The John Wick Thread (OPEN SPOILERS)
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Hey y'all.
A lot of people want to talk about John Wick. That's fair, John Wick is awesome. So here is a place to talk about John Wick and all his movies! Yay!
This thread is OPEN SPOILERS, including for John Wick 3: Portabello, or whatever it's called. If you have not seen John Wick 3, you probably don't want to be here!
The corollary to this is PLEASE DON'T PUT MOVIE SPOILERS IN TAGS. This is specifically a thread for spoilers, so spoiler tagging the movie is silly. Don't do that! If you do that, John Wick will shoot you in the head!
(Let's be fair, there's a decent chance he's going to shoot you in the head, regardless. Motherfucker shoots a lot of dudes in the head.)
So anyway! Go see John Wick 3! It is pretty darn good! Then talk about it in here!
A lot of people want to talk about John Wick. That's fair, John Wick is awesome. So here is a place to talk about John Wick and all his movies! Yay!
This thread is OPEN SPOILERS, including for John Wick 3: Portabello, or whatever it's called. If you have not seen John Wick 3, you probably don't want to be here!
The corollary to this is PLEASE DON'T PUT MOVIE SPOILERS IN TAGS. This is specifically a thread for spoilers, so spoiler tagging the movie is silly. Don't do that! If you do that, John Wick will shoot you in the head!
(Let's be fair, there's a decent chance he's going to shoot you in the head, regardless. Motherfucker shoots a lot of dudes in the head.)
So anyway! Go see John Wick 3! It is pretty darn good! Then talk about it in here!
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It was getting to looney tunes level of murder and I appreciate that.
I also laughed out loud when he and Zero sat on the couch and the dude like sits right next to him and he gets up because dude come on.
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It's like, the stuff with the horses and the stuff with Halle Berry were such highlights for me that everything else in the movie pales in comparison.
So John Wick 4, murder prosthetic finger? I can't imagine they'll want to CGI one of Keanu's fingers the whole movie and I don't think he's that method he'll chop one off.
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They murder 2 people in the middle of Grand Central and no one even blinks. Compared to JW2 where people panicked during the train fight and they were trying to be stealthy in the station
Well he got his marker back from winston, and then he retrieves Halle Berry's marker from his emergency supply. The sending the dog back was he knew he was about to be in the shit and the dog would be in danger if it wasn't at the continental.
They knife murdered people, it's stealthy Nexus. It's Assassin Creed rules.
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I still think one of "oh damn" kills in the movie was in the knife area where like the last guy is in frame pulling out the knife Wick stuck in him and gets an axe to the head from John Wick out of frame.
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Right before that has Wick shoving the knife into a guy's eye super-close to the camera. That was the squickiest.
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Yeah the eye stab was definitely like the "oh god...." like it was almost Zombi level eye stabbing. I figured like he'd get hit and go lower, or they'd cut away, but nope we see him literally stab a man in the eye slowly, yep.
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Yeah I think this was part of it. They already did a fight with mirrors where misdirection was part of the scene. And then they just move from that to a house of glass. Which looks cool? I guess? But doesn't like, actually do anything for the fight except for those couple of times someone aimed a shot at someone else and whoops it's glass!
It really felt like something they added because it looked cool and not because it added anything to the action itself.
I almost wish they had the fight with Cecep and Yayan in a training room or something, even if only for a change of setting for the fight with Dacoscos.
Seriously though give me another 15 minute fight with those dogs.
Seems like a thing that should have happened.
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This was the squickiest death for me. I don't know why, but that bothered me so much.
Who hasn't been murdered in Grand Central tho
When a movie makes money like John Wick Chapter 3 made money this weekend, a sequel it'sa basically a given.
And to think, this all started with Keanu Reeves doing some old work buddies a solid.
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Also was expecting a hidden weapon under the negotiation table!
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I watched chapter one and two for the first time yesterday, and then this one today.
I think at some point these amazing stunt guys and such went "hey, Assassin's creed looks cool, let's do one better!"
I also wonder how much things were planned out. Obviously Ch. 1 was a standalone. But I keep sitting here and wondering...
If John Wick hadn't created the power vacuum, would Santino have still called in his marker a week later? Or was this a power play he was going to make all along?
And moreso.. does the high table know who ordered the original hit? They have to, based on the marker ledgers, right?
There's just so much still left on the table. Most notably, I feel, is the marker from the end of Chapter 2. He hasn't put down that favor, but I'm sure it will be the driver of some plot. There's also a lot of people John Wick is leaving alive...
Goddamn I love how Zero is such a fanboy.
Everything after Morocco dragged too much for my tastes. Best fights were the Morocco scene, the knife museum, and the stables. The glass office was just too confusing and flashy.
Did the Adjudicator come across as non-binary to anyone else?
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I like the first 2 movies well enough but this one is really great, IMHO. The first one is too much about mopey Wick and all his emotions. The second one's better but ultimately a little flat. The third one is goofy as hell, it amps up the setpieces, and the humor is better. The whole interlude where he goes to the desert to meet a generic Middle Eastern man in order to get told to go BACK to New York to kill a guy seems kind of like a waste of time, but the rest of the movie I am 100% there for. Dogs in body armor fucking going to town on people? Yes please. Every time the camera lingered one one of the pooches tugging on a guy I was loving it. John Wick is a Romani orphan and Anjelica Huston raised him? Awesome awesome awesome. Ninjas led by the Iron Chef? Very cool. Jason Mantzoukas? Hopefully going to be the co-lead in John Wick 4, and hopefully Keanu Reeves passes the torch to him, and he's the new John Wick. Lance Reddick got to fight? Nice. Crazy knife fight? Wonderful. Etc. Can't wait for #4!
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I gotta agree on the stuff with the Elder. There's more dangling plot points there like with Sofia and her fate, and what is up with her daughter. I wonder if the Elder knew how things would go down with Winston? You don't get into that kind of position just by nepotism, or at least that isn't how the world seems to me. So maybe that part will be resolved by Chapter 4 or 5. Maybe Wick is meant to remake the high table?
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Rest was aces.
Man: *chest explodes, falls to the ground on his back*
John Wick: *shoots him twice more in the head with a shotgun, just to be sure*
(One or two more guys later)
John Wick: *frantically reloading because he’s out AGAIN, why does this keep happening to me he wonders*
“Ok John I can understand double-tapping just because of muscle memory, but you just unloaded your entire clip into that dude when any one shot would be enough to kill him.”
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Dude, he's dead! We've established that you really need those shotgun rounds! Why are you shooting him when gravity is literally solving this problem for you already?
He's putting the fear of John Wick into Gravity.
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Not sure I "get" the end? I know the action is the real star here, and the plot is just there to facilitate but... Winston kills Perkins himself (or near enough) in the first one for violating the rules. He gives John an hour head start in two - presumably because they're friends, but possibly just because he knows what historically happens to people who try to kill John. So then they go through this elaborate siege as a show that Winston is still a strong leader and... he shoots John? Is this a true betrayal? Or did he think John had a decent chance of surviving the fall?
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Loved the Good the Bad and the Ugly homage even if it was only to shoot one bullet.
Using horses as weapons was awesome.
The main bad guy's "notice me sempai" stuff was hilarious. That couch scene was amazing.
John "Wick" Jovonovich is a Jojo character now.
And I was half expecting that the bullet proof guys would just be wearing ten of those bullet proof magic suits, one on top of another
He let John go in the second movie assuming he'd whether the fall out, but then the adjucator is like "give up the continental or die" and they literally send John Wick to kill him, so he makes the best deal for Winston and tries to kill the boogeyman. Except he didn't and whoops now you're mega fucked because now YOU stabbed the devil in the back Winston.
I actually suspect the fourth movie will have Charon shoot Winston for Wick close to the end of the movie "Mr. Wick".
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Dude.. Keanu Reeves can load shotgun shells in a way that sure looks like competitive shotgun folks. The way he'd just slam multiple in at the same time.