Kickass: movie review

Okay so first off there will be spoilers, if this blog ever has any other readers than this message will mean something.

First things first the movie easily lives up to it's name. I called it the most awesome thing I have ever seen, and if the movie as a whole doesn't qualify the fight scene at the end with hitgirl taking on about seven thugs with guns, even those of her opponents, and knifes, to the tune of Bad Reputation, even when she reloads it's awesome, though too difficult for me explain here.

Now the plot, well you know most of it so I'll skip most of it but basically a nerdy guy begins wondering why nobodies ever been a superhero, and gets so obsessed with it he eventually becomes one. In one of his first fights he is saved by Hit Girl and Big Daddy who upstage him easily. The three team up to take on a crime boss Frank. Oh and there is much awesome mostly done by an eleven year old girl.

The characters, well first there is Kickass who is just a regular teenage nerd, well he has metal plating on most of his bones and most of his nerve endins are shot to hell but apart from that completely normal. Even at the end when he saves hitgirl twice, first with a jetpack with mounted miniguns then with a bazooka, he's still just a regular teen in terms of intelligence and strength.

I'll tell you who's not normal for their age though, Hit Girl, that's not a complaint though, it's perfectly normal as well given her backstory. She has been trained since she was five to be a martial arts expert and a pro with a gun, which is very handy when your a vigilante. She is also the best character in the movie, and most badass. My favourite scene involves her taking out seven or so thugs while running and jumping through a hallway using guns, and not limited to her own, and knifes to take them all out, the fact that it's all done to Bad Reputation just adds to the awesome.

Big Daddy is another awesome character, unfortunately he only gets one real fight but in that scene, and hell throughout the movie he is incredibly badass. He is basically Batman with guns, that should tell you what you need to know about his awesomeness levels. His story as to how he became a superhero is actually pretty sad as well which makes you feel for the guy, even when he's brutally murdering people.

All the other characters are good but none, nope not even Red Mist, stood out enough for them to warrant there own paragraph.

Now I do have one thing I don't love about this movie, the fact that it's Kickass who takes out Frank, not the girl who'd been trainging to do exactly that for six years and was out for revenge for not just her mother but her father. It seemed like the writers realised that Hit Girl was being too awesome and they needed Kickass to do something, they seemed to have forgotten about him coming in with the jetpack with mounted miniguns and knocing out Red Mist. This isn't a major complaint though, and the scene ended up being more awesome than it would have been if Hit Girl had killed him but it just annoyed me.

Doctor Who part 2

Well it's been a while but's here my second part review of Doctor Who, namely the Tenth Doctor's three seasons.

David Tennant is the first Doctor I ever really saw, I had seen bits and pieces of Seventh and knew I liked him but with Tennant I actually sat down and watched his episodes and he was awesome. He is very different to Nine, this is most prominent in that while Nine was mainly serious with the occasional humour Ten was the exact opposite, hilarious right up until it all got serious, and sometimes not even that. When he got serious though you better hope you were on the good side, or he'd make you pay.

Ten had three main companions, Rose, Martha and Donna. He did have a whole host of others though, and I'm pretty sure he holds the record for most companions, at least not including expanded universe. Now while I won't go into too much detail about the companions I'll give my thoughts on all three.

Firstly Rose, well she was a great companion, she had spunk, she was willing to sass the Doctor and there's not many companions who do that regularly, and she was an action girl. She was very obsessed with the Doctor, but at least he was interested in her. Now I know she is a very polarising character but I liked her because of the way she handled herself through everything with spunk and style.

Secondly Martha, now Martha I don't have a great opinion of, not that she's bad but a lot of her scenes involved how much she was in love with the Doctor which meant she didn't get a lot of characterisation. I do however like her, when she's not talking about the Doctor anyway. Her future appearances after leaving the Doctor probably helps this opinion as she becomes a lot more badass.

Last, but not least, is Donna easily my favourite of the three Donna came across as the most realistic. She had morals and would stick by them she had a mouth on her like you wouldn't believe, she was not going to take nothing from nobody, and she wasn't in love with the Doctor.

So onto the Doctor Ten is well liked in Doctor Who fandom, generally being voted the second best doctor behind Four. Why is this though. Well a lot of it comes down to, in my opinion any way, his sense of humour. He would always be making jokes and even the occasional pop culture reference. He didn't take many things seriously, even Daleks occasionally, when he took something seriously you knew stuff was going to go down, the ending to a certain two parter during his second season shows just why his enemies fear him.

But there is more to the doctor, something that is mainly hinted at but Ten has some deeper problems, it's revealed in the episode after Rose leaves that the hints start coming through but it's not until Waters of Mars that we see, it turns out this Doctor is just as dark as Nine, he just hides it better. In the episode he ends up on Mars on the exact date a research station blows up, and it's a fixed point in time so he can't do anything about it. He spends a lot of the episode talking about how he has to leave but while he is leaving something snaps, he realises that with the time lords gone the fixed points in time can be changed without consequences, and so he does. This is a great story arc for Ten, one that a decent amount of people wouldn't even pick up on, and it leads into one of the biggest finales of any season.

Well that's my review, even if it is terrible, hope you liked it Ned.