Seriously, explain why anyone likes these absolutely retarded movies. It's basically a superhero movie, but Keanu's superpower is autism and moving like he's a 70 year old man with crippling arthritis
Seriously, explain why anyone likes these absolutely retarded movies. It's basically a superhero movie...
Crayon eater OP.
They're fun, and the choreography is great.
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yeah the action is only good in the first one. he's noticeably aged in the second and it's all downhill from there. he looks positively elderly in 3. he is simply not a young man anymore.
for me his peak is and has always been neo, i think that role is more iconic, certainly more original (at the time, endlessly copied) than John Wicks retired-hitman-takes-it-personal-comes-out-of-retirement-one-last-job-that-spawns-endless-sequels.
the cinematography is also better in those wachowski flicks.
The first two were decent then I just sort of got tired of it.
choreography is great
moving around in slow motion and shooting at eachother at pointblank range but only the other guy dies
I don't think you understand what either of those words mean
depends on the movie but the choreography is very tight in the first one.
it's a fucking movie so if you want to fedora realism, don't. it's stylized action.
It's over the top action shlock, don't think too hard about it
stuff like the horse vs motorbike chase or the setpiece fights where they use the entire room against each other are fun and cool. the movies are dumb as shit (only the first one is actually good) but it's one of the few franchises that puts a modicum of effort into the action rather than just CGI-ing everything like a marvel movie.
but it's one of the few franchises that puts a modicum of effort into the action rather than just CGI-ing everything like a marvel movie.
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these movies really are the creative and spiritual successors to the matrix films.
the first movie was a b movie that happened to be better than high budget action movies because he reloads his gun and does BJJ moves during fights, with some cool scenes. almost nobody watched it but youtubers first started to do movie content catered to normies telling them what was good about it. then john wick became a meme and fortnite character and the movies parodies of themselves since the 2nd one.
the club scene was the highlight of the first movie and everything after the 1st movie tries to recreate that scene in every single scene it has but bigger + marvel universe logic with anime style characters popping up.
what if club scene but theres dogs?
what if club scene but in a bank?
what if club scene but afterwards john wick 1v1s a boss fight?
what if club scene but with mirrors?
what if club scene but john wick fights 2 minibosses at the same time?
what if club scene but samurai swords?
what if club scene but epic pen reference?
yeah every movie relies on action set pieces. this is the sort of heavy hitting analysis i come to Anon Babble for.
the first movie is slick and sexy as hell with the black suits and the assassin babes and the killer soundtrack and the air of mysterious sophistication about everything. it was simply fucking cool and made people feel cool by liking it. you're correct about the club scene, that is an all-time great action sequence that still shits on anything else that was released in the subsequent decade. i was stealth-dropping fools in ghost recon with that song "think" blaring at max volume for like a month after i saw john wick, not to mention "killing strangers" by marilyn manson
dont be reductionist, my point is it was a lower budget action movie that was praised for being a bit different with pseudo-realism, but then after they saw the popularity they sloppified the formula.
the first movie is very barebones and not THAT over-the-top as the other movies at all, but what makes it john wick is he does get hurt and struggles to kill some guys even though he goes through so many guys and he has unique choreo with krabby magoo and BJJ grappling.
it clearly wasn't meant to have sequels with its worldbuilding but they just did the whole stacking thing where the worldbuilding became more ass-pull in-universe lore upon in-universe lore that suits whatever slop scene they want to make from it.
one of the biggest takes of the first movie was always the club scene was as good if not better than the club scene in collateral despite being kind of a cult movie at the time and smaller scale.
I watched the first one and it was a pretty decent revenge operator flick.
Lasted about 5 mins with the 2nd before I turned it off. It was all just member berries callbacks to the first movie.
Like in the first movie somebody said he killed someone with a pencil iirc. So in the 2nd, he kills someone with a pencil in the first few mins. Turned off.
I knew right then it would be shit
well, each movie have to be an escalation from the last one, otherwise you don't have momentum. so they invent crap like bulletproof cloth and do big action sequences that have the whizz-bang complexity of the club scene from the first one. they have no choice, they're trapped after making the first one so good. by setting the bar high they must surpass it.
the first matrix had some great action, but they spent 27 days filming the burly brawl for the sequel. the third movie had to predominately rely on CGI to raise the stakes further.
i don't think the movie warranted all those sequels, now that lance is dead i hope they stop. keanu isn't getting younger.
if they do another john wick they'll have to put John in an Iron Man suit.
thats what i said, the sequels only exist to make money, the first movie had a 20 mill budget, then every sequel doubles the budget. they weren't really expecting to make more.
anyway, john wick is basically what steven seagal thinks him and his movies are. just the right amount of flashiness in striking and hand to hand defense, uses the environment, mysterious protagonist who rarely talks, racially ambiguous (is he russian? part japanese?) master of knives and guns, everyone fears him, japanese samurai people kiss his ass etc.
its a modern evolution of the martial artist action movie hero of the 80s-90s.
all movies exist to make money
this is as amazing an observation as the john wick movies have grandiose action scenes.
there was no doubt a hope to make a lot of money and make another movie, maybe some tv spinoffs. all this shit is about getting paid for work. the problem is they had no good ideas for sequels and spinoffs. they're all based on this fabricated society of assassins that is extremely comical. the first movie doesn't really hint at how comic-book it is. everything feels a lot more grounded which is one reason it's better. then they bring in the reddit hotel and all the one-liners and it becomes a pastiche of styles. it's still an action movie but it no longer has a sympathetic core (puppycide vengeance) but is instead another comic book universe.
just repeating what i said over and over again
its not that hard to make a movie suitable for sequels as opposed to one that can only make the same movie over and over again if you have a higher budget to begin with.
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kys
It's basically a superhero movie
are you aware how popular those are?
almost nobody watched it but youtubers first started to-
severely retarded zoomer alert
The action is enjoyable but the "world building" is cringe, I stopped at part 2
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its not even a top 50 movie that year you bitter balding faggot, that time period was when capeslop started to make billions. action movies were dead as fuck for like 15 years and still are except the john wick sequels that made subsequently double-triple the money after the first one.
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chateau fight from matrix: reloaded is more fun than anything in john wick
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also i'd lick to point out every fight in this fucking movie is shot with lighting like this. they hide nothing, whereas john wick relies on a darkness, shadows, and handhelds. its good camera work but let's not pretend theres no calculation there.
stupid nigger john wick didn't become popular after making it into fortnite, he made it into fortnite because the movie was popular
which proves exactly my point, john wick is a 2014 movie and fortnite is a 2017 kids game played by brown kids who never even saw that shit in theaters.
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you sure owned me good huh
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Watched the first one because of the buzz around it. Keanu Reeves just shoots a thousand people for 1 hour 40 minutes. No real story arc, no tension, just shooting. Wow. How underwhelming.
Then they made a second movie and I asked myself why. Then a third, then a fourth and I thought what the fuck, they can't be serious?
I lost count after that. Do they still make sequels?
They were always almost parodies to start with though. The first movie was good for what it was, but the formula gets pretty tired after maybe 2 movies.
the Paris stairs scene in the latest one
You have to accept the logic that no bad guys ever lead with their weapons in Hollywoodland. They fully expose themselves and have to fully view the hero before firing. John wick dead in the first movie if the guys fired first and didn't split up, as always. Denzel's Equalizer is even more dead with only slightly less retarded bad guys.
The bulletproof suit they added in the second movie (?) is the dumbest shit ever.
That's a fun scene (especially with the Justice track in the background) but him holding his jacket over his face to block the bullets is retarded. As are the goons for not being able to hit him at point blank range, and for not immediately shooting him on sight at the start.
i'm not talking to you.
you just don't understand.
If you mean the bit where he kept falling down the stairs, yes I found that part funny too
Only the first one was good. The rest are trash and liked by the same kind of person who unironically enjoys watching capeshit.
It’s painful to watch Keanu lumber around like an old crab in the 4th movie
kung-fu movies are professional wrestling too, you know: nothing is real.