tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post6409119438104447887..comments2024-03-28T03:28:11.926-11:00Comments on Kinemalogue: Something robustHunter Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-71381783655172101072017-03-02T21:18:52.487-11:002017-03-02T21:18:52.487-11:00Fair enough. I'm spotty as hell on my Daredev...Fair enough. I'm spotty as hell on my Daredevil, whom I guess is probably nobody's favorite superhero. (The obvious constituency for his adventures doesn't read a lot of comics.) I'm actually not up on the whole Miller run with Elektra and Bullseye. (Miller's "Born Again," on the other hand, is some of Marvel's best 80s stuff, as far as I can tell.) Anyway, the Mack/Quesada run with Echo is pretty good.Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-31559821488449684112017-03-02T15:56:42.791-11:002017-03-02T15:56:42.791-11:00I don't know how much Jimmy knows about the as...I don't know how much Jimmy knows about the assassins. He knows about John, and gives him some slack, but I get the impression that he's sort of like the opposite of Francis from the first movie: He knows who John is and what sort of business he's in, but he's not in the know about the whole Continental Network. <br /><br />You know, I was never a big Daredevil guy. I was too deeply embedded into the X-Men ecosystem, and the cosmic stuff. About the only Daredevil characters I can reliably comment upon are Daredevil himself, Electra, the Kingpin and Bullseye.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-46516376230252834882017-03-02T14:13:43.136-11:002017-03-02T14:13:43.136-11:00Qualified no on Jimmy, since he seems pretty infor...Qualified no on Jimmy, since he seems pretty informed about the assassins' underworld. He's probably the closest of anybody, though.<br /><br />Yeah, I dug Ares--Ruby Rose's character--a lot. (SPOILER) I'd have preferred it if he'd killed her (man, sometimes John has a harder time killing named characters than most henchmen), but I liked the deafness gimmick. Remember Echo from Daredevil? I liked that arc.<br /><br />I wasn't bothered by Fishburne, since there's some much Matrix in John Wick already, especially in Chapter 2, so it felt pretty natural. I also like "Get this man a gun!", even if it does feel awfully overcalculated to be Chapter 2's most-quoteable line.Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-83706992608152667952017-03-01T08:23:08.709-11:002017-03-01T08:23:08.709-11:00Would you consider Thomas Sadowski's cop '...Would you consider Thomas Sadowski's cop 'Jimmy' to be a civilian? <br /><br />At any rate, the thing that I liked so much about that ending scene is that you really didn't know who was an assassin getting the call to take out Wick and who was a regular person in the park who was just checking their phone when they saw some beat-up weirdo with a dog limp by them. Any of them might have been assassins, or none of them. I really liked that ambiguity. <br /><br />I guess I just felt like the homeless army didn't have that much of a purpose. Sure, they shielded Wick and got him near his enemies, but I sort of felt like their main purpose was just to have the two male protagonists from the Matrix films meet up and to have people go 'Neat!'. There just wasn't much to it, I felt. I enjoyed Androgynous-woman-speaking-in-sign-language assassin and Common much more, to be honest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-77238086626721062942017-02-28T19:39:09.515-11:002017-02-28T19:39:09.515-11:00I'm not sure Fishburne's homeless kingdom ...I'm not sure Fishburne's homeless kingdom makes the first lick of sense, but I did like it. (It does kind of make you wonder. Are there, like, any actual civilians in John Wick movies? I'm pretty sure the only person who is, who gets a line, is dead. But I also suppose that's one of the franchise's strengths, its self-containment and willingness to establish its Matrix-like alternate reality as a fully functional thing.)<br /><br />I keep thinking I need to re-up John Wick 1 to an 8/10. Anyway, it's one of those 7/10s that I sure as hell have never regretted blind-buying.Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4633480297352890314.post-49741429637022956912017-02-28T18:53:36.263-11:002017-02-28T18:53:36.263-11:00Yeah, that ending with the people in the park was ...Yeah, that ending with the people in the park was absolutely delightful. It made the whole movie 20% better. It was like the scene with Wick fighting his way through New York to get to the Continental, but instead of action it was just pure tension. <br /><br />Overall, good film. I thought that the subplot with Fishburne and his underground army weren't really good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com