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Bogus Adventure posted:They are films about how global warming/climate change is just elitist propaganda. That kind of turned me off on it. The villain's plan in the first movie is to kill most of the world's population in order to stop climate change, which he earnestly believes is happening, and the movie gives no indication that he's wrong. That seems like the opposite of presenting climate change as just elitist propaganda.
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Sir Kodiak posted:The villain's plan in the first movie is to kill most of the world's population in order to stop climate change, which he earnestly believes is happening, and the movie gives no indication that he's wrong. That seems like the opposite of presenting climate change as just elitist propaganda. I could be misreading it. I'd be less wary of the intentions if they didn't do the whole Lenin and Hitler team-up.
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Last time I caught Kingsman on TV just recently, I was struck by it having a faint patina...of douchbaggery. Like, it moves fast, the action is great, music is good, the acting wry and interesting, and its all in service of upholding middle aged white dudes in fancy suits as the ideal. Deaths are nasty, people are expendable (including women students that are on the good guy's side), you're really supposed to just focus on this rad suit dude showing up chavs, and everyone else. It left a kinda bad taste in my mouth. The movie is mean
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Shageletic posted:The movie is mean It's based on a Mark Millar comic so it's par for the course. Dude is possibly the most nihilistic, insufferable edgelord in comics.
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Aug 1, 2023 23:08
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I like that it’s mean. It’s a fun send up on the nasty elements of the bond franchise. Maybe that’s why I love it because all the problematic elements are just bond tropes cranked up to 11. Also Valentine’s plan is very evil and bad because murdering vast amounts of people in hopes of saving the world is bad and stupid
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Aug 1, 2023 23:32
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Slotducks posted:whys it look so bad?
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thrawn527 posted:Can't tell if you're joking or directly referencing the end credit scene to The King's Man, but in case anyone missed it, it was really quite something. what in the hell
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:what in the hell The movie also posits that pretty much every revolutionary group of the early 20th century was in cahoots.
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thrawn527 posted:Can't tell if you're joking or directly referencing the end credit scene to The King's Man, but in case anyone missed it, it was really quite something. Why does this look like worse than a Command and Conquer cutscene from 1993?
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Aug 2, 2023 02:27
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Carpet posted:Why does this look like worse than a Command and Conquer cutscene from 1993? I'm not clicking on it, but from the thumbnail I can tell it's one of those click-harvesting channels that reuploads movie trailers and clips. They sometimes resample the video to get around copyright auto-detection, is my assumption. Though the movies are terrible and they could just look bad.
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Aug 2, 2023 02:37
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Bring back Command & Conquer with the live action cutscenes that had name actors in them.
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Aug 2, 2023 02:39
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It's when Vladdy Met Adolf! 
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CelticPredator posted:I like that it’s mean. It’s a fun send up on the nasty elements of the bond franchise. Maybe that’s why I love it because all the problematic elements are just bond tropes cranked up to 11. The first one teeters just barely on the acceptable side of meanness, and really leans into being fun and goofy enough to take the edge off. The second one went way over the line to the extent where I was cringing in the theater.
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IIRC even Taron has said that he absolutely hated doing the fingerbang scene and tried to get Matthew Vaughn to change it.
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Mat Cauthon posted:The first one teeters just barely on the acceptable side of meanness, and really leans into being fun and goofy enough to take the edge off. The second one went way over the line to the extent where I was cringing in the theater. So, ...a distinctly British brand of fascist movie.
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Mat Cauthon posted:The first one teeters just barely on the acceptable side of meanness, and really leans into being fun and goofy enough to take the edge off. The second one went way over the line to the extent where I was cringing in the theater. Agreed. I hated the second one. Although i did very much like pedro pascal. But that’s it. The kings man was even worse. They straight forgot the series is supposed to be a comedy
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Yeah, The King's Man was one of those remarkably dull movies that don't give you anything to feel invested in. That and the Assassin's Creed movie are two peas in a pod.
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Collapsing Farts posted:there are assassins creed movies?? One, starring Michael Fassbender as the main character. He and the director did it to get their Macbeth movie funded.
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Aug 2, 2023 12:47
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Matthew Vaugh ran Tory fundraisers lol
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The Peccadillo posted:Dead City seemed okay but it got pretty boring pretty quick. It's Lauren Cohen and Jeffrey Dean Morgan going to save her son from some guy that kidnapped him to New York. There seems to be a lot of prologue to it from the original show I havent seen. Last thing I saw was a season where Jeffrey Dean Morgan beat Lauren Cohen's husbands brains out infront of her but I guess they're tentatively cool now somehow. Both good actors! The OG series was pretty terrible for most of the middle seasons but once Angela Kang took over, the show was GOOD. Fear was consistently entertaining from season 3 to when Nick Stahl showed up and died. world beyond sucked rear end but it ties to the overarching story and various plot points through the series. Plus it gives Jadis character developement. Tales was hit or miss. Dead City was marketed as a one and done, ended on a cliffhanger and got renewed…I liked it wel enough. The ones who live and Dixon haven’t come out yet .
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fatherboxx posted:Matthew Vaugh ran Tory fundraisers lol He sucks which sucks because he was one of my favorites and does action in such a cool way. But after kingsman 2 and 3 being such trash whatever. I’m good
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Yeah, The King's Man was one of those remarkably dull movies that don't give you anything to feel invested in. That and the Assassin's Creed movie are two peas in a pod. It does have the really weird character arc where Ralph Fiennes starts out as an avowed pacifist who decides that actually violence is totally awesome and the solution to every problem.
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Collapsing Farts posted:there are assassins creed movies?? l worked on it and I didn't even watch it myself
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:what in the hell I love showing people this clip for the first time.
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thrawn527 posted:Can't tell if you're joking or directly referencing the end credit scene to The King's Man, but in case anyone missed it, it was really quite something. The only funny joke in the whole second movie. What a bad movie
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That’s the third movie!
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Here's a better upload of the clip with a needed creative edit: https://twitter.com/joaohugopires/status/1563273926800965632?s=61&t=mviL_s0u4gafGPU-NCFS4Q (Sorry, I just find applying that dumb meme to this to be hilarious)
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kiimo posted:l worked on it and I didn't even watch it myself I watched it and you made the right decision.
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I haven't watched King's Man but from the wikipedia page it's about a globe-spanning, war-starting, deeply entrenched and powerful ancient conspiracy all working together for...Scotch independence?
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The MSJ posted:One, starring Michael Fassbender as the main character. He and the director did it to get their Macbeth movie funded. Don’t think this is true. Macbeth was already underway when Ubisoft approached Fassbender and offered to make him both producer and lead. The announcement that Fassbender made the deal came after Macbeth’s release and Fassbender then asked Kurzel to direct because he liked working with him. On top of the timelines not matching, the production companies are completely different. Not sure why StudioCanal would pay for Macbeth because Fassbender did a video game movie with New Regency.
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kiimo posted:l worked on it and I didn't even watch it myself So who was the most proud of turning the animus from a fancy bed into an articulated rig
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They did add the movie to the game's canon, mostly through just outside of the animus codex text.
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Kingsman is just edgy. One of the reasons I preferred Man from UNCLE even though none of it's action scenes were as memorable. muscles like this! posted:It does have the really weird character arc where Ralph Fiennes starts out as an avowed pacifist who decides that actually violence is totally awesome and the solution to every problem. This was also the really weird character arc for the Mr. T character in the A Team movie, if anyone remembers.
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Mantis42 posted:Kingsman is just edgy. One of the reasons I preferred Man from UNCLE even though none of it's action scenes were as memorable. He embraced violence and went to Thailand to compete in Fight Circus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwjB_5Xz6so
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Mantis42 posted:Kingsman is just edgy. One of the reasons I preferred Man from UNCLE even though none of it's action scenes were as memorable. The scene where Cavill eats a sandwich while Hammer fights off bad guys off screen is pretty great. Ritchie makes a lot of mediocre movies but they're usually pretty entertaining. He also wrote and a directed a scene where Jason Statham said "Suck your own dick" before killing a guy.
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live with fruit posted:The scene where Cavill eats a sandwich while Hammer fights off bad guys off screen is pretty great. Ritchie makes a lot of mediocre movies but they're usually pretty entertaining. He also wrote and a directed a scene where Jason Statham said "Suck your own dick" before killing a guy. Jason Statham owns. Almost every movie I've seen him in is watchable. Except for Ghosts of Mars. That movie is most definitely not good.
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Wrong. Ghosts of Mars is good. The bad Statham movie is hobbes n shaw
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The only things I remember from Ghosts of Mars are Nicolette Sheridan and Jason Statham fight-flirting and the ghosts walking very slowly through the desolate Martian landscape. I haven't seen Hobbes and Shaw, but that's more because I'm over The Rock.
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