I'd like to simply be able to chalk it down to Mark Millar being a terrible writer, but Red Son was the first thing by him I read before I knew who he was and it was so fucking unbelievably good.
So I just really don't know what's with that guy. His other works all seem to be pieces of shit.
The cynicism was what really killed Kick-Ass the comic. Trying too hard does not begin to describe it. At every opportunity it strove to make the characters and situation as unrealistically unlikeable and cynical as possible. Hit Girl's father for instance in the comic was just a comic book geek who one day was bored and decided he'd raise his daughter to be a superhero and fabricated a big revenge story that he spun her whole life around. It was so stupid and so ugly.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
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