7) Kick-Ass 2
Kick-Ass was everything that the superhero genre needed at the time of its release. In 2010, there was a feeling that the superhero movie was becoming stale; so, along came Matthew Vaughn with his adaptation of Mark Millar’s R-rated, post-modern comic book to shake things up.
It was curse-happy, it was violent, it had Nicolas Cage aping Adam West and giving one of his most enjoyable performances in ages – this was the real deal. The sequel, Kick-Ass 2, was not.
With Vaughn and Cage gone, and with MVP Hit-Girl grown-up and less controversially entertaining, Kick-Ass 2 lacked the spark of its forebear. That being said, the sequel did very nearly bring back one of the best components of Kick-Ass – Cage’s Big Daddy – for one standalone action scene.
Director Jeff Wadlow originally hinted Big Daddy would return briefly to comfort Hit-Girl at his own funeral. It’s unclear whether the scene was ever filmed, but storyboards confirm that Wadlow’s original plan was for Big Daddy to appear before before his daughter in an explosive daydream.