John wick - A step to far

Lowe · 1 Feb 2016 at 15:54

Great film, was recommended to me baby the guys I do Jujitsu with. If you overlook the guns, it's pretty much our syllabus with a story haha!

ttaskmaster · 2 Feb 2016 at 10:57

Lowe said:
Great film, was recommended to me baby the guys I do Jujitsu with. If you overlook the guns, it's pretty much our syllabus with a story haha!

You train in dog-stomping??!! :confused:

NickK · 2 Feb 2016 at 12:49

Suggests OP watches Le Dobermann, Ong Bak, Ichi the Killer.. they're all on public release.

Dimi · 2 Feb 2016 at 14:13

Watch some Korean movies too while you're at it, if people think John Wick is a step to far I wonder what they'll think of The Chaser, I Saw The Devil and so on..

V F · 2 Feb 2016 at 14:19

robgmun said:
The fact that it was the last remaining thing that his wife gave him before she died broke him. It wasn't the 'dog' per se, but the fact the dog links him to his dead wife and that link is broken. He has nothing left and he's empty inside. So **** everyone and kill them all

V F said:
Nobody here owns a dog to know how that feels? Wasn't it a gift from his dead wife? It has been a while since I've seen it.

Uncle Petey · 2 Feb 2016 at 14:27

Even without the dead wife connection, I'd go on a rampage of revenge over the dog alone.
A heartless scumbag that's happy and willing to do that deserves everything they get and then some.

Inb4 some lame counter argument postulating that I must therefore value a dog's life over a human or some other such crap.

Vonhelmet · 2 Feb 2016 at 14:28

Uncle Petey said:
Even without the dead wife connection, I'd go on a rampage of revenge over the dog alone.
A heartless scumbag that's happy and willing to do that deserves everything they get and then some.

Inb4 some lame counter argument postulating that I must therefore value a dog's life over a human or some other such crap.

You rang?

Uncle Petey · 2 Feb 2016 at 14:29

LOL yes

ttaskmaster · 2 Feb 2016 at 14:52

Uncle Petey said:
Inb4 some lame counter argument postulating that I must therefore value a dog's life over a human or some other such crap.

So what if you do?
You're comparing just about any dog to the likes of Theon Greyjoy there... If that doggie is not getting sausage for dinner, I'd question the human making the comparison!

Vonhelmet · 2 Feb 2016 at 23:06

So, having argued in defence of it I've now got round to watching it. I'm not sure what the op is grumbling about. I've seen many many more violent films, and certainly many more unpleasantly violent films.

V F · 2 Feb 2016 at 23:19

If anything the Kill Bill films were so messy and the disgusting part when Lucy Lui's top half of her head is exposed. Blood flies everywhere with Tarrantino's films. Or Slither, that was beyond disgusting.

Vonhelmet · 2 Feb 2016 at 23:52

The Kill Bill films were also disgusting because of Tarantino noisily masturbating all over the place.

Malevolence · 3 Feb 2016 at 00:15

Vonhelmet said:
The Kill Bill films were also disgusting because of Tarantino noisily masturbating all over the place.

That was art though, you could tell by the way it switched to black & white when *bleep* when mental on the Crazy 88 with the Hanzo.

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2016 at 00:30

Malevolence said:
That was art though, you could tell by the way it switched to black & white when *bleep* when mental on the Crazy 88 with the Hanzo.

My Japan copy was all in colour.

IIRC, the black & white scene was edited for censorship, or more accurately, to get a R rated rating in America and no NC17 for being too violent.

You can compare the 2 cuts here.

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=1588

Jester* · 3 Feb 2016 at 08:01

Watched this last night and enjoyed it.

At no point did I think the violence was over the top or taken too far. As has been said, plenty more bloody and vicious films around.

ttaskmaster · 3 Feb 2016 at 10:17

Vonhelmet said:
The Kill Bill films were also disgusting because of Tarantino noisily masturbating all over the place.

Oh, is THAT what that was...?

I thought it was some kind of cult/cutting-edge soundtrack reference to the music of a particular fringe film style... or maybe the little police sirens you got in LEGO sets...
So every time you get a close-up on Uma Thurman with the high-pitched, "BWEEEEEEEE-BWAAAAARRRRR BWEEEEEEEE-BWAAAAARRRRR BWEEEEEEEE-BWAAAAARRRRR".... that is Quentin, ya?

Vonhelmet · 3 Feb 2016 at 10:58

What can I say, he's a weird guy

V F · 3 Feb 2016 at 11:37

Vonhelmet said:
What can I say, he's a weird guy

So was Death Proof. Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike.

Errol · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:38

Absolutely loved John Wick - precisely because it was a return to 'proper', no holds barred violence, gun-play and brutal hitman action. None of this cutting away nonsense or softening the killing. John Wick is brutal, nasty and all the better for it.

It's a great film with some truly amazing sequences - which, btw, Keanu Reeves did mostly himself (including the driving!).

Great film. Don't really have a bad word to say about it. Really looking for JW 2.

The OP is just wrong.

Errol · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:43

Slam62 said:
He was very friendly. (The dog)

Funny how the bad guys were bad shots and very stupid.

They weren't. They were just dealing with the best hitman in the world. They stood almost no chance (as the gang boss tries to tell everyone the whole time - annoying John Wick is a VERY bad idea. He can't be stopped).