Movie Crush Monday: Little C and Kingsman: The Secret Service
Readers, it feels like it's been so long. We were home for Christmas for a week and then we took a week off while we finished some heavy editing on a script we've been working on. Thanks for being patient with our extended absence.
The last time we were movie crushing, CT told you about the one that started us down the path of nerd-dom. I thought it only appropriate to follow Luke Skywalker himself out of the galactic war and into international Earth espionage, so today I'm talking about Kingsman: The Secret Service.
There's so much to love about this movie, but the first thing I noticed in the trailer was how cool and stylized everything is. The fight scenes are smooth and clever, the costumes are just a little sharper and cooler than anything from the real world. Samuel L. Jackson is just a little more over the top than he usually is (in the best possible way). It gives the movie an other worldly sleekness to it that makes all the spy story parts just that much cooler.
I have to take a moment and discuss Colin Firth in this film. He starts off as the usual Colin Firth role, very upstanding and British, but by his second scene he has taken on a bar full of angry hooligans and handed them all their asses. This is an academy award winning thespian who will forever be Mr. Darcy in the hearts and minds of millions of people and he has a gunfight in this movie that makes the OK corral look like a kids party. He has a versatility that I always take for granted until he steps quietly outside of his box and does a role like this that leaves my jaw on the floor.
Most of the really impressive parts of this film are due to director Matthew Vaughn and his writing partner Jane Goldman. The script is fun, and slick like an old school James Bond movie. The scenes are dynamic and the story moves along so fast that if you blink you miss something. The characters are unique and tropical to Mr. Vaughn and Ms. Goldman they defy conventions and break rules.
Okay, we're about to leave for another leg of traveling. Wish me luck.
Happy watching
Little C
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