{"id":1085,"date":"2013-08-20T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:57:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:57:03","slug":"kick-ass-2-kicks-a-lot-of-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/kick-ass-2-kicks-a-lot-of-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"KICK ASS 2, Kicks a lot of Ass!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed.html?eid=tn7ttxyzzj-jg9bea_qbfw\" height=\"288\" width=\"512\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This summer\u2019s greatest action flick is definitely, without a doubt, Kick Ass 2; but from the recent box office results, it seems that nobody knows about it.\u00a0 Everyone is seeing The Butler, which I heard is good, but I think I\u2019ll wait for video on that one.\u00a0 \u00a0Do not let the child-like name of the movie fool you, this flick is not for kids.\u00a0 The violence, nudity, and sexual references easily give this rollercoaster-of-a-ride movie an R rating.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to give much of the movie away, so I\u2019ll just comment on the script.\u00a0 Kick Ass 2 is a perfectly written action\/adventure movie that screenwriting students should study. \u00a0Its script is honest, with characters truly acting and reacting the way they would do in real life, and not what the screenwriter, producers, or movies studios wants them to do.\u00a0\u00a0 Back in my screenwriting days, too many writers would pen a movie that they wanted to see, but with characters they loved but didn&#8217;t belong in that movie.\u00a0 The problem soon became clear, that the characters they loved wouldn\u2019t give them the ending they wanted.\u00a0 So by the time Act Three rolled around, the writer would force an ending he wanted. The end result would be a movie that left the audience puzzled.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;So it\u2019s not the movie you want to see, but it works\u2026and that\u2019s why you have to see it. \u00a0See what real, brilliant action writing is about.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This happens more often than before because many movies before are now screened by test audiences during production. \u00a0\u00a0Studios many times end up or changing characters motivations, and endings, based on audience surveys and not what&#8217;s honest.\u00a0 The best example would probably be Pretty Woman, in which the original script was about a hooker who hooked up with a rich guy, and together they battled many of her demons that including everything from drug addiction, to crime, to falling back into prostitution. \u00a0The audience hated it and well&#8230; Pretty Woman was rewritten so many times that it became a Cinderella type of romantic movie.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Kick Ass 2:<\/p>\n<p>Kick Ass 2 isn\u2019t exactly the movie the audience wants to see. \u00a0 \u00a0Again, it&#8217;s honest. \u00a0Their costumes are cheesy because do you actually expect kids or anyone to make great fitting costumes? \u00a0The hero is not some good looking guy, and this movie is supposed to be based in New York, not a made up city like Gotham. \u00a0 \u00a0So it\u2019s not the movie you want to see, but it works\u2026and that\u2019s why you have to see it. \u00a0See what real, brilliant action writing is about.<\/p>\n<p>How much do I think this movie rocked?\u00a0 Well, I actually enjoyed Kick Ass 2 better than Iron Man 3 (and I\u2019m a huge Iron Man fan). \u00a0I do have a few viewing tips though.\u00a0 If you didn\u2019t watch the first Kick Ass, you should see it.\u00a0 Also, this is one of those movies where they have an extra clip after the credits finish rolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer\u2019s greatest action flick is definitely, without a doubt, Kick Ass 2; but from the recent box office results, it seems that nobody knows about it.\u00a0 Everyone is seeing The Butler, which I heard is good, but I think I\u2019ll wait for video on that one.\u00a0 \u00a0Do not let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}