I have a giddy but non-fandomy love for this movie (eg i shipped absolutely no one; didn't even ~occur to me until someone said something on Twitter later). My only deep thoughts are pretty mundane and/or offensive. BUT SINCE YOU ASKED! :P
1) I was ready to watch from the moment i saw the preview because any actiony movie where the good guys are British and the bad guy is American is flipping the archetype on its head and ABOUT DAMN TIME. (Bond notwithstanding because to be frank I have seen 2 (two) Bond movies in my life and I vary from very offended to just not super interested in anything besides Judi Dench. I just mean every other action movie ever made.)
2) I love (LOVE) it when characters get killed off. Good ones, bad ones, meh ones. So, on top of the Arthurian structure and just the general exquisite British-ness, this movie had me at the very first scene. (I may or may not have yelled 'Jack Davenpoooooooort!' out loud lolol)
3) The fact that there was zip zero zilch sexual anything between the male villain and his hot loyal female sidekick WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME. and yet another thing you don't see much. (see also: Why Doctor Who irks me a lot of the time.) (in fact, they did pretty well at not sexualizing any of it, with the one obvious & vomit-inducing exception)
4) oh and i did like the small moral complexity of the dog thing. and that the girl's the one that went through with it, admitting that trying to define what is strength and what is weakness is slippery.
5) (and here's the offensive one) the church scene -- i cheered like fuck. all I could think (beyond the amazing camerawork and COLIN MOTHERFUCKING FIRTH) was 'WAY TO FULFILL A LIBERAL'S DEEPEST DARKEST FANTASY.'
so now if you no longer want to be friends i understand. that was a lot of f-bombs and violence. XB
OMG this is brilliant and I can't really disagree with anything you've written (I did actually make a new post with my few scattered thoughts).
I normally do not come out shipping anyone either (or I need to rewrite the canon, in which case there is no one for me to commiserate with), but something about Eggsy and Merlin at the end there....
f-bombs are a delight to me.
That church scene was also pretty trope defying.
I liked that there was not a whole lot of sexualizing going on (and you are so right, that one scene was vomit inducing. Like WTH, they got it so right and then had that BS in there? And it wasn't subtle at all. Ugh. Plus, not Eggsy/Merlin, so....)
Did I miss anything? I'm pretty tired and my eyes are now irritated with the lack of moisture here a mile above sea level.
ahhh hence all the snow shenanigans of the past few weeks. XB My job involves calls from the area, so I've heard all about it on several levels.
Denver is beautiful but yes, so, so dry. i had to actually buy eyedrops and extra-special lotion for the 36 hours i was there last time, just to survive. crazy.
1) I was ready to watch from the moment i saw the preview because any actiony movie where the good guys are British and the bad guy is American is flipping the archetype on its head and ABOUT DAMN TIME. (Bond notwithstanding because to be frank I have seen 2 (two) Bond movies in my life and I vary from very offended to just not super interested in anything besides Judi Dench. I just mean every other action movie ever made.)
2) I love (LOVE) it when characters get killed off. Good ones, bad ones, meh ones. So, on top of the Arthurian structure and just the general exquisite British-ness, this movie had me at the very first scene. (I may or may not have yelled 'Jack Davenpoooooooort!' out loud lolol)
3) The fact that there was zip zero zilch sexual anything between the male villain and his hot loyal female sidekick WAS SO FUCKING AWESOME. and yet another thing you don't see much. (see also: Why Doctor Who irks me a lot of the time.) (in fact, they did pretty well at not sexualizing any of it, with the one obvious & vomit-inducing exception)
4) oh and i did like the small moral complexity of the dog thing. and that the girl's the one that went through with it, admitting that trying to define what is strength and what is weakness is slippery.
5) (and here's the offensive one) the church scene -- i cheered like fuck. all I could think (beyond the amazing camerawork and COLIN MOTHERFUCKING FIRTH) was 'WAY TO FULFILL A LIBERAL'S DEEPEST DARKEST FANTASY.'
so now if you no longer want to be friends i understand. that was a lot of f-bombs and violence. XB
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I normally do not come out shipping anyone either (or I need to rewrite the canon, in which case there is no one for me to commiserate with), but something about Eggsy and Merlin at the end there....
f-bombs are a delight to me.
That church scene was also pretty trope defying.
I liked that there was not a whole lot of sexualizing going on (and you are so right, that one scene was vomit inducing. Like WTH, they got it so right and then had that BS in there? And it wasn't subtle at all. Ugh. Plus, not Eggsy/Merlin, so....)
Did I miss anything? I'm pretty tired and my eyes are now irritated with the lack of moisture here a mile above sea level.
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Denver is beautiful but yes, so, so dry. i had to actually buy eyedrops and extra-special lotion for the 36 hours i was there last time, just to survive. crazy.
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Denver is beautiful, but the thin atmosphere and lack of humidity are hard on me. I always bring Vaseline with me :D
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