Analysis of Kick - Ass 2

Kick - Ass 2

For my other analysis of different movies I found very hard to talk about the movie opening in a long sentence paragraph, so for this analysis I will write out the times and what happened at this point of time in the opening I will then do a reflection at the end talk about the movie opening if I thought it was a good opening.

Time Line

0:00 - 0:08 > The world starts spinning and then the words 'Universal' appears.
0:09 - 0:20 > The world lights up, 'Universal then appears with the world together in one shot.
0:22 - 0:30 > 'A Comcast company' appears then cuts to darkness, at 0:26 many colours start to enter the screen in ribbon formation.
0:31 - 0:40 > 'Marv' appears in polka dots then last 7 seconds before cutting to darkness.
0:41 - 0:50 > A wide shot of New York City then panned across screen with the writing of Universal Pictures, Marv Films Presents appears under the image. 'A Matthew Vaughn Production' fades in on screen
0:51 - 1:00 > A shot a of a hand reaching in a bag for gun, the hand then loads the gun. A long shot of a nerdy boy standing up right, there is a mid shot of a girl cocking her gun this shot then switches to the wide shot of boy and girl in a land site (construction).
1:02 - 1:10 > There is a over shoulder shot of the boy talking to the girl, the girl then shoots the boy and he then rolls on the floor and there is a mid shot of the girl smiling.
1:11 - 1:20 > Girl puts gun in bag, she then pulls out a bigger gun.
1:21 - 1:30 > Girl loads the gun, there is then a close up on her face.
1:31 - 1:40 > Over shoulder shot of girl looking at boy, the girl then holds the gun and her hands in the air. Boy turns around and girl shoots him again.
1:41 - 1:50 > Cuts to a black out
1:51 - 2:00 > Still in black out

Sound

Throughout the opening there was not many sounds that was expected. During the beginning when the titles faded in there was no sound track at all, as I carried on watching the opening I realised there was only the natural sound (Diegetic)

Reflection

Overall I did not like the opening as it did not reel me in. After watching that opening I was not interested in watching the full movie at all. To be honest it was very boring to watch. Technically the opening was okay, as it varied in different shots but it was still basic. As I think about it I do think the landfill scene went on for a little bit too long and I think they should have hurried and got to the actual movie as it was kind of pointless.