Something Wick This Way Comes

The confusion helped his performance: a kid pantomiming a marquis

ftr I didn't stick around for post-credits. I had an Easter brunch to hit and it was already late.

I liked Skarsgård but watching the staircase sequence felt like as much of a slog as it was supposed to be for the characters, and I don't accept that that was the intent.

Anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4GmiggFXRI

I thought this was great, especially the sound design. Very specific about where bullets and casings were hitting and landing.

There's something about the Wick movies, where they take themselves very seriously but ... maybe not totally seriously? They're pretty untethered to any sort of reality by this ridiculous but inspired concept of a global underground secret society of stylish and superhumanly trained hitmen and assassins, hiding in plain sight and bound by rules and honor and ancient codes of conduct, let alone Wick himself, an unstoppable, indefatigable force that leaves behind literally hundreds of bodies in prominent places around the world over the course of, what, a week or so? I'd love to see the headlines.

Someone put the four-movie death count at 439, most of which come at the hands of Wick. I love how even after leaving behind a bloody trail of the best-trained (would-be) killers, still more fodder come out of the woodwork to try to take him on. Like, sure, he just killed 400 people single-handedly, but hey, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take!

Oh, and fuck a post credits sequence. If it's important, put it in the fucking movie, which was already (checks watch) plenty minutes long.

I've never seen any of the Fast and Furious movies, are they at all like this? They just always seemed dumb to me.

f&f are far worse imo

I really wanted to see Wick in the theatre but had to walk out when it started because it was painfully loud. I was hoping it was just the previews but nope. Am I just getting old? This was the first time I’ve been to the cinema in 4 yrs. We checked a decibel measuring app and it was as loud as jet engines.

This is fun but Bill Skarsgard weird accent is just bad bad bad.

*Skarsgard's

Skarsgård's

mh otm

i realize i am uncharacteristically late to the John Wick 4 party

you guys <3

Full operatic mode! whole-ass epic! oh and YES we are climbing the darkened stairway to heaven and when we get there hold on to your butts because we’re duelling under a SKY that looks like a goddamn Titian painting

cannot love this series enough
i love this one SO much

the color stories, the fact that they are mixing all these weapons in these fight sequences so harmoniously and still finding ways to catch my breath w the choreography or even just whimsical situational settings like the Arc De Triomphe traffic fight that shouldnt work but do!

ugh

amazing
so happy

donnie yen’s fight sequences in this are so great, i love the way he moves. he’s so quick, and with the cane/sword it was like he was tap dancing sometimes? lol

Just came across this amazing photo on Twitter:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxIR9qcXsAAxemj.jpg

N.B.: the shirt is fake, but there is an argument being made that the movies represent the five stages of grief, so there's gonna have to be one more...

oh god please no

I thought part five was reported as in development just a day or two ago ...

yup. I'm just extremely anti the bad and wrong "stages of grief" framework.

Stahelski and Reeves have not changed their position on another one, regardless of what the head of Lionsgate says while promoting spin-offs

getting very weary now of people tacking coherent narratives on top of this series, it’s *supposed* to be a big dumb wishlist of cool shit they wanted to see in an action movies & stahelski really hasn’t changed his statements to that effect over the years

… overthinking it makes it so much lamer

stages of grief lol FOH

It’s coherent in that Wick’s dedication to honour, rules and revenge only create death and misery around him (leading to his choice at the end of 4) — but this is explicitly the fundamental narrative engine of the series, not a dazzling revelation found only in masters-level analysis of hidden messages

exactly

I heard there might be shooting and kicking in part 5, but at this stage I think that's just a rumor.

The five stages of kicking and shooting.

five stages of fucking your shit up

five stages of tactical fashion

five stages of gun-fu

Wait, this Finnish sort of WWII-set Wick movie came and went already?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGbr-aAnKTo

Watched SISU tonight - it’s totally OTT, gory as fuck, kinda funny, definitely fun.

I thought it was pretty slight. He's basically a superhero and there isn't enough impressive fighting technique or quality spectacle to make it feel substantial. Wish I hadn't bothered.

i’ve been down a Buster Keaton rabbithole lately & read a great interview w Chad Stahelski and critic Dana Stevens (author of Keaton bio “Camera Man”) about the silent film/Keaton parallels in John Wick

https://slate.com/culture/2023/03/john-wick-4-keanu-reeves-buster-keaton.html

Some woman in the seat across from me on the airplane watched this twice in a row so, so did i. Worked without any sound obviously

the stairway scene with the falling definitely had its parallels