Something Wick This Way Comes

The scene of Common and Keanu casually walking down crowded hallways firing silenced pistols at each other was hilarious

^^^ amazing scene

Iirc that was directly inspired by a filming experience from the first one?

yep

keanu was walking down a corridor after lunch and who comes walking towards him but common and they drew silenced pistol and fired upon each other and they both thought "that would make a good scene if this movie were to require a sequel"

kinda disappointed we never got a djp jw3 update

Wick 3 was awful

Ian McShane does some quality work hamming it up but they wasted Halle Berry and her dogs and it's missing 99% of the humor of the first one.

yr awful

I irl lol’d for “I get it”

it's missing 99% of the humor of the first one.

John Wick horsefights a bunch of dudes in the face

is this the one where they have a big fight in a knife museum?

Yeah

also a library fight where Wick gets shushed and murders the shusher with a book

NBA's Boban Marjanovic gtfo with that shit MZ. the boss fight at the end of 3 is so fucking good. wick getting thrown through glass followed by iron chef fight is never going to disappoint.

also, rewatching 3 now and the scene where he shoots the doctor twice had me wanting a miniseries on that guy because he clearly has stories in the wickverse.

The non-gun fighting was worse than in the other two, the library fight was super stilted and they were obviously making pro wrestling-contact.

halle berrys dog mauling like 30 guys wasnt enough dog action?

think this was my favorite one yet, he goes on a vision quest in the sahara ffs

Cool side characters are only cool when they're not in the movie very much. There was a lot less of Berry's dogs than I wanted, which is the exact right amount there should be.

The dog stuff was distracting. I kept trying to analyze how each shot was set up and executed

tshot

a lot less of Berry's dogs than I wanted, which is the exact right amount there should be.

otm

Dogs scene was great. By far the best film in the series.

I like when he does the finger to pay obeisance to the assassin king

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZti8QKBWPo

....what?

https://64.media.tumblr.com/e4519dd57da2cab6efecb4ef612e5ea1/tumblr_noryc5GWgW1u5vpdco2_250.gif

what?

honestly it doesn't look great

A History of Violence except maybe in the Wickniverse this time? eh

Wickstended universe, surely

TOR had a long piece a while back positing Wick as a Portal Fantasy https://www.tor.com/2020/05/20/what-if-i-told-you-john-wick-was-a-portal-fantasy/

I think it’s a Catholic-libertarian-monarchical dystopia where the Reformation never happened. Hitmen function like privateers, the steampunk HQ the source of all the letters of marque.

I was looking for a thread about this franchise. I have absolutely no context for it but tried watching 3 last night and what did I just see? Got about 35 minutes in.

iirc you had seen the book fight and the horse fight by then, so who knows why you stopped

I don't like Bob Odenkirk and I don't understand why anyone does. Pass.

Def start watching trilogies third movie in and give it a good 35 mins

Thats the fuckin ticket

Thanks for help with context. I didn't realise there was a touchy, partisan fanbase on this board for one thing ;-)

I stopped watching because I was sleepy, and noted it was 35 minutes because I planned on watching the rest another time.

And the reason I was looking for thusnthread was to ask if it was a good idea to se the first two first.

Anyone else want to get weirdly judgemental?

Cmon mayne own yr aggravating saunter in, in same context

nb these movies are a bizzarre but wonderful trip, do in all seriousness give yourself a fair run at them sometime

Sorry missed the q

I think yeah the first say half of the first movie are vital context, real slow burn for the madness that comes

I did get that "wtf" is part of what it's about so I thought my reaction was actually a desired one. Didn't mean to imply I'd dismissed it when I said I'd shut it off but I can see how it might have read that way.

Nah we're all friends again

Watch john wick!

watch them in sequence & bask in their batshit splendor

that’s an order

#3 picks up 1 second after the end of #2, and #2 starts a day or so after #1 iirc

The WTF?? factor escalates significantly with each movie though, so if you're revelling in that, feel free to carry on enjoying the increased alienation factor of zero context! You can work through all three later and have a different ride.

Watched 1 last time I was at folks' and will be bubbling with them at Xmas. Will demand 2 and 3 tbh

2 was grand fucken Christmas fare. 3 tomorrow maybe

think 2 is maybe slightly better than 3? obv 3 starts and continues amazingly & the halle berry w/ dogs bit probably the zenith of the whole thing, but all the sudden voltes-face right at the end of 3 were a bit silly? the adjudicator suggesting a 'parlay' just v weak stuff and subsequent betrayal didn't ring true at all, pls advise

I dont think any of it holds up if you pause to think

They keep you from doing that after the first hour of one

Id personally not have much patience for the corny worldbuilding service stuff that makes up much of two but you cant rate pure energy and fun vs dry perfection after the fact imo, or at least you cant without killing the goose

that's fair, and 3 had a lot of phenomenal sequences

Also all of Keanu's career has been leading up to "I get it"

Legit cant tell if this is in the Wickiverse or not. That shot of the box of little gold bars or whatever in the trailer, is that a thing from John Wick? I can't remember all the different tokens and totems and whatnot

imago the betrayal is a ruse obviously how could you miss that

Glass room sequence in 3 is probably tops for me at this point. Close second might be the silencer shooting sequence in 2.

Horse/bike scene

John breaks the fifth wall

Library

Station shootout

Glass one tbh and this wont be popular was annoying as was the entire character of yerman