Huh. The trailer for The Man from UNCLE actually caught my interest: [link]
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
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Kalshane - Feb 11, 2015 3:52:18 pm PST #28455 of 30000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
DavidS - Feb 11, 2015 5:07:18 pm PST #28456 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Huh. The trailer for The Man from UNCLE actually caught my interest
Yeah, between that and the Kingsmen it should be some fun Spy Biz this year.
Zenkitty - Feb 11, 2015 5:26:33 pm PST #28457 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Jupiter Ascending is SO BAD, y'all. Have a drink or two, get a bucket of popcorn, and go see it. It's hilarious!
I understand why 13-year-old girls love it. It's Cinderella In Space! With her evil stepfamily! And instead of Prince Charming - whom she doesn't need because she's the long-lost QUEEN OF EARTH - she falls in love with the Huntsman! Who rescues her in the nick of time at least 7 times! Granted, she rescues herself two or three times, and beats the holy snot of out of a villain with a rebar, and saves her family with her Wits and Courage and Honorable Heart. There are many battle sequences and chase sequences and they are spectacular and they go on for hours! There is an eight-minute-long chase scene. And the dialog is ridiculous. This movie has the single stupidest line of explanatory dialog I've ever heard. I laughed out loud in the theater.
If this were actually written by an adolescent girl, I'd think, hey, not bad for a young person! Keep writing! But it was written by Lana and Andy Wachowski and oh my goodness it's bad. It's a teenage girl Mary Sue of the first order. Every sci-fi cliche is represented. Charming-Huntsman even got to fight a dragon!
Mila Kunis says Holy crap a lot because she's Just An Ordinary Girl, and I couldn't understand half of what Sean Bean or Eddie Redmayne said. But the bureaucracy sequence is intentionally funny, and um, yeah, the visuals are spectacular, and... look, it's just silly. It's pretty and silly and great for a laugh. See it at a matinee.
Zenkitty - Feb 11, 2015 5:28:08 pm PST #28458 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh, and Terry Gilliam has a brief appearance. I had to confirm it was him after I got home.
Jessica - Feb 12, 2015 4:43:35 am PST #28459 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
This movie has the single stupidest line of explanatory dialog I've ever heard. I laughed out loud in the theater.
Zen, was it the bees?
Zenkitty - Feb 12, 2015 7:48:39 am PST #28460 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Jessica, yes! My friend and I both lost it at that one.
Jessica - Feb 12, 2015 9:00:58 am PST #28461 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That scene perfectly encapsulates the core problem with this movie, too - absolutely gorgeous visuals that are 100% destroyed as soon as anyone opens their mouth. Except Eddie Redmayne, who understands.
Zenkitty - Feb 12, 2015 9:17:47 am PST #28462 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
But it passes the Bechdel test!
Jessica - Feb 12, 2015 10:11:02 am PST #28463 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But it passes the Bechdel test!
....yay....
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 12, 2015 3:54:11 pm PST #28464 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
So in this Kingsman movie, is most of the focus on Colin Firth's character, or on the kid with the annoying voice who plays Millar's stock snotnose punk protagonist?