AnimalsAsSummit
03.28.23 | Going again first showing tomorrow |
Squiggly
03.28.23 | I can’t fucking wait to see it |
Flugmorph
03.28.23 | ok |
Sinternet
03.28.23 | how have they managed to milk four fucking films out of this
i mean zomg jwcu guys!! epic! |
Borracho
03.28.23 | I’ll wait until it’s dumped onto torrent
And then likely won’t watch it anyway |
Emim
03.28.23 | Big 🤓 energy |
Emim
03.28.23 | Going to see it tonight |
unclereich
03.28.23 | I think I saw the first two |
MoM
03.28.23 | Gonna be sick! Happened to see a headline earlier about a John Wick 5 possibly being considered after the response to this one. I wonder how many there’ll be |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.28.23 | Seeing it in a half hour, will report back sir |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.28.23 | And sint it’s five films and a tv show, Ballerina comes out next year and the Continental later this year |
CaliggyJack
03.28.23 | I chose Shazam 2 instead of this and I am filled with regret. |
Eakflanderyof
03.28.23 | I watched the first movie and thought it was alright but a little overhyped as far as action movies go |
Deathconscious
03.28.23 | "Greatest action film since The Matrix."
Lol. Only seen the first one and it was pretty forgettable. The story and characters arent even worth talking about, so that just leaves the action to redeem it, and while the action was fine, it wasn't nearly enough to make up for it. |
Purpl3Spartan
03.29.23 | Excited to see this. The fight choreography in this series has always been next level |
MoM
03.29.23 | “ The fight choreography in this series has always been next level”
I care about little else with these and am never disappointed. |
Purpl3Spartan
03.29.23 | That's the John Wick way m/// |
Sharenge
03.29.23 | lol wtf he's still mad |
Emim
03.29.23 | They're thinly veiled excuses to do cool fight choreography |
Borracho
03.29.23 | essentially long-form menswear advertisements, agreed. |
MoM
03.29.23 | Suits sell themselves. I wear one if i feel like it, regardless if i have an occasion to. I’ll pick up milk in that bitch |
PumpBoffBag
03.29.23 | It was really great. Considering how long it was, it absolutely breezed by as well. I’m so into these movies I’ll happily forgive every time there’s a convenient get-out clause or long-forgotten lore detail that serves as a catalyst for more bloodletting. Which is good because it’s literally how the series contrives its set pieces. |
Borracho
03.29.23 | it'd be funnier if he adopts a dog in every sequel, and someone just shows up and kills it. after 28 movies and 28 dogs, he finds out it's because that dumb hotel has a no pets policy. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | funny thing is you find out the hotels do have a no pet policy in this movie.
Movie was fucking great. There’s an overhead long shot (maybe some clever editing, idk much about filmmaking) near the end that literally just had me grinning like an idiot. “Nobody” and Caine were incredible side characters, arguably just as badass as John. And no surprise Bill Skarsgard kills it. Also didn’t realize the old guy was Clancy Brown until there was about 10 mins left in the movie lol |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | Gonna watch them all again when this comes to 4K, but my ranking rn would probably be 2>4>1>3, but they’re all top notch action flicks. |
AnimalsAsSummit
03.29.23 | 4 is insane and is basically The Matrix 7. Btw the John Wick characters (programs) have always been great. They don’t lack at all lol. Always leaving you with a choice! |
bellovddd
03.29.23 | I'm going friday night to watch it with a couple mates and a shit load of shrooms. should be fun |
AnimalsAsSummit
03.29.23 | Spoilers ahead
Hinted at by The Matrix Online: The John Wick world is a simulation created by the Merovingian after Neo’s RSI gets lost at the end of Revolutions so he creates this to contain it and hone it into a killing machine, because he’s still extremely powerful. All the tell-tale signs are there; Wick is trying to break free of his “world”, and Wick looks around/ contemplative a lot in this movie, taking in how maybe this isn’t the world he thought it was. He tells The Elder he knows the only way out of this world is death. It’s the perfect version of Kid’s Story meets Program. Monumental film for the ages and I hope more people do more analysis on each shot and all the symbolism and see the movie for what it really is.
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AnimalsAsSummit
03.29.23 | SPOILERS**********!!!!!!!
Copied from Rym: “ Another pivotal scene is during the club in the middle of the movie, while he is fighting fat Scott Adkins. The whole setting becomes a frenzy of bright overhead spotlights, and a combination of red and blue (is high this film uses to great effect) to show that it is in fact within the machine world. I think this moment when he begins punching Adkins his punches began to become slowed down and extremely loud, like the beginning of the movie. We see him punching Adkins in a shot like looks like when he fought Smith. And then the camera pans through on section of “artificial rain” that is raining down on them, and the shot composition makes it look just like Matrix Code. This scene is so pivotal and obvious for many reasons. John Wick is literally braking the simulation in this movie and he is also getting small hints of the outside world as he does so (through amazing and conscious set designs). For instance in the dragon breathe scene, he enters a building that is almost identical to where he met Morpheus. Red chair, mirrors, same green dingy old building, winding staircase, checkered floor.... this movie is screaming “we are in The Matrix” it’s entire runtime. For fans, this is a long time coming! So then when he dies at the end, you guys have to look at like this: He’s free now. No longer living a cursed existence. He only ever saw two memories of his wife; why? She was the memory that tied him to that world, but we as an audience could always see a huge hole with it (wouldn’t he remember more time w his wife, he only remembers a few moments through the whole series). Hopefully you guys read this and rewatch the film because I’ve thought about this theory so much, all the holes with it, and it still all works out. If Neo were reinserted back into The Matrix the machine world would fashion him into a killing machine. Their killing machine. And all the caharacters he meets offers him a choice! Two choices! You know who else operates on two choices? Matrix programs. It’s all there baby, happy to share more if you’d like.” |
ConcubinaryCode
03.29.23 | You're breathtaking |
IntoTheFire
03.29.23 | bruh |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | …nah
And as much as I love the John Wick series, and how much I fucking adore the first Matrix, The Raid 2 is the best action movie ever made. The first one goes toe to toe with the best of them but the Raid 2 is just on another level. It’s everything a sequel should be. Expanded world building, action sequences that are somehow even better, an even better cast.
I have no problem saying The Raid 2 is the best action movie ever made and one of my favorite films of all time. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | Also probably my favorite car chase ever too. Shit is just so unbelievably good. |
MoM
03.29.23 | ^ loved The Raid and have been saving the sequel for a special occasion
And, for some reason, the action is what i think about the least with The Matrix, so i forget it’s even an element 🪬 |
Deathconscious
03.29.23 | I have yet to see The Raid 2, but the first one is a great example of a movie that makes up for its lack of interesting characters and story with awesome action. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | Pull the trigger guys. I’m not overselling it. It’s really that good.
I have a real soft spot for Bond movies, Casino Royale is my favorite movie of all time. But when it comes to fight choreography, The Raid 2 is second to none. |
Emim
03.29.23 | Movie was a lot of fun |
ScuroFantasma
03.29.23 | Movie ruled |
AnimalsAsSummit
03.29.23 | Yep. And I gotta say it’s better than the Raid 2 simply because of cooler art direction and more anime looking sets. But both Raid films also have great action. Honestly they wouldn’t even be in my top 20 action movies. Still great! |
AnimalsAsSummit
03.29.23 | Also the John Wick mythos is like 1000x deeper than anything in The Raid? Those movies were awesome but the plots were very simple. They are really only good action showcases but that’s about it. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.29.23 | Highly disagree. The first one? Yeah, okay. But that’s literally just because Gareth Evans couldn’t secure a budget to make the movie he really wanted to do. When everyone saw how good The Raid was he was given a higher budget to make The Raid 2. Which honestly, it’s just as good as any gangster movie but has top notch action on top of that.
John Wick, as much as I love the movies, they’re kind of a mess. They add more mythology when it’s convenient for the plot.
Which again, that’s fine. I come to these movies for the action and the John Wick series delivers that in spades.
But also, how many times to I have to see John fall ten stories, get hit by cars, and literally shot in his dumb suit before I’m like “yeah that guy should be dead.”? |
AnimalsAsSummit
03.29.23 | No. Like I said if you knew more about The Matrix, and the Matrix Online.... it was their plan from movie 1 lol. Look at the opening shot of John Wick; instead of room 303, were now at 313. Same shot at the end of the movie. John Wick was made for the cinephiles! |
AnimalsAsSummit
03.29.23 | You think you’re watching a guy kill a bunch of people but you arent really. More so of an artificial entity’s influence on someone who is traversing their own subconscious mind. Very Dark Tower/ or even Dante’s Inferno, if you don’t like the overt Matrix connections. |
Deathconscious
03.30.23 | "John Wick was made for the cinephiles!"
Lol |
MoM
03.30.23 | Lol [2] |
AnimalsAsSummit
03.30.23 | Seeing it again today! The Wick hype cant be stopped |
DarkSideOfLucca
03.30.23 | Saw it last night, dragged my fiancee who has to wake up at 4am every morning for work. I had no idea it was a fucking 3 hour movie lmfao, we're both exhausted today.
That being said, oh my god it was AWESOME. My only real problem is that John Wick seemed to take like...fantasy levels of damage, which I get is not something I'm supposed to nitpick, but it got to be way too distracting during a few key scenes.
Also the dance scene where everyone keeps dancing as people are being axed in the face and there are like 10,000 gun shots is fucking hilarious |
AnimalsAsSummit
03.30.23 | Yeah there’s a reason it’s fantasy level. But I’m glad you dug it! He gets stronger every movie. |
Wildcardbitchesss
03.30.23 | He’s an RPG protagonist |