>Get a job, you lazy little git...
With the renewed interest from the trailer,
How about we go all the way back to the start?
It's pretty different from the movie, but it's okay enough.
And hell, why not - a sequel for this mini was announced too.
This is-
Millar & Gibbons' The Secret Service: Kingsman
And here we go...
Getting Mark Hamill to not play Mark Hamill was weird.
And now we're getting going...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmMIgIygzdA
>>91978455
Thanks, Dave. I've always wondered how this compares to the movie.
>>91978988
I like the characters a lot more here, but the movie has...action. Which this noticeably lacks.
>>91978671
Pretty sure that was too short a distance for the parachute to work anyway, especially with 2 people.
>>91978725
Lol I can see why that didn't make it into the movie
>>91978740
Good taste.
Part 2:
wherein protoypes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b07Z_qfchFk
>>91979236
Which is weird that they still went out to get Mark Hamill for a similar role.
>>91979393
>Make Gazelle a hot dancer Odd Job
I won't lie, perhaps the greatest idea Matthew Vaughn ever had.
>>91979467
It was definitely the best change the movie did.
>>91979467
No doubt. The fight scene was great.I just want her to stab me to death with her legs.
>>91979715
This is why we're getting Atomic Blonde and the second (or fourth or whatever) The Mummy remake.
Gary's blastin' them all away
>>91979818
Are they going to teach him how to pleasure a man too?
Part 3:
Rough Patches
>>91979880
They probably should.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNcZrn5dqZw
>>91979741
>the bit where the pupils split in the mummy trailer
wew lad
I liked this more than the film but the trailer for the new film has me thinking I'll enjoy that more than either the comic or the original movie.
I hope that rumor of Vaughn on MoS 2 turns out to be real though and that he gets plenty of help from Millar.
>>91979947
that weirds me out because I don't remember seeing that before EXCEPT in the Fortress of the Apocalypse manga where the super zombies do that to control other zombies.
Well, it sure is a cool car.
>>91980045
I liked the film's action, but didn't enjoy the film outside of that very much, but the new movie looks a lot more entertaining.
I hope the sequel to the comic is good as well.
>>91980053
It was in the first issue of the Kamandi challenge if I remember right. The new Mummy film seems quite horror-y, I hope that's not just trailer hype.
It weirds me out tooin a hot way.
>>91980127
I hope that they're able to make distinct Frankenstein and Dracula ones as well.
I hear Untold got kicked out of this continuity.
If you could steal any car in the world, why would you ever lowball it?
>>91980160
Untold was basically a Dracula superhero movie weirdly enough.
>>91980187
Yeah, and it didn't do it half badly.
I just like my Dracula's nice and villainous.
Harker and Co. should be the real badasses.
>>91980113
Does anyone know much about the sequel comic's plot?
And yeah, outside of the action I don't have much investment in the first film. But the second film looks like the straightforward R-rates Bond goofiness without the smug snark the first one had. And that's very appealing to me.
>>91978725
sheeiit
>>91980160
Kurtzman went on record with Universal support to say Untold was out. He's apparently got a hard-on to do Creature from the Black Lagoon "next."
They're slow on Frankenstein because they think people still remember the one with McAvoy and Radcliffe. Also because /co/'s favorite fanfic writer is still trying to shop a sequel to that.
>>91980233
That's exactly my sentiment about the new one too.
It was trying too hard to be self-aware and goofy. It wasn't pulling it off haha.
The new one just seems to be going for goofy, and the Statemen with their lassos reminds a whole lot of Spy Kids...in a good way.
The sequel comic just has a name "The Secret Service: The Red Diamond". Well, Kingsman: The Red Diamond, but the comic has jackshit to do with Kingsman anything.
>>91980160
>>91980127
Apparently they're not trying to make the UMCU a fully synchronized franchise but more of a jumping off point to make a bunch of different horror action/adventure films in a modern context. Think like scary Indiana Jones where the background matters If you want to care about it but there's no reason to try to fit all the pieces together if you just want to enjoy a movie.
They dun goofed.
>>91980255
Creature From The Black Lagoon would be fucking great, if donee well. And I can understand that. That movie was lackluster.
>>91980181
Is that like the Queen's car or what?
>>91980328
Yeah, Royal car.
>>91980304
>>91980314
that's fine.
I think Universal should just license all of it to Blumhouse and say "give us ten films by 2020."
Anything will be better than the Polaroid movie later this summer.
Anyone remember the full story about Oscar Pistorious auditioning for Gazelle but being passed over because he didn't "look like a killer"?
Brilliant
>>91980294
Why would they send them to a place where Gary is known? England's big enough to find other street gangs.
>>91980493
Only Uncle Jack would've cared.
The rest of the recruits are more posh, or at least not chavvy as him. They probably didn't think of it.
And by the looks at this page...they don't keep the tightest lid on things.
>>91980353
>Norman Osborn hair
Part 4:
Graduation Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfjL9uX2leg
>>91980532
It was weird first seeing that hair in real life. Surreal.
>>91980453
That sounds like an Onion article.
>Inspired by the 2012 Paralympics in London, Matthew Vaughn wanted to have a character with a prosthetic leg, similar to the 'Flex-Foot Cheetah' as worn by paralympian sprinters. At one point, Oscar Pistorius was approached about playing the role of 'Gazelle', and his representatives were asked if Pistorius could play a convincing killer. He later declined to take the role to focus on practicing for future sporting events. In February 2013, Pistorius was put on trial, and later sentenced for shooting and killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Also in the film, Gazelle shoots someone through a door. Pistorius had shot Steenkamp through a door.
Huh.
>>91980478
So how do those radio pens work? Because I'm not seeing ear pieces and I doubt broadcasting your spy stuff willy-nilly is a good plan.
>>91980693
Ear pieces got cut in the budget
I think Mark Millar is the only comic writer I like more when he's watered down and smoothed out by Hollywood.
Undiluted Millar is too much teenager edge for me. I even like the Wanted movie more then the comic and they barely have anything to do with each other.
>>91980825
I feel the movies are definitely made to be more crowdpleasing, but what good there is kinda gets lost in translation.
>>91980774
Gary you retard, what kind of Colombian cop doesn't speak Spanish.
>>91980863
>but what good there is kinda gets lost in translation.
But the good is mostly just the premise and maybe the basic character sketches. The actual meat is either outright bad or made for a very specific sliver of an audience.
All a bunch of luck.
But the moxie helps mask that.
>>91980825
So far this seems less edgy than the movie to me.
I mean I'm not seeing a 10-page church murder scene, the violence in general seems less glorified than in the movie.
>>91980909
The first Kick-Ass movie and the Secret Service film have the same issue where by homogenizing the former and trying to be too self aware in the latter...bored the hell out of me.
Wanted's movie was just a fun little movie about people who shoot guns very well.
>>91980939
Gary's character arc is, in general, a lot more grounded and character centered than his counterpart Eggsy's in the movie.
Which, frankly, I felt was a disservice to do it that way.
>>91980939
This is one of the least edgy Millar books ever. It was a pleasant surprise coming off Kick-Ass 2 which was way too edgy. This and KA 3 were Millar taming it down a bit which made the stories more enjoyable.
>>91980995
Aye, KA3 hits the perfect balance of Kick-Assery.
Ridiculous and vulgar while also noting how dumb and exploitative it all is, but touching on moments of character.
I think that more even comics he came out with around that time, but lately he's gone downward in quality since Chrononauts.
>>91980939
>I mean I'm not seeing a 10-page church murder scene, the violence in general seems less glorified than in the movie.
Most of the violence in the movie was played for comedy though. It was a Roger Moore Bond film with an R Rating.
>>91980953
>Wanted's movie was just a fun little movie about people who shoot guns very well.
Wasn't the whole deal that the screenwriters only got the first issue of the comic and to write the entire plot from the sliver of the story alone?
>>91980953
>>91980985
God I fucking hate fashion autism.
>>91981048
I actually don't think I've read anything of his since Kick-Ass 3. That was a good ending for me with Millar stuff for a bit. I'll probably check out the new Kick-Ass book when it drops to see how it is.
>>91981079
Yeah, it was played for comedy. But I think it went too far even there. I love the somewhat somber tone the comic ends on, it was one of the things that made the movie an overall less engaging experience.
And yeah I believe so.
>>91981091
I only hope the new Kick-Ass gets is as bad at superheroing and gets as fucked up during fights as Dave did. Those were highlights.
>>91981048
it looks like he's talking to himself
>>91980953
I'm with Dave on this one. Vaughn is definitely more of a crowd pleaser but he replaces edge with flat pleasantries or simply more acceptable edge in my opinion.
And as for Wanted, a lot of the edge and the nihilistic disregard for anyone who isn't the protagonist it still there. But now we don't even have an ounce of some of the most interesting stuff from the comic.
Millar kinda strikes me as an optimist who believes in the inherent potential goodness of humanity but is just an accidental edgelord who gets too wrapped up in the "coolness" of his premises.
But look at Kick Ass which is basically about some of the shittiest people in the world trying to be good guys and being somewhat successful if overly extreme. Or even Wanted where villains had to rewrite reality and launch neverending terror campaigns just to keep the world from reverting back to a Silver Age-esque heroic paradise.
I'm not saying he's great. He's very ineffective in a lot of ways for my money. But writing him off as pure edge feels like missing the point.
>>91981074
That kid is not 3 years (or even 2 and a half) older.
>>91981133
Yeah, it'd be shame if she was just a generic superhero who really does kick ass. It wouldn't be a Kick-Ass book without getting their ass kicked.
>>91981079
>Most of the violence in the movie was played for comedy though.
That kind of makes it edgier desu.
>>91981157
>Or even Wanted where villains had to rewrite reality and launch neverending terror campaigns just to keep the world from reverting back to a Silver Age-esque heroic paradise.
And that's not even mentioning that part of Wanted's plot is about a faction of the villains actually miss the silver age world they rewrote. They miss the antics and supervillaining.
>>91981157
>But writing him off as pure edge feels like missing the point.
He's not always pure edge, but his blend of edge and half-baked ideals does nothing for me. At least Vaughn balances the scales in a direction, even if it is the more "crowd-pleasing" one.
I'll happily take the jetpack in Kick-Ass if that means getting rid of Big Daddy's original backstory and Hit-Girl snorting coke.
>>91981307
She still snorts coke in the movie IIRC.
Part 5:
Strangehold
>>91981307
>I'll happily take the jetpack in Kick-Ass if that means getting rid of Big Daddy's original backstory and Hit-Girl snorting coke.
Didn't need to be a jetpack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at7xLnfubFY
>>91981307
I prefer Big Daddy's original backstory. The one in the film is still extremely edgy just in a way that's superficially more pleasant and acceptable than the comic. At its core it's still about some dude brainwashing a little girl to be an amoral killing machine hopped up on comic lore. It's just now he's a lovable sitcom dad too. And if they actually did something with that I'd probably like what was done. But it was just a way to deliver a far less interesting version of the same dynamic.
I didn't go into that movie wanting to see edgy ultraviolent Spider-Man meets Mystery Men that still think it's superior enough to both of those films that it can be snarky and smug about it.
But I get why people love KA the movie and don't begrudge anyone that love. I just want to convey my opinion that Millar to Vaughn adaptations are tradeoffs and not comprehensive upgrades.
>>91981466
Gary looks 45 ever since they put him in that suit.
>>91981494
I agree. Like what was said earlier. the comics are about horrible people "trying" to be heroic. They might not be all that great at it, and might have very unheroic ambitions, but it's about how that shifts them and leads them.
I mean, Dave starts the series as a sociopathic idiot, and while he's not that much better as a person by the end, he's still a tad more realistic about it.
Replacing Big Daddy's backstory makes sense if you're trying to tone him down, but at the end of it by toning the backstories down you're just making a regular superhero story with more cursing and blood.
>>91981539
It's a stark contrast with white leisure wear Gary for sure.
>>91981494
>KA movies
No one likes KA2.
>I just want to convey my opinion that Millar to Vaughn adaptations are tradeoffs and not comprehensive upgrades.
Sure, and like I've said it's a matter of taste with me. Millar's brand of winky, moronic pulp doesn't blend with me anymore unfiltered.
>>91978478
>Not asking him about his voice acting.Then leading up to Star Wars stuff.
Amatuer hour.
>>91981608
>No one likes KA2.
Everything about the second KA movie, except the Hit Girl scenes, is a better KA movie.
It captures the vulgar exploitative nature, but then that's balanced out by how wonderfully portrayed Justice Forever is.
I loved Remembering Tommy.
>>91981652
>Everything about the second KA movie, except the Hit Girl scenes, is a better KA movie.
Alright, you're on drugs here Dave. That movie looks like absolute garbage, everyone's performances are far weaker and pretty much every "serious" scene is punctuated with DUDE WEED jokes.
There isn't a single honest emotional beat in that entire film. Literally the only reason to watch it is for Jim Carrey and maybe a couple bits with McLovin.
>>91981698
Gary a best.
>>91981652
I can't agree with that. I found the KA2 movie awful. I think that your criticism is more about the movie as an adaptation than the movie as a movie, honestly.
>>91981608
Fair enough.
I don't much care for any of Vaughn's work. But i think he has potential to hit that sweet spot for me. And I think Golden Circle and Man of Steel 2 are his best shots for me.
I'm glad he's firing on all cylinders for you though. I'd rather hard work be enjoyed than hated even if I don't quite care for it myself.
>>91981702
That's why I said better KA movie and explained what I meant.
It's 100% a weaker, worse made, movie.
But it better captures on screen the spirit of Kick-Ass.
>>91981735
Yeah, you're right.
That's why I said better Kick-Ass movie.
Not movie in general.
The movie is shot like a piece of shit and the Hit-Girl scenes are just horrible in every single way.
>>91981719
>Gary a best.
Can't deny that.
>>91981738
>I don't much care for any of Vaughn's work
Even First Class and Stardust?
>I'm glad he's firing on all cylinders for you though. I'd rather hard work be enjoyed than hated even if I don't quite care for it myself.
I'm not going to pretend that Vaughn doesn't have his own brand of dumb juvenile humor. But that humor manages to work for me far better then Millar's.
Did you see Wanted?
>>91981814
Stardust is really fun and I loved it.
First Class, I think was a bit under thought out, but it looks nice.
>>91981742
That's nice and all but Jack could have set that up years ago.
>>91981894
Yeah, but Jack stopped caring.
>>91981841
>First Class looks nice
It has the some of the worse CGI of the 21st century.
>>91981938
I can't win here haha.
I was looking for a way to compliment other than the obvious nature of Fassbender or McAvoy...who I think were too good in that particular movie.
>>91981814
I think First Class is my favorite of his films so far. I didn't much care for Layer Cake or Stardust. I dunno quite what it is about the guy. Just rubs me the wrong way. All of his movies look great. But. I can't say I love any of them and only sort of enjoy most of them.
I've seen the film version of Wanted and have actually defended the movie as a worthwhile film experience in and of itself. But I still find it as edgy as the comic but less spectacular and far less interesting.
>>91981938
That's a flat out lie my dude.
>>91981989
My only real complaint about the Wanted movie is that, while not as fraught with the vicious imagery of the comic's last line, in their attempt to emulate it - the speech comes off even more clunky.
>>91982011
Watch it again. It looks 90s TV tier.
>>91981981
They were the only really good thing in that movie imo.
Poor Jack.
No coming back from that one like Harry.
>>91982068
I will agree with that 100%
>>91981938
>some of the worse CGI of the 21st century.
my dude if this wasn't a storytime I'd post the Bob Sapp "Are we having fun" gif from /m/
>>91982052
Stealing from the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsXPBkpOr9Y
Final Part:
Generational
How faithful is the movies to this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia6-5gC5ArM
>>91982165
Main basic villain's scheme...and premise of chav becoming secret agent.
Every other detail is reworked.
>>91982052
He really should have seen it coming. For someone who's twarted maniacs for decades he seemed really fast to assume that this particular one wasn't having his gf followed.
>>91982138
I wish I was having fun while watching 1st Class, but it was boring, stupid and ugly.
>>91982215
I'll give it a read when you post the link at the end.
>>91982240
>Steed...Templar
Millar busting out the OG references of random British spy stuff. Though I always thought The Saint was a freelance thief.
I love this aspect of the finale.
>>91982308
>Though I always thought The Saint was a freelance thief.
He pretended to be a thief to ingratiate himself into criminal organisations and then take them apart from the inside.
Also, you want to talk about unfaithful movie adaptation jesus christ what the fuck val kilmer
>>91982269
I just need to say, all this pop Malthusianism being presented as "logical" and "pragmatic" annoys me. I know it's from the villains but it doesn't seem like anyone even has a rational opposition to it.
>>91982384
>I know it's from the villains but it doesn't seem like anyone even has a rational opposition to it.
It works better in the movie because Valentine is such an absurd cartoon there.
I really enjoyed the youths banding together, instead of the one man army climax of the movie.
>>91982358
That film tricked me into thinking that mutli-tool thing was real as a kid.
Also having re-watched it recently Kilmer's range between "Aussie" and "Gay Perry" is not wide at all.
>>91982491
Is that Brosnan? This artist really isn't too good with faces?
>>91982548
Too bad they have even less characterization than in the movie, Gary/Eggsy aside.
>>91982564
Turns out being basically blind to your surroundings because your entire field of vision is occupied by videos is not a good idea when you're basically in a war zone.
Who could have foreseen this.
He's lucky Gazelle was apparently the only person who wasn't issued a gun.
>>91982567
>Also having re-watched it recently Kilmer's range between "Aussie" and "Gay Perry" is not wide at all.
I just want to know what decisions lead to The Saint becoming a mixture between Jason Bourne and The Master of Disguise. Even that piece of shit Ralph Finnes Avengers movie didn't make up a totally new power set that the characters on the show literally never had.
Also that movie actually had a real third act once but it got slashed for a "happier" finale, which is why it functionally has no real dramatic climax.
What a titanic pile of garbage.
>>91982548
I wouldn't have minded the one-man army thing if they didn't also have Mark Strong helping them.
Kinda undercuts them coming into their own a bit.
>>91982598
>Remember?
I don't think Gazelle should know that Gary knows he's an ex-agent.
>>91982683
Roger Moore of all people. Moore even got a new pilot shot a year or two ago starring the main dude from Tyrant as New Templar.
But it must've been shit because a) the dude left to make Tyrant and b) no one picked up the series, which Moore then had a role for himself created (idk as Old Templar or what)
Gotta get some of that lovin' feelin'....
>>91982691
Gary needs to work on his one-liners.
>>91982819
They only get worse and less pithy.
>>91982220
Having Gary with him made him soft
Could've at least worked with an old standard. Low marks, Gary.
>>91982843
>all that ir in all three panels
In Chicago, there's a saying: once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
I thought it was odd that they'd single out David Beckham here, but then I saw a video clip of people bursting into praying tears when meeting him - and then I understood.
This epilogue is fantastic.
>>91982914
>"Who?"
>not "The guy who wrote White Fang?"
Gary looks 30 years old lol
>>91982942
I don't see it in panel 1, but you're pretty retarded if you think there are no black people in NY, Paris or London.
>>91982992
This.
>>91982953
Why would the villain want to save David Beckham? He's not exactly a nerd idol.
Did he really like Bend It Like Beckham or something?
>>91982996
He has since he put on the suit.
>>91983044
Maybe he saved Posh Spice and David just came along as a plus one.
>>91983044
Because they wanted to write that scene. It'd make more sense if the villain was British but I guess just assume he was a soccer nerd.
Another successful mission.
THE END
Gary London will return in -
"The Secret Service: The Red Diamond"
Coming September 2017
>>91983032
It's a Bond quote. As they say round these parts: "I was only pretending to be retarded. " Also the lesbians in the back on panel one.
How do you top saving the world?
>>91983140
if you're mark millar, you fuck two goats.
>>91979660
Bag of basmati rice, oh fuck I remember the guy who posted it on social media the fucking dickhead
How did everyone on the planet fucking eachother for 20 minutes not make the news
>>91983092
Wait so The bearded guy was the only person compromised in MI6?
That's retarded.
>>91983212
There's honestly a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense in this.
The movie is somehow less nonsensical.
>>91983252
>Millar.
>>91979818
Second g spot? Shit....
>>91983212
Shame.
>>91980478
These guys are much nicer than the ones in the movie.
>>91982384
Well Gary isn't that educated or cultured so I can't imagine he cares to try to argue against it, and Jack has been doing this so long that I can see him just wanting to stop it, and that be the end of it.
>>91983052
I actually posted that when I was at the beginning lol
Bump.
>>91980916
I'll admit. This was clever as fuck and impressive.
>>91982814
Honestly this twist is better than the movies.
Sweet thanks Dave