The last place I remember seeing Eggy’s dog was at his mom’s, curled up on his bed. Before he went to the pub to confront his mom’s asshole boyfriend.
I went in not knowing anything about the plot other than it was about a kid who gets recruited into a spy organization. Had no idea if it was going to be funny, serious, etc.
I enjoyed it!
My favorite part is that they entirely subverted the trope of the leading man and leading lady ending up kissing and falling in love at the end. And the way that they subverted it was by letting the main character have anal sex with a princess he met at the end of the movie. Very funny and clever
I will never hear “Land of Hope and Glory” in the same way again.
I freaking loved this movie! I was fun from beginning to end. Thanks RickJay for the Kick-Ass reference. The frenetic fight style looked familiar, but I couldn’t place why. The scene in the Kentucky church was awesome. I’d hate to have to choose a favorite scene between that, or the exploding-heads-to-parade-music.
I didn’t miss the Obama reference; but I missed the entire Royal family. I knew the Prime Minister got it; but that was all I saw. Awesome. It passes my ultimate good movie test: Would I be willing to watch it again? Yes!
Aside from
identifying tbe Kingsmen with Nazi SS mythology, the “shoot the dog” thing was also jarring because twice Eggsy is singled out for his “loyalty,” a virtue the Kingsmen prize. Someone picked for his loyalty should not be expected to shoot his own dog. Period.
Fortunately I didn’t let that obtuse, stupid plot point ruin the movie for me.
It was supposed to be security, so that the bad guys could take out anyone who blabbed. Anyone he approached who didn’t agree to his scheme were kidnapped. That’s why there were more doors where the Princess was kept. But on thinking about it, I suppose it could have been both.
A friend of mine who saw the movie after me pointed out something regarding the order to shoot the dog that I didn’t recognize until pointed out. 
Eggsy was fully aware of Kingsman’s practice of fake danger in tests from the “one of you doesn’t have a parachute” incident and the tied-to-the-tracks secret-keeping test. Eggsy was expected, as Firth’s character later explained regarding the stuffed dog over his toilet, :eek:
to realize that the order to shoot the dog was another such simulation. He failed not because he didn’t shoot the dog but because he didn’t see through the bluff.
Right, that’s what it really was but i doubt that is how it was sold to everyone else. I doubt anyone would have signed up for a bomb to the head, it makes sense if they sold it as protection against the signal.
I just got back from seeing it and found it a stylish bit of nothing. When it finished, everyone I saw it with agreed that it would be better if it were way shorter. The initiation stuff, in particular, could have easily been trimmed to half an hour and lost nothing (or even, frankly a 2 minute montage). We’ve all seen the exact same character beats play though in 1000 other movies at this point and it felt like a tedious slog hitting those same points without very much creativity. I would have far preferred the movie focus more on the quirky, bonkers action sequences than tell yet another coming of age training story.
The plot made not a goddamn lick of sense which I’m OK with since they deliberately lampshaded it as a homage to the old school spy flicks before everything got gritty and realistic. Stuff like the church scene, I’m still not sure if I enjoyed it or not but I appreciated that they at least tried to do something different and stylistically distinct.
Samuel L Jackson was great and reminded me of his role on Unbreakable which, if you haven’t seen, is M Night’s last good movie IMHO. All in all, I’m glad I watched it but I’m baffled by all the praise it’s gotten.
edit: We were also talking afterwards about whether the film passed the Bechdel test and none of us could remember a scene that passed, although later checking online indicates it barely passed. I personally, was a bit creeped out by the “I’ll let you out of this cage only if you give me a kiss” scene which, I get was a homage to the casual sexism of the bond era spy films but it was played straight which made it seem extremely tonally off to me.
Watched it last night and loved it. The church scene was superb.
I really liked a small thing about Arthur When he’s dying his accent slips and he reverts back to his working class accent that he obviously had before the Kingsmen got a hold of him.
Just noticed this because of the bump. I’ll counter with this:
Didn’t a candidate drown during the dormitory-flooding test? Or am I misremembering? Doesn’t that make it unreliable to expect fake danger?
As I recall, this was revealed as another fake-out.She was described as alive and well, someone who worked for the organization that they brought in just to play dead and then returned to her normal duties.
In hindsight, this aspect of the film was kind of annoying.
Bryan Ekers is correct, it was another ruse.
And I agree, the dog stuff was annoying. In 10 years when they make a reboot, they can leave that out and it will be perfect.
I just saw it on Amazon.
I loved it, especially the church scene. I liked how they made the church congregation and pastor so over the top horrible.
But yeah, the dog scene was stupid. I, too, thought he would be praised for being loyal to his animal. He had no idea that the first girl was safe in Berlin. Although, I guess, he should have pieced the parachute/train stuff together.
And, oh man oh man, those were some nice clothes.
I think you mean “accurate”.
As you might guess, the clothes are available for sale. Not cheap, though. A suit is $2,500, the shirts are $350 and the ties are $195.
head explodes
The lesson is that if you spend enough money (especially on properly tailored clothing and decent grooming), anyone can look like a million bucks.
They better be bulletproof like in the movie…
I walked out of the theatre not knowing exactly how to rate it.
That head-popping scene made my wife and I laugh hysterically. She’s a huge Colin Firth fan and she enjoyed it. I’d give it a 7 for sheer guilty pleasure status.