Something Wick This Way Comes

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.

hahaha

backwards through ALL of the glass

even the trophies, inside the glass cases sitting on the glass floor, were glass

the glassberries taste like glassberries XD

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

I like how they didn’t bother reminding you that he’s wearing a bulletproof suit from John wick 2. One of my friends didn’t remember about the suit as was a little confused by how he kept getting shot and not getting hurt at all, but also not THAT confused because hey, John wick.

john wicking mechanism iirc

I thought this was even more senseless/nonsensical than the last one, with ... OK results. They really could have called it "Ow, My Balls" for all everyone got punched, kicked, shot, stabbed and, er, bit between the legs. I found it amusing that just about every trailer beforehand was for a similarly ridiculous OTT action movie: Rock and Statham, more indestructible assassin porn in "Anna," Gerard Butler fighting drones or something. Anyway, all these years later who knew that "Punisher: War Zone" would be one of the most influential action movies of all time.

Seriously, though, it's so weird they went with "Parabellum" in the title when the title should really have been "John Wick Chapter 3: Excommunicado."

Highlight of the screening may have come when I bought the ticket, to be honest. I figured I would be the only one there, but ahead of me in line was a probably septuagenarian (or possibly older, tbh) couple buying their own John Wick tix! I wonder if they had a good time? Behind me was another very elderly couple, and here was their exchange:

Man: What is John Wick?
Woman (sneering dismissively): It's stupid. It's about a detective or something.
Man: A detective?
Woman (derisively): I don't know what it's supposed to be about. But it's about ... something.

It’s about a man who is sad, MA’AM

Oh, and I've got to say, I'm shocked they did not find a way to weaponize all the broken glass in this! I was sure someone was going to get glass thrown in their eyes, or their face shoved down in the glass and stepped on or ... anything, really.

I was proper into this one

Even Larry who I found embarrassing last time, I was delighted by his energy - felt like he was doing a Welles bit or something

It was starting to lose me for similar reasons to jw2 and then berry came in and from then on I had no complaints really