WWI is so far in the distance that you can make real life political figures fun Easter Eggs. "That's Hitler- he's more important in the sequels!"

'Imperialism bad, but it is super tempting' is genuinely the main theme of the film. As a WWI moron :whywhywhywhywhy: -Please tell me why the film's bad

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      The first one is a kind of loving tribute to cold war spy movies like James Bond and Harry Palmer. A lot of those movies end with the protagonist having reward sex with an objectified woman.

        • threshold [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          What if James Bond getting with a woman at the end of the film lingered a bit longer so we saw how crude he is was my vibe.

          The sequel has a POV shot of a finger blast from the fingers perspective- lol

            • threshold [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              That's interesting, I kinda viewed it as how behind the debonair aesthetic, these are crude people who commit a psychotically high amount of violence and when push comes to shove, will happily receive sex from some woman who's been kidnapped first chance they get.

              I mean, the fingering scene in the second film definitely gives credence to your point though, they definitely are just laughing at this shit

      • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Its more then that even...its also a sort of passing of the torch/commentary on the transition of the spy genre from Sean Connery's Bond to Daniel Craig (or even Jason Bourne for that matter).

        The point of the movie is basically a buddy film about the old school well groomed British gentleman era spy played by Collin Firth getting to train and work with the grittier more grounded and working class operator/commando agent build played by Taron Egerton. Both types of spies would objectify women and get the girl in the end...but Eggsy is unbred and uncouth and thus he gets anal.

        Gross and problematic? Definitely. There was a thought behind it though.