Listen now | Today’s movie is John Wick directed by Chad Stahelski. We both enjoyed John Wick well enough, although it’s not really our type of movie. It’s a well made film that has a distinct style and strong action directing, but at the end of the day we just get pretty bored of it all after the first hour or so. We’ll probably end up checking out the sequels at some point, though - we hear people like them even more than the first film.
Well it might not be a type of movie for those who like to feel the depth and emotion the story but it can surely be a good treat for us action lover fans and also john wick 1st part really connects the viewer with the MC.
well these are my emotions and opinions that I felt while watching john wick (all 4 parts)
I don't really care about that sort of thing, though. Whether or not something is a trope isn't relevant to whether or not it's done well. The problem here was not that the setup was trite, but rather that it was poorly executed.
The idea that it matters whether something is a "trope" or not is just kind of weird. People don't think it's bad that jazz has "standards" that everyone interprets, so it just seems weird that people fixate on things that are movie "standards" as if it's inherently bad.
In my opinion, the John Wick sequels take the "assassin world" and drive it completely off the rails. Each one feels like it needs to one-up the ridiculous shit from the previous one, and we wind up with blood-thumbprint life-debt accounting and feud-resolution regulation rules lawyering. I suppose "comic book-y" is a good way to describe it, and I guess some people like that, but I just found it all so absurd and unrealistic that I totally lost interest.
I was also glad to hear Casey compare the Bourne movies favorably. I feel the same way; I love to see characters making intelligent decisions with the real information / knowledge they would have, and to have realistic consequences and results. Like the fight with Desh in the Bourne Ultimatum. Bourne clearly struggles in that fight, having to use improvised weapons that mostly end up being ineffective. But since it's mostly just a one-on-one fight, it's realistic that he was able to win it. John Wick, on the other hand, is full of scenes of John single-handedly killing dozens of enemies in completely unrealistic combat scenes.
Well it might not be a type of movie for those who like to feel the depth and emotion the story but it can surely be a good treat for us action lover fans and also john wick 1st part really connects the viewer with the MC.
well these are my emotions and opinions that I felt while watching john wick (all 4 parts)
The killing of the dog, or more commonly killing of the wife/girlfriend is a really common trope and covered decently in this episode of a completely unrelated podcast: https://www.epsilontheory.com/cursed-knowledge-16-women-in-refrigerators/
I don't really care about that sort of thing, though. Whether or not something is a trope isn't relevant to whether or not it's done well. The problem here was not that the setup was trite, but rather that it was poorly executed.
The idea that it matters whether something is a "trope" or not is just kind of weird. People don't think it's bad that jazz has "standards" that everyone interprets, so it just seems weird that people fixate on things that are movie "standards" as if it's inherently bad.
- Casey
In my opinion, the John Wick sequels take the "assassin world" and drive it completely off the rails. Each one feels like it needs to one-up the ridiculous shit from the previous one, and we wind up with blood-thumbprint life-debt accounting and feud-resolution regulation rules lawyering. I suppose "comic book-y" is a good way to describe it, and I guess some people like that, but I just found it all so absurd and unrealistic that I totally lost interest.
I was also glad to hear Casey compare the Bourne movies favorably. I feel the same way; I love to see characters making intelligent decisions with the real information / knowledge they would have, and to have realistic consequences and results. Like the fight with Desh in the Bourne Ultimatum. Bourne clearly struggles in that fight, having to use improvised weapons that mostly end up being ineffective. But since it's mostly just a one-on-one fight, it's realistic that he was able to win it. John Wick, on the other hand, is full of scenes of John single-handedly killing dozens of enemies in completely unrealistic combat scenes.
Noooo! Don’t check the sequels! They are much worse! It’s a trap!