Er, Thanks?
I enjoyed this movie for what it was (completely ridiculous and predictable entertainment) but what was up with that line? Should we be trading in our laptops for assault rifles if we're to lead fulfilling lives?
I'll stick with my office job I think - it's really nice not having anyone's death on my conscious. I'd much rather be the sucker who writes billing reports, than the sucker who murdered his own dad.
It was just Trash Talk. :)
"Haha!" - Nelson Muntz ... pointing at you. :)
In the graphic novel it's much, much worse. Wesley essentially tells the readers what losers they are for enjoying the story.
Darth... you ARE the Father!
In the graphic novel it's much, much worse. Wesley essentially tells the readers what losers they are for enjoying the story.
Same with the game, heh.
shareShould we be trading in our laptops for assault rifles if we're to lead fulfilling lives?
The whole movie felt like it was targeted at potential school shooter and wannabe spree killers.
Loser is told he's "special" and to kill without questioning, gets everything he ever wanted while avenging himself on the people in his life he hates. Takes his father's place, shows he's the best, calls everyone else "sheeple".
Oh, and forgot he murdered an entire train full of innocent people just to get his "target". Oh well, they were probably pathetic anyway.
I love action movies, from big dumb fun to cerebral thrillers, but this felt like something written by an angry emo teen in his bedroom fantasising about what his life SHOULD be. Angry entitlement personified.
I agree with the OP too; for a second I thought the ending would actually save the movie and he'd realise he was a tool and basically a horrible murderer and that he was better off in his old life... But no, insults the viewer after putting some schmuck in harm's way for revenge.
That's because you're a submissive sheep.
If I don't reply, you're probably on my ignore list for something I forgot already
That's actually a toned down version of the comic book ending. In the book, Wesley goes on a long rant about how everyone reading or caring about the story are pathetic losers with *beep* lifes and just got scammed out of their money.
Some of the edgiest *beep* I have ever seen.
That's hilarious. I'd love to think something like that would destroy a comic writer's career, showing such massive disrespect for paying customers (imagine if, say, McDonalds put a note in with each Big Mac telling the diner they paid for garbage food!), but Mark Millar is a massive "edgelord" regardless, so it's really no surprise he'd write trash like that.
Having not read the original comic I'm really not interested after the awful film AND finding out Millar wrote it. Both Kingsmen and Kick-Ass were fantastic films of mediocre-to-terrible comics, IMO. Millar is someone who's a decent "ideas man" but a rubbish writer, I feel.