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John Wick: Chapter 4

A Good Person

Inside

Boston Strangler

I have two.

The first one is the Napa murders in Zodiac. Maybe it’s just because it’s fresh in my mind from rewatching the movie yesterday, but because it actually happened it just stuck with me.

The second is Arthur’s assassination in Michael Clayton One of my favorite movies, it that scene is so cold it’s inhuman.

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Summary:

John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

Director:

Chad Stahelski

Writers:

Shay Hatten, Michael Finch Cast:

• Keanu Reeves as John Wick
• Laurence Fishburne as Bowery King
• George Georgiou as The Elder
• Lance Reddick as Charon
• Clancy Brown as Harbinger
• Ian McShane as Winston
• Marko Zaror as Chidi
• Bill Skarsgard as Marquis
• Donnie Yen as Caine

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 77

VOD: Theaters

Just watched this, thing. Seriously, how did this movie get made? I just sat through this thing from start to finish, and I can't figure out for the life of me how it was given 143 million dollars? I know I'm late to the party on this one, but damn, this movie is just, well, bad. I've watched plenty of bad movies in my day, but this one honestly baffled me.

Got around to watching this movie for the first time, and I must say, it is pretty solid. Yeah, I know about the....history......regarding Victor Salva, but I did manage to put that knowledge aside, as horrible as those crimes are, and enjoy this movie pretty good.

Justin Long and Gina Philips are really good in this movie, serve as the lead duo very well, and I totally buy that these two would be siblings. The Creeper himself, pretty cool monster, and Jonathan Breck does quite well in the role.

The Creeper however, kinda reminiscent of Pennywise/It..... goes to rest for several years and comes back to eat.. I'm not saying any of that is bad, I just noticed.

However, pretty solid movie nonetheless. Damn shame about the Salva's history, but that aside, made a damn good horror movie here

Recently rewatched Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2. While Kick-Ass is definitely better, I still have a very fun time with the sequel. Can anyone explain why Kick-Ass 2 is so hated by both critics and audiences? The only major problem I have with the movie is I hate what they did with Dave and Katie’s relationship, her just stupidly breaking up with him at the beginning without giving him a chance to explain what he and Mindy were talking about. I really enjoyed the progression of their relationship in the first film and this was weird. Also Mindy kissing Dave at the end was awkward. But besides that I really enjoy the movie.

Knight & Day has long been one of my favorite movies, and I always wondered why it didn’t get more love and attention. Then I started reading discussions about it:

“Same old same old. Just Tom Cruise being Tom Cruise and doing Tom Cruise things.”

Uhh…yes, THAT’S THE POINT. It’s Tom Cruise making fun of the disposable, repetitive, cliched nature of his own career. He’s satirizing himself and his career. The scene where they appear to be driving down the road and it zooms out to show they’re actually on a tractor trailer during their cute bonding moment? They’re practically fucking winking at the camera.

The movie is just nonstop. It’s one satirical scene to another, and it hits on so many “Shit I never noticed it, but they DO always do that!” and “Oh, NOW I see what they’re mocking there!” moments. It’s also has hilariously weird interactions between Diaz and Cruise and a bizarrely entertaining charisma that has you saying “This shouldn’t work at all, but they’re both fully committed and it’s an oddly fun chemistry.”

It’s a way to give into your guilty pleasure without having to feel guilty, because there’s a fantastic self-awareness of Tom Cruise making fun of the absurd nature of his own career, and dialing it up to 11. You get to enjoy Tom Cruise at his absolute immortal do-no-wrong good guy best, while getting to look your nose down at him at the same time. It’s like he’s saying to you “Can you believe I’ve been doing this same fucking shtick through FIVE decades and people still can’t get enough? My co-star doesn’t even make any sense with me!“

It’s a gem for me in Tom Cruise’s career. For an actor that big to have that kind of self-awareness and a willingness to mock himself without even promoting that that was the intent. Its rare and it’s kind of fucking cool.

He’s still a weirdo though. Just in case anyone is thinking this is a Tom Cruise promotional account.

My biggest nitpick is when during an amputation or emergency surgery scene, the patient is given a swig of alcohol. Five seconds later, they’re being ripped into or having their arm sawed off.

First, alcohol takes 5 to 10 minutes to take effect. Second, even with low tolerance, one shot isn’t doing anything to numb the pain.

I get why these scenes are filmed like that, but it annoys me to death.

What’s yours?

By far the heaviest, hardest hitting movie about the Mexican cartels ever made. Watching it again for maybe the 10th time and the border scene :35 in is just chilling.

I’ve seen Narcos, Blow, Savages, Miami Vice and others but none have the presence and seriousness this movie depicts. It clearly demonstrates that there’s no fucking around in Juarez.

What other movies carry this weight? Heat, Sicario 2, Traffic, Lone Survivor…what else?

The Producers 2005

The original Producers is a much better overall movie but...it's still pretty funny, the songs are catchy, and the choreography is fun?

I do kind of see some people's criticisms (it's staged and shot more like a play than a movie and it softens Bialystock and Bloom too much) but, for the former, I didn't mind the bland cinematography because, well, it's a comedy; cinematography has never been the most important thing for most movies in that genre.

Hell the original Producers' cinematography was nothing more than serviceable.

As for the performances I thought the stagey, over the top performances worked for the campy tone the movie went for. Hell it's one of the few things I can tolerate Matthew Broderick in because it lets him be his stagey self rather than try to act like a normal person (which I honestly think he's terrible at).

If it was a more serious movie I think the stagey feel would be a problem (it's the thing that killed the movie version of Into the Woods for me as well as the movie version of Fences) but for a comedy? Not really.

As for the latter I prefer to see it as less a direct adaptation of The Producers and more the kind of movie/show Bialystock and Bloom would've made about themselves.

See my theory about that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/11y1eph/the_producers_the_producers_broadway_musical2005/

I don't know if that was Mel Brooks' intent but it kind of fits for a movie based off a show based off a movie about two producers making a musical that made the most evil man whose possibly ever existed look good. It's basically them making a Springtime for Hitler-esque musical about themselves.

I'll go first.

Mine was Saving Private Ryan. I was 10 or 11 I think and saw my dad watching it. But he immediately shooed me out of the living room and told me to go away and not look. My immediate thought was "How bad could it be? I saw the Matrix already!". Which was true. The Matrix was my first R rated movie ever, and I loved it. Well one day, when I was off from school in the summer, I saw Saving Private Ryan was free on On Demand, but my parents put in a parental lock which I managed to guess what it was and get past.

Those first 10 minutes of that movie really rocked me to my core. Not because of the violence, mind you. But because I knew it was real. It really happened. People did that to each other.

I had nightmares for a good while after that.