K-Comedy: KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2014)

The comedy that starts with a K: KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (2014), a spy movie starring Colin Firth (Harry Hart) and Samuel L. Jackson (Valentine).

As much as I love ARCHER, I had to force myself to get past the first 10 seconds of this film and even bear it until the end.

It's too violent, too Eurocentric, too pro-billionaire, and Samuel L. Jackson as a goofy, eccentric, idiotic villain (or "colorful megalomaniac," as Harry Hart calls him) doesn't sit well with me. He's like the love child of Trump, Musk, and somehow Spike Lee. Samuel L. Jackson plays the part to perfection, and yet I don't think he's the right casting choice. The whole film just isn't for me.

The entire church scene is a symphony of stabbing and shooting in the face. As much as I hate the Church, was that really necessary? America IS doomed.

But as I stuck around, I began to see it as a critique of the status quo: the tech billionaires, the Church, the aristocratic sense of meritocracy and humanity...

Then there's the ending, where the princess / damsel in distress happily volunteers some ass-fucking to a teenage stranger (whatever, he's a kid and they met literally 10 seconds ago) for the sake of humanity. That's some '90s Pamela Anderson fantasy sh!t that makes me question the intelligence of the whole project.

Just like the design of that hot-air balloon that's supposed to save the world, I'll never know whether this film is meant to look like a heart, a scrotum, or both.

Shoutout to Brad Allan, the fight choreographer of this film. Good job. Best music: "Pomp and Circumstance".

Up next we have: a drama that starts with an L, a queer romance that starts with an M, a non-queer one that starts with N.