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#12521 User is offline   Mezla PigDog 

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Posted 06 April 2023 - 05:26 AM

I don't like the John Wick films. I have fallen asleep through all of them at home. Happy to say that I just don't get it. I don't mind action and violence but I find the fight sequences go on so long, there's no soul left to them and I get bored.

On the flip side, I liked Bullet Train. We watched that one night and John Wick 3 a couple of nights later and Mr PigDog can't fathom why I liked one and not the other.
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 11:48 AM

View PostMezla PigDog, on 06 April 2023 - 05:26 AM, said:


On the flip side, I liked Bullet Train. We watched that


BULLET TRAIN has no right to be AS good as it is. EASILY one of my fave movies from last year, and yeah it's better than the JOHN WICK movies (and I like the JW movies).
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 12:02 PM

I enjoyed the first JW, the second and third were alright.
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 01:05 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 06 April 2023 - 11:48 AM, said:

View PostMezla PigDog, on 06 April 2023 - 05:26 AM, said:


On the flip side, I liked Bullet Train. We watched that


BULLET TRAIN has no right to be AS good as it is. EASILY one of my fave movies from last year, and yeah it's better than the JOHN WICK movies (and I like the JW movies).

Yes Bullet Train has to be one of the most fun movies I've seen in ages.
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 01:08 PM

I liked all first three. I'm not super invested in the lore or even the character, and they don't touch like The Raid movies or peak Jackie Chan in terms of action choreography, but they're about "as good as" American movies tend to get at it.
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 01:46 PM

View Postworry, on 06 April 2023 - 01:08 PM, said:

I liked all first three. I'm not super invested in the lore or even the character, and they don't touch like The Raid movies or peak Jackie Chan in terms of action choreography, but they're about "as good as" American movies tend to get at it.


This may be the MOST accurate thing you've ever said.

I agree, especially the last part. Action choreography especially only usually sings in America when it's done by Asian Stunt Coordinators (Like Yuen Woo Ping), but even then American Insurance disallow them to use the full extent of their skills.

Like Chad Stahelski is a good stunt-guy/fight choreographer, but he cannot touch some of the Asian choreo's....theres a reason shit like THE MATRIX movies are held up to such high regards in American cinema, and it's cause they hired a choreographer from Hong Kong with a DEEP catalog of hits.

Also, RE: "Peak" Jackie Chan....I always point out that the final fight in GORGEOUS (1999) may not be fancy with the extra bells and whistles that something like his DRUNKEN MASTER fights are using so many props....but it's a technical marvel of a fight and may be one of his very best.


Lastly, Kurt Wimmer (EQUILIBRIUM) walked so that Stahelski could run with regards to Gun Fu....
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 02:07 PM

Everything I say is equally accurate, so yeah in that sense it's tied for MOST.
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 02:22 PM

View Postworry, on 06 April 2023 - 02:07 PM, said:

Everything I say is equally accurate, so yeah in that sense it's tied for MOST.


I dunno man....smash cut endings are still trash.
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 03:02 PM

View PostQuickTidal, on 06 April 2023 - 11:48 AM, said:

View PostMezla PigDog, on 06 April 2023 - 05:26 AM, said:

On the flip side, I liked Bullet Train. We watched that


BULLET TRAIN has no right to be AS good as it is. EASILY one of my fave movies from last year, and yeah it's better than the JOHN WICK movies (and I like the JW movies).


I watched Everything Everywhere All at Once and Bullet Train last November on my flight to my honeymoon.

Am I lucky or what lol.
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 04:01 PM

Just watched John Wick 4.

Amazing action film. Completely ridiculous plot but highly entertaining. So, so many henchpeople get killed in this movie, that I am legitimately worried for their trade. I hope they have great life insurance.

I can't help wishing this was made with Paul Verhovens liberal use of squibs instead of the more neutered digital blood spatter. Maybe in 10 years time and AI can make an enhanced version with extra gallons of blood.
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Posted 06 April 2023 - 04:02 PM

D&D HONOR AMONG THIEVES - I totally enjoyed this. Not brilliant, not deep, but it was a fun story, the cast sold it well, the fx were good to great, and the near steady stream of dnd easter eggs and references were a complete treat.

Best. Dragon. Ever.
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Posted 07 April 2023 - 01:48 PM

View PostAbyss, on 06 April 2023 - 04:02 PM, said:

D&D HONOR AMONG THIEVES - I totally enjoyed this. Not brilliant, not deep, but it was a fun story, the cast sold it well, the fx were good to great, and the near steady stream of dnd easter eggs and references were a complete treat.

Best. Dragon. Ever.
I need to see the last 30 or so minutes again, may wait til it streams, may not.


Seconded. Just saw it tonight and it was a real hoot. The cast looked like they were enjoying it as well.

Eight BMI-challenged dragons out of ten.

For me though the real MVP was Rege-Jean Page. The Paladin's Paladin. And my goodness doesn't the camera just love him? Some serious screen presence - easily 18 charisma.
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Posted 07 April 2023 - 02:37 PM

View PostTsundoku, on 07 April 2023 - 01:48 PM, said:

View PostAbyss, on 06 April 2023 - 04:02 PM, said:

D&D HONOR AMONG THIEVES - I totally enjoyed this. Not brilliant, not deep, but it was a fun story, the cast sold it well, the fx were good to great, and the near steady stream of dnd easter eggs and references were a complete treat.

Best. Dragon. Ever.
I need to see the last 30 or so minutes again, may wait til it streams, may not.


Seconded. Just saw it tonight and it was a real hoot. The cast looked like they were enjoying it as well.

Eight BMI-challenged dragons out of ten.

For me though the real MVP was Rege-Jean Page. The Paladin's Paladin. And my goodness doesn't the camera just love him? Some serious screen presence - easily 18 charisma.
I'm very very straight, but it's simply not fair someone is that damn good looking. :p
Consider me firmly on the "RJP for Bond" bandwagon. Noone else on any recent "Bond maybe" list I have seen comes close.


One of my few nitpicks of the movie.

There a dnd movie. With a Paladin. And we can’t get one damn smite?!?! Come on now.
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#12534 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 07 April 2023 - 09:07 PM

RJP don't need no smite.

(insert "smitten" joke)

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Posted 10 April 2023 - 04:28 PM

D&D:HAT seems to be doing well ...

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Posted 10 April 2023 - 04:59 PM

Saw SUPER MARIO BROS with the fam on the weekend. It was a blast. Kids really enjoyed it and there was plenty for older adult fans to enjoy too. Just a really fun outing at the movies.
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Posted 11 April 2023 - 01:26 PM

Took me years, but I finally watched RIDDICK....and I'll be real, I LOVED PITCH BLACK and CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK and saw both in theatres....but RIDDICK (the 3rd film) kind of tries to go back to the same well that PITCH BLACK came from, and it kind of feels like a back peddle from the shift away from that in CHRONICLES...like I feel like the whole movie should have been about Riddick trying to reconcile his morals and life with being Lord Marshall amongst Necromonger society....instead he's put back onto a desolate world with beasties that want to kill him and a ragtag band of other people. It feels like a step back.

That said, I'll be in the theatre to see the 4th film where Riddick finally gets home to Furya with bells on.
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Posted 11 April 2023 - 01:43 PM

View PostAptorian, on 06 April 2023 - 04:01 PM, said:

Just watched John Wick 4.

Amazing action film. Completely ridiculous plot but highly entertaining. So, so many henchpeople get killed in this movie, that I am legitimately worried for their trade. I hope they have great life insurance.

I can't help wishing this was made with Paul Verhovens liberal use of squibs instead of the more neutered digital blood spatter. Maybe in 10 years time and AI can make an enhanced version with extra gallons of blood.



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Posted 11 April 2023 - 07:15 PM

View PostMacros, on 06 April 2023 - 12:02 PM, said:

I enjoyed the first JW, the second and third were alright.
Nobody is a better, and more fun, take on the dangerous man retired story

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Posted 11 April 2023 - 09:16 PM

View PostMacros, on 11 April 2023 - 07:15 PM, said:

View PostMacros, on 06 April 2023 - 12:02 PM, said:

I enjoyed the first JW, the second and third were alright.
Nobody is a better, and more fun, take on the dangerous man retired story

what am I champ, chopped liver?



Obviously not as I don't like liver! :D


But it's difficult to respond without spoilers.

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