With No Sequel in Sight, Pedro Pascal's Star-Studded Action Sequel Finds a New Streamer
The 2017 Kingsman sequel, directed by Matthew Vaughn, brought back Taron Egerton,
After the Kingsman organization is wiped out, Eggsy (Egerton) and his mentor Harry Hart (Firth) team up with their American counterparts, the Statesman — a whiskey-soaked spy group based in Kentucky. Together, they take on drug cartel queen Poppy Adams (Moore), whose Golden Circle operation threatens the world.
The film was a hit at the box office, pulling in $410.9 million worldwide, even if critics weren’t quite as charmed the second time around. While The Secret Service
Is 'The Golden Circle' Worth Watching?
Collider's review wasn't overly positive, criticizing it for having occasional laughs but ultimately, being less than the sum of its very talented parts:
It’s a movie that, in its desire to have an action scene set to “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting”, will cram in a bunch of scenes with Elton John, and hope that you just have fun with Elton John playing himself. I like Elton John as much as the next guy, but he doesn’t significantly make the film stronger.
This leads to a movie that’s intermittently amusing, but for as cartoony as it gets (and it’s super cartoony), it can’t handle everything that it’s trying to do. For every scene that tries to get back to how the original upended the spy genre, such as one bit where Eggsy has to plant a bug in an unconventional way, you also have a scene like the one where Poppy has her robot dogs rip an errant henchman to shreds. I understand that the impulse with blockbuster sequels is to go bigger and bolder, but for
The Golden Circle, it ends up creating a mess that deprives the film of the energy and verve of the original.
The Last of Us Is Hiding a Hilarious Hidden Scene
Somehow, even though I’ve played through The Last of Us multiple times, someone has managed to trigger an amusing hidden scene that I have never seen before.
I’m honestly not sure how many times I’ve finished the first
I think it’s around six, but it could also be seven. Either way, my point is that I’ve played Naughty Dog’s best game (sorry, Uncharted fans) a bunch, and yet even though I’ve invested god knows how many hours into it… someone has found a scene I’ve never laid my eyes on.
Over on the r/thelastofus subreddit, one user posted a video in which they managed to trigger a hidden bit of dialogue featuring Ellie making fun of Joel, which seemingly only occurs when you stand around doing absolutely nothing for an extended period of time in specific areas of the game.
Weirdly, considering what happens towards the end of the game - and the entirety of The Last of Us Part II - something about hearing Ellie being all goofy again actually feels kind of sad to me.
The funny thing is, I know that there’s a bunch of hidden dialogue like this in both of the games. I vividly remember Ellie getting upset when I turned my torch on while looking directly at her, and questioning my desire to unload several bullets into thin air, yet I just missed this silly little interaction on every single one of my playthroughs.
I guess, from what I can find out, it’s because this specific line of dialogue can only be triggered during the first couple of levels after meeting Ellie.
One of the greatest ever - but you already know that (Naughty Dog / Sony)
After this point, the pair are either trying to stay quiet, hanging out with other characters, or separated entirely, so there’s no opportunity to trigger it. Also, the latter half of the game is far more sombre than the first half, so I guess it would have seemed out of place.
Kind of makes me wonder if there are any other hidden pieces of dialogue out there that I’ve never heard before. I guess I could replay the game again to find out for sure.
Ugh, fine, go on then. I’ll replay one of the best games ever made if I have to.
