1. For a movie that is about a guy fighting and killing hipsters, there were certainly a lot of hipsters packed into the theater.
2. Kieran Culkin as Wallace completely steals the movie.
3. It is remarkably faithful to the source material. Even in the third act, when significant changes are made for understandable reasons, the action on-screen is spiritually true to the comics. For instance, I noticed that the entirety of the page that I own (volume 1, page 17) made its way into the movie unchanged and I geeked out about that.
4. Nintendo rules for licensing all of those sound effects.
5. This is as perfect an adaptation as you are likely to see. I had high expectations for the film, and they were exceeded. If you are on the fence about seeing this movie, see it. It is one of the best movies, if not the best, that I’ve seen this summer.
