very old and not getting it.
Re: non-awesome non-babyfic
Date: 2010-04-19 07:26 pm (UTC)Maybe I'll write a some more vignettes, but it's a happyhappyjoyjoy universe that makes me want to barf a little. Ursula and her girl survived the attack, but not unscathed. Nurse left (...sensibly, really), and since Ursula reconciled socially with the rest of the gang she and Sally have had an ongoing unexamined revengesex/guiltsex Thing while Hollis hovers about whimpering, "OT3?" as is his wont. Not entirely sure about the younger generation, whether it's the three of them, or just the bizarrest functional marriage (because you know Walter would insist on getting married rather than simply fornicating in happyjoyland) with Dan making like Hollis there or busy shagging the life out of, I don't know, Doc Manhattan?