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What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?
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The John Wick series
Watched them all over the course of a weekend - its the same fucking moving over and over and over and over again. The amount of disbelief I needed to suspend got exponentially larger so by the time I got to the last movie I just couldn't take it anymore. There is no real plot or any development of characters, it's just implausible fight scene after implausible fight scene.
I think if I put a few months between each movie I wouldn't have this opinion - on their own the movies can be mindlessly entertaining but all together was too much for me.
I love the first one and would argue it's fairly grounded, it's the sequels that quickly got unhinged.
Dude murders everyone over a dog. So grounded.
Murdering people over a dog part is still plausible. But the secret assassin organization where they pay for services using secret gold coins and talk about guns like fine wine, that was just a bit over the top.
We were talking about the action scenes being believable.
He got beat to within an inch of his life in his own house after making a deal never to be bothered again.
I enjoyed the first movie; The "I hear you have struck my son." scene sold it for me; if the movie was perfectly cliche that scene would have ended "Sorry sir, it'll never happen again!" while a red laser dot is wiggling up his chest and then Viggo says "I know." and we hear a gun shot through the phone. No, that "He stole John Wick's car, sir; and he killed his dog." "Oh." It was a fresh helping of big Hollywood action movie. And for a big improbable ridiculous one man army action movie, it still had some restraint. It was at least a little grounded.
The second movie went right up its own ass. So, literally everyone everywhere in the world is a secret underground contract killer? I haven't seen...I saw a thread about "there probably won't be a John Wick 5 because Keanu's knees" so 3 or 4. I enjoyed the first one.
The whole point of those movies is to see the action. The martial arts, guns, cars, everything is an incredible stunt or piece of action camerawork. John Wick is what happened when stuntpeople made a movie. People liked it because it looked realish and the stunts were cool. So they made more.