Ass-Kick

Jim Carey has spoken out against his own movie due to it's level of violence. This happened months after filming wrapped. That's like saying no to herpes after banging a hooker. It's not like he was acting in front of a green screen the whole time and the violence was added in digitally like Jar-Jar. He knew what he was getting into. His reasoning is that he can't morally condone that level of violence after Sandy Hook, which was probably the fifth or sixth mass shooting that year. Still, that's a pretty brave stance... after he's already collected his pay cheque. It hearkens back to when Issac Hayes quit his roll on South Park after over a decade of performing, saying it wasn't appropriate for him. Matt Stone and Trey Parker responded by saying he cashed a lot of cheques before making that decision. Then they did an entire episode where his character became a brain-washed child molester.
If you look at Jim Carrey's career, there's always been violence. He got his start as Fire Marshall Bill as the only white guy on "In Living Color." His shtick was doing something incredibly violent to himself while informing others not to do the same. He was also a murder victim in a Dirty Harry movie, "Deadpool." That was early on. He would later branch off and star in, "23." Still, a guy's allowed to change.
Why would he publicly go out on a limb to trash his own movie over a single element? He's not the only one involved in the production. There's a lot of up-and-coming actors starring in that movie who could have their careers dampened by a guy who's twenty years past his prime. There's been a trend of actors trashing their own movies for being terrible lately, like Megan Fox, David Cross and even Shia LeBouf. In the past, there was more professionalism. If the actor didn't like the movie, they'd say it behind closed doors, not in interviews, or they'd skip the press circuit altogether. Harrison Ford probably hates Star Wars, but you'd never get him to confess. You can see it smouldering in his eyes, though.
Is Jim Carrey trying to link violent movies to real-life? There's been instances where movies like "Clockwork Orange" inspired real-life violence. The link is more real than the one between video games and violence. If you don't believe me, ask yourself if you've ever known anyone to try and peel out of the parking lot after seeing a Fast and Furious movie? The effect movies have seems almost instant. Still, it's a stretch to try and blame them. It's like how his ex-wife tried to blame Autism on vaccinations. The only difference is she had something concrete to go on, although the evidence she was using was later revealed to come from a fraudulent source. She was called an idiot for believing in a medical report, although she was just one victim out of many. Can you say Jim Carrey is an idiot for saying violent movies are equatable to violence?
Isn't that sort of right, though? Few movie explore the nature of violence and instead use it as a medium, like pornography. There's little regard for the justification of violence in movies other than an escalation of events. If you look Quentin Tarantino, his movies are about violence, but most audience members will walk away remembering the dialogue better than the violence. If you try to approach him about why he chooses violence, however, he'll fucking lose his mind. He's obsessed with it, much like audiences. As more studios gravitate toward the big opening weekend, there'll be an upward trend of violence to draw audience members in. Every super hero movie will contain violence, and there can be as many as five a year. "Kick-Ass 2" is just one of dozens of movies coming out with extremely violent overtones.