>Muschietti has a commercially shrewd grasp of what triggers today’s jaundiced moviegoers and TV-watchers, raised on shock effects and paranormal frights, much of it derived from King’s own clichés. King’s world represents our culture’s degradation and depravity — not “fun” but perhaps the most synthetic Hollywood sentimentality ever to be mistaken for Americana.
>The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is more than a reboot, it’s a guy’s guy love story. British director Guy Ritchie pours his liking of sexy, tough-guy camaraderie and brutal violence into this flashy retro film version of the '60s American TV spy series.
>Ritchie’s own code of cool — impassioned masculine professionalism — flows between American CIA agent Napoleon Solo (dark-haired Henry Cavill) and Russian KGB agent Illya Kuryakin (blond Armie Hammer) as they come together to save the 1963 world. Each man is a high-style figure of '60s Cold War sexual tension. Their code acronym (United Network Command for Law Enforcement) could as well suggest LBGT broad-mindedness.
>Even though there’s a woman in the plot (Alicia Vikander as the daughter of a former Nazi rocket scientist possibly building a nuclear bomb to the advantage of either East/West governments) her frumpiness in mod clothes exposes Ritchie’s preference; she only gets in the way of Solo and Kuryakin’s erotically coordinated chic:
>Solo’s neatly-parted and Kuraykin’s deeply-parted hairstyles mean more than politics. Their first aggressive encounter is a car chase courtship — a motorized do-si-do — where the two agents thrust and parry through dark Berlin streets testing their cunning, agility and prowess.
>Consider their Heimlich maneuver: After joining forces, Solo saves a drowning Kuryakin by coming up from behind. It is an intimate rescue and Ritchie’s coyness is daring. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is loaded with gay sexual innuendo, including several tearoom jokes: In a green public urinal, Solo jests “Anything in particular, or are you just looking?” Even Kuryakin has “a bit of fun with three Italian boys in the men’s room,” with flirty-eyed Hammer coming out on top — and still dapper.
Jeremiah Collins
literally my fav reviewer
Landon Rivera
Why did you post a picture of my mom?
David Hall
>Armond has the same opinion on a movie as Douge
Brayden Nelson
Bro?
Ethan Cook
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Josiah Moore
Armond White agrees with the Tomatometer more than 50 percent of the time. Can you pull the dick out of your eye and see that Armond isn't a contrarian?
Gavin Roberts
But what did he think of The Emoji Movie?
Robert Nelson
It was animationkino 10/10
Brody Miller
Yeah I don't know where people get the idea that he's a contrarian
Andrew Long
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Kevin Jones
>Arnold White >is black
fucking contrarian
Dylan Morales
He only agrees with it when it comes to more obscure movies. Anything mainstream he automatically goes against the grain.
Joshua Baker
No!
Wyatt Morgan
He just said he agrees with obscure shit
Benjamin Evans
>conservative faggot dislikes a movie based on a King's story Woah, what a twist
Dylan Russell
There is literally only one review that matters - but where the fuck is it?!