....looks like 'The King's Man' debuTTs on 'HBO Max' and 'Hulu' tonight, Friday [ on demand ]....it will air on HBO on Saturday night at 8 pm......


....One man must race against time to stop history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds as they get together to plot a war that could wipe out millions of people and destroy humanity.....


King me.........?!

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Hmmmm. I watched it 2 weekends ago.

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“A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.” Seneca the Younger

The police have no duty to respond. See Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005) or Warren v. District of Columbia[1] (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981)

Judge Lee wrote that “we cannot jettison our constitutional rights, even if the goal behind a law is laudable." 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

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Hmmmm. I watched it on the 9th.

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“A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.” Seneca the Younger

The police have no duty to respond. See Castle Rock v. Gonzales, 545 U.S. 748 (2005) or Warren v. District of Columbia[1] (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981)

Judge Lee wrote that “we cannot jettison our constitutional rights, even if the goal behind a law is laudable." 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

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.....In the United States, “The King's Man” will debut on Hulu on February 18th 2022. Expect it to also arrive on HBO Max.....

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Sooo bad.

Decent action scenes, but the story is dumb/formulaic in the extreme and the end-credits scene is the sort of cr@p you'd see from a 3rd grader's lazy last-minute attempt to fill a writing-assignment after forgetting about it for a week.

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For those not familiar with the franchise, this is the third in the series. Read carefully what follows, the naming convention is a bit atypical.

In order…

1. The Kingsman: The Secret Service (One word, no apostrophe). 2014
   Wikipedia: The film follows Gary "Eggsy" Unwin's (Taron Egerton) recruitment and training into a secret spy organisation. Eggsy joins a mission, in brutal and comedic fashion, to tackle a global threat from Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson), a wealthy megalomaniac wanting to deal with climate change by wiping out most of humanity. Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Michael Caine play supporting roles.
2. The Kingsman: Golden Circle. 2017
   IMDb: With their headquarters destroyed and the world held hostage, members of Kingsman find new allies when they discover a spy organization in the United States known as Statesman. In an adventure that tests their strength and wits, the elite secret agents from both sides of the pond band together to battle a ruthless enemy and save the day…
3. The King’s Man (Two words, “King’s” with an apostrophe.) 2021
   Wikipedia: …a prequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). Its ensemble cast includes Ralph Fiennes… Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou, and Charles Dance. It focuses on several events during World War I and the birth of the Kingsman organization.

A quick Google lists February 18 as the streaming debut date, noting the unusual fact of it debuting on more than one streaming service simultaneously. Perhaps folks are confusing the first and third films, given that the first is very often referenced simply as “The Kingsman”?




BONUS The “That Time Archer Met a Kingsman” short (YouTube)

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The bartender asks the rabbit "what'll ya have?"
The rabbit says "I dunno. I'm only here because of Autocorrect.


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For those not familiar with the franchise, this is the third in the series. Read carefully what follows, the naming convention is a bit atypical.

In order…

1. The Kingsman: The Secret Service (One word, no apostrophe). 2014
   Wikipedia: The film follows Gary "Eggsy" Unwin's (Taron Egerton) recruitment and training into a secret spy organisation. Eggsy joins a mission, in brutal and comedic fashion, to tackle a global threat from Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson), a wealthy megalomaniac wanting to deal with climate change by wiping out most of humanity. Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Michael Caine play supporting roles.
2. The Kingsman: Golden Circle. 2017
   IMDb: With their headquarters destroyed and the world held hostage, members of Kingsman find new allies when they discover a spy organization in the United States known as Statesman. In an adventure that tests their strength and wits, the elite secret agents from both sides of the pond band together to battle a ruthless enemy and save the day…
3. The King’s Man (Two words, “King’s” with an apostrophe.) 2021
   Wikipedia: …a prequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017). Its ensemble cast includes Ralph Fiennes… Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Matthew Goode, Tom Hollander, Harris Dickinson, Daniel Brühl, Djimon Hounsou, and Charles Dance. It focuses on several events during World War I and the birth of the Kingsman organization.

A quick Google lists February 18 as the streaming debut date, noting the unusual fact of it debuting on more than one streaming service simultaneously. Perhaps folks are confusing the first and third films, given that the first is very often referenced simply as “The Kingsman”?




BONUS The “That Time Archer Met a Kingsman” short (YouTube)

Thanks for the warning. Applying all the time I've saved not watching any of the above, I'll go back to reading Colson Whitehead followed by James Lee Burke.

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Sooo bad.

Decent action scenes, but the story is dumb/formulaic in the extreme and the end-credits scene is the sort of cr@p you'd see from a 3rd grader's lazy last-minute attempt to fill a writing-assignment after forgetting about it for a week.

sooooo ... din't like it?

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Tiangou
Sooo bad.

Decent action scenes, but the story is dumb/formulaic in the extreme and the end-credits scene is the sort of cr@p you'd see from a 3rd grader's lazy last-minute attempt to fill a writing-assignment after forgetting about it for a week.

LOL thanks for the creative wave-off, needed that. Said with complete sincerity and zero sarcasm.

I really liked the first Kingsman, but the second was only OK.

As a third film in a franchise, confidence is always low.

This third film being a prequel, all bets are off.

I'll watch it, but without knowing anything about it,even prior to reading this thread, it was my assumption this wouldn't be nearly as good as the first one.

Because that's generally how it goes.

Not to say there aren't successful franchises, whether or not I like them.

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All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

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Fell asleep to it last night. Finished it today. Boring.

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Tiangou
Sooo bad.

Decent action scenes, but the story is dumb/formulaic in the extreme and the end-credits scene is the sort of cr@p you'd see from a 3rd grader's lazy last-minute attempt to fill a writing-assignment after forgetting about it for a week.

sooooo ... din't like it?

Turned it off an hour in. Total crapfest.

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