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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
That looks... surprisingly good. I was fully expecting this to be entirely awful, but that's fairly promising. Looks to have toned down some of the more ridiculous stuff, but that's definitely a good thing given the setting.
We thought the 2 previous were quite good, and this looks better.
Knowing that it is based on comics by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, it has a lot of promise.
This looks like it could be quite good. I thoroughly enjoyed the first movie, and was thoroughly disappointed with the second....so I guess that leaves me right in the middle. WW1 (and the events leading up to it) are obviously a superb setting for an early espionage action film. Unique, but very cool idea. I don't recognize the young actor and he doesn't look particularly interesting. Big fan of Djimon Honsou (though given the time setting I hope his backstory is appropriately cool).
Interesting Angle with Rasputin.
is he gonna be the big bad or just a small guy they fight in the beggining?
Also are they implying the kingsmen started off as an orginization of commoners?
If I'm remembering rightly, in the first one Harry explains their origins as coming from wealthy families who lost their heirs in the War, and thus put their money into founding the agency.
Though if in fact this is going to flip that on its head a bit and give them a more everyman origin, that'd be quite a nice reflection on Harry bringing Eggsy in over the Oxbridge lot in the first place. Actually, come to think of it, it might even have been the plan from the start, when Arthur is poisoned in the first one he does go a little bit cockney with his dying words. It'd be quite a neat twist if all the presentation of refinement and class was as much an affectation for the organisation as a whole as it was for Eggsy.
Yeah I thought it was implied that with there sons gone they raised the best people for the job wherever they came from using the money and connections to try and stop ww1 from happening again.
Your last point is especially laughable and comical, because not only the 7th ed Valkyrie shown dumber things (like being able to throw the troopers without parachutes out of its hatches, no harm done) - Irbis
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
I'm already sold so I won't even bother with another trailer. One of the few movies I've looked forward to. I admit, I disliked the second one immensely, but this one looks right up my alley.
Frankly, the WWI setting looks much cooler than the modern ones, were everything relied on the crazy over the top gadgets (especially the second one), where a low-tech setting can make things more visceral, like Wonder Woman.
There is a severe lack of cool WWI/Victorian era spy movies, and Ralph Fiennes is the icing on the cake.
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LunarSol wrote: I liked but didn't love the second. Too much of a retread and a huge missed opportunity with the Americans.
My complaint with the second one will continue to be that you never got to see the Americans fight With the Brits. They always took turns or were fighting Against each other. Could have been interesting to see how their two different styles might have meshed in cooperation.
Yeah. Killing everyone off... then unkilling the meaningful death... then having that sideline everything new built up was hugely disappointing. I did love the "nostalgia for 80's nostalgia for the 50's" joke though.
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