How - exactly - was it hackneyed?

What is this hypothetical audience that isn’t turned off by a 5 minute long pseudo-dance number of gruesome murder in a church but is turned off by consensual sex? Everyone I know who falls into the “yes gore, no sex” camp would also be super offended by that church scene.

Yeah but... the pun is brilliant. The hero gets the girl in the end.

The first Kingsman was pretty great and included one of the very best action sequences, where Colin Firth just goes apeshit on an entire church full of people and kills all of them.

Nah Eggsy is still a bit the lads lad, I felt it was appropriate and funny,English humour is always been rather ribald.

I always cite Aliens as an amazing way to introduce a bunch of characters you have to understand and relate to very quickly so the film can commence with the carnage.

yeah, but marvel didn’t start with the ensemble. GotG was a lower budget shot in the dark after they’d established movie cred with audiences. and it just happened to do much better than it was expected to.

I mean, he’s not wrong with the hardwood analogy, even if he’s being a bit too hard on Suicide Squad (an awful movie, but not for the reasons he lays out.)

The word you’re looking for is “human.”

Has Chris been giving off any vibes as an actor/person besides mildly-lovable baffoon? I mean I get what you mean, there’s loads of situations like that from Adam Baldwin to Sean Bean or Jim Carrey for examples, but what did Chris say here to make you bring this up?

It was 5 characters, and they introduced them in an organic, natural way instead of having Viola Davis tell you each character’s backstory while the editor gets trigger-happy with the transitions. Even when they explicitly tell you their backstories, you’ve at least seen them in action beforehand, so you have a sense…

Thank you. People bitch about Marvel too much. What they pulled off was pretty miraculous

Look we all know this film is going to be shit. I think even they know it. May as well do promotional stuff that matches it.

I know right? It feels like it happened so fast, but the MCU is a pretty unprecedented accomplishment in the history of cinema. If there is any justice in the world, Feige and company will go down as pop culture legends.

It sounds like Jurassic Games takes place inside the Framework created by AIDA on Agents of Shield. If only. Would be cool if it was a Savage Land simulation.

Totally agree about Peña. When I saw that short with Thor and his roommate, Darryl, I envisioned/hoped they could do something similar with Luis and his buddies and Ant/Wasp too.

SUPERMAN IS A LIVE?! NO WAY! THIS IS TOTALLY UNEXPECTED I BET PEOPLE WILL BE SO EXCITED. Okay, can they kill him off again now?

Appearing on The Today Show, Zachary Quinto said there’s “no guarantee” a fourth Star Trek will happen.

Gah! That Superman/League poster is baaaaad... I mean, holy shit. If that’s a legit poster, whoever approved it needs to be sacked, and I’m not using that as the British slang for fired. Terrell Suggs needs to find this person, and hit them hard.