Something Wick This Way Comes

Yup! Plot’s not as trim as the first, obviously, but I think the action scenes were the best of the series

motorbike swordfight was dope af

chopped-off arm blocking up one of the motorbikes' wheels was one of those moments I thought my brain made up as I was watching it

yeah that was insane

Things I liked a lot:

• Keanu getting horses to kick people to death
• The ninjas-on-motorcycles scene (even though it was stolen straight from The Villainess, which is also amazing)
• The dogs
• Knife fight in the weapons warehouse

Things I found genuinely upsetting:

• The dude getting knifed in the eye in slow motion
• Keanu shotgunning people's heads off

Minor quibbles:

• Part 2 ended on a sunny afternoon in Central Park; Part 3 begins in a massive black-sky downpour
• The actor playing "The Elder" was too young to be playing someone called "The Elder"
• How are you gonna stage a fight in a room full of cauldrons of molten gold and not dump one goon into the molten gold? Boo, I say

Keanu getting horses to kick people to death

When they went into this stable I thought to myself "it's too bad they're probably just gonna fight around the horses and not, like, have Keanu get them to kick them" and then he did it a bunch of times

The dude getting knifed in the eye in slow motion

I don't remember this being literally in slow motion, just agonizingly paced compared to the rest of the sequence. But yeah even for a movie like this, explicit ocular trauma seems like a bridge too far for some reason

nah its all great imo

new & exciting ways to off ppl

Italian horror movies love eye stabbins

we’re in a nu-eye stab era, transitioned right there from the recent eye gouge era

• Keanu getting horses to kick people to death

this was hilarious. also killing someone with a book which seemed like a particularly Keanu-specific way to off someone.

The fuck is happening on the JOHN WICK Wikipedia page? pic.twitter.com/uRC9zv1OKf

— Griffin Newman (@GriffLightning) May 20, 2019

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/to-be-fair-you-have-to-have-a-very-high-iq-to-understand-rick-and-morty

lol someone actually did it https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Wick&type=revision&diff=897955582&oldid=897910397

JW4 confirmed for May 2021

i was hoping to have a good time at this and i didn't really, it was fine

theater was pretty dead, though, like five people and i was the only person who laughed at some of the rare funny bits. maybe with a liver audience it would have been more fun.

liver audience?

live-er

The audience was rather pancreatic

show some spleen ffs

it was fine

the gall!

it was fine is the new it shouldn't have been made

a fine post

I guess people in high places saw my poll clowning on the awfulness of videogame adaptations because Wick writer/director is apparently filming a Just Cause movie and now I'm actually excited about a videogame adaptation.

oh

my

god

becky

wicky

the word is "livelier"

man u said it

livelier and deadlier

what is fishburne at i love it

anyway this was good, I was trying to place where I knew the actor playing Zero the head sushi assassin from and it turned out I have only ever seen Mark Dacascos before as the Chairman on Iron Chef America

should I watch Kickboxer 5

• How are you gonna stage a fight in a room full of cauldrons of molten gold and not dump one goon into the molten gold? Boo, I say

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Sunday, May 19, 2019 5:12 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was mad about this

it played with pretty much everything that way

disappointed nobody shushed them when they were fighting in the stacks.

Iron Chef Chairman was so good in this
Sonny Chiba vibes, sorta? anyway he was dope

it's true he ruled and now I've updated my desire for a Henry Golding action vehicle to include him as the buddy

i do wish he'd used his martial arts chops more on iron chef. bobby flay needed some kicking.

disappointed nobody shushed them when they were fighting in the stacks.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:38 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

big guy shushed john

anyway this was good, I was trying to place where I knew the actor playing Zero the head sushi assassin from and it turned out I have only ever seen Mark Dacascos before as the Chairman on Iron Chef America

Dacascos was, improbably, my fave of the main villains so far

he’s had a pretty solid career outiside Iron Chef doing direct-to-video action movies (TONS of them), and he’s always popping up on tv shows

and yeah, def the most charisma of the Wick villains to date

apparently Hiroyuki Sanada was originally going to have that role but he turned it down for the small part he had in Avengers Endgame

I'm basing this off of a couple of film writers and speculation, but if so: rough move

I mostly associate him with Brotherhood Of The Wolf.

OMG wait wait so you're telling me that OTT Iron Chef America announcer dude is actually in this thing and I wasn't just indulging in one of my trademarked flights of unbridled fancy when I saw an Iron Chef reference itt, okay I probably need to see this immediately.

dude leave now & go directly to the movie theater

rewatching JW2 on Wednesday, started going "it's been 20 minutes since John Wick's been thrown backwards through a pane of glass" and then someone would promptly throw him through a pane of glass, backwards

tonight this kept me so distracted with a) setpieces and b) camp that when when Wick and the fighty dudes ended up in the all-glass hall of trophies with 20 minutes left, I went "holy shit NOBODY HAS THROWN JOHN WICK BACKWARDS THROUGH A PANE OF GLASS ALL MOVIE, here. we. fuckin. go"

and, dear reader, we went.