John Wick 4 and 5 - "Keanu's Gun-fu Show" meets "Fast and Furious"

Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
DareDevil also has superhuman powers like instinct, Donnie Yen just plays a usual blind Chad you keep finding in many films before John Wick 4 (The Book of Eli, anyone?). Plus, that doorbell thing was sadly not used more than once.
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Well the trope of blind people being gifted was part of it, but now I'm realizing the only chinaman I like is Jackie Chan. I've come to terms with this fact and have cooled down.
 
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New trailer for Peacock's The Continental is out & we are now getting a Gibsonkino (Mel Gibson is in this), which is apparently Winston's origin story.
 
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DankSmoker said:
Alright I'm about an hour in to the new one right now and I I get that Donnie Yen is martial arts guy that needs to show off but how has no one thought to throw a can and shoot this disabled chink in the back of the head? I'm going to be really disappointed if he is the big bad for the entire film. I need to have a cigarette break because I'm legitimately getting angry.
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They seemed to forget the blind aspect after that one scene with the motion sensors in the Japanese hotel. After that he might as well have regular sight since he keeps on pulling stunts that should be literally impossible if he's blind, no matter how good of a fighter he is. I'm not even going to get into how absolutely pants-on-head retarded that final duel was where John absolutely could have won and walked away alive by simply making an agreement with Donnie Yen beforehand to keep shooting each other in non-lethal spots and then fake being fatally shot and kill the Marquis when he goes for the coup de grâce. Instead of just going in blind but having a convenient stroke of luck where Donnie Yen fatally shoots him but he survives long enough to shoot the Marquis.
 
White Devil said:
Modern day "diversity" in 70s NYC, no thanks.
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Honestly, I agree. I am willing to give it 1 chance, but only because it has Mel in it.

Hopefully the Black Panther pseudo blaxploitation subplot is very quickly reduced to nothing and gives way to more important plots.
 
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It could end up being as shit as Many Streets of Newark where it focused more on its race riots and less on the Sopranos and only a young Tony Soprano shows up for 20 minutes in a two hour movie that has zero to do with the Sopranos or its lore.
 
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All right I finally watched 4. Are airports off-limits like the hotels used to be? Cause otherwise how the fuck does he get around the world so fast and effortlessly. Like every time he goes into a subway station or bus station or just tries to get down the street there's a thousand putties that attack him. Yet he can get from Jordan to Osaka to NY to Berlin to Paris with no problem. I mean I could see getting to some of those places by boat, but that would take ages. Also if some dumb nigger with a composition book can find him, how come nobody else can. Did he have some kind of Jack Sparrow compass that they never mentioned or something. Anyway, it was better than 3 I guess, but the "Yeah, I think I'm X" thing is getting about as tired as "shaken, not stirred." At least it had minimal girl-boss in it. Scott Adkins was great, even in the fat-suit; I wish he would get more actual budget movies, and it was good to see Clancy Brown getting work, cause he's almost a doppleganger of The Kurgan from the documentary Highlander.

Oh yeah, they should stop putting Bill Skarsgard in movies. His father's a good actor, his brother is barely passable, but Bill lacks any talent or charisma whatsoever.
 
DankSmoker said:
Something that really bothers me for autistic reasons about The Continental trailer is that the guy uses the "guns... lots of guns" line. It was only memorable in John Wick because it's Keanu Reeves repeating a line from The Matrix, having some other jabroni saying that just ruins it.
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Maybe the writer never saw The Matrix.
 
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White Devil said:
Maybe the writer never saw The Matrix.
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Or I'm assuming that the writer only looked up the movie on Wikipedia and/or watched vintage ads of it on YouTube, and never even bothered to watch it
 
"Ballerina" trailer just dropped.


I am more curious about this now since Chad Stahelski apparently reshot most of the movie himself. But I still don't keep my hopes up.

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Also, Norman Reedus is basically TWD's Daryl.
 
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