the movie was a lot better and more enjoyable than the book because it greatly toned down the shittiness of the characters. at least the first one, didn't see the sequel
agree on all of this. Goldman and Vaughan didn't do the sequel
and kingsman was good dumb fun, the way james bond movies used to be
nah. too pastiched, too smug, mainly concerned with saying that shooting lots of ppl = the moral upper hand, and the "Hello Mr Man, save the world and you can, 'ow you say, do me up the pooper?" ending ruined what goodwill was left after a fairly incoherent climactic act
the dumb fun felt hollow early and evaporated quickly. if it's on TV and you turn it off 60-90 minutes in you can probably come out of it OK
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Monday, 30 October 2017 23:46 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'd agree with all of that
This....is so much worse. So much worse. I walked home in a daze tbh.
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 30 October 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
the trailers for this made it seem like it would be really big with an alt-right crowd.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
a refreshing change from other comic book movies
― Pope Urban the Legend (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 12:40 (six years ago) link
ding!
― imago, Tuesday, 31 October 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
NV thinking My Friend Dahmer is an instructional guide
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Tuesday, 31 October 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
woo this is astonishing
― h.p. minecraft (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
a coke-addled, down-and-out elton john watching a guy get torn to shreds by robot dogs was probably my favourite part
― h.p. minecraft (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link
i hated it, obv
the hero of this movie goes on a mission to finger a woman and the audience watch in awestruck horror as the camera follows his fingers down her torso and into her vagina, where his techno-condom-clad finger deposits a little tracking device
what the fuck
― h.p. minecraft (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
product placement for fox news and the sun ffs
― h.p. minecraft (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:39 (six years ago) link
It was horrific
A movie is either well or poorly made and all that except for this one which should see all involved hanged over the thames
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
taron egerton is such a weaselly little shit, how did anyone think he could carry a movie
― h.p. minecraft (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 December 2017 21:00 (six years ago) link
this movie has keith allen in it fer cryin out loud
― h.p. minecraft (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 December 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
Yeah this film was weapons-grade hot garbage. I didnt see it by choice or pay to see it mind you but ugh. The worst part was seeing Pedro Pascal humiliate himself by being in this crap.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 29 December 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
I dunno can one be so blithe about just throwing out a nomination for worst part with this one tbh
You'd want a panel of experts watching it again and making empirical arguments.
Gluck getting volunteers for that gig wha
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2017 01:46 (six years ago) link
well I know what I’m watching the next time I’m on an airplane
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 December 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link
if you all hated it this much it really must be something
This is one of those times tb and look I know I've done you wrong in the past but this is utter
And unlike the first one fwiw
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
Good post that
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
This and Baby Driver are great if you dig "genre film"/Fantastic Fest-style exploitation stuff, idk
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 December 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
lol there is no way this is in any way as good as baby driver.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
nah, it's not, but I enjoyed myself
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
the church sequence, Christ, I'm legit appalled a movie got made that contains a scene of that level of gleeful brutality visited on anonymous everypeople who aren't even ostensibly bad guys
How the fuck is this a franchise
Xp yo I love fantastic fest sploitotrash but idk this felt leagues removed from say Hobo With A Shotgun
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 December 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
i mean, the movie is so gleefully ott that i don't think of it as *that* diff than Hobo with the obvious exceptions of the budget and marketing and lack of a moral center
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
Baby driver was total shit but in a much less offensive and awful way that the kingsman sequel
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
Ya I guess I feel like proper exploito needs a paper thin moral center and that without it you've just got a bloodfeast that for me went unredeemed
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 December 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
The moral centre of these movies is particularly British successful/'it' crowd maybe
It's there but it's absolutely impenetrable to anyone human
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:18 (six years ago) link
Ya, to echo upthread that whole Glasto scene (and ugh, the fingerbang part no no no no) comes to mind.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:20 (six years ago) link
The fingerbang scene isnt far off a logical follow-on from reward stranger anal in first movie
But lookit this is rly overanalysis because it's charmless dreck of a type that sits on the lowest rung alongside...imma say the Eiger sanction yes that bad
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:24 (six years ago) link
I’m never going to watch the Kick-Ass movies fwiw. It sounds like the Kingsman sequel is more in that vein?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 December 2017 02:33 (six years ago) link
Yep that's pretty accurate imo
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:36 (six years ago) link
Someday we'll both like a movie I promise
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 29 December 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
The Eiger Sanction was kind of fascinating as I recall. I watched it when I was probably 14 though
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 December 2017 02:41 (six years ago) link
ITT Deems and Tombot agree on a movie
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 December 2017 02:44 (six years ago) link
Nice
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 29 December 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
― h.p. minecraft (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 29 December 2017 07:37 (six years ago) link
The sequel was so long they called back the "save the world/get butt sex" line twice.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 February 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link
i cant remember the last time i hated a movie this much. i didnt like the first one much at all, but this was egregiously horrible and stupid and annoying
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 February 2018 07:59 (six years ago) link
The first one was passable (although way too violent imo).I have just watched the sequel yesterday (yeah, I know, I was bored and wanted dumb sunday evening entertainment...).What a bad bad movie. At some point I had enough and wanted to switch it off then thought I must be near the end so why not watch it all at that point... but I was actually only halfway through !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 17 September 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
the hero of this movie goes on a mission to finger a woman and the audience watch in awestruck horror as the camera follows his fingers down her torso and into her vagina, where his techno-condom-clad finger deposits a little tracking devicewhat the fuck― h.p. minecraft (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:26 (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― h.p. minecraft (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:26 (eight months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
god i'd forgotten all about this
what an appalling, hateful movie
― 🧛🏻♂️ F A T 🧛🏻♂️ D R A C U L A 🧛🏻♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 17 September 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
I think there was ONE moment that I found a little funny : when the robodog is about to kill Colin Firth and suddenly Elton John gets in the way on the sound of "Rocketman".so that was around 5 nice secs in a 5h long movie...
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 17 September 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
yeah the "fingering" mission was wtf !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 17 September 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
I haven't seen either of the movies but having read the work of Mark Millar, the only thing surprising about any of the WTF-ery ITT is that Hollywood keeps adapting the work of Mark Millar.
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 September 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link
Or, rather, why Hollywood doesn't follow Marvel's template of loosely adapting the work of Mark Millar with all of the hardman edgelord content extracted.
― I Don't Have Any Ears, I Am Positive (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 September 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
i had the misfortune of seeing the sequel in the theater (got free tix & mr veg was keen to see it)i dont think i’ve fully processed what i saw that evening even now. bad bad bad BAD NOPE BAD UGH
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 September 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
This movie watching experience is PTSD level horrible !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 17 September 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
why Hollywood doesn't follow Marvel's template of loosely adapting the work of Mark Millar with all of the hardman edgelord content extracted.
since Wanted didn't have any hardman edgelord content in the film, it seems that Hampstead, not Hollywood, is the actual site of your ire.
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Monday, 17 September 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
So the Doral Trump Massacre video is literally a digitally adjusted version of the "Freebird" scene from Kingsman I.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
:(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link