Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)

As miserably dark as Abel Ferrara's Harvey Keitel-starring Bad Lieutenant (1992) was, this re-vamp takes the darkness to another level with added dozes of weird and supermassive-black-hole black humour. "Re-vamp" is the key word here. Perhaps going with the BSG route and calling this re-imagining may also work, but Werner Herzog's Lieutenant shares only superficial similarities to the "original". It not only takes the character and the circumstances to whole new levels of insanity, but comes out with a completely different story altogether. I have always had a man-movie-crush on Herzog and he insists on not letting me down. Welcome to the dark side.

Kick-Ass (2010)

Ladies and gents, I present you your new favourite film. I will also pose another question: why did we have to suffer the likes of Arachnidman, Flying Aryan Alien, Philanthropic Flying Mammal Man, Graduates of School for Kids with Special Needs, Ferro-Man, the Terrific Quartet, Blind Man That Dares Satan, The Apparition That Rides a Chopper and others that I'd already erased from my memory-bank? If the likes of Eight-Legged Whiny Emo Boy-Man and Square-Jawed Hovering Loner Who Uses More Hair Gel Than Ross from Friends Man were Lumiere Brothers' early trainspotting activities, then Kick-Ass is The Birth of a Nation, without the racism.