EightBitNate
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Yeah it was some other dude. But still, I don't want a shitty sequel to tarnish the original.
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Kingsman - (Second) Best action movie of 2015
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Yeah it was some other dude. But still, I don't want a shitty sequel to tarnish the original.
Chuck Norris
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Actually
the crazy left-wing, Silicon Valley billionaire who is a proponent of Global Warming was the one who targeted and murdered a church full of Fox's demographic
The Driver
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This was good. Lots of crazy stuff if a bit weak in parts.
Vaughn has some of the cartooniest CGI in mainstream blockbusters, idk if it's kinda cool or kinda wack. Maybe both.
Action was great, church scene was the best.
Didn't care for
or the sometimes too smug jokes. "Not that kind of movie".
It's funny that they took so damn long to
Could have saved Eggys a ton of work lol.
Vaughn has some of the cartooniest CGI in mainstream blockbusters, idk if it's kinda cool or kinda wack. Maybe both.
Action was great, church scene was the best.
Didn't care for
Harry dying, Alfred being evil, Roxy's lack of action, ]
It's funny that they took so damn long to
figure to blow up everyone with devices in their heads until the most fake dramatic moment possible.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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So with the release and success of John Wick and now Kingsman, does that mean that the era of "Shaky Cam" is over?
ElBoxyBrown
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I think a lot of directors are now learning that good choreography and well planned out setpieces can carry an action film. We can thank The Raid for jump starting the trend.
Shogmaster
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WOW, this movie was a blast from start to end. Love it even more than Kick Ass, which is still on my rotation now and again. Totally up the butt... With a princess...
The movie is based on that comic.
No, not by a long shot. Notice that most of the movies people mention when they talk about good long continuous action (The Raid, John Wick, Kingsman) are all movies with <$100 million budgets.
Miles Quaritch
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No, not by a long shot. Notice that most of the movies people mention when they talk about good long continuous action (The Raid, John Wick, Kingsman) are all movies with <$100 million budgets.
Yeah, pretty much this.
And let's not forget, there's a new Bourne coming in too. The era of shaky cam will continue for quite some time yet.
SolidChamp
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That was great, great fun.
Personally, I don't get the comparisons with John Wick at all...these two movies couldn't be more different (but yes, the action sequences in John Wick are far better executed and display a deft craftsmanship without relying on VFX trickery and CG).
This is easily one of the best popcorn blockbusters to come along in sometime. Up there with Guardians of the Galaxy for being just absurdly fun to watch.
The characters were so likeable and the movie was so well plotted out.
Personally, I don't get the comparisons with John Wick at all...these two movies couldn't be more different (but yes, the action sequences in John Wick are far better executed and display a deft craftsmanship without relying on VFX trickery and CG).
This is easily one of the best popcorn blockbusters to come along in sometime. Up there with Guardians of the Galaxy for being just absurdly fun to watch.
The characters were so likeable and the movie was so well plotted out.
ElBoxyBrown
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Winter Soldier had a big budget and it had some well shot action scenes with barely any shaky cam. There's hope.No, not by a long shot. Notice that most of the movies people mention when they talk about good long continuous action (The Raid, John Wick, Kingsman) are all movies with <$100 million budgets.
MisterFalcon
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Fan-fucking-tastic. Everything clicked, the digs on both British upper class twits and chavs, ridiculous ultraviolence, great fight scenes and Colin Firth owning shit like he was a cross between Jackie Chan and James Bond.
I felt Roxy was perfectly used, the mission required them to split up and I was pleasantly suprised she did not show up in Valentine's lair for the usual chick fight with Gazelle.
Anyone else think the note they ended on was really awkward and out of place for the movie?
I feel like my crowd would have clapped if it ended with a something better. Instead it was like "oh, err.." and then basically quiet as the credits began and people filed out the theater.
(not the mid credits scene)
I feel like my crowd would have clapped if it ended with a something better. Instead it was like "oh, err.." and then basically quiet as the credits began and people filed out the theater.
(not the mid credits scene)
More_Badass
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Did you stay for the mid-credits scene?
It wasn't even mid-credit. The people that missed it had to have ran as fast as they could to get out of the theater. Sucks to be them.
yes. Wasn't talking about that though.
More_Badass
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Huh, I thought that was a great ending. Brought the movie full-circle. I liked it
I liked the first ending because it was parodying how ridiculous Bond films end. Then the actual ending was more of a 'we're ending full circle, chaps' ending.
That would work if this film was trying to be a parody. Just felt out of place because I didn't feel like the rest of the film was trying to be like that.
It kinda was though. The SLJ dinner scene, the scene outside the church, pointing out that only hiring upper middle class men as spies doesn't work, the subversion of what a gentlemen is, the way the most competent Kingsman candidate was a woman etc... it's just that, like with a Princess Bride, they remembered to make the story work on its own terms as well as as a parody of the genre.
AuthenticM
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That church scene is fucking crazy.
Sevket-Erhat
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It comes out on 13 March in Turkey
if not online before that
Of movies that actively paid tribute to James Bond, this is probably the most enjoyable since The Incredibles. The third act with the mountain lair, the ticking countdowns and the superhero villain reminded me most of Brad Bird's movie, but with its own twist and flavour of course, but they both pretty much hit the same beats.
It was great overall but I'm not sure if the church scene tops the best sequences in Kick-ass, namely the
that so effectively paid tribute to John Woo.
I like the leads betters though, though I didn't how quickly we lost
It was great overall but I'm not sure if the church scene tops the best sequences in Kick-ass, namely the
big daddy CCTV scene and the strobe lighting hit girl scenes
I like the leads betters though, though I didn't how quickly we lost
jack Davenport.
I saw it last night. I thought it was....alright-goodish. My biggest issue was that I didn't like how the action was filmed and edited. It was all....sped up for no apparent reason and I thought it made the action feel campy. It's like they were going for something stylistic but it really wasn't. Also thought a good deal of the cast ended up being poorly developed, and I thought the pacing towards the first third or so of the movie was rather poor. Everything else was more or less solid though (I have a few minor gripes aside from what I've already listed), the casting was great and there were a couple plot points and scenes that I really enjoyed.
Yeah I noticed that too. The static, half baked lighting was terrible in that part lol.
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
So excited!
Picking up my friend in an hour and a half to go see this movie!
Picking up my friend in an hour and a half to go see this movie!
Corpsepyre
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Just got out. This was fanfuckingtastic! The action, humour, vulgarity, and that
scene (shieeeet) made the movie. Go see it!
church
The movie's budget was pretty modest. I hope they get a nice bump for the sequel to iron out some of the poor CG.
Admiral Woofington
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I assume they're talking about the scene where
Eggsy goes to the bar all dressed up to take his mom and sister away from the douchebag stepdad
goldenpp72
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Yeah if you missed the scene you would have had to basically run out of theater before it initially ended.
More_Badass
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Reading online, it seems some sites are trying to paint the church scene as controversial. "Did the church scene go too far", etc.
Corpsepyre
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You have to be fucking kidding me, right? Don't these people have anything better to do?
gotta teach them about anal young
Monocle
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Lol, concern trolls.
TheRedSnifit
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I was positive I posted in this thread. The fuck.
Ehh, should have just gone full blown and targeted Westboro.
Admiral Woofington
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yeah a family brought their little girl to Alamo drafthouse. Scarred for life?
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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I think the church was portrayed as being westboro
Yeah, they described it as a
Hate Group
Admiral Woofington
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my theater was entirely silent as my friends and I were laughing our asses off at how brilliant it was. Apparently Texas movie goers weren't too happy besides us lol. Part of me hope people denounce the scene just so more folks go watch it to see what it's all about
I think the scene was therapeutic in a way, and you could hear people in our audience who clearly feel held back by groups like that cheer. Not because they condone violence, but because it was symbolic that that kind of bigotry and hatred will finally bring the institution tumbling on top of itself from the inside. It was glorious and well done. It's not easy to turn Millar shite into something moving.
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