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The whole time I couldn't help but think of a Bully I had in school who looked very similar to Eggsy so I couldn't care or relate to him. I was actually rooting for Valentine to beat him. I was expecting to hate it but the trailer made it look worse than it is. I don't love it either. It's an average movie for me. Nothing unique or special about it. Been there done that so to speak.
Not only that, but it's pretty much Firth killing a large portion of the Westboro Baptist Church, which is rich.
Awww yiss
I'd still rather pop in my Flint movies. Way more fun.
Leave Hart dead. He did take a bullet to the head.
Bring in new characters that are less grating.
I'd suggest continuing the maturation of Eggsy.
Make him a young Bond type. Give him a grand adventure, with real good looking Eggsy Girls and away we go. ie Just make a Bond movie, minus all the angst and melodrama contaminating the current series.
Well a prequel is out of the question, as the article @Dragonsky posted suggests Eggsy will be the main character. If they bring back Firth it will all end in tears.
Unfortunately. Eggsy was the worst thing about Kingsman for me. He didn't appeal to me and I never cared about him. Whatever the case, without Firth it's going to blow.
I do think the article says the idea is on the table, but no discussion as to how it might be done..
He might have had a lead shield built into his forehead that withstood the impact of bullets. Just throwing ideas out there, as I kind of think he might come back in some way shape or form.
How do you feel about this? I'm so excited! :D :D :D !
And what was that?
I take it you are referring to the stupid over the top shootout in the church that went on forever? Reminded me more of From Dusk Till Dawn than a scene that belonged in a Bond style action thriller.
The Hinx v Bond fight blows it out of the water.
The freefall sequence was the only action in this rather disappointing film that could be called Bondworthy.
I take it you are referring to the stupid over the top shootout in the church that went on forever? Reminded me more of From Dusk Till Dawn .
and it was precisely at that point that I thought to myself they have blown any chance of a sequel
And whilst I wish them good luck with this I very much doubt that it will get off the ground .
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/kingsman_the_secret_service/concept-art-story-details-and-title-revealed-for-a132689
The film will dabble in spy tropes like a ski sequence and a barroom brawl, but insert quirky and Kingsman-esque ideas like robot dogs, one-armed henchmen, and apparently a battle with..."a giant f---ing frankfurter?"
http://comicbook.com/2016/03/27/king...d-concept-art/
I mean that's not really the films fault though is it, and I certainly wouldn't see it as a reason to root for the guy who's gonna wipe out most of humanity.
I found Eggsy very relatable but maybe that's because I'm from a similar background to him. The film didn't quite live up to my expectations (I thought the first half, the training/origin story stuff felt a bit standard and generic, wasn't what I expected, but then the second half they just went all out with it, that was the film I wanted) but I did enjoy it a lot.
A left wing R rated Roger Moore Bond film (didn't understand the criticisms of people who thought it was a glorified ad for the Tories, the old school establishment figure turned out to be a villain and it's Eggsy who proves everyone wrong, beats the snobby private school kids and saves the world, so that along with Harry's words of wisdom sealed it as a left wing film for me, which I loved) I was very happy with it, and I'm excited for the sequel. Have to agree with @doubleoego too that EON should take note. I don't want the Bond series to become Marvel but planning ahead so we're not waiting the better part of half a decade for the new film wouldn't go amiss. Vaughn and co seem to have done that here. They haven't rushed it but at the same time they've planned ahead (they started writing almost immediately after the first one) and developed a sequel to be released just over two years later. I'd love it if Bond could get back to this.
I thought SPECTRE was a much better film without a doubt but I think you're doing a massive disservice to the church scene, which was one of the best action scenes I've ever seen. Stupid? Yeah. But that was kind of the point. It was made clear from the trailers and Vaughn's comments that this would be Roger Moore amped up to 11 and I thought it was really well done, particuarly in the church scene, which was brilliantly coreographed violent chaos.
Kingsman isn't meant to be Bond. It's a surreal, violent homage to Bond and the spy genre in general. I didn't go in expecting it to feel like a Bond film, I expected it to take elements from Bond and subvert and pay tribute to them and that's what I got. I loved how they took the spy genre elements and pushed them to their natural extremes and I can't wait to see them do that with the bits they missed in the sequel (gadget packed car, ski chase, etc).
I think this will be better than the first one now the generic origin/training stuff is over. We just get to watch a working class Bond esque spy violently fight his way through an increasingly OTT adventure. I'll see it at the cinema for sure.
Some pictures of that City has bit of English (The Thames) and what there did with Bond in Skyfall with China (Where the swimming part of it was filmed in London)
I also found this picture..
You are right of course I don't blame the film for it as that's also in the source material from. It's a silly reason too but I just didn't like the character at all. Too much of a punk kid for my liking. And it's nothing against Taron Edgerton either. I think he was fine in the film. But I just didn't like Eggsy. I know he can be relatable to some but not to me. And I'm a working class person myself.
It's something different, it's a refreshing move imo, especially since council estate kids are usually just demonised. The biggest film outside of Kingsman that I can think of that features one as a protagonist as Attack The Block, which is quite a low budget film and opens with the protagonists robbing a nurse at knifepoint, which again ties back to my point about them being demonised. So I think Eggsy was a nice change of pace, and the fact that not only was he portrayed positively but was actually the main character in a fairly big blockbuster with an all star cast is really admirable imo. If nothing else it was just nice to see an English guy in a Hollywood action flick who didn't have an RP or cockney accent. It was a nice change I thought.