Kick-Ass - Caravan Of Garbage

welcome back everybody to another episode of caravana garbage where we're kicking off a new series oh kicking very good that I said that well accidentally it's still very good I think you say kicking off every time also yeah but this time I really mean it a because we're looking at the two kickass movies aren't he nearly said it again he nearly said it again shut up all right yeah that's right and just so you know we call them kick ass in Australia and that's how we're going to refer to them yeah unless we switch Midway through which we might switch back yeah please leave a like for whatever way we be doing it that's right so this is from the Twisted minds of Mark Miller and John Rita Jr and the Twisted mind of Matthew vgh but I want to I want to make it clear to many Twisted mind see the thing is I want to make it clear that everything they've done here is normal to me because my mind is more Twisted than theirs wow yeah that's right how do you even function dayto day how do you hold a regular conversation I'm just bored all the time just so bored cuz you're thinking about I don't know bats and ghouls yeah ghouls goop y you know rotting eggs Running With Scissors you know you can't even comprehend it you're you're already recoiling with fear yeah but to me that's all normal that's normal isn't it for yeah yeah a dead bird is that a dead bird oh no normal we're speaking of normal this was in an era of uh What If Superheroes Were Real and we had a bit of that prior with like Mystery Men I guess which was more like the corporatization of superheroes and obviously we've got that with the boys now it's more common but this is like what if superheroes were not real but then they become real but they're just people yes mhm yeah they'd have a bad time everyone would have a bad time abolutely everyone's making a terrible mistake here there's a lot of homages to various superhero characters and even real life people that guy you see at the start in the bird costume who jumps off the building and dies I think that's a homage to that french guy who tried to fly off the Eiffel Tower and died immediately just plummeted like a I laugh but that's sad yeah he had some issues clearly yeah we can't show all of that footage but it just looked like a man wrapped in paper bags but we can show footage from Melbourne's own Birdman rally where a bunch of men attempt and it's always men and they attempt to build assorted flying machines to fly across the Yara River and nobody makes it more than about a foot no various letting gravity take its natural course machines so a bit of background on this movie all right it's the second liveaction adaptation of Mark Miller's work the first being wanted which is very different than the source material yeah that's right and that's that's that's very Loosely based isn't it I attribute a lot of uh Mark Miller's uh success in Hollywood he gets a lot of stuff green lit yeah I I think he's got some great premises and ideas but also I suspect they say hey we're going to change a bunch of stuff and he's like yeah that's fine pretty much I saw a bunch of interviews and he's just like the the original comic still exists and you give me a lot of money to right you know come up with more premises to be turned into movies which I'll do so Mark Miller met Matthew Vaughn at the premier of star us and he pitched the idea cuz Matthew Vaughn wanted to do American Jesus which later got adapted into a Netflix series so at that point he only done three scripts for the comic none of the art at that point okay and Matthew V was like you know what yep I'm going to Pivot to this so what they started doing was developing them in tandem I see yeah and they do deviate if you've ever read it they do we'll probably talk about that later but yeah there are some differences I think one of the differences is this is certainly it's I wouldn't call it family friendly but it is certainly uh it's less mean I think less mean than super yeah it is that's true yeah which is a movie I enjoy but but it's very Grim it's less mean it does this this movie obviously came out in 201 10 uh it it does have some um some edginess that perhaps hasn't aged as well as it could have it's got a bunch of 2010 stuff that hasn't aged well Myspace Paris Hilton references flip phone selfies they don't have selfie cameras on their phones can you even imagine it Craig Ferguson can you even imagine it I can imagine that he's delightful yeah uh the uh the three Amigos uh Dave and his two friends uh they hang out in a two Quicks Silvers Mason two Quicks Silvers Marvel Cinematic Universe Fox X-Men universe and also one division to Quicks Silvers and there's another guy yeah yeah Clark Greg or Greg Clark whatever his name is but that's not his name neither of those things are his name his name is he's from Hot Tub Time Machine and latest seasons of The Office ah he Clark Juke it's Clark Juke he was so close yeah there he is God good stuff anyway anyway they hang out at a little uh comic book store Cafe called Atomic Comics and it's proudly emblazened with its uh with its website www. Atomic comics.com still exists it's parked by a comic book company promoting adult Comics I don't think in that sense but just like mature not in that sense but like just like comics for grown-ups and it's promising a bunch of titles coming soon and their last Instagram post was in 20120 okay great so looking forward to that can't wait yeah yeah what happened in 2020 I wonder why they stopped it's not important I'm sure they just they're just stockpiling Comics they're probably stockpiling titles yeah they're probably hand drawing each one each one has its own little work of art but anyway these Three Amigos they're all they they're they're rapping James they're rapping about superheroes and what they' be like in real life and Dave played by Aaron Johnson quick yes he's like I'm going to give it a wh and you know what I think at this point Aaron Johnson pre Aon Taylor Johnson uh he's got that lanky Vibe down like that that spindly look that kickass does have in the that worked really well absolutely a geek a nerd a nobody hideous yeah gross yuck do you know this was also rejected by every Studio that they approached they were like get rid of the girl the little girl who's a murderer and murders everybody yeah but that's the that's big daddy look look I I like the premise uh I don't you know I think I think this oh you you endorse all the things that these characters do do you Mason yeah cuz it's normal stuff to me it's normal boring stuff it's like a trip down to the shop to me is what it is but I I you know I think this movie carries this adaptation of very well but I mean what is this movie without Big Daddy and hit girl abely yeah they're the juice they're the juice yeah exactly so Matthew Vaughn ended up raising the money at a dinner party and had it made independently he's got a lot of rich friends he's worked with like guy Richie and stuff he worked on like lockstock and various other Richie by name guy Richie by Nature not wrong you did Aladdin would have made the big bucks for that one that's right she's got that L of Virgin money oh yeah he of course did um before this layer cake as well with Craig and and we get some uh we get some guy Richie stall what's in this we got a little Dexter Fletcher Cameo a little Jason flaming Cameo oh my God love seeing that yeah so after they shopped it around after they'd made it uh they ended up selling it to Universal for more than what they were asking for and Universal were like oh actually we we like this thing that you've done we like the Hit Girl thing more of that please he like I knew what I was doing I had a twisted mind well you don't think so but they thought he had mind yeah absolutely you know what I think this walks the line really well on the fights are very kind of brutal and comic bookes but it's also like oh you got stabbed cuz you tried to attack two men well it's it's interesting because I think this movie starts out with a kind of grounded look towards fighting and superheroes and all that sort of stuff in the sense of like yeah if you did try and fight two guys they would simply beat you up skills are no skills there's two big guys but it's sort of the movie connect to reality sort of it and flows it and flows and by the end you know there's jetpacks and and machine guns and well to spoil some of the comics I guess it ends up in the kickass Universe because it all gets combined with like Nemesis and Crona nuts and wanted they all become one big merse situation yes Dave ends up getting real superpowers that's true he kind of gets rewarded and anyway he flies off into the Sun or something at the end um you know what else I was thinking watching this you know that the big fight that he gets into to with all the Thugs and it gets filmed and it goes viral I don't think that would go viral now I think that would maybe go to the top of like a Reddit fight page and it would just be hundreds of comments being like no that's not I wouldn't have done it like that this is oh this is fake this is an ad for something this is an ad for vitamins or something I mean if you if you wanted to go viral he should have done a makeup tutorial absolutely oh my goodness that's what that's what gets the big big views these days I mean that's what Nicholas Cage did in this movie he did it's true inspired casting I think oh I don't know if he sort this out or they they tracked him down Mark Miller imagined like the Cadence of the character as kind of a niit cage esque dude which also happens to be an Adam West style dude well that was Nick Cage's addition to it yes so they didn't say can you do this Adam West thing he took that on I think that 100% works yeah absolutely the costume also for him in the comic is very different it's kind of like a bandan and a coat and this is it's basically Batman it's Batman without stepping on any trademarks it's Adam West Batman mannerisms and like a Christian Bale like brutality which is interesting but with guns with guns I I I wish I love the costumes in this more like is that the point though that you that they're kind of shitty yeah no I guess yeah but I mean I mean maybe it's maybe maybe it's the marketing genius with enemy James sure uh that wears his you got you got a lot of wolves in you don't you that's you better believe I do you got two wolves within you one who's incredibly twisted and one who's a marketing genius that's exactly right well it a this didn't I does all right he needs a logo he needs something know just the bday on his belt it's not enough yeah fair enough yeah look I do love his performance I think he's great I love that part of his disguise is putting on a longer handlebar mustache like I love all of that I don't love that they changed his backstory from the comic yeah so for so in this movie he has kind of a more cliched uh superhero origin story as would beit somebody in a comic book that he was a police officer and he was one of the he's one of the good ones and then he gets framed for drug dealing and he gets put in prison and and when he does his wife dies but gives birth to a little girl and when he comes out of prison he decides he's going to get revenge on the bad guys and train his daughter to be a vigilante killer but in the comic books he's also a lunatic yeah but in this case he's just a lunatic who wanted to give his daughter an exciting life so he's like I'll train her as a killer he's an accountant and he basically takes his daughter away from his wife unber notes to her and the way they are able to to afford everything is because selling vintage comic books to buy weaponry and safe houses and all of that and similarly to the movie he does get executed at the end but no I think that is that more leans you to how much of a lunatic this guy is I think it's a more interesting backstory the comic book version yes yes for this particular thing and speaking of Hit Girl look I understand the criticism of the time right it's like well this little girl she's swearing and doing karate and tearing people's throats out or whatever but it's not real it's well exactly it's an intentionally awful thing to do to a child like that's it's it's not a stirring endorsement like it doesn't end well really for anybody she survives but barely and her dad is killed and she's like ruined for life yeah and apparently also the the way that she is in a lot of less of the psychopathic stuff is based on Mark Miller's own daughter who was around that age that this was released more of the fun elements than the the crazier stuff it was fun yeah I really like this ear of Matthew Vaughn action and I would say up to like the first Kingsman between like this and up through X-Men also a uh a markmiller comic book that was adapted oh yeah that's and uh made some changes which I think were for the better yeah I think the movie is better than the comic Colin f for example Colin fth yeah we're talking about another time Mason but yeah the moment where they transition from the that Teddy Cam and into the fight scene of Big Daddy like storming you know the warehouse the corridor fight at the end all of like all of that is just wonderful I wish he'd kind of go back to that cuz seeing Argyle more recently like it's yeah more recently than when you saw it in cinemas have you seen it again I haven't seen it again I'm saying whatever I saw AR I didn't like it very much once was enough once was enough um I also think the jet pack is slightly too far for what what I'm saying that's what I'm saying you know it ramps up maybe just that little bit too much for me cuz in the in the uh in the comic books kickass and hit girl's Last Stand is just them going into the building and killing everybody with a flamethrower and hit girls on cocaine yeah yeah it's a lot of fun it's a lot of fun you should check it out yeah anyways you know what it's the time for then what's the time for kick trivia love it yeah Daniel Craig and Mark Walberg were considered for the role of Big Daddy before Nicholas Cage was cast I don't like either of those I like one of them as a person yeah but not for this role didn't you say that you find Mark Walberg loathsome I did say don't you keep saying that I do say that he said a lot and I stand by it yes it was also reported by th that Brad Pit was going to take on that role but then he ended up doing in glorious bastards I don't like that either none of those work I think Nicholas Cage was perfectly cast for this completely agree you should call himself ass kick instead the name of the lead character Dave lazouski was chosen at a charity auction run by kickass co-creator and writer Mark Miller prior of the publication of the first issue of the book the auction winner chose to use his own name nice yeah I mean you would wouldn't you oh this is great Mason the music during the scene with the strobe lighting is Adagio in D Miner by John Murphy do you know what this is from Mason what's it from it's from the movie Sunshine which is everybody's favorite movie it's it is changed for this there are some elements that have been changed AIA I guess so but it's a wonderful It's a Wonderful piece of music you know what uh here's a little piece of trivia oh yeah uh and it really proves that this kick trivia it's really it really proves that this movie is set in an alternate universe at the start of the movie our Three Amigos are are leaving uh a cinema which is showing the spirit 3 can you imagine that world oh no I can't actually that doesn't make any sense that's insane honestly did they make the spirit one and two in this universe they they couldn't have surely they just jumped ahead they jumped ahead maybe that's the crazy Universe we live in oh that's even too Twisted for your mind maybe it's it's it's getting up there it's still normal great now the box office for this on a budget of $30 million at made 96.2 which is also incredible cuz it is an R-rated comic book movie mhm and also it wasn't a big brand this is also the second most pired film of 2010 with 11.4 million downloads on bit torrent that's ahead of inception which was number three Avatar of course was number one but I think that speaks to how popular this movie was and obviously why it did get a sequel a few years later a different director yeah and a couple of couple of couple of cast changes couple of cast changes yeah which we'll talk about next week I haven't seen that movie I think since Cinemas same so uh it's going to be very interesting to come back and for you to hate it like you did then I did hate it then but I can't remember why I hated it this one vibrant fun liked it like it a lot yeah uh and also next week we're going to be talking about how kickass 3 potentially really oh yeah yeah makes sense yeah look if if you do want to see that early you can actually head over to Big sandwich. C do you know why why well because there's early videos like these ones there's bonus podcasts we do movie commentaries wow aren't there so many video game Let's Plays also that are also exclusive yeah yeah man yeah uh also we have a podcast called the weekly planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows that comes out every Monday Sunday at big sandwich. but that's on YouTube it's it's it's got its own Spotify it's all over the place it's got its own Apple yeah yeah yeah yeah it's fun it's probably there probably it's probably playing on whatever app you're currently using spreadsheet yeah it's on there it's on there ski free it's in the background that's right it's the thing that's Chasing You SK free it's going to get you our podcast is Lawrence old enough to know what that is or do I have to specifically message him and explain he knows what Google is no I mean the the yeah but the ski free thing at the end cuz you'd have to play ski free it's true it's not an in PC purchase anymore it's a great Point he'd have to you know he'd have to play it in browser and then collect footage or what I don't know I don't know how he does things anyway I guess we're out here aren't we that's right okay goodbye grab that jamy guys we'll see you next week goodbye goodbye [Music]

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Length: 16min 9sec (969 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 20 2024