re: Kingsman: The Golden Circle SPOILER THREAD

I thought it was great. Not as good as the first one, which is just a transcendent movie, but very good. It was a bit long and there was so much going on in the plot that it was incredible that Vaughn was able to tell the story coherently, but it was a great send up to the superhero genre of today. It was almost an audition piece for Vaughn to take over the DCEU. From the beginning of the movie when you see the "S" superimposed over the chest of a Kingsman blazer to the superhuman strength that they displayed more freely this go around, to the enormous amount of plotlines going on, the whole thing felt like a massive superhero movie and a good one at that.

And the Statesmen were great. I loved that whole thing. I loved how alcohol, the most freely available drug on the market, made Statesmen, the good guys, gobs of money, while Poppy (because of course her name would be Poppy living in Cambodia and being a drug kingpin) has to live in secrecy and is a bad guy. The whole war on drugs angle was fantastic.