{"id":2395,"date":"2010-04-20T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/04\/kick-ass\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T13:59:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T20:59:25","slug":"kick-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/20\/kick-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick-Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/reviews\/la-et--kickass-20100416,0,4449646.story\" target=\"_blank\">from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; position: relative; padding: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/movies\/la-et--kickass-20100416,0,6645662.story\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #000000; text-decoration: none\">Movie review: \u2018Kick-Ass\u2019<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; padding: 0px\">It\u2019s a shrewd mixture of slickly made comic-book violence, unmistakable sweetness and ear-splitting profanity that is poised to be a popular culture phenomenon.<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #292727\"><em>Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kick-Ass&#8221; is the movie our parents warned us about, the movie you don&#8217;t want your children to see. A highly seductive enterprise that&#8217;s equal parts disturbing and enticing, it will leave you speechless because its characters \u2014 especially a 12-year-old virtuoso of violence named Hit Girl \u2014 are anything but.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwatchstuff.com\/2009\/04\/kickass_hit_girl_will_either_k.php\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"image from iwatchstuff.com - click to visit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwatchstuff.com\/2009\/04\/22\/kick-ass-hit-girl.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"559\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This shrewd mixture of slick comic-book mayhem, unmistakable sweetness and ear-splitting profanity is poised to be a popular culture phenomenon because of its exact sense of the fantasies of the young male fanboy population. Directed by Matthew Vaughn and written by Jane Goldman and Vaughn, this comic-book-come-to-life was not just based on a book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., but made at the same time the original comic was being created.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/reviews\/la-et--kickass-20100416,0,4449646.story\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at LA Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times Movie review: \u2018Kick-Ass\u2019 It\u2019s a shrewd mixture of slickly made comic-book violence, unmistakable sweetness and ear-splitting profanity that is poised to be a popular culture phenomenon. Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic &#8220;Kick-Ass&#8221; is the movie our parents warned us about, the movie you don&#8217;t want your children to see. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}