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LTTP: John "Aimbot" Wick 2
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I was extremely disappointed with the sequel, and part 1 is one of my favorite movies ever.
It's not shot as well. The choreography isn't as good. They focused more on capturing bright colors in the environment than in capturing a clear, crisp image that makes the action easy to see without excessive movement. They retreated too much from the first movie, even having whole scenes that are from the first movie.
I'm still hopeful the next movie is great.
It's not shot as well. The choreography isn't as good. They focused more on capturing bright colors in the environment than in capturing a clear, crisp image that makes the action easy to see without excessive movement. They retreated too much from the first movie, even having whole scenes that are from the first movie.
I'm still hopeful the next movie is great.
I thought it was bad. They seemed to forget the entire point of who John Wick is and what he can do. They seemed to toss efficiency out the window; look at the first film when he takes out the guys in his house, it's clinical, darkly efficient, minimal. The opening scene in the second he's doing all kinds of pointless shit getting into fights he doesn't need to, making a right mess, smashing up his car for literally no reason and that carried on throughout the whole film. Wick seems to make a meal out of every scenario, the whole deadly assassin thing was lost. Shame.
It was decent dirty fun, but they overused the same mechanic so the ending had zero impact. Very fun world, and loved the mute assassin. Wish they'd actually shown off some of her skills instead of setting her up for a fight that she was doomed to lose, though. All the characters looked cool, but had no substance in the end (except for Common).
LMAO can't believe people are complaining about this. I thought it was hilarious.
This scene was ruined for me after seeing someone critique it by revealing that silenced pistols are still loud as fuck. Ignorance is bliss.
Three should be cool if he decides the only way to be free of the contract is to kill them all and disband the entire org, via killing them all
I watched it Friday in 4k and there was only 1 scene that stood out as being badly green screened(with common near the fountain). I really enjoyed it though.
I like 'em but they're practically the definition of style over substance. Still who doesn't love Keanu in a mostly mute role dishing out stylish mayhem?
On repeat viewings though you really have to ignore how everyone else is a really, really bad shot compared to Wick.
On repeat viewings though you really have to ignore how everyone else is a really, really bad shot compared to Wick.
The second movie is good, but the first one is fantastic, I don't think they'll ever top the first one.
Yep. For a movie that makes some effort to be realistic about firearms (reloads and whatnot), that scene was dumb.
One of those rare sequels that stands up to the original and makes it better retrospectively. Also builds a rock solid foundation for the franchise to build on. It could branch out in all sorts of directions now that we know the extent of the Continental's reach and we've seen how badass some of the other assassins are.
There's an awesome TV show in the world of John Wick that's just waiting to be written.
There's an awesome TV show in the world of John Wick that's just waiting to be written.
Is it your first time watching a movie that has silenced pistols?
It's cheesy as fuck, but it isn't a parody scene.
Course not, but I'm not well versed in firearms so I didn't know that silencers didn't actually make a gun super quiet. I took film, tv, and games word for it. Foolish, of course. It was hearing someone talk about this specific scene that informed me of the fact silenced guns are still very loud, they just won't blow your ears out.
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This.
Fury Road, Dredd, John Wick 1 & 2, The Raid, and now MI: Fallout all occupy the same action movie stratosphere. Fucking masterpiece genre films.
The silenced pistol scene was great. The Wick movies have a very obvious tongue in cheek sense of humor, and they exist in a highly stylized reality. So using movie rules about silencers that have existed since forever seems pretty inline for such a great scene. More people would have been confused if the silencers didn't make the guns quiet.
The movie as a whole is better than the first. It doesn't have as good of a story hook, but the action is a big step up with more variety and better locations, and it leveraged the world building for some really fun interstitial moments between headshot city.
The movie as a whole is better than the first. It doesn't have as good of a story hook, but the action is a big step up with more variety and better locations, and it leveraged the world building for some really fun interstitial moments between headshot city.
You have to mix a suppressor with subsonic rounds. It won't silence your gun like in a movie, but it does make guns insanely quiet.
I felt the movies had a pretty serious tone with some tongue-in-cheek moments [like the sommalier / weapon supplier, or the Chinese sweatshop / secret tux tailor]. All of that went completely out the window once the violin-playing assassin and the random Sumo assassin pop up. John Wick has hand to hand combat and shootouts with fatal ends in the middle of the subway and NY street and literally nobody bats an eye. It's way past my suspention of disbelief. The ridiculous bulletproof suits don't help either.
The whole concept of literally hundreds of part-time assassins walking around in NYC alone is beyond absurd, even for this movie's premise.
I viewed it as somewhat an homage to the Enter The Dragon bossfight. Very well shot.
The first film is about a guy who murders, what, hundreds of people essentially because a dog dies!
Yeah, they took the cool assassins world concept and made it super dumb. Not really excited about 3, but hope to be pleasantly surprised.
How were people not laughing at the silencer shootout? I was laughing my ass off in that scene. It's was like two kids trying to hit each other without their parents seeing. I loved it. And some of the fights had the cadence of a joke, especially the sumo dude. John Wick 2 is amazing.
Wtf is this notion that these movies aren't completely silly? Like, the first movie is preposterous as is with a fucking hotel for assassins all wearing slick black outfits with deadpan jokes about getting blood out at the laundromat. Then you have these scenes with Michael Nyqvist giving these dour monologues with these over-stylized subtitles as he tries to build up how badass John Wick is. The most serious scenes that don't feel like an outright parody of grim action hero nonsense is when the dog actually dies and then killing Willem Dafoe.
So this idea that the silencer shootout isn't in-line with this nonsensical tone is ridiculous to me. These movies were always cartoonish and comic booky, the amazing stuntwork aside.
So this idea that the silencer shootout isn't in-line with this nonsensical tone is ridiculous to me. These movies were always cartoonish and comic booky, the amazing stuntwork aside.
I watched John Wick 2 in a movie theater that offers for some showings a "Vive Audio setup which delivers powerful, crystal clear Dolby Atmos® surround sound to each of the 185 seats in the screen". What this actually means is that I literally, physically felt every bullet fired in a movie where there were many bullets fired. 10/10 will do again for John Wick 3.