Nah in the club he's putting full on hands on dudes to kill them. He leaves finger prints, but its part of the weird world of John Wick. Like I swear professional killing is fine, even the local cop just asks him if he's working again while there is a dead body directly behind him.
Its why I totally want John Wick 2.
John Wick exists in the same world as Payday. In a world where bank robberies with hundreds of police casualties happen multiple times a week no one cares about a professional killer's relatively smaller bodycount.
Funny as the thought is, I can't really say that this is true.
In John Wick the police force was a... non-entity? Maybe it snags shoplifters and people speeding but it won't touch anything to do with organized crime.
In Payday the police acts like the red army during WWII or something: "Here's your guns. May all thousand of you go die for the motherland now. You'll freeze to death later anyway."
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
I know we've been round and round in this thread and in others, but I've got to bring up Man of Steel yet again. I bring it up because I listened to the Hans Zimmer theme recently and it's a really, really good Superman theme. But then that got me thinking about how the movie totally could've subverted modern-blockbuster-city-destroying expectations. Like a lot of films have city being totally ravaged complete with toppling skyscrapers.
So they could've set up the final action set-piece to be like any other city destroying climax, yet Zod goes to knock over a skyscraper or something and everyone things "Oh, here's our typical destruction porn" as it starts to fall but BOOM, in swoops Superman as the boombastic part of the theme kicks in and he lifts it back up or whatever, because he's not going to allow a bunch of 9/11 imagery in his movie because he's goddamn Superman.
Instead he killed a bunch of people then murdered a dude. Oh well. It really is a helluva theme though.
I still think Zimmer's best score was either Days of Thunder (not a joke at all) or King Arthur. Days of Thunder sounds so different from his usual stuff but so embracing of the 80's, especially the build up to building the car as it gets more and more hopeful and then wham guitar solo:
I know we've been round and round in this thread and in others, but I've got to bring up Man of Steel yet again. I bring it up because I listened to the Hans Zimmer theme recently and it's a really, really good Superman theme. But then that got me thinking about how the movie totally could've subverted modern-blockbuster-city-destroying expectations. Like a lot of films have city being totally ravaged complete with toppling skyscrapers.
So they could've set up the final action set-piece to be like any other city destroying climax, yet Zod goes to knock over a skyscraper or something and everyone things "Oh, here's our typical destruction porn" as it starts to fall but BOOM, in swoops Superman as the boombastic part of the theme kicks in and he lifts it back up or whatever, because he's not going to allow a bunch of 9/11 imagery in his movie because he's goddamn Superman.
Instead he killed a bunch of people then murdered a dude. Oh well. It really is a helluva theme though.
I still think Zimmer's best score was either Days of Thunder (not a joke at all) or King Arthur. Days of Thunder sounds so different from his usual stuff but so embracing of the 80's, especially the build up to building the car as it gets more and more hopeful and then wham guitar solo:
it's just happy and in my head and beats any Pirates of the Carribbean theme.
The King Athur theme was also reused in Da Vinci Code and another movie which I forget at the moment. The pieces he puts together are pretty good, but man his "homages" come ridiculously close to "ripoffs" (the Holst Foundation sued him for the Gladiator soundtrack).
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Outside of the 80% of the rest that Interstellar got right.
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I love all the Mission: Impossible movies equally in their own special way. One has the best plot, two the best style and theme remix, three the best villain and most human story (and the best structure, I'd say), four the best direction and the single best extended sequence of any of them (the climb, the double heist, the sand storm).
I really wish i could enjoy MI2, but i can't see it as anything but a poster child for Woo's inability to properly transition to American filmmaking. The beautiful, operatic, larger than life feel of his Hong Kong flicks turned into a self-conscious string of the Woo-iest possible moments, like someone else was desperately trying to ape his style. By the end of MI2, i expected Cruise's gun to start firing doves instead of bullets, and each dove would be dual-wielding pistols that also fired doves.
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I love all the Mission: Impossible movies equally in their own special way. One has the best plot, two the best style and theme remix, three the best villain and most human story (and the best structure, I'd say), four the best direction and the single best extended sequence of any of them (the climb, the double heist, the sand storm).
I really wish i could enjoy MI2, but i can't see it as anything but a poster child for Woo's inability to properly transition to American filmmaking. The beautiful, operatic, larger than life feel of his Hong Kong flicks turned into a self-conscious string of the Woo-iest possible moments, like someone else was desperately trying to ape his style. By the end of MI2, i expected Cruise's gun to start firing doves instead of bullets, and each dove would be dual-wielding pistols that also fired doves.
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The first Dungeons & Dragons film is such a ridiculous mess.
It's absolutely incredible.
The sequels made it look like an Academy Award winner.
The sequels are played totally straight, right? Like, they have people seriously acting out a D&D adventure?
The first D&D movie is basically a filmed D&D adventure too, only everyone playing is thirteen years old and it's their first time playing the game, including the person running the game, so a lot of the rules are kind of glossed over...
I forgot that Audrey Hepburn was the lead in Wait Until Dark. I'm really curious what that movie must have been like in the theater when they killed all of the house lights to match the darkness of the ending scene.
Now that I think about it this movie may be one of the earliest entries in the line of films where the damsel in distress fights back succesfully.
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Dungeons & Dragons 3 is surprisingly entertaining for such a shitty movie. It probably helps that the movie is made with the budget of a large LARPing session and doesn't have the pretense of being a real movie, like the original does.
I would agree that Woo's American films aren't as good as his HK films, but Face/Off is an exception. It's a fantastically entertaining movie that feels fun in a way Broken Arrow and MI2 don't. It helps that the two leads are trying to outdo each other the whole time.
Could I request that we move the MI talk over to the MIU thread?
Catty comments should be moved to the MEOW thread.
I didn't realize Santa and his wife were at the store today.
Because the clawses are out.
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I was dragged to the cinema to see MI3 after hating 2, but remember really enjoying it. Sure I can see all the Abrams-isms now, the "rabbit's foot" being some unknown, all-powerful deal that's never explained, stuff like that, but I remember loving Seymour Hoffman's character
and how he didn't die in some massive, triple health-barred boss fight, he just died like a guy because he was a guy. Also that the big heist bit in the middle to retrieve the rabbit's foot wasn't shown. You got the setup and the conclusion, and enough extra to infer that shit went down in that building.
I would agree that Woo's American films aren't as good as his HK films, but Face/Off is an exception. It's a fantastically entertaining movie that feels fun in a way Broken Arrow and MI2 don't. It helps that the two leads are trying to outdo each other the whole time.
Yes. Face/off is supremely absurd and it knows it. Which often makes for good movies.
Fast & Furious movies work because they embrace the cheese. When a dude in a movie just straight faced says "I live my life a quarter mile at a time" you have no choice but to just enjoy yourself.
This is also the best argument against the metric system.
"I live my life 402.336 meters at a time" just doesn't cut it.
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Spielberg is directing the Ready Player One movie. This... could be awesome. Few people alive today represent 80's pop culture more than Spielberg, and his presence lends a significant amount of muscle to the production which will help convince other companies to license their IP to the movie, which means more references!
I just worry it's going to end up like every TV show and movie that tries to depict an online game, and then there are two people on one keyboard to outhack the Gibson, and the IOI guys all have evil German accents.
Spielberg is going to be directing Ready Player One. That's actually a pretty fantastic choice.
Granted, I'm still not sure how they'll pull off the movie (though I guess The Lego Movie pulled it off) but I'm definately much more interested.
That actually makes me pretty excited. RPO was a great idea with terrible execution, and Spielberg can rock the execution.
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Spielberg is directing the Ready Player One movie. This... could be awesome. Few people alive today represent 80's pop culture more than Spielberg, and his presence lends a significant amount of muscle to the production which will help convince other companies to license their IP to the movie, which means more references!
Magic Leap has been designing virtual-world technology for some time and already is valued at $1 billion without even putting a product out. How so? Any potential investor it brings in goes apesh*t over what they see, though the company has kept most of what they are doing under wraps publicly.
Nah in the club he's putting full on hands on dudes to kill them. He leaves finger prints, but its part of the weird world of John Wick. Like I swear professional killing is fine, even the local cop just asks him if he's working again while there is a dead body directly behind him.
Nah in the club he's putting full on hands on dudes to kill them. He leaves finger prints, but its part of the weird world of John Wick. Like I swear professional killing is fine, even the local cop just asks him if he's working again while there is a dead body directly behind him.
Its why I totally want John Wick 2.
Would you really try to arrest John Wick?
God no. That's like spitting in the wind, Tugging on superman's cape.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I don't think John Wick is too concerned about the cops
The scene at his house, the local cop comes by, sees that shit has obviously gone down
"You workin again John?"
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So I recently discovered that the (excellent) score to Upstream Color has a long, poetic name for each track! Each is like the caption to an illustration in an old-timey fantasy novel or something. They're so good:
Leaves expanded may be prevailing blue mixed with yellow of the sand
I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow and would fancy myself one of the elite
Fearing that they would be light-headed for want of food and also sleep
Stirring them up as the keeper of a menagerie his wild beasts
The finest qualities of our nature like the bloom on fruits can be preserved
Perhaps the wildest sound that is ever heard here making the woods ring far and wide
I love to be alone
A young forest growing up under your meadows
Their roots reaching quite under the house
The rays which stream through the shutter will be no longer remembered when the shutter is wholly removed
After soaking two years and then lying high six months it was perfectly sound though waterlogged past drying
The sun is but a morning star
A low and distant sound gradually swelling and increasing
As if it would have a universal and memorable ending
A sullen rush and roar
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Face-off was a film that has really no right to be as entertaining as it is.
The whole time I was waiting for it to make me hate it, but it never allowed it. It was like "LOL you want to hate me but you can't, YOU CAN'T!"
Face/Off allowed both Cage and Travolta to go balls-out hambone crazy as the villain.
That's why it worked.
Watching these two guys assume each other's mannerisms just never, ever gets old.
Funnily enough, Zack Effron doing this exact thing with Matthew Perry (as in learning to basically act and speak like him) convinced me to take me somewhat seriously as an actor.
Nah in the club he's putting full on hands on dudes to kill them. He leaves finger prints, but its part of the weird world of John Wick. Like I swear professional killing is fine, even the local cop just asks him if he's working again while there is a dead body directly behind him.
Its why I totally want John Wick 2.
Would you really try to arrest John Wick?
God no. That's like spitting in the wind, Tugging on superman's cape.
Yeah, I mean, I loved the exchange with the cop because it worked to cement Wick as badass. He kills a bunch of dudes, and then the cops come, and he's like "you know, I just don't feel like dying today, have a nice night john wick"
It made him so scary that it was better to leave him alone than rack up a body count for the cops trying to take him down. Sure, you'll probably get him in the end, but how many police are you going to lose taking down one fucking guy?
Not worth it. Let him take care of his business and get out of his way.
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That scene made it seem like the police (or at least that officer) had a history with Wick. John Wick's a professional, he doesn't kill indiscriminately.
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In John Wick the police force was a... non-entity? Maybe it snags shoplifters and people speeding but it won't touch anything to do with organized crime.
In Payday the police acts like the red army during WWII or something: "Here's your guns. May all thousand of you go die for the motherland now. You'll freeze to death later anyway."
I still think Zimmer's best score was either Days of Thunder (not a joke at all) or King Arthur. Days of Thunder sounds so different from his usual stuff but so embracing of the 80's, especially the build up to building the car as it gets more and more hopeful and then wham guitar solo:
it's just happy and in my head and beats any Pirates of the Carribbean theme.
one of the best parts of the movie
Agreed.
Outside of the 80% of the rest that Interstellar got right.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
I really wish i could enjoy MI2, but i can't see it as anything but a poster child for Woo's inability to properly transition to American filmmaking. The beautiful, operatic, larger than life feel of his Hong Kong flicks turned into a self-conscious string of the Woo-iest possible moments, like someone else was desperately trying to ape his style. By the end of MI2, i expected Cruise's gun to start firing doves instead of bullets, and each dove would be dual-wielding pistols that also fired doves.
That would've made a far better film
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I want to kiss you for this sentence.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Now that I think about it this movie may be one of the earliest entries in the line of films where the damsel in distress fights back succesfully.
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Catty comments should be moved to the MEOW thread.
I didn't realize Santa and his wife were at the store today.
Because the clawses are out.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
But that's in the Humor & Mirth sub forum.
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Was a good film, that.
Yes. Face/off is supremely absurd and it knows it. Which often makes for good movies.
For me at least!
The whole time I was waiting for it to make me hate it, but it never allowed it. It was like "LOL you want to hate me but you can't, YOU CAN'T!"
This is also the best argument against the metric system.
"I live my life 402.336 meters at a time" just doesn't cut it.
Face/Off allowed both Cage and Travolta to go balls-out hambone crazy as the villain.
That's why it worked.
Also known "Nicolas' Cage".
Travolta is spectacular as villains. Every role he chews scenery is a delight.
Spielberg is going to be directing Ready Player One. That's actually a pretty fantastic choice.
Granted, I'm still not sure how they'll pull off the movie (though I guess The Lego Movie pulled it off) but I'm definately much more interested.
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That actually makes me pretty excited. RPO was a great idea with terrible execution, and Spielberg can rock the execution.
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Would you really try to arrest John Wick?
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God no. That's like spitting in the wind, Tugging on superman's cape.
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Watching these two guys assume each other's mannerisms just never, ever gets old.
The scene at his house, the local cop comes by, sees that shit has obviously gone down
"You workin again John?"
Funnily enough, Zack Effron doing this exact thing with Matthew Perry (as in learning to basically act and speak like him) convinced me to take me somewhat seriously as an actor.
Yeah, I mean, I loved the exchange with the cop because it worked to cement Wick as badass. He kills a bunch of dudes, and then the cops come, and he's like "you know, I just don't feel like dying today, have a nice night john wick"
It made him so scary that it was better to leave him alone than rack up a body count for the cops trying to take him down. Sure, you'll probably get him in the end, but how many police are you going to lose taking down one fucking guy?
Not worth it. Let him take care of his business and get out of his way.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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