Comments on: Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) https://thegoodsreviews.com/kingsman-the-golden-circle-2017/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kingsman-the-golden-circle-2017 Watching and asking: Is It Good? Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Dan Stalcup https://thegoodsreviews.com/kingsman-the-golden-circle-2017/#comment-2761 Wed, 28 Feb 2024 02:35:47 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=11402#comment-2761 In reply to Hunter Allen.

Your warning is at least a little bit responsible for me not hating this, because I went in expecting a dogshit bad time and instead found some stuff perversely fun. (Meanwhile, most people I know call the first Kingsman peak Vaughn, which probably tempered my reaction a little. I need to go in blinder on these things.) Kingsman movies are definitely a delicate juggling act, so when most things are a little off, it makes a huge difference. And then there’s The King’s Man, where everything is a lot off…

]]> By: Hunter Allen https://thegoodsreviews.com/kingsman-the-golden-circle-2017/#comment-2745 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 12:47:48 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=11402#comment-2745 It’s still kind of dizzying, to me, because I liked Kingsman, how much worse this came off, but it shows how metastable Kingsman is, just right on the edge of being awful itself, and somehow keeping itself from falling into the abyss must’ve been one the reasons I was so impressed with it. But The Golden Circle does practically exactly the same things, just without that poise: it’s like if Steven Spielberg did a sequel to E.T. and it was still Mac and Me.

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