The Reel Rejects - KICK-ASS (2010) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

Episode Date: November 8, 2024

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Are you ready to kick ass? Yeah! Here we go. Holy crap. All right, before you guys, before we break it down and we will, we'll do trivia, we'll talk about our favorite characters, our favorite parts of the movie, any no time. that we add because you know our notes really matter. But before we do that, don't forget rejectnation shop

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Social media is where all this stuff is going on. Okay, so let's see. Here we go. I think it's the pretty reckless that do this song. Is it making you want to die? We'll look a lot of things out. Somebody will leave it in the comments. If it is the pretty reckless, then it is.

is the girl who played Jenny Humphrey and Gossip Girl. I got to look into some things. I got to look into a lot of different things. We have so many things to look into. But let me just get your general thoughts on the movie. I think you loved it as much as I did, but what are you feeling right now? Oh, I freaking loved it.

It had heart. It got us into the characters. I cared about them. I cared where their lives were going. They didn't need to take a lot of time to get us into those characters. And then once they're introduced, it's like giving us what we're here for,

which is like the action adventure, amazing stunts, showing us master shots of those stunts and like the of them so we can actually see them stabbing each other, her jumping across the room. And like the gun fights, they didn't do a lot of that shaky camera. It's a lot of close-ups, cut, cut, cut, and we don't really know what's going on. We saw everything.

And I really appreciate that about this movie because that takes a lot more set up and a lot more time in regards to stunt and training to get that on camera the way that they did it. I really, really appreciate it. And it's, I love that they made us think that, um, what's his nuts

place was going to be on our side. But then it turns out that, you know, at the end, they're leaving us to, to have a setup for two, which I really love because they must have had a lot of faith in this movie. Well, I mean, it could have ended on that and then not done a second one.

But I think to me it shows that they had faith in this movie, possibly already another idea for Kickass 2 to leave us on that ending where he changes his uniform and there's more superheroes out there, which I thought was just a lot of fun because it's setting him up to be the villain. I loved everything about this movie and Nick Cage also wild when he does his yelling and he goes, he's in the, he's in the warehouse dying, he's burning and he goes child I just Nick Cage is just

one and only love him I love everything about this movie I'm a kick ass girl now I like that also we continue to further prove that in order to be a superhero you have to have a dead parent

exactly DPC girl gpc forever listen the fact that his mom dies of an aneurysm so he gets to be a superhero her mom is already dead now her dad dead she's double DPC like you that's some orphaned superhero you're that's why she's the most kick ass like you um and now christopher mince plaz has dad be dead now you get to be superhero too like every movie ever is like this is the only way that you get to it's Batman man like

come on this is what has to happen this is what happens to Superman this is what happens to all of the people or if you're spider man i'm looking at you aunt may you got to to have that major loss if we're going to root for you. Totally. Every Disney princess. No, but this took a lot of tropes like that and then made it really original. It was fun. It was goofy.

But then there's some really serious heartfelt moments. It's kind of like if the boys wasn't as R-rated and had a baby with the Incredibles, it would be this movie. I totally agree. I agree with that. Yeah, I was thinking like, what would I have a baby with? Incredibles is a really good thing. like more of a family unit kind of thing or the minion or doctor uh wait the minions but what's the i never saw the minions okay uh despicable me despicable me a little bit but i think incredibles is a better

choice uh well just different girlfriend um all that music was great i am waiting right now in these credits to see if uh that song really was by who i thought it was there's so many things that i want to look up Oh, God, when bad reputation came in, yeah, make me want to die. Taylor Monson, that's exactly what it is pretty reckless, yeah. See, you got it. And I knew it. Taylor Momsen is a beast, and I actually saw her perform live. She's such a tank, which she's like a little girly girl in the show,

and then she's a total rocker chick, and I love it. Love that. Okay, so I have things that I want to look up. Let's see if my phone made it through this to see. Look it up, girl. Okay, we got some percentage, so in general, I want to ask you this, favorite character? Oh, hit girl. I mean, how could it not?

It has to be hit girl. I mean, she's just, she is such an amazing actor in this. I mean, everyone did an amazing job. There's not one person in here that didn't make me laugh when they were supposed to, didn't do, didn't work with the tone and the pacing in the exact way that's supposed to be delivered. But for her to come in and be the age she is and understand the nuance, nuances of her lines and her performance, I mean, 10 out 10. I forgot that you just saw this, so it's way more relevant to you. And I should have answered this way when you asked me about who Matthew Vaughn is.

Remember at the beginning? And I said, he did do Kingsman, but he also did X-Men first class, which you just saw, right? Oh, yeah, I saw. It was a few weeks ago, and you guys know what my memory is, but yes. Okay. Well, that was Matthew Vaughn also. Love it. Yeah, he's done a bunch of stuff.

This, honestly, I like Kingsman a lot, but this might be my favorite movie of his. This was so good. I also am curious if this was Chloe Grace Moretz's first role, because this is definitely the youngest. I feel like I've seen her. Youngest I've ever seen her. Okay, I need you to guess something before I actually go into this. Chloe Grace Moretz was born in 97. That would make her 27 years old.

I think that's right. Yep, that would make her 27 years old. How many credits do you think she has an IMD as an actress? probably she's 27 but she did this movie when she was 12 or 13 looks like if she was born in 1997 this came a 20 okay this came out in 2010 I'm going to say 125 never mind she's 76 which I thought is the most I've ever seen of somebody at that age it's so much like because I assume she just was skyrocket so I just watched diary of a wimpy kid with Greg and she was in that too in the first one and she was great but this

was before that. So this is the movie she did directly before that. However, so this was earlier than that. However, she was in several things before that, including 500 days of summer, which is a movie that I love and I don't even remember her in it. I don't remember her either. When I tell you she was in at least 30 movies

before that, I don't even know what to tell you right now. I'm not surprised because you know what, with her performance being this good, I believe in the credits they would have had to say, and introducing. Right. She did two Desperate Housewives episode. She did a movie she did a big mama's house too she did room six she was in an episode of my name is earl she was in a movie called the cure the eye my friends tigger and pooh's friendly tales oh my god

she's been working since she was like four i mean she must have been okay so she's her first on-screen credit is in what year two thousand and four so so she was 97 to 2000 that's three she was three she was seven years yeah seven when it came out right when she filmed it she's always six she's phenomenal uh she is so good she's crazy good she's like upsettingly good in this and i can't even believe like we're going to just be watching her for years and years to come what an absolute stud of the star agreed ladies and gentlemen i'm excited to shout out today's sponsor because it is an app that i have been using since before we partnered with them which just makes my job easy and i just get to share with you something i really do

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promote acorns investing involves risk acorns advisor llc and c c register investment advisor view important disclosures at acorns.com slash rejects i highly recommend this app so please go ahead download it thank you again let's see what else is going on with this movie now that we've looked into that a little bit i also want to show you what stanley tucci looks like so that you have a way so i know yeah um but i'll show you that in a little because i love stanley tucci and i was like what is this guy's name well you know mark strong actually better than you think that you know mark strong he really didn't look. He works all the time. Mark Strong. Yeah, the bald guy in this. So in this, the reason why I think you didn't recognize him as much is because in this, he has hair on the side. And in what we know him as now, he is like, fully bald? As bald as bald could be. Okay. Wow. Nothing is working back here right now. And my phone is about to die, which is an absolute bummer. But you want to use my phone? No, no, it's okay. So obviously he knows Matthew Vaughnwell because he was in Kingsman. Yeah. But recently the thing.

that I think you would know most for it. I think you saw Shazam. Yeah, I did. So he's Dr. Savon. He's the main villain in Shazam. Yeah. He is newly in The Penguin, if you're watching that show. I watch the first episode.

Okay, so he played Carmine Falcone in that. He's been in a bajillion things and is not Stanley Tucci, but I see where you're coming from. And this is what he currently looks like, which it looks very different than there. Super handsome man. Yeah. Okay. Let's now go to some taroteroa.

the uh about this movie and see what we can find out and learn um are you ready to this after being rejected by every studio they approached matthew vaughn raised the budget at a dinner party and made the movie independently von ultimately sold the movie to universal for more than he had originally asked them for ha ha ha ha ha ha ha in your fucking face universal sorry I wonder why every studio was like no to this. This just seems like such a great pitch. So good. Before ending up in Lionsgate Studios, the producers of the movie tried several other studios

who all had the same ultimatum. We'll take it if you drop Hit Girl or make her 19. No. The fun of it is how young she is. Exactly. That's weird. Idiots. Yeah, that's really weird.

Hit Girl's first entrance wasn't working as well as it could. So it was Chloe Grace Moretz's own mother present on set throughout filming who suggested that they revert back to the comic book and have her daughter use the word cunt. So it is based on a real comic book. Love that. Nicholas Cage modeled his speech mannerisms for Big Daddy or original Batman 1966, Adam West.

That makes sense. According to Matthew Vaughn, Cage started acting out his lines this way at the first costume fitting. Vaugham was happy for Cage to continue with his performance. performance in the film, citing his irritation with the gravely voice Christian Bail used for the Dark Night. I love Christian in the Dark Night, but I know he's not everyone's favorite Batman at all. Oh, this is funny.

Mark Miller actually prefers the film version to his own comic book. I love that. What a good compliment. Yeah, what a compliment. In response to criticism towards hit girls' character, Chloe Grace Moret, stated in an interview, if I ever uttered one word that I said in kick-ass, I would be grounded for years. I'd be stuck in my room until I was 20. I would never in a million years say that I'm an average everyday girl.

Moretz has said that while filming, she could not bring herself to say the film's title out loud in interviews, instead calling it the film in public and kick butt at home. Oh my God, I love that so much. Chloe Grace Maretz trained extensively with the Toronto Circus School before filming began so she could do most of her own stunts. Chloe did? Wow, that's awesome.

really cool really cool the comic montage of damon mccreedy aka big daddy's past life was illustrated by artist and co-creator john romita junior i loved the way that looked so great job after kickass first meets hit girl we see a big daddy standing in front of a billboard featuring claudia shiffer which is the wife of matthewon oh cool nicholas cage came up with the character's disguise that damon mccreedy would have a mustache while big daddy would have an even larger mustache via adhesive extension. That's so great. It's such a small little thing that, of course, Nick Cage will be like, but this. I can't believe we didn't notice this. The credits give descriptive names to several of DeMiko's, I forget how to say his name, goons for correct character attribution. Five of these goons listed as posh, scary, sporty, ginger, and baby were named for Spice Girls.

Oh, I love that. That's a good little Easter egg there. Oh, this is cool. The Marv logo that opens the film was designed by Matthew Vaughn's children. Ha! Cool. That is great. Because he wanted to make a no-holds-barred, ultra-violent comic book movie,

Matthew Vaughn deliberately chose not to seek funding from any of the major studios. Well, it sounds like he also was turned down. Yeah. That way he figured he would be free from unwanted interference and studio notes. All's well that ends well. Makes sense. The reason this movie is so good because it didn't have to endorse studio. notes because they're all not all of them but a lot of them would have muddle it down i think and it

wouldn't be as cool as it is you ready for this one matthew vaughn did the movie for free but only on condition that he be given the missed mobile after filming was completed in reality he actually finds the car too powerful to drive the mustang that's hilarious i love that and that that is a totally decked out Mustang because yeah the front of it it was a Mustang which they had to do that They had to make the cars come up like a Ferrari. I think the Ferrari, the cars, the doors come up. And that does not happen on a Mustang. Two other people that were considered for the role of Big Daddy,

which was played by Nicholas Case. Do you want me to tell you, who do you want to take some guesses? Oh, I hate guessing, so. Well, give me 10 more seconds. One of them's from Boston. Oh, like, I was going to say Ben Affleck or, like, Matthew, not Matthew McConaughey, the other one, like his best friend. That's who you're thinking of, but it's Mark Wahlberg.

Mark Wahlberg. And the other one was 007. Oh, oh, I love Pearl Bronson. Bronson. His last name is Bronson. His last name is Craig. And it's Daniel Craig. Oh, Daniel Craig.

I was thinking the older 007. Pierce Brosnan. Bronson. Bronson. His last name is Bronson. Just bury me six feet down, you guys, my brain. Okay. Brad Pitt, who is good friends with Matthew Vaugham,

was originally going to play the part of Big Daddy. So that's another one. But instead decided to do Inglorious Bastards directed by Quentin Tarantino. But that's interesting because we saw him on as a producer. Yeah. I love that he came through for his friend, though, just as a producer. Christopher Mintz Plaza originally auditioned for the role of Kickass. Oh.

Yeah, I could see that for sure. Hmm. A lot more stuff going on here. But I think that you guys can do the rest of the searching on your own. Tara, any final thoughts on Kickass? There is a Kickass, too. by the way. I want to watch all the kick asses.

So please like comment and subscribe so we can. I love it. I love it. I'm on board. I want to watch all of them. Yeah, I'm with you, baby girl. I want to see these. That's what Nicholas Cage calls Chloe Grace Moretz.

And yeah, I love that. This was great. I see Kickass 2 right there. Yeah. Okay, so on the cover, we see Chloe Grace Moritz. We see Erin Taylor Johnson. But the other two characters look different. Well, on the right, do you think that's Christopher Mitz-Plaz?

Oh, you could be right. I'm not sure. It's far away. But on the left, I don't know. I don't know either. Introduce the newbies. Maybe they use some of his friends. We don't know.

That'd be cool. But excited to see it, as long as you guys like us enough to do so. Yeah. We'll see you guys later, Rejects.