Kick Ass Was A Roller Coaster Of A CBM.

Cage went with the West thing because to Damon Macready, his superhero cultural 'touchstone' was the 60's Batman - i.e. Adam West, not Keaton or Bale or any of the other modern heroes. He's using that era Batman and Robin as the "game" he uses to brainwash Mindy into training her as an assassin ("let's play superheroes honey bunny!").

And yes, it's also a parody of the Bale Batvoice thing too - and the fact that he uses a campy West voice instead of an unintentionally funny growly voice makes it all the funnier.

And the warehouse takedown and torture scenes... without that flip-side of his character, the voice might not have worked. As it was, it was pure genius, imo.

The point about Hit Girl and Big Daddy is they weren't like traditional comic-book heroes - they were out for Vengeance (with a capital V) on D'amico. They weren't there to fight for justice for all, like idealistic, naive Dave - behind the silly costumes, they're deadly serious.

As Hit Girl says at the end "I never play" - she knows why they're doing this - Damon might have started this as a game to make the training easier, but it wasn't a game any more for either of them.

However, the only people they killed were thoroughly evil from head to toe - murderers every one. The only 'innocents' who get killed are by D'amico's hands.

It's funny that the two things you liked the least about the movie are the two things most people like the most. :)

I liked the gatling guns - they were cheesy AND cool. :)

I'm not knocking your opinion, but from what you're saying I get the feeling you expected and wanted a traditional superhero movie and couldn't quite go with it when you didn't get one.

The fact that it was different is one of the things I liked about it.

PS. Spirit 3? Yes of course it was a joke - this is a little bit like our world, but - obviously if The Spirit got two sequels - not quite. Dude. Why am I having to explain that? Seriously, not getting half the jokes - or not even getting that they were MEANT to be jokes makes you look a little out of the loop (see what I did there? Rollercoaster reference? Oh, never mind). See it again, and take your sense of humour with you next time. :P

Another thing with Cage, was he supposed to be unstable? It seemed like Cage was playing someone with an actual chemical imbalance, but it did not seem like the story fully supported the way he was playing the character.

Regarding the jet-pack. Take a look at the link below:

http://www.martinjetpack.com/

That costs somewhere between $80-$100,000. The one Mindy buys is quoted as $300,000.

It was pushing the realism envelope, sure, but still nothing you couldn't technically do if you had a few million in the bank.

A question for someone that has read the comic:
Is there a reason that D'amico framed Damon and not Marcus?

I was expecting the same old "the partner was in on it" story, and it never happened. Is there an explanation on why it was only Damon in the comic?

I'm not complaining or criticizing, it just seemed odd to me.

My issues with cage's performance are not just related to Big Daddy, it seemed like his performance as Damon was sort of all over the place.

Of course the first scene was supposed to make him seem crazy, but the the "Ass kick" scene made him seem a different kind of crazy, then he seemed "normal" when talking to Marcus.

This movie was kick ass and everyone in it did a bad ass job. Hit Girl stole the show and I think Cage did a pretty good job.