Something Wick This Way Comes

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

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

― is right unfortunately (silby), Friday, 1 January 2021 16:16 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i am hoping so and did consider this at the time

seems a p big long-shot of a ruse, to shoot someone (even with armour) and knock them off a high building

Im not sold on ruse betrayal, the story is a mere skin to cover the muscles of this beast

JOHN WICK: [shoots fifty dudes]
WINSTON: jonathan you’re expelliarmus. I have no choice but to instigato you to the syndicaticus
HOT LADY: thats right
[she tries to kill John Wick]

— tier four operator OBE (@AliceAvizandum) February 23, 2020

Basically otm

Donnie Yen!!!!

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEVUtrk8_B4

lol that movie is going to make a billion dollars.

I hope Jason Manzoukas is in it again.

I really thought I was done after the third one, but...nope. I'm in.

John Wick 4 is 169 minutes long

nice

I hope Jason Manzoukas is in it again.

nope

I have yet to see any of the John Wicks. I suppose I should.

I am a humbugger of modern franchise cinema and even I say that Wick is mandatory

Should really be watched at Xmas mind

Sounds about right. I once watched A Clockwork Orange on Christmas Day, it really went well.

Wick rules but this shit doesn’t need to be almost 3 hours long.

Totally agree, this ain’t the godfather

Yeah, got pretty bummed seeing that runtime, but hoping this is more excessive in the vein of RRR and less like one of the recent lumpen Marvel atrocities.

I can't explain why but I want to see that trailer but with Sarah Brand "Red Dress" as the backing music