Words of Advice:
"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne
“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *
"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown
“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie
"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul
"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad
"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown
"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers
"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown
"Eck!" -- George the Cat
* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone
3 comments:
I wouldn't ignore Big Daddy. That warehouse scene was pretty good too.
I needed to laugh today, thanks.
The original author of the comic wanted to make Hit Girl and Big Daddy the main characters, but was afraid that nobody would buy a comic that starred a little girl. Thus he invented the nerdy superhero wanna-be as the main character of his comic. Given how little the movie owes to the comic (some basic setup but that's pretty much it), and given how obscure the comic book was in the first place (who other than comic geeks ever even heard of it?!), you're right, they shoulda just changed the name.
As for the notion of a child assassin being "unrealistic", back when I was working the psych unit I actually dealt with an 11 year old child who would have had no squeamishness about committing the number of murders that Hit Girl commits in this movie. To him, nobody other than he and his family was actually real. Everybody else was "them", other, not really a person. He wasn't crazy in a clinical sense, there wasn't anything actually wrong with his head, other than the fact that he was born into a violent drug family and internalized that violence from an early age. So when I hear people say "but an 11 year old couldn't be a stone killer like that!" I just have to laugh and shake my head. Because some people do not have a clue about what's really out there in, like, reality, as vs. the bubble universe that so many seem to live in...
- Badtux the Kick-ass Penguin
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