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  • The King's Man. Sure, ok, why not SPOILERS

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 9 04:56:01 2022
    So they take a woman and a kid into a Boer War zone?? The inevitable stupid consequences. Meanwhile, they show the Boer's in poor condition in a Brit concentration camp, but does anyone in the mouth-breather audience even know what the Boer's were like
    especially to the Africans? Then, years later, daddy Kingsman has to explain the story of Icarus to his son, who presumably went to the best schools where the classics were still taught then. Then a cabal of evil low-lifes lead by some Scottish villain
    tasks some minion with killing Archduke Ferdinand. Get it? The minion's bombing attempt is thwarted by the Kingsman. The minion then goes to kill himself with a cyanide pill for failing the villain, as as he's about to take it in an outdoor cafe, he
    sees the Archduke and shoots him. The minion in real-life was a Serbian anarchist.
    One of the villains eggs on the German Kaiser, Rasputin, another minion manipulates the Russian Tsar, pitting each against the other. WW1 starts.
    2 years in, the villain determines to get Russia out of the war to allow Germany to concentrate on England and destroy it. Meanwhile, Kingsman's son wants to join up but his father doesn't want it. The Tsar is conned by Rasputin to withdraw from the
    war in order to save his son.

    This isn't like the other Kingsman and its relative bloodlessness and action may put off some viewers of the earlier movies.

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to rander3128@gmail.com on Wed Feb 9 13:27:01 2022
    In article <69f9b97a-2ab8-48cd-b404-a09218a5a0fdn@googlegroups.com>,
    RichA <rander3128@gmail.com> wrote:
    So they take a woman and a kid into a Boer War zone?? The inevitable
    stupid consequences. Meanwhile, they show the Boer's in poor condition
    in a Brit concentration camp, but does anyone in the mouth-breather
    audience even know what the Boer's were like especially to the Africans? >Then, years later, daddy Kingsman has to explain the story of Icarus to
    his son, who presumably went to the best schools where the classics were >still taught then. Then a cabal of evil low-lifes lead by some Scottish >villain tasks some minion with killing Archduke Ferdinand. Get it?
    The minion's bombing attempt is thwarted by the Kingsman. The minion
    then goes to kill himself with a cyanide pill for failing the villain,
    as as he's about to take it in an outdoor cafe, he sees the Archduke and >shoots him. The minion in real-life was a Serbian anarchist.
    One of the villains eggs on the German Kaiser, Rasputin, another minion >manipulates the Russian Tsar, pitting each against the other. WW1
    starts.
    2 years in, the villain determines to get Russia out of the war to allow >Germany to concentrate on England and destroy it. Meanwhile, Kingsman's
    son wants to join up but his father doesn't want it. The Tsar is conned
    by Rasputin to withdraw from the war in order to save his son.

    This isn't like the other Kingsman and its relative bloodlessness and
    action may put off some viewers of the earlier movies.


    It was probably the least of the three, and the pacifism theme made it
    kind of schizophrenic but it was entertaining enough with its "secret
    history" takes on Rasputin, Princep, Kitchner, Wilson & Mata Hari. The big surprise in retrospect should not have been since we were told in the
    first movie that it was coming..
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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 10 00:10:36 2022
    On Wednesday, 9 February 2022 at 08:27:05 UTC-5, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <69f9b97a-2ab8-48cd...@googlegroups.com>,
    RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
    So they take a woman and a kid into a Boer War zone?? The inevitable
    stupid consequences. Meanwhile, they show the Boer's in poor condition
    in a Brit concentration camp, but does anyone in the mouth-breather >audience even know what the Boer's were like especially to the Africans? >Then, years later, daddy Kingsman has to explain the story of Icarus to
    his son, who presumably went to the best schools where the classics were >still taught then. Then a cabal of evil low-lifes lead by some Scottish >villain tasks some minion with killing Archduke Ferdinand. Get it?
    The minion's bombing attempt is thwarted by the Kingsman. The minion
    then goes to kill himself with a cyanide pill for failing the villain,
    as as he's about to take it in an outdoor cafe, he sees the Archduke and >shoots him. The minion in real-life was a Serbian anarchist.
    One of the villains eggs on the German Kaiser, Rasputin, another minion >manipulates the Russian Tsar, pitting each against the other. WW1
    starts.
    2 years in, the villain determines to get Russia out of the war to allow >Germany to concentrate on England and destroy it. Meanwhile, Kingsman's
    son wants to join up but his father doesn't want it. The Tsar is conned
    by Rasputin to withdraw from the war in order to save his son.

    This isn't like the other Kingsman and its relative bloodlessness and >action may put off some viewers of the earlier movies.

    It was probably the least of the three, and the pacifism theme made it
    kind of schizophrenic but it was entertaining enough with its "secret history" takes on Rasputin, Princep, Kitchner, Wilson & Mata Hari. The big surprise in retrospect should not have been since we were told in the
    first movie that it was coming..
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    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

    The scenery was nice to look at, and the action is as professional as it comes.

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  • From alvey@21:1/5 to RichA on Thu Feb 10 17:53:04 2022
    On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 04:56:01 -0800 (PST), RichA wrote:

    The Tsar is conned by Rasputin to withdraw from the war in order to save his son.

    That'd be no mean feat as I'm pretty sure that Rasputin had been dead for nearly a year before *Lenin* called a Russian ceasefire on all fronts.



    Comrade alvey

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