Yup! Plot’s not as trim as the first, obviously, but I think the action scenes were the best of the series
― mh, Sunday, 19 May 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Sunday, 19 May 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
yeah that was insane
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
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
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 20 May 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
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
― Simon H., Monday, 20 May 2019 00:23 (four years ago) link
nah its all great imo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 20 May 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
new & exciting ways to off ppl
Italian horror movies love eye stabbins
― dragged across concrète (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 May 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link
we’re in a nu-eye stab era, transitioned right there from the recent eye gouge era
― mh, Monday, 20 May 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
• 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.
― Roz, Monday, 20 May 2019 06:32 (four years ago) link
The fuck is happening on the JOHN WICK Wikipedia page? pic.twitter.com/uRC9zv1OKf— Griffin Newman (@GriffLightning) May 20, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 May 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/to-be-fair-you-have-to-have-a-very-high-iq-to-understand-rick-and-morty
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 20 May 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
lol someone actually did it https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Wick&type=revision&diff=897955582&oldid=897910397
― mh, Monday, 20 May 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link
JW4 confirmed for May 2021
― Simon H., Tuesday, 21 May 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
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.
― j., Tuesday, 21 May 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
liver audience?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 03:51 (four years ago) link
live-er
― j., Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
The audience was rather pancreatic
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:19 (four years ago) link
show some spleen ffs
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
it was fine
the gall!
― husserl gang (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 10:31 (four years ago) link
it was fine is the new it shouldn't have been made
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
a fine post
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
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.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
oh
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
my
god
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
becky
― i got bag sauce in my bag (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
wicky
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
the word is "livelier"
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
man u said it
livelier and deadlier
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
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
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
should I watch Kickboxer 5
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
• 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
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
it played with pretty much everything that way
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
disappointed nobody shushed them when they were fighting in the stacks.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
Iron Chef Chairman was so good in thisSonny Chiba vibes, sorta? anyway he was dope
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
it's true he ruled and now I've updated my desire for a Henry Golding action vehicle to include him as the buddy
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
i do wish he'd used his martial arts chops more on iron chef. bobby flay needed some kicking.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:38 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
big guy shushed john
― daenerys baker (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
― gbx, Thursday, 23 May 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
Dacascos was, improbably, my fave of the main villains so far
― Simon H., Thursday, 23 May 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
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
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 May 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
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
― mh, Thursday, 23 May 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
I mostly associate him with Brotherhood Of The Wolf.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 24 May 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
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.
― Ted Nougat (Old Lunch), Saturday, 25 May 2019 02:32 (four years ago) link
dude leave now & go directly to the movie theater
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 May 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
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"
― tfw you are not easily whelmed (sic), Saturday, 25 May 2019 02:55 (four years ago) link
and, dear reader, we went.
― tfw you are not easily whelmed (sic), Saturday, 25 May 2019 02:56 (four years ago) link