TorrentFreak recently released their list of the top-ten most downloaded movies of all time:

The list below is based on statistics is gathered from public BitTorrent trackers, dating back to early 2006. As BitTorrent’s usage was only a fraction of what it is today in the years before, we expect the list below to cover all the most downloaded movies on BitTorrent.

Interesting, but not the most surprising list. All of them big-budget blockbusters that did well in theaters, except for poor Kick-Ass, which suffers the indignity of being the seventh most-pirated movie of all time despite getting beat out by Date Night in its second week in theaters. Also, probably my favorite movie on this list (I like pre-pubescent girls in wigs, sue me).

All in all, you can tell this list skews towards the tastes of the tech-savvy, 18-40 year old dudes computer-literate enough to know how to torrent. It’s an interesting comparison with Netflix’s all-time most rented, which, as of last year, were led by Crash (the crappy, white-guilt one, not the awesome Cronenberg movie where James Spader screws a chick’s leg scar). Crash has since been dropped down to number two, by… wait for it… The Blind Side. Oh, Sandra Bullock, is there anything you can’t teach black people to do? White folks sure are generous. You can see that list after the jump.

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Harry Knowles is reporting that Kick-Ass 2 has been greenlit, but I can’t lie to you guys.  Those three exclamation points in the headline are meant to indicate the likelihood that this story is total bullsh*t.  So take it with a few grains of salt, and then slam some tequila and punch a hooker if you have to (I’m not here to judge).   An AICN reader sent Knowles this tip:

Been listening to Mark Millar on Radio 5 in the UK who says that because of the fantastic number of DVD sales of Kick Ass that Kick Ass 2 has been greenlit and will go ahead and be based on Millar’s follow-up comic.

The key thing to remember here is that Mark Millar is notorious for constantly making sh*t up and being wrong.  This isn’t even the first time he’s brought up a Kick-Ass sequel — Chris Mintz-Plasse shot down Millar’s last sequel claim back in May.  According to people in the know, Matthew Vaughn is busy with X-Men: First Class, and they won’t know the status of a Kick-Ass sequel until he’s done. This is probably just wishful thinking on Millar’s part, based on DVD sales reports, and the fact that he’d make a bunch more money if they turned another one of his comics into a movie.  My, this was an interesting story, wasn’t it.

Anyway, why the hell does everything need a sequel?  I know this sounds like Godfather 2 compared to  an Expendables sequel, but still.  Didn’t SPOILER ALERT: Nic Cage’s character die at the end?  F*ck that.  I refuse to watch a Kick-Ass without Nic Cage being a weirdo. The only way this could work is if they made it a prequel, and found an even younger girl to play Hit-Girl.   What?  I think that could be hot.

This week’s Comments of the Week winner is getting Kick-Ass on DVD, which is probably the best prize I’ve given away, and the one I’m most tempted to keep for myself.  I enjoyed the hell out of the movie, and the DVD and Blu-ray hit stores August 3rd, packed to the tits with so many special features that it will blow. Your. Mind.  You will literally die.  I promise you haven’t seen anything like it, unless you’re Richie Rich and you grew up on Space Mountain or something.

The way this works is, you nominate your favorite comments by copy and pasting in the comments section below, and I pick the winners on Sunday or Monday. I’ll have some more cool stuff to give away next week, so step up your game.  Anyway, without further ado, I give you this week’s winning comment.  From the Extreme Gynecology Exam (trailer for The Debt):

Stinky Peet says:
“YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’VE BEEN RAPED BY A PACK OF N***ERS!”
“YOU LOOK LIKE YOU’VE BEEN RAPED BY A PACK OF N***ERS!”
“Well you didn’t have to say it twice.”
“I DIDN’T!”

Wow. A Mel Gibson joke, a vagina joke, and a gynecologist joke older than I am, all rolled into one?  I’m in love.  He also went a subtler angle in the same thread:

Stinky Peet says: Looks like it’s curtains for the doctor…

Either way, surely a deserving winner.  And as always, there were no shortage of honorable mentions:

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Kick-Ass star and cougar bait Aaron Johnson has been cast as Cyclops in X-Men: First Class, if a tipster to AintItCoolNews is to be believed.

I work in the [REDACTED] and we heard today that Matthew Vaughn found his young Cyclops and it shouldn’t be any surprise because he worked with him before. It’s Aaron Johnson. This is one hundred percent locked at this point. Thought you guys should know.  Call me “Son of Rothman”.

Johnson would join the already cast James McAvoy as Professor X and Michael F. Assbender as Magneto.  The “Son of Rothman” is a reference to Fox chief Tom Rothman, and although AICN doesn’t name their source, they say he or she is reliable.  Meanwhile, last we heard from Johnson, he was calling people who had approached him with superhero roles “stupid” and “uncreative.“  So maybe it’s not true.  Ugh.  Look, I’m fine with reporting the cast once they actually announce it, but speculating on which kid will play a guy in spandex who shoots lasers from his eyes hurts my soul.  In related news, Johnson’s 43-year-old baby mama just dropped a load of baby out her vag.  Ah, the miracle of life.

Artist Sam Taylor-Wood has given birth to a little girl – her first child with her toy boy fiance, actor Aaron Johnson. The acclaimed British artist turned film director, 43, gave birth to Wylda Rae yesterday with her 20-year-old lover by her side.
Mr Johnson, who recently appeared in the critically lauded film, Kick-Ass, lives with Miss Taylor-Wood and her daughters, 13-year-old Angelica and five-year-old Jessie, in an £11 million north London townhouse.
It is believed that she was able to afford the huge property without a mortgage as part of her 2008 divorce settlement from art dealer Jay Jopling, who is said to have a fortune of £100million. ($151.5 million). [DailyMail]

Ah, so now the truth comes out, she’s not just older, she’s rich.  Oh, Aaron Johnson’s crazy for dating a 43-year-old, all right.  Crazy like a boner fox.

Weird weekend, folks.  How to Train Your Dragon stayed on top in a weak weekend (down 13% from last year overall, lowest of 2010 so far), while Kick-Ass fell off a cliff (down 52% from last week), and The Losers flopped like your sister’s titties.  Losers was low-budget for a comic book movie ($25 mil) with a B-movie director, and basically the same concept as The A-Team, so its gross is basically par for course.  Gotta spend money to make money, coffee is for closers, that suit looks like dogsh*t and all that.

But I still can’t figure out Kick-Ass. The hot conspiracy theory is that kids who aren’t 17 are buying tickets to How to Train Your Dragon and seeing Kick-Ass, which is why Dragon went from number three to number one the weekend Kick-Ass opened.  As much sense as that makes and I wish it were true, I have a hard time justifying it with the existing numbers.  In its first weekend, Dragon earned $43 million. Then the second weekend, it dropped 33.7%. Then the third weekend, it fell 14% from that, and the weekend that Kick-Ass came out, it dropped 21% from that.  The staying power is unusual, but to be able to blame kids buying the wrong ticket, you’d think there would be a smaller drop in Dragon‘s gross the weekend Kick-Ass opened.  Though I’d still like to believe.  Can anyone better at math than me make this work?

This week, Dragons was down a modest 23.5%.  Since 67% of its gross came from higher-priced 3D showings, it probably wasn’t the most-watched film in terms of attendance.  That honor belongs to… The Back-Up Plan.  That’s right, the f*cking Back-Up Plan, starring Jennifer F*cking Lopez and Horatio P. Whatshisface, was most likely the most-watched movie in America.  I clearly have nothing in common with you people.  I’m going to autoerotic asphyxiate until I turn blue and drift off to Pandora.  To hell with you mentally sick primates.

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