>They just start stabbing people in crowded public places and nobody notices
Do the John Wick films happen in the Matrix or is this the stupidest franchise ever?
>They just start stabbing people in crowded public places and nobody notices
>They just start stabbing people in crowded public places and nobody notices
Do the John Wick films happen in the Matrix or is this the stupidest franchise ever?
It's just that 2, 3 and 4 were bad movies is all.
4 was good. It's the first sequel to embrace what
says and stop pretending to be a real movie.
Imagine that you're trying to milk cow's carcass.
>absolutely, basically, fundamentally, irrevocably, ruins your movie
Nothing personnel
thank god she wasn’t in 4
right? bland out of place black guy with similar dog gimmick was better
you're a queer if you don't want to bust loads into halle berry's ass
Yeah but I don’t want her in any movies beyond maybe as a Bond girl
Halle Berry is rumored to be one of the most gigantic, insufferable c**ts in all of Hollywood, on and off the set. Just an impossible person to be around.
>implying that changes anything about wanting to bust loads into her ass
You plan on raping her?
It's an alternative reality where police doesn't exist and people are apathetic by random violence as long as it doesn't put them in danger. Most of the characters are like npcs with a bad AI and John Wick levels up and get new perks through the movies while the difficulty of the game also increase.
You jest but it is basically a video game movie. It's like someone just decided to show the video game industry that movies are better at being video games then games are at being movies. The John Wick movies all function by pure video game logic, though, down to the doctor giving him pills to heal his wounds
I'm phone posting
The narrative implication is that the assassins and the high table have so much sway and represent so much of the civil body that these kinds of events are generally seen by the public anyways, and as long as their lives aren't in danger, they usually either ignore these things or simply move around them. The park scene at the end of 2 cemented that simple members of lower elements of the High Table's hierarchy are capable of manipulating crowds of people in the dozens (possibly hundreds) such that a simple phone call can cause them all to immediately jump to action.
The real issue is that this insinuates that the High Table is of such obscene prevalence in global society that their actions shouldn't be considered underground, and it's bizarre to have them operate in these pseudo-covert ways to mask their "criminal" operations. Without a single police officer seeming to even mildly attempt to stop anything going on, none of their enterprises ultimately make sense, as the prominence of crime is fundamentally tied to inaccessibility to certain resources or privileges by the public. Why would I need to contact some shady dude on a sidewalk for crack when I can simply figure out where my local High Table affiliate presides and get my crack from them? Why would I need to worry about hiring an assassin for some obscene price when I can just stab the fricker and face no retribution?
JW franchise is basically like a modern take of the wuxia genre. In wuxia, there's often the outlaw organizations away from the imperial rule/ royal court's rule. The outlaws have their own rules and influence and while there may be clashes with the government, the gov tend to turn a blind a eye, taking a 'you stay in your own lane, don't mess with our citizens, we tell our guards to leave you be'. There's even the hobo network run by Laurence Fishburne's Bowery King that parallels the Beggar sect that's a common element in wuxia. Hell, they neve name dropped wuxia as the radio broadcast in the finale chase.
>The real issue is that this insinuates that the High Table is of such obscene prevalence in global society that their actions shouldn't be considered underground, and it's bizarre to have them operate in these pseudo-covert ways to mask their "criminal" operations. Without a single police officer seeming to even mildly attempt to stop anything going on, none of their enterprises ultimately make sense
Take russian fsb for example, or KGB of ages past.
What they do is criminal. They can do whatever they want openly. No one dares to stop them.
Yet for some reason they keep pretenses and appearance.
nah that's just how New York is
>High Table goons show up in buses with The High Table logos on the door
Stupidest fricking shit ever
> They just start stabbing people in crowded public places and nobody notices
> Do the John Wick films happen in the Matrix
No they just take place in very diverse cities
I remember this.
The dude just finishes his coffee while the guy bleeds out, right?
>not my problem
>takes a sip
I thought it was hilarious in 4 when they had epic battle with that fat guy in the club and everyone was just dancing around them. Even when John very theatrically falls into the middle of the floor from several stories up not a soul stops jamming and jiving
Another trope is how often characters just randomly point guns at each other. In Part 3 Winston does an entire monologue gesturing to John while holding a gun as if to offer it to him (he's giving him a choice) but he's really just pointing a loaded firearm at him. Then, a few scenes later, John Wick just turns to Winston and points a loaded shotgun at him for no reason. lol
based
>m8
Cinemaphile is English-only
That's literally a fighting game background tier.
>they're on drugs bro
I am literally in this photo as a background extra
I'm the guy on the right wearing a green herschel backpack and a blue hat
>They just start stabbing people in crowded public places and nobody notices
So like real life? Nobody's being the hero m8
It's set in new York. Where you could run over someone with a steam roller while blasting death metal and blowing an air horn and no one would pay attention.
The movies take place in an alternate dimension where criminal organizations secretly run everything on top of that the people know they're at a nightclub owned by a criminal so they see people getting in fights all the time and don't care until they're directly in harm's way.
>so they see people getting in fights all the time
No, that's just it. They literally act like they don't even see them.
Times Square is one of the most heavily policed places in the world. The beginning of Part 2 was absolutely hilarious because i'm pretty sure the chase ends near there.
>No, that's just it. They literally act like they don't even see them.
That's because they know the criminal organizations run everything so it's best to just ignore all the violent crime they see all the time. Even then, many of them are assassins themselves.
>getting mad about the set dressing for the cool set pieces
Noooo I can't enjoy the staircase because it isn't realistic
>john wick 4
>massive gunfights all over paris
>not a single police car
So, just like real life.
They happen in fiction, you mentally ill, autistic incel.
>set in a world where you have all these massive global assassin network setting up hotels everywhere
It's almost as if the people there are already used to this sort of shit.
>the people are used to it
moron, the scene in question includes a line of school children lol
>school children being used to witnessing violence
Yes, anon, have you heard of this place called America? Little kids even have drills in case of school shooting. If anything, John Wick setting is safer since they know the assassins aren't targeting them.
Yeah, I get it. You've been making these shitposts the entire thread. I get it. You want to /misc/ post about 'Murica because the BBC told you to.
Why are you morons taking everything so seriously? It’s just a cool action movie, I don’t want to see some moron civilians and policemen interfering John while he’s killing hundreds of people
John wick is fast and furious for gun nuts, every movie just escalates to new extreme insanes
Yeah but it’s visually pleasing and filmed in taste unlike fast and furious
Even though I love the JW franshice, I wish they kept the style of the first movie where he actually uses some stealth and strategy to infiltrate places instead of going in full moron mode killing thousands of people without getting scratched
The scene where he greets the door man and tells him to take the night off carries a million times more weight and says more about these characters and their relationships then the 1000 goons he wrecks in the next 3 films combined.
The 3 sequels are almost a different universe of movies, though. There's no reason for any of these characters to trust each other or have the kinds of professional courtesy they showed in the first film. Ms. Perkins character got what was coming to her precisely because she abused that trust. In the films after it, it was just normal.
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What’s more stupid about this is him missing, he must have turned off the auto-aim cheats he was using in the first movie,
>is this the stupidest franchise ever?
It's made by barely literate stuntmen as an homage to hong kong action movies from the 1980s.
What do you think?
*except hk action movies were self aware. The makers of john wick are dead serious.
>The makers of john wick are dead serious.
No they aren't. It's become a running gag in the series that John Wick's only weakness is getting hit by a car on his right side or something.
Yes, its the stupidest shit ever. I HATE THE JOHN WICK MOVIES! HATE THEM!
They are just gore and cruelty without a pretense of a storiline. Can you just watch keanu reeeves headshot 20.000 people for 8 hours and be entertained? To me that's torture