The Reel Rejects - KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015) IS FRIGGIN AWESOME!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:45 I cover reality. Should we just get, let's just go into the questions because we do have quite a few. And then I think that will inform our review. Sure. So our first one is from Jaden Rhodes. I remember watching the trailer over 10 years ago now. I'm being really excited, but when I actually sat down to watch a movie

Starting point is 00:01:03 was left disappointed. If my memory serves me right, the trailer was kind of played like James Bond and Mission Impossible type of movie, but I feel like the movie took the movie kickass and tried to make it a spy movie instead of a comic book movie. But it's a wildly loved movie and I'm a minority, but I think the sequel is a better one.

Starting point is 00:01:24 But I'm curious if you all agree or disagree with my take. I can understand. you're coming from. I think Tara and I were talking about it. Like there are shades of James Bond and certain other spy-esque films. But I can see where you're talking about from kick-ass,

Starting point is 00:01:38 this rebellious type of guy who's, you know, he's a little in over his head and he's never done this kind of thing before. And he's entering, he's kind of like the fish out of water, right? And he's entering a world to which he at first does not understand.

Starting point is 00:01:54 And then he becomes part of it. And he becomes, you know, Skywalker, he becomes like one, and he's really good. So I love those kinds of stories, but I haven't seen the trailers, so I don't know. I can't comment on that, but I do understand what you're saying, because I have definitely seen movies where I'm like, I really did not like the trailers that didn't sell me on that. And then I watched the movie. I was like, wow, that underperformed or that undersold what the movie was trying to do, but I like the movie

Starting point is 00:02:24 so much more. And I wish the trailer would have shown me something that was a, that was a little bit different. For instance, I think Galaxy Quest did a terrible job at marketing. I think that is one of my favorite. It's probably my favorite Star Trek film. I know it's not an actual Star Trek film, but you get what I'm trying to say. I love that movie. It's brilliant. I wasn't particularly sold on Blades of Glory from the trailers and the marketing. I think this is one of my favorite comedies. So I can understand, though, where you're coming from when it comes to marketing and trailers. So those can definitely make and break a movie. It's why they spend so much money on it. But I think it infused all the things you're talking about. And also,

Starting point is 00:02:58 it was its own thing. But what about you today? So I didn't know that it was based of a comic book, a 2012 comic book called The Secret Service. So I was a little confused when you first said made a spy movie instead of a comic book movie. I was not expecting

Starting point is 00:03:12 that. My assumption is that a large part of the audience also had no idea that it was based off of a comic book. I don't foresee that being very large, but I'm also, I'm not in the comic book world. I definitely didn't leave disappointed. I really, really am part

Starting point is 00:03:28 of the other one who wildly love the movie. The shots in this, especially the one takes with the choreography and the fights and how long that probably had to take. I mean, even just that one fight scene within the church, if they got it done under three days, I would

Starting point is 00:03:44 like clap very, for a long time. It's just what they did is quite the feat. So I give them a lot of credit and yeah, we can agree to disagree. from jacy jacy thank you so much for being a royal recheck and for asking us a question we appreciate his movie suffers from a serious if depressingly predictable lack of complex female characters if you were going to gender bend any of the male characters into women which would you choose and who would you cast um so i would do so the other films by the way the other Matthew Vaughn films are just off the top of my head really quickly, Tara.

Starting point is 00:04:29 He's talking about X-Men First Class. He's talking about this one. He's talking about kick-ass. I have not, I don't think I've seen any other Matthew Vaughn films. I would do Cape Blanchette in, in, in, in what's his nuts at the very end, not as, uh, uh. Is the princess? No, no, no, no, no. We're, we're trying to gender bend, so we're picking male characters who would be female.

Starting point is 00:04:51 Gotcha. Kate Blanchette would be the guy who lasted at the end, who's in the plane. I just forget his name. Oh, Mark Strong. I would have her as him. Okay. And then I think, oh, maybe as Michael Cain, I would probably pick another good villain as a woman.

Starting point is 00:05:17 I need time to think on that one. I got one for her. Go ahead. The one who's married to Taylor Hackford. What's her name? God, dang. I'm just going to look up Taylor Hackford Because I know she's married

Starting point is 00:05:28 He's married to like a prominent British What's her name? God damn it Taylor Hackford here It's her name is I think it's Elizabeth something But let's see Helen Mirren Yeah, she's great I could see Helen Mirren playing that might

Starting point is 00:05:44 I still thought Michael Cain was amazing And I wasn't really even thinking about There's not enough It just was not in the back of my mind I was enjoying the film so much I was being so entertained as Russell Crow would say and gladiator

Starting point is 00:05:57 but if I were to recast I would guess Helen Mirren would be the Michael Kane I do like your choice of Kate Blanchett and the Mark Strong role that's a good one but yeah let us know

Starting point is 00:06:07 some of your other choices down the below all right I'm gonna go to Pavelle Ketchmarek Love from Poland as always it's cold here and it sucks

Starting point is 00:06:15 now with the question I love this movie and to me the biggest surprise was Colin Furris He's amazing He used to be either a calm lovable presence

Starting point is 00:06:22 like in Bridget Down Starry or very serious uptight Brit like the King's speech. But here he proved himself to be quite capable action movie star. Are there any other actors that you remember that surprised you in that way? Maybe there's some actors who, in your opinion, could surprise us in their action movie capabilities. I, for example, would love to see Paul Rudd working an action role, a role that's not comic relief like Ant Man. Okay.

Starting point is 00:06:45 Great question, Paul. First of all, I just want to comment on Colin Firth's performance. I do have an answer to the question, by the way. I think his calm elegance infused with the lethal precision was such a delight to watch. I was like, wow, what a performance. I also think his relationship with EGZE was just the emotional heart of the film as well, gave the film so much added depth and complexity and the mentorship that he provided him, especially in light of the fact that EGZ's father saved his life and he felt that he owed a great debt to him.

Starting point is 00:07:18 And then also, too, that Colin Fulner, first character of Harry was a man that believed that we should not be just because of where you come from in social class does not preside to the fact of where you end up in life has nothing to it's the content of your character and the drive you have as a person

Starting point is 00:07:36 and I love that that's so cool you can recreate yourself at any which point it does not matter where you come from or where you were born with a silver spoon has nothing to do with that in fact I think people who are born with a silver spoon if anything they come from a place of more of a place of

Starting point is 00:07:52 not negativity but more of a place from just having a disadvantage is what I wanted to say because you are hand-fed and given everything you don't have to work as hard for everything

Starting point is 00:08:04 it doesn't mean that people who are given a silver spoon don't work hard I'm sure there are plenty out there but people who have who don't have anything they have to they have no choice

Starting point is 00:08:14 but to work hard they're really going to do it or they're not so I appreciate that that was a great message now to answer the actual question the film. I would say my choice is going to be not the best actor ever, but my personal

Starting point is 00:08:25 favorite actor is going to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, a film that shocked me. I'm going to go with twins. I knew he was funny because he always infuses his humor into films, but that was a straight-up comedy with some action elements, of course, a little bit here and there. But he is freaking hysterical in that movie, and then there's some other comedies he's in, but I love his human and I love that he was able to really placate to the fact that he's very versatile. He can do other things besides just straight up action

Starting point is 00:08:55 even though he's the greatest action star of all time. So I would just throw that one out there, Tara, are there any for you? I would just say the movie, it was called Kate, it was on Netflix. It had Mary Elizabeth Winstead in it and I was surprised at how well she did in that movie. I thought it was a really great movie

Starting point is 00:09:11 and go back to someone who suggested that or who just stated that there's not enough female leads in this movie. that that just go watch kate on netflix it's good i enjoyed it this episode is brought to you by prize picks the app that finally let me crash my wife's fantasy sports click yes i used to overhear her and her friends bonding while i sat in the corner where my arms folded come to my home and i can't be included trying to pretend like yeah i know what yards after catch means just fell left out man and then i discovered prize

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Starting point is 00:11:23 What would you say was your favorite spy movie trope in this movie? Thanks for all your hard work rejects. Favorite spy movie trope? I don't know. The gadgets, the gadgets were really sick in the visuals. Those were really cool. I guess is mentorship a, spy movie trope. I don't know, right? But saving the world at the end of the day,

Starting point is 00:11:45 I don't know if giving it to the princess at the end there is a spy movie trope, but I definitely like that one. That was fun to do. I would say probably the gadgets. I thought that was a lot of fun. The visuals, the cinematography, there's so many different things. I really also loved Tager. I'm probably mispronouncing it's me, but I love the actor who played EGZ. He was so good. I love how charismatic he was. Also, how hardened he was by the events that happened to him with his father at the beginning really added a area used the word but i'm going to use it again i added a level of depth to the film and performance uh just his his his complexity his moral compass when he was not able to shoot the dog we know that was just all a test and all that but still

Starting point is 00:12:27 there were just so many times where like he really showed his humanity and his uh his gravitas and i really really thought this was a star making performance i have not really seen any of his other films to be quite honest besides this one. So I would definitely like to see more after this. I'm assuming we're going to watch the second Kingsman very soon. After the Kingsman series, I would definitely like to see some of his other work. But what about you? Any spy movie tricks? Yeah, I would just say that

Starting point is 00:12:51 honestly, you know, the choreography and the fights in this are obviously phenomenal, especially because they have a lot of winners. And I would just say that vengeance was served at the end. And that's always going to be my favorite. Dan, V-900. It's the best bond film that isn't a bond film. I feel like the Craig Films, by and large, lack the fun that Kingsman had. And I hope that we get back for the Bond franchise with learning from Kingsman.

Starting point is 00:13:15 The Freebird sequence is iconic and answers the question. Can Colin Firth be an action hero? Yes, he can. It's much better than the comic it is based on how, based on just like how Matthew Vaughn adapted kick-ass. Samuel Jackson decided to do the list on his own, which was not the script. And he said he always wanted to be a villain and a Bond movie where the whole cast was great. What was your favorite part of the movie?

Starting point is 00:13:38 That, I would say Colin Firth and the relationship, as I mentioned earlier, between him and Eggsy, I got to also agree with you on Samuel Jackson. We talked about it right as it was starting with the list. That easily could have been like an annoying thing, but it wasn't. It was actually a standout. I had really enjoyed it. It made, it actually separated him from a lot of other villains that we see. It gave him a characteristic trait. And I thought like just his, his backstory and his we always talk it Greg always mentions this too like what's the why and you understand

Starting point is 00:14:13 where his character is coming from and why he's doing he wants to in his sick and twisted mind the perspective you have from us the audience why is this character doing this he wants to in his mind save the planet right and how is he going to do that he's going to wipe out a good portion of the population I mean he's not going to snap his fingers like

Starting point is 00:14:29 Thanos but he's going to use the SIM card to do it and by doing this you know in his mind he's God and he's going to save the planet that way but also too he was just very unpredictable and he was also very funny at times as well and i liked a lot of his quirks and quips and i thought it was a phenomenal performance as per usual from samuel jackson but was there a favorite part of the movie you had i mean the free bird sequence obviously i've already brought that up multiple times i mean it's just that that to me is very iconic i would

Starting point is 00:14:59 assume that this movie was nominated and if not it i'm just going to assume it was nominated for that scene. Like if anyone sees that that's amazing work and I really, really loved it. Nothing will really top that there's some movies in certain action sequences that do do long runners and they're also really, really great. There's a stylistic choice that they were making in this movie that I hadn't seen

Starting point is 00:15:27 before that is done in that Warner shot which I think is great. I can't imagine how long it took them to fill that scene. Jay Rush did. What kind of dog would you get for the final exam? Doxan. I've been, we have two doxins right now, so I love them. There's so many other dogs that I love to, and I've owned over the years.

Starting point is 00:15:48 Toy poodle, German Shepherds, and many other dogs as well, but I do like Rottweilers as well. Well, well, well. I think I do like a red healer or a blue healer. I grew up with them. Cattle dogs are pretty good. They can be vicious. And they're very smart. Let's read this last trivia because it answers our question.

Starting point is 00:16:06 The church fight scene This is from J. Dell took seven days to shoot was filmed as one long fake continuous shot combining real choreography, hidden cuts and camera tricks to make Colin Firth look like

Starting point is 00:16:17 a one take action machine. Yes. There was only like two that I called out when I was watching it. I was like, oh, that's a hidden cut. And like I said, if it was filmed under three days, I would have clapped for a long time.

Starting point is 00:16:31 So I'm not surprised it took seven days. There is, lot of choreography in that and I it was a really effing seamless so I got to tell you seven days is still impressive for that sequence I in the back of my mind I was thinking like maybe two or three weeks so oh huh I interesting I mean I probably wouldn't have gone there I think a week is like that choreography and and you have to hit your spots and your markers and like the specific style that they were going for I'm I'm glad they got it done seven days I've been on set before and just like I've been on set where literally something that showed up on film for 13 seconds took two days

Starting point is 00:17:12 to film so like a sequence like this that was like three or four minutes long that's why in the back of my mind i'm like i wouldn't be shocked if two or three weeks but i'm glad they got it in seven days that means everyone was working hard and got their shit done so i loved hearing that there was some again this movie was incredible i really enjoyed it it was a lot of fun had some good themes, some really deep themes, some social themes as well, talking about social class and all that. Also talking about how the powerful elite, how they benefit off and how they view us the peasants. So there was some interesting, complex themes that were going. I was so immersed by the film and I'm excited to see what happens in the next movie, but yeah, I really dug this

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The Reel Rejects - KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2015) IS FRIGGIN AWESOME!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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