Episode 24 – Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

Summary: Back for another comic book movie, I lure Mom in with promises of Colin Firth without spoiling/warning that he violently kills dozens of people! In our episode on Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service we talk for a bit about my mom’s legs, she confuses the first scene for the second scene and vice versa, and I rely completely on what she tells me about Pygmalion; the Shaw play, not the myth, as there are decidedly fewer statues to fall in love with. Somehow, we briefly mention Donald Trump, because I’m sure he’ll love the media attention. I try to get to the bottom of what framing of violence is worse to my mother’s sensibilities, in order to gauge whether or not movies that question why, as a society, we enjoy violence as entertainment are less offensive to her – and therefore possible future episodes. For this episode’s Trailer Time, Mom gets to choose from the Aquaman and Shazam! Comic-Con trailers and picks the latter, which is a choice I approve of. Send in any questions or suggest a movie you want us to discuss: stealingtheremote@gmail.com Tweet at us on Twitter: @RemoteStealing Like and/or contact us on: Facebook.com/StealingtheRemote Or write a review on iTunes or Stitcher! Intro/Outro Music: "Immortal" by Fleslit From the Free Music Archive CC BY