Official John Wick Major Arcana tarot cards featuring Chapter 4 characters
Art by Julien Rico Jr, in collaboration with Lionsgate.
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[Start ID: 22 images featuring characters and locations from the movie "John Wick: Chapter 4" as Major Arcana tarot cards. The drawings are in black and white against a sandy beige background, and has plenty of circle motives. Roman numerals are at the top, their corresponding card title at the bottom, and the movie title "John Wick: Chapter 4" on the bottom left margin.
0: The number zero, or unnumbered, tarot card features Killa Harkan played by Scott Adkins as "The Fool". Killa is holding a 2 of spades between two fingers while giving a smug smile that shows off his set of golden teeth. He wears a ring on his right hand and the other hand is holding a stack of cards. Behind Killa is a minimalistic design resembling a casino token with details such as the diamond and clover symbols, as well as the numbers on the dice. In front of Killa is a table with two piling stacks of casino tokens, a gun, and the shadow of John Wick's head looming over a large portion of the table.
1: The number one tarot card features The Tracker or Mr. Nobody played by Shamier Anderson as "The Magician". Mr. Nobody has a smug expression on his face and is holding his rifle in a way that lets it rest slung over his shoulder. By his side is Mr. Nobody's Belgian Malinois. The backdrop consists of simplistic, grayish graphics of map vectors cropped into several circles of different sizes. There is a white-coloured infinity symbol on top of Mr. Nobody's head.
2: The number two tarot card features Rooney, aka The Ballerina, who first appeared in "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum", as "The High Priestess". Rooney's back is facing towards us as she's performing a ballet move on a circular stage. Rooney is wearing a white crown and a dress that shows the cross tattoo on her back. In the backdrop, where Rooney's face is looking towards, are curtains with the initials "JW" written on the far ends of the frame.
3: The number three tarot card features Katia played by Natalia Tena as "The Empress". With a cool expression on her face, Katia is leaning forward against a set of railings, giving off a domineering aura. Katia is wearing a metallic necklace and a cross on her neck. Behind Katia is the crest of the Ruska Roma and a line in Russian circling around it.
4: The number four tarot card features The Bowery King played by Laurence Fishburne as "The Emperor". The Bowery King is sitting on a throne, but behind him is a pair of eyes staring menacingly at us. In front of him is a logo design with the same pair of eyes, though rendered smaller and appear less menacing, with an X crossed in between and a horizontal line capping the top of the X. At the Bowery King's feet, a few pigeons are shown in the foreground while the Brooklyn Bridge appear in the background.
5: The number five tarot card features The Elder as "The Hierophant". Behind the Elder is an Islamic floral design which extends into a more geometrical pattern. Standing in the background are two of the Elder's men.
6: The number six tarot card features John and Helen Wick, played by Keanu Reeves and Bridget Moynahan, as "The Lovers". John and Helen are smiling brightly towards each other in front of a New York night cityscape backdrop, with the Empire States building separating them at the centre. Above John and Helen is a silhouette of them pressed against each other about to kiss in front of a bright sun with the Brooklyn bridge in the background.
7: The number seven tarot card features John Wick driving his 1971 Plymouth Barracuda as "The Chariot". There is a bullet mark on the front glass pane of John Wick's car. On top is a closeup of John Wick surrounded by a circle of road markings and bullet marks.
8: The number eight tarot card features Charon played by Lance Reddick as "Strength". On top of Charon's head is the infinity symbol, and behind is a design reminiscent of a timepiece neatly decorated with knives, guns and bullets in a circle. Further behind is a faded image of the reverse side of the Gold Coin. Filling the bottom of the frame is the New York cityscape backdrop illuminated by the sun.
9: The number nine tarot card features Caine played by Donnie Yen as "The Hermit". Caine wears sunglasses and is holding a cane in his left hand and a pistol in his right. Caine's head is illuminated by a circle of bright light, which is surrounded by a dimmer, slightly bigger circle with Japanese wave patterns and then large protruding rays of black. In the backdrop are two winding trees along with a city landscape of Osaka, but they are overshadowed by Caine's black rays.
10: The number ten tarot card features L’Arc de Triomphe as "The Wheel of Fortune". The location is illustrated in such a way that looks like a clock, with the monument at the centre and twelve roads leading towards it. Surrounding the Arc de Triomphe are the letters from John Wick's name arranged in the exact order of north-west, north-east, south-west, south-east, west, north, east and south directions.
11: The number eleven tarot card features The Harbinger played by Clancy Brown as "Justice". The whole illustration is framed as if the Harbinger is contained inside an hourglass, with a half-body portrait of the Harbinger at the top and a full-body silhouette of him forming at the bottom from the sand flowing downwards. Behind the Harbinger's portrait is the Latin quote, "si vis pacem, para bellum", whereas next to the Harbinger's silhouette is a crescent moon. Along the sides of the hourglass outside are two duel pistols facing opposite directions on each side.
12: The number twelve tarot card features Koji Shimazu played by Hiroyuki Sanada as "The Hanged Man". Except for his feet, Koji is portrayed as an vertically-inverted reflection of himself on a pool of water. Koji is holding a katana and his head is surrounded by a circle of dim light and a brighter, slightly larger circle made of Japanese wave patterns. As seen in the reflection, behind him are cherry blossom trees and the Osaka city landscape.
13: The number thirteen tarot card features John Wick, aka the Baba Yaga, played by Keanu Reeves as "Death". John Wick is holding a pair of nunchucks in his right hand. Behind John Wick is a city landscape of Osaka lighted by the moon while his head is surrounded by a row of skull pictograms and two rows of bullets. There is also an faded image of the reverse side of the Gold Coin behind John Wick.
14: The number fourteen tarot card features Winston played by Ian McShane as "Temperance". Winston is holding up a wine glass with a capital C labelled on it, and there are multiple swords projecting from his back like wings. Behind Winston is the hotel name "Continental" and numerous halos of various fonts and patterns, along with the cityscape of New York, with the Statue of Liberty and the Empire States building in sight.
15: The number fifteen tarot card features The Marquis, Vincent Bisset de Gramont, played by Bill Skarsgård as "The Devil". Behind the Marquis is his signature emblem with two black knives crossed behind his head. The emblem is surrounded by two rows of knives. In the background is the night cityscape of Paris with the Eiffel Tower in view, illuminated by a moon that is surrounded by a snake or serpent that's chasing its own tail.
16: The number sixteen tarot card features the New York Continental Hotel as "The Tower". The top floors of the Continental Hotel are being set on fire as the small dark silhouette of John Wick and the debris carried along fall from its rooftop.
17: The number seventeen tarot card features Akira played by Rina Sawayama as "The Star". Illuminating behind Akira is a star resembling a six-pointed shuriken with two Japanese stork paintings on its left and right, which is further surrounded by a circle of alternating arrow fletchings and four-pointed shuriken. Akira is holding a bow and arrow and standing tall as the bodies of two men lie dead around her. In the background are the branches of cherry blossom trees and the sun or moon shining behind Akira.
18: The number eighteen tarot card features John Wick's and Mr. Nobody's dogs as "The Moon". The two dogs are staring up at the crescent moon, which is shaped as if John Wick's head is covering portions of the full moon. Surrounding the crescent moon are small stars and a illustration of the cycle of the moon phases. The two dogs are sitting on a road leading into an ambiguous city landscape in the background.
19: The number nineteen tarot card features the Sacré-Coeur as "The Sun". The rays of the sun spread out far and wide as wisps of clouds drifts behind the giant church. A dark silhouette of John Wick can be seen on the top open window of the Sacré-Coeur.
20: The number twenty tarot card features Chidi played by Marko Zaror as "Judgement". Behind Chidi is the emblem of the Marquis with a black knife cutting across behind his head. Below Chidi are the High Table's heavily armoured soldiers who are backdropped by a big splatter of sandy beige.
21: The number twenty-one tarot card features John Wick as "The World". John Wick's back is facing towards us with his head glancing back, showing us his face. Overlayed on top of him is his surname "Wick" with the "I" replaced by a bright silhouette of a walking John Wick. A circle of bullets surrounds John Wick and bullet marks scatter around him as the emblems of the High Table, the Marquis, the Adjudicator, and the Gold Coin fill all four corners of the frame.
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9 movies that I saw for the first time this year in March and enjoyed :) The end of this month became pretty John Wick-centric lol
Below are my star ratings for each film and link to my Letterboxd diary entry for each film (beware of spoilers!) Hope everyone has a great month of April!
Poor Things (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos - ★ ★ ★ ★
Society (1989) dir. Brian Yuzna - ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve - ★ ★ ★ ★
Escape from New York (1981) dir. John Carpenter - ★ ★ ★ ★
Three Colours: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - ★ ★ ★ ½
John Wick (2014) dir. Chad Stahelski - ★ ★ ★ ★ ½
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) dir. Chad Stahelski - ★ ★ ★ ★ ½
Persuasion (1995) dir. Roger Michell - ★ ★ ★
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) dir. Chad Stahelski - ★ ★ ★ ★
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behind the scenes shots ft. akd as the adjudicator, from this article about the cinematography
“In Hollywood, action filmmaking was kind of looked down upon until The Matrix, and then people realized that action could also be part of the story,” [director] Stahelski notes. “I come from a place of loving dance and theater and fine art — action can be all of those things — and one of my favorite painters is Caravaggio.” When he was looking for a cinematographer for John Wick: Chapter 2, Stahelski recalls, “I asked myself, ‘Who paints with light?’ The answer is Dan Laustsen.”
In strictly cinematographic terms, Parabellum functions less like an action movie and more like a Hollywood studio musical. The film’s first battle is a close-quarters knife fight in an antique weapons shop, where the camera cuts from wide shot to wide shot, sustaining the action in long takes so that the audience can better appreciate the physical prowess of Reeves’ performance — an elaborate fighting style that combines Japanese judo and jujitsu, Brazilian jujitsu, Russian sambo, Filipino kali, and Muay Thai, more for the benefit of show than for self-defense.
“Ninety-nine percent of high-level stunt work is dance — not pirouettes, but how you move your body,” asserts Stahelski, who continues to train stuntpeople with Leitch through their company 87eleven. “I love the aesthetic of motion. A lot of our shots [in Parabellum] are lifted straight from Singin’ in the Rain and West Side Story. We’re mixing Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin with Hong Kong cinema from John Woo, Jackie Chan and the Shaw Brothers.”
“We wanted to go wider than Hollywood action films normally do and really show off the choreography,” Laustsen agrees. “When the camera, lighting and actors are all moving together, it really is a dance.”
“After we made Chapter 2,” Laustsen notes, “we discussed how we could make 3 even more visually powerful. The main setting was still New York, but we wanted to bring out the city even more forcefully. We decided to shoot all at night, with rain as much as possible. Rain is fantastic because it gives a third dimension to the picture, but it is a challenge to do it, especially in a city like New York.”
The Master Anamorphics’ low-distortion design also prevents dramatic, streaking lens flares, and so the technicians at Arri Rental in Secaucus, N.J., fashioned a flare filter — comprising three strands of nylon fishing line stretched across an empty filter frame — for the XT’s and Mini’s Internal Filter Modules. When a front-of-lens filter produces a flare, Laustsen observes, it “just looks like the light is catching on a piece of flat glass in front of the lens. It’s more beautiful when the flare comes from the lens itself” — and that’s the effect that was replicated with the behind-the-lens nylon lines. “With the filters inside the camera,” the cinematographer adds, “it was also easier for first assistant Craig Pressgrove to do the lens changes.”
The exterior of the Continental was shot in lower Manhattan, but the hotel’s interiors were filmed in downtown Brooklyn, in the former Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower — which now serves as an event space —whose glass-and-wrought-iron front doors open to a 128'-long vaulted banking hall with limestone facing, marble floors, carved teller stations, and a 63'-high ceiling supported by Romanesque columns. For its role as the Continental’s lobby, the hall was furnished by Kavanaugh with two round settees crowned with statues of the Roman war gods Bellona and Mars, a fully-stocked bar, and a lounge on the mezzanine.
Parabellum’s stages were located at Gold Coast Studios in Long Island, N.Y. The first of the production’s two notable stage-bound sets is the Continental’s terrace, for which the Rockefeller Center rooftop garden was used in Chapter 2. The schedule didn’t allow for much time to shoot Parabellum’s scene, which takes place at sunrise. “You cannot make the sun rise [for] a movie,” Laustsen notes wryly. “It’s one or two shots, and then you have daylight, and then you’re fighting to control the light.”
So, for more control, the scene was moved onstage, where the set was surrounded with a sectional 45'x350' bluescreen lit with SkyPanel S120s; a 120' black velour curtain was used to control blue spill coming from off-camera. Early-morning ambience was provided by 176 overhead SkyPanel S60s, and the light of the rising sun was simulated by a 20K tungsten Fresnel and a 24K Dino light with medium bulbs, both gelled with 1⁄2 CTS.
The other key set built at Gold Coast was the “manager’s office,” a labyrinthine two-story glass-and-steel structure meant to represent the top floors of the Continental, with a 270-degree view of the adjacent skyscrapers. It’s in this space that Wick and Zero ultimately face off mano a mano. “The concept was to create a space where everything is exposed, a place where there are no secrets,” Kavanaugh explains.
To help him integrate the lighting into the design of the set itself, Laustsen worked with a virtual-reality computer model based on Kavanaugh’s design. “Chad, Kevin and I had discussions about color — cool lights inside, warm light outside,” says the cinematographer, who wanted what he describes as an “organic” light element for both spaces. The art department therefore added a 35'x14' LED wall to the set’s second floor and a 28'x12' LED billboard to the rooftop; the latter was positioned between the glass structure and a 40'x440' Rosco SoftDrop that was backlit by 150 SkyPanel S60s through Magic Cloth sourced from The Rag Place.
Almeida and his rigging crew installed more than a mile of LiteGear Chroma-Correct RGB-Daylite LED LiteRibbon into the glass and steel set, using aluminum profile and plastic diffusers provided by Kavanaugh’s art department. Cues were orchestrated from an ETC Ion Xe console operated by Kent Arneson; Laustsen took advantage of that control to increase the intensity of the light over time — until the very end of the fight, when the two combatants are photographed primarily in silhouette against the LED walls.
Wick literally fights his way through the set — alternately smashing his opponents and being smashed through glass pedestals, walls and floors — until he comes face to face with his nemesis. “We filmed this sequence with a [Chapman/Leonard Hustler IV] dolly and a Libra head, a Steadicam, and a couple of crane shots [with a MovieBird 45 and Aerocrane jib],” Laustsen details. “We didn’t want to go handheld because of all the straight lines. It would be a much more powerful look for the film if the frame was always parallel to the set.”
“When we did bring in lights for the close-ups, we used Arri SkyPanel S60s and Astera AX1 LED tubes that we could attach virtually anywhere using magnets and clips,” Almeida adds. “The Astera tubes worked out great because they’re easy to hide, and if you saw a reflection, it just looked like the lighting that was built-in already.”
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John Wick : Chapter three - Parabellum screenshots
theyre wallpaper worthy
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) - REVIEW
SYNOPSIS
John Wick returns to wage war against the High Table.
This is a movie I've been looking forward to since the end credits rolled in Parabellum and it doesn't disappoint. Each entry in the series has progressed and escalated since the first John Wick with the set pieces becoming more complex and elaborate all the while the lore of this world is expanded even further. John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum introduced a sense of urgency into the series and with Chapter 4 we do retain parts of that urgency as the All Out War between Wick and the shadowy High Table commences. Chapter 4 is filled with everything that you would expect from a John Wick film; new lore, fresh characters, new villains plus bigger hard hitting and bone crunching action set pieces. What does stand out for better or worse is the size of it all; Chapter 4 is nearly 3 hours long with near constant action that only stops for just a few minutes or so. With such an action heavy focus, those near 3 hours absolutely fly by and you've got to admire the craft on display but none the less this is movie where at times I felt that less would've been more.
Chapter 4 is unquestionably an action epic with many extended set pieces of complexity and variation that each of whom could've been the finale of any action film. John Wick Chapter 4 is filled with several of these sort of set pieces in just one film and when you consider that this chapter is depicting the war between Wick the all powerful High Table; it is suitably epic. Action fans have more action here than they could ever have dreamed of to enjoy in one sitting but for me this can be a case of having too much of a good thing. I think the runtime could be trimmed as a few of the set pieces go on for a bit too long. While the card table scene is superb, the set piece in Berlin for instance felt a little much and the steps to Sacré-Coeur in Paris went on slightly too long for me. Having said that, the Shanghai and Paris set pieces are genuinely spectacular with sequences involving Nunchucks, a sword fight and an extended overhead point of view camera angle being absolute highlights.
One area in which more is more in Chapter 4 are the new and interesting characters it introduces with varying degrees of complexity. Chief among them is Donnie Yen's blind assassin Caine, Shamier Anderson's Tracker Mr. Nobody and Bill Skarsgard's villainous Marquis Vincent de Gramont. There a few others who make fleeting appearances but it is this new trio who are consistently at the forefront of the story and have one thing in common; killing John Wick. For Caine it's about safeguarding his daughter whom Skarsgard's Marquis has placed under threat while for Mr. Nobody it's about the price. Yen's Caine is the most complex of the three as his reluctance to participate in the hunt makes him a far more sympathetic character despite some of his actions. But there's never a question of who the real MVP of the movie is and that's Keanu Reeves who just oozes charisma and possesses such presence as this character. To put it simply; John Wick wouldn't work to the degree it does without Reeves' presence and Chapter 4 is no exception.
VERDICT
This may not be the best John Wick film (for me that goes to Parabellum), but this is a series that has maintained consistent quality and Chapter 4 is another satisfying addition.
4/5
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Look, at this point, we all know that you’re here to watch Keanu Reeves shoot people and you’re going to get plenty of that here.
Also, I’m going to do my best to avoid major spoilers.
After the events of John Wick - Chapter 3: Parabellum, at the end of which he declares all out war on the High Table. He starts this movie following up on that promise, but the High Table is so huge this fight isn’t working out as well as he’d hoped. Eventually he gets a bit of hope though: if John can challenge the High Table representative tasked with eliminating him, the Marquis Vincent de Gramont, to a duel to the death, he can be free of the High Table. But becoming eligible to make the challenge isn’t so easy, and even then, he has to make it to the dueling ground on time for it to count–something the Marquis is invested in him not doing.
If I had one problem with this movie, it’s that it’s really long. It’s almost three hours. And yet the part of the Plot that was advertised in trailers, the duel? That doesn’t come up until quite a ways into the movie. The Osaka sequence doesn’t have anything that couldn’t have been established in another part of the Plot. Likewise, the entire Berlin sequence isn’t actually necessary, it just adds some more fighting into the story.
Mind you, that’s not bad. You come to these movies to watch John Wick fight the heck out of a bunch of bad guys, and you’re going to get that. As usual, all of the fight scenes feature top-notch choreography and are absolutely spectacular to watch. So no, I don’t really mind, but I think that the movie isn’t as efficient with its time as it could be–again, especially since, as I mentioned, the actual point of the movie takes a while to actually come up.
I also think another problem with this movie is that the cliffhanger for the last movie didn’t amount to much. You would think that John would storm towards Winston with reckoning on his mind, but aside from a couple of bits of dialogue, they tend to skate past the fact that Winston shot John off the roof of the Continental. Yes, John survived, and Winston probably expected that, but you would think this would be a bigger deal to all the involved parties?
I suppose they have bigger things to worry about with the Marquis.
Of the new characters, Caine is a highlight. Supposedly the original character was a more stereotypical Zen master with a name like Chang, but Donnie Yen protested that he didn’t want to do a stereotype, and worked with the moviemakers to create Caine. And the result is loads of fun. He’s a blind kung fu master, and unlike most examples of the trope he’s actually depicted as being handicapped. He frequently feels out rooms with his cane as he walks, and one scene has him put up sensors to detect enemies in the room.
He’s also a genuinely fun character. He’s an antagonist, but he doesn’t particularly want to be. He’d rather just mind his own business and let John live his life. But he HAS to do this fight, so he gets to do some awesome fight scenes.
Also, with this and Rogue One I wonder if Donnie Yen just really likes playing blind martial artists. Which I’m cool with, for the record.
It’s a fantastic addition to the John Wick series, even if it did feel longer than it actually needed to be. But is a little bloat bad when it’s filled with the high-octane fight scenes we’ve come to expect from this series? I don’t necessarily think so. Longtime fans should definitely watch this movie, but I think it’s not a good introduction if you’re new to the series.
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Fans of the John Wick franchise have good reasons to rejoice. The Ana de Armas-led spin-off Ballerina will start production in the coming week, TV Line has reported. The announcement was made by Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer during the latest investors' call. The future prospect for the franchise looks good as among other franchise-related news it has been announced that Colin Woodell-led three-part prequel series The Continental will stream internationally on Amazon Prime outside the US and the studio is also “fielding proposals” for a big video game based on the Keanu Reeves movie’The news came out last year that the No Time To Die star has been tapped for the lead role in Ballerina movie, which will follow a young assassin trained at the ballet school seen in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. The story follows her quest for revenge against those who killed her family. The feature will be helmed by Underworld director Len Wiseman who directs from a script by Shay Hatten, who is known for features like Zack Snyder’s Army Of The Dead and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. De Armas disclosed in an interview earlier this year that Emerald Fennell, the Oscar-Winning writer-director behind 2020s Promising Young Woman has provided the final touches to the script from a woman’s point of view. This is all that is really known about the revenge-fueled film, with no additional cast members announced yet.
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Epic Rap Battles Of History (2021)
Prologue:
All right, I guess I'll be the one to draw First Blood.
Or maybe you could draw an audience to see any of your new movies.
Come out to the coast; we'll have a few laughs. Sounds sweet!
But no, I'm stuck here with these two jerkweeds,
About to kick their ass with bare feet! Argyle, drop the beat!
John McClane:
I'll set it off like the top of Nakatomi!
Need a fire hose to swing on you; you're both so below me!
I haven't stopped killing it since Karl's brother, Tony,
And I got your detonators right here, blow me! (Oops!)
Ship your booby traps home, Rambo,
'Cause you'll never take the W without the P and O!
Does your lip hang low? Does it wobble to and fro?
Can you string that shit up on your compound bow?
And lighten up, Wick, with your brooding saga.
How about a little hakuna matata, Baba Yaga?
You got the trousers tapered and the watch, Bucherer,
But your acting falls flatter than the Hans Gruber!
Leave the underground coin game to Mario Brothers.
And John, Bubbe, what the fuck's with the chest butter?
That bandolier looks heavy as shit!
I'm like this prick's ring finger: only need one clip!
C'mon! I been sharp as shattered glass since the late '80s,
And like your late pup, I'll leave you pushing up daisies!
Less is more, boys; that's my advice!
You, less survival knife; you, more survival wife!
John Wick:
…Ooh.
I'm gonna need a dinner reservation for two.
John Wick, I'm efficient and lean.
A proficient, professional killing machine!
Underworld overachiever looking dapper as I'm bucking.
Only one of us to go three chapters without sucking.
Between your elevator and the mine where you were trapped,
You're such weiners, I should call you both John Shaft.
I craft rhymes with pencils, then jam 'em in necks,
So I'm not vexed by vets flexing 'roid-injected pecs!
Being excommunicado wasn't more than I could handle,
So I think I can withstand an excremental ex-commando!
And this sad, broken dad-joking popo is no foe
For the hurt-you-oh-so-bad virtuoso!
Ho ho ho to quivers and bows. I'm delivering blows,
And when they land, it won't help to make fists with your toes!
Bitcoin? No. Hitcoin? Certainly.
I'll put you two in tombs, call it cryptocurrency.
Obey your superior like good cops and soldiers.
Raven, Roy, you're done. Over.
John Rambo:
Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off!
Unless... it's one of your movies. In which case… I just turn it off! Huh!
When I rip off my shirt and start swinging my stick swords,
I'm hotter than the suicide girls on your switchboards!
My headband's red, but I've got no love for commies!
And no juice was used to produce these armies!
Your High Table rules don't apply to this conflict!
I'll finish you right in the lobby! Mission accomplished!
McClane! South is where your marriage went!
The last tight thing you slid in was an air vent!
They used to say you were a handsome crusader.
Too bad your hairline couldn't be saved by Steve Urkel's neighbor. Oh!
I slip into the jungle, disappear like a ghost,
Then ding! I pop up hot behind ya like toast!
I seek peace, but I'm packing Parabellum.
I was trained to be the very best soldier boy! Tell 'em!
I'll blast an RPG through NYPD's guts!
Simon Says you can PTSDeez nuts!
John McClane:
Jesus Christ, asshole! Whattaya doing?
This is not some Saturday morning cartoon for you to ruin!
John Rambo:
The only thing getting ruined is McClane family Christmas!
All your kids still have "decent dad" on their wishlist!
John McClane:
Whoa! Rambo's droppin' bombs in his flows!
Did your pals in the Taliban help you write those?
John Wick:
Those were mujahideen; there's a difference.
The Taliban formed in the '90s, when you fell off with a vengeance.
John McClane:
Hey! Who the fuck asked you, dog pound?
Why don't you go lock your mouth in a hole in the ground?
John Rambo:
Hole! Lock!! Arghhhhgh!!!
John Wick:
You're both a funeral suit away from presentable.
I'm thinking I'm back, and I'm thinking you're expendable!
John McClane:
You wanna Die Hard? Well, today's a good day!
Let's go, motherfuckers! Yippee-ki-yay!
Scrapped lyrics
John Rambo:
You think stepping on glass hurts, McClane?
Do a few tours in 'nam, then you can't complain!
Go home, little piggy, or get butchered by my knife!
I've already dealt with enough asshole cops in my life!
None of you could fit my shoes that is the power of Rambo!
Even Arnold failed to rip my shtick when he went Commando!
I'm Rocky and roll, best soldier you've ever seen!
My rhymes destroy you faster than an M16!
Source: Epic Rap Battles of History Wiki
(images via YouTube)
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MARIO Mumbojumbo
I haven't seen THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE yet...
That's because life-stuff usually gets in my way, namely... Work... I work at a movie theater, I case you didn't know. SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE is free for me to see starting tomorrow, but there are other movies currently playing that I have on my list as well, such as DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES, A THOUSAND AND ONE, and possibly JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4... If I can do all my homework on the latter, meaning watching CHAPTER 2 and PARABELLUM before the thing leaves theaters.
Anyways, it looks like the movie broke some records!
For a non-Marvel movie (or non-Disney for that matter) released after the outbreak in March 2020, the largest 3-day with an estimated $146m. On the not-Marvel but-still-counting-Disney part, this beat out AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, and for everyone else? Beat TOP GUN: MAVERICK, JOHN WICK: CHAPTER FOUR, THE BATMAN, JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION... It even beat most of the Marvels for that matter, only falling short of MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS and WAKANDA FOREVER, and beating out THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER, QUANTUMANIA, BLACK WIDOW, and all the not-sequel movies like SHANG-CHI and ETERNALS.
For an animated feature? This is the third biggest 3-day opening weekend gross ever, behind tech-demo remake THE LION KING (which opened w/ $191m) and INCREDIBLES 2 ($182m), and it sits above FROZEN II, which took in $130m. It is also locked to gross over a billion worldwide, the first time an animated feature will achieve that since... FROZEN II. MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU came very close this past summer, but SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE is totally getting there. It might even... Have a shot at being in the Top 10 highest earning animated movies of all time. More on that here:
Currently, the Top 10 is...
THE LION KING (2019) - $1,657m
FROZEN II - $1,450m
FROZEN - $1,280m
INCREDIBLES 2 - $1,243m
MINIONS - $1,159m
TOY STORY 4 - $1,073m
TOY STORY 3 - $1,067m
DESPICABLE ME 3 - $1,034m
FINDING DORY - $1,028m
ZOOTOPIA - $1,023m
All billion dollar behemoths. The 11th biggest missed the billion, that's DESPICABLE ME 2 with $970m, followed by THE LION KING with $968m, a gross made up of its three theatrical releases (1994 - where it took in approximately $760m - gargantuan numbers for back then, the 2002 IMAX-only re-issue, and the 2011 3D re-release).
And this is yet another biggie for Illumination, the reliable hit-makers they are. Four massive DESPICABLE ME/MINIONS movies, THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS, and now this.
It's also the biggest international animated movie opening, period... Over $370m from a multitude of markets, excluding Japan... This is interesting to me because, previous heavies didn't open everywhere on the same weekend. For example, INCREDIBLES 2 - with its massive $182m opening in North America, only added some coin worldwide... Because it wasn't out everywhere yet. A lot of animated movies get very staggered international rollouts, thus their worldwide opening weekend grosses are rarely massive.
I imagine the legs will be pretty solid too, because this is really the only PG-rated family film until THE LITTLE MERMAID releases at the end of May. Much like how Universal's PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH had virtually all of January, February, and March to itself...
So, yes, I think $350m domestically is a lock, as is $1b all around the world in total. It'd have to really dissatisfy audiences in order to score a bad multiplier. And judging by what I'm seeing at work? Audiences DIG it, big time.
Oh yeah, about those "negative" reviews...
Two things can be true, I feel... Critics are people, and their voice very much matters. (They certainly "mattered" when they gushed over PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH, now didn't they?) Criticism should be more than just a letter grade or a simple "yes or no" answer, it should be a conversation. Film as a medium, of all kinds - from live-action to animation - is communication, artists using a means of communicating something with an audience... Good critics are very much aware of that, and many of them went into SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE hoping to get something out of it. This isn't an us vs. them "this is for the fans!" case... They aren't these snooty pompous stiffs with caviar and wine who dislike fun or nerdy niche properties (please explain the over-80% scores for Marvel Cinematic Universe movies on Rotten Tomatoes), in fact I'm friends with some of these people.
This all being said...
Some people online also put way too much stock into critics' opinions and the grades they give movies, to the detriment of their *own* personal feelings on the movies in question. An insecurity, almost... Like, those paid professionals... Are they right? Is this movie I love *bad*?? Do I have no taste? Am I just some simpleton?
Clear your head of that. What the movies means to you, and your reasoning for it... Is more than enough. Critics aren't secretly judging you for finding merit in THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE, or something like that.
I'm just tired, grilled at every movie becoming this nonsensical "war". Whether it's for political reasons, or silly perceived rivalries between the studios (Disney/Pixar vs. Universal/Illumination/DreamWorks, Marvel vs. DC, etc.), or "fans" vs. "critics", it's all so bothersome to me. It also isn't sports, ya know. Each movie of this caliber is a big group effort, and decisions are made during production, decisions the filmmakers thought were the right ones at the right time... Like, no one can know for sure, to paraphrase William Goldman, what's going to work or what isn't... And the public response to that is very much of an ever-changing mood, zeitgeist, what-have-you.
So... Yes, I'm happy to see an animated movie making big bucks, even if a Mario movie being a blockbuster was a given. And the prospect of other animated video game-inspired movies getting off the ground... Like, we only have this movie and the two ANGRY BIRDS MOVIES if you think about it, plus that RATCHET & CLANK movie that came and went back in 2016. (And how!) I know there are other titles too, like the mo-capped FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN and the 1986 anime Mario movie, the SONIC movies and DETECTIVE PIKACHU are hybrids, but you know what I mean... If MARIO's success gives me not only other animated Nintendo movies, somehow, but something like a SPYRO THE DRAGON movie or something with CRASH BANDICOOT, I'd be quite grateful! Of course, Hollywood might learn all the wrong lessons from it, too.
I want to see all the animated movies succeed this year. 2022 was a slight bummer because it genuinely sucks to see such hard work and effort get undermined by circumstances beyond the filmmakers' control. We still had successes of course, like THE BAD GUYS, DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS, PUSS IN BOOTS 2, and especially MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU. THE SEA BEAST and PINOCCHIO pulled in lots of viewers on Netflix. But we had some real valleys, too. Like, I felt Disney Animation's STRANGE WORLD last autumn was really dealt a bad hand, and Pixar's LIGHTYEAR I wanted to see succeed (just a rough year, theaters-wise, for Disney's animation under former CEO Bob Chapek). PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HANK (haven't seen, apparently it was merely okay?) was a pick-up for Paramount, formerly a more independent venture, but that too technically lost money. To say nothing of other stuff happening in animation: Netflix cancelled stuff left and right, Warner Bros. Discovery's many misdeeds, whole shows disappearing into the ether for eternity because "tax write-offs"... So, yes, I want to see the movies succeed so that the studios can keep doing this stuff.
Meaning, I am rooting for all of it: This movie, ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, ELEMENTAL, RUBY GILLMAN, MUTANT MAYHEM, TROLLS BAND TOGETHER, WISH, MIGRATION, FIXED, UNDER THE BOARDWALK (when's that getting a release date?), etc. etc. Disney Animation, Pixar, DreamWorks, Illumination, Sony, Paramount, yes indeed.
After the quietly-released THE AMAZING MAURICE and all the work PUSS IN BOOTS 2 had to do during the winter, 2023's animation crop is finally off to a huge start.
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023, dir. Chad Stahelski) - review by Rookie-Critic
I love the original John Wick film. The mixture of high-octane action and the mystery of this secret underworld of assassins was just a winning formula, and Keanu Reeves was the perfect man to step into the shoes of the titular role. Also, the story of "man who used to be a badass returns to old ways after being wronged" hadn't been done to death yet. It felt very fresh and new. There was a relatable nature to the way Reeves played Wick; an empathy for the loss of his wife and death of his dog, Daisy (even if it was more about what the dog represented than the dog herself), that the second and third installments in the franchise just couldn't replicate. That's not to say that Chapter 2 and Parabellum are bad, they're still incredibly fun and amazingly choreographed action films, but that's really all they are. The wife and the dog from the original film are but mere excuses to fuel Wick into further turmoil within this world that, while a specter of Wick's old life in the first film, is now on full display here. Again, I'm not saying that as a criticism, I love this world and like getting to see more of it, the point I'm getting at more is just that, as the John Wick films dialed up the non-stop nature of the action, they started to sacrifice the story and what made the original something a little more than just a "zany action movie."
Chapter 4, however, does not have this problem. It somehow manages to find a wonderful balance of the breathtaking and edge-of-your-seat action that made the second and third films fun, and the empathetic, character-driven nature of the first film, and they accomplish this through the inclusion of a single new character: Caine, a Zatoichi-esque blind swordsman played with as much heart as physically possible by veteran martial arts actor Donnie Yen. Caine, who is a friend of Wick's from his days before getting out that has now been tasked with hunting him down, brings an element to Chapter 4 that 2 & 3 didn't have; a way to remind the audience that Wick, as a character, is more than just a mindless killing machine, and that his wife Helen didn't make him a kind person, she just made him want to accentuate that part of his personality that was always there. Sure, we've had characters in the franchise that could be considered Wick's friends from before, such as Winston and Charon, but as good of friends as Winston and Wick are, Winston still exists as an authority figure in this world, even if he is just middle management. The existence of a character like Caine gives us another fully fleshed out character in this world that's just as much a pawn of the system as Wick was (and is), and it brings the whole franchise back down from mindless action land to place where, while there is still plenty of mindless action, we have something to connect with on the screen, and due to the nature of the relationship of these characters as they fit into this story, we as the audience are conflicted: should the hunter win, or should we root for the guy we've been rooting for for three movies now? I'll also add that of the four John Wick films, this new one has the best fight choreography, hands down. It's honestly some of the best fighting/stunt choreography I've ever seen in a modern action film. This is a mammoth of a movie, at just 11 minutes shy of three hours. Most of that runtime is focused on the action, and there was only one fight sequence in the entire film where I felt bored. I don't keep a great sleep schedule, and most times I do fight to stay awake in the theater. That was never a problem during John Wick: Chapter 4. The story, the action, the characters, the world, it all gels and works in a way that only the first film really did for me.
I so badly want to give this a 10/10, you have no idea how badly I want to give this a 10/10. However, that sequence I mentioned where I did feel bored was very long, or at least it felt that way, and I feel they could have used that 15-ish minutes to develop a character, who goes by Nobody in the film, that never really got the development I feel he should have. He travels with his emotional support dog and they work together (something I wish John Wick himself had done in Chapters 2, 3, and 4), which gives him a way to relate to Wick, but that's never really explored outside of a moment towards the end of the film. That development really needed a bit more backing for the aforementioned moment to have the impact I feel like the film makers wanted it to, and he was the one character in the film that felt like a remnant of the way things had been done in 2 & 3. That aside, John Wick's fourth outing was phenomenal and, regardless of its runtime, is a film I believe needs to be witnessed on the biggest screen possible. So, if you can, make the time to go see this in the theater, it's a roller coaster ride you won't regret taking the time for.
Score: 9/10
Currently only in theaters.
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Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett as Ike and Tina Turner in a publicity still for Whats Love Got To Do With It (1993). Larry was born in Augusta, Georgia, and has 124 acting credits, from a 1972 tv movie to John Wick IV, for release in 2023.
His entries among my best 1,001 movies are Apocalypse Now , The Cotton Club, The Color Purple, and Higher Learning. His other honorable mentions are Class Action and Boyz n the Hood.
His other notable credits include episodes of MASH, Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice, Rumble Fish, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, School Daze, Red Heat, 18 episodes of Pee Wee's Playhouse (as Cowboy Curtis), a voice in nine episodes of The Civil War documentary, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Othello (as Othello), The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Mission Impossible III, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, John Wick: Chapter Two, Ant Man and the Wasp, John Wick: Chapter Three - Parabellum, and All the Old Knives.
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Top 5 @Wikipedia pages from a year ago: Monday, 27th March 2023
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1️⃣: Humza Yousaf
"Humza Haroon Yousaf (; born 7 April 1985) is a Scottish politician who has served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since March 2023. He served under his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon as justice secretary from 2018 to 2021 and then as health secretary from..."
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2️⃣: XXX (film series)
"XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is an American spy fiction action film series created by Rich Wilkes. It consists of three full-length feature films: XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005) and XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and a short film: The Final Chapter: The Death of..."
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3️⃣: John Wick: Chapter 4
"John Wick: Chapter 4 (released in Japan as John Wick: Consequences) is a 2023 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and co-produced by Chad Stahelski and written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch. The sequel to John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and the fourth installment in the John..."
4️⃣: ChatGPT
"ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022. Based on a large language model, it enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. Successive prompts and..."
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5️⃣: Cleopatra
"Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ lit. Cleopatra "father-loving goddess"; 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder..."
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2023: Best Movies of the Year So Far
As a new year starts, the probability of good movies being released is low. The most-awaited movies are commonly dated in the mid-year or last quarter of the year as the production and preparation are being done with careful attention. However, some movies have proved us wrong. The well-known critics have already awarded a number of films with more than three stars. Most of them are indie films with low to no budget. And surprisingly, it has made an impact on the film industry.
How to Determine a Good Movie?
The movies that will be included on this list may be subjective to each person. As a basis, here are the top considerations that people look onto:
Storytelling: A great movie usually has a compelling story that keeps the viewer engaged and emotionally invested.
Cinematography: The visual presentation of a movie can also be a significant factor in its quality. The use of camera angles, lighting, and other visual elements can greatly enhance the film's impact.
Acting: The quality of the performances by the actors can also play a big role in a movie's success. Strong performances can help bring the characters to life and make the story more believable.
Direction: The director's ability to bring all the elements of the movie together and create a cohesive and well-executed final product is another critical factor.
Cultural impact: Some movies may have a significant impact on the culture, either through their themes or their cultural relevance, which can make them stand out as some of the best movies of all time.
List of 2023's Best Movies
If you are curious to know what movies have been highly rated, we have listed down the list of the best movies of 2023 so far. This list might help you decide what movie you are going to binge watch next.
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4
"John Wick" is a popular action movie franchise that stars Keanu Reeves as the titular character, a retired hitman who seeks revenge against those who wronged him. The series has been praised for its intense action scenes, sleek cinematography, and Reeves' charismatic performance.
The first movie, "John Wick," was released in 2014 and was directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch. It was a surprise hit, grossing over $86 million at the box office and receiving critical acclaim for its action choreography and style. The sequels, "John Wick: Chapter 2" and "John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum," were released in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Both films continued the franchise's focus on high-octane action and further explored the world of assassins and hitmen that John Wick inhabits.
Last March 22, 2023, the Chapter 4 has became the talk of the town and is once again proved that it's one of the best action movies of all time. The sequel is about the story of an excommunicado trying to win the price on his head that is continuously increasing. The franchise has set a standard of what action in Hollywood should be.
WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD
The film is directed by Jesse Eisenberg and starred by Finn Wolfhard- a young actor who has made his name famous since the release of Stranger Things.
The movie synopsis is about a mother and her teenage son that struggle to bond, which they try to look for elsewhere. While the son falls in love with a very political kid at his school, the mother clutches onto a young boy she encounters at the women's shelter.
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
Indiana Jones is another sequel. Popular action-adventure film series follows the exploits of the title character, Indiana Jones, as he traverses the globe in search of lost treasures, unravels enigmatic riddles, and faces off against perilous enemies.
George Lucas, the master of American cinema, created an imaginative world. Though Lucas has never confirmed if Dr. Jones is based on a real-life person, many have hypothesized that a few historical persons may have served as Dr. Jones's inspiration.
AIR
Although the plot of Air, Ben Affleck's wildly entertaining business drama about Nike's attempts to attract Michael Jordan, initially seems like an absurd one for a movie, it is actually a brilliant one. Pop culture was permanently influenced by the invention of the Air Jordan shoe, and Jordan's ground-breaking profit-sharing agreement with Nike would give athletes ownership in the goods they were being used to market.
The movie places the Air Jordan as an example of the 1980s' rampant consumerism, but it also raises the possibility of a vast, intricate new universe. The CEO in charge of the shoe company's basketball outreach, Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon), makes the point to Michael himself that the player essentially exists outside of space and time in what will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the greatest sports-movie monologues.
A THOUSAND AND ONE
A Thousand and One paints a moving picture of endurance in the face of systematic injustice and is a dedication to parental love and Teyana Taylor's skill.
The feature film debut of A.V. Rockwell is about a novelistic portrayal of 11 years in the life of Inez (played to perfection by Teyana Taylor), who struggles to provide for herself and her son Terry. Inez abducts her 6-year-old son Terry from the foster care system in an unrepentant and carefree manner. They set out to recover their sense of security, identity, and home in a New York City that was changing quickly.
RYE LANE
Romantic Comedy film is less preferred by most viewers but it's never dying. Instead, it's hanging out in South London with David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah's delightful 20-somethings, Dom and Yas, who find up spending the day together after a less than ideal meet cute in an art gallery restroom.
Both are moving beyond breakups, and the delight of Raine Allen-Miller's film comes from the dawning knowledge in each that they might finally be ready to open their hearts again, through playful banter and some side excursions along the road.
M3GAN
We know how movies are going beyond our imagination like creating ideas made of amazing technological inventions. On this list of the best movies this 2023, one of the most famous technological advancements is represented. A living example of artificial intelligence, M3GAN is a lifelike doll that has been designed to be both a parent's and child's best friend.
M3GAN, created by Gemma, a clever roboticist, can observe, listen, and learn as it serves as a friend, a teacher, a playmate, and a guardian. When Gemma finds herself suddenly in charge of her 8-year-old niece, she makes the unthinkable decision to give the kid an M3GAN prototype.
OPERATION FORTUNE: RUSE DE GUERRE
Next on the list of the best movies is a movie directed by Guy Ritchie. Theoretically, Ritchie's films should be romps, but an oppressive anxiety always threatens to ruin many of them. So, here's something actually endearing and agile:The film is about an elite assassin, Orson Fortune, who is tasked with finding Greg Simmonds, a billionaire arms dealer, and preventing the sale of a lethal new weapon technology he is using.
Fortune and his crew reluctantly enlist Hollywood's biggest movie star, Danny Francesco, to assist them on their world-saving quest after joining up with some of the best operators in the world.
KNOCK AT THE CABIN
A young girl and her two fathers (Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge) are taken hostage and left with a difficult choice by four strangers (headed by an outstanding Dave Bautista): They must gladly sacrifice one member in order to stop the end of the world. The family must choose what they believe before everything is gone since they are confused, afraid, and have little access to the outside world.
While maintaining an unsettlingly consistent tone, the movie seamlessly switches between the textures of one thriller subgenre and another.
MISSING
The last film on this list is directed by two staring directors named Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick. In their attempts to keep the viewer guessing, Missing can be hard to believe, but a quick pace and relatable anxieties prevent this twisting techno-thriller from going astray. The leading actress searches for answers when her mother vanishes while on vacation in Colombia with her new lover is hampered by international red tape.
While stranded in Los Angeles thousands of miles away, June ingeniously makes use of every piece of cutting-edge technology at her disposal to try to locate her before it's too late. Her internet sleuthing eventually creates more concerns than it does answers, though, as she continues to delve deeper.
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tsu’s big list of media consumption in 2023
next year
decided to start keeping a list of the media i consume to Expand My Artistic Horizons
ordered by category then chronologically by watch date. probably will not add my thoughts or a rating, simply will list. i’m bad at doing reviews or ratings and it feels like too much work frankly.
some of these are not my first time with a given property but im going to list them anyway
i’m not putting live service games on here like genshin or crk bc they’d be on here every year
i listen to a lot of music also, i won’t put it here but my spotify is here if you’re curious
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movies
wall-e (2008)
cruella (2021)
13 going on 30 (2004)
snowpiercer (2013)
but i’m a cheerleader (1999)
replicas (2018)
howl’s moving castle (2004)
ponyo (2008)
do revenge (2022)
miss congeniality (2000)
charlie’s angels (2000)
ultraviolet (2006)
van helsing (2004)
a quiet place part ii (2020)
bodies bodies bodies (2022)
three thousand years of longing (2022)
x (2022)
pearl (2022)
john wick (2014)
john wick: chapter 2 (2017)
hanna (2012)
aeon flux (2005)
john wick: chapter 3 -- parabellum (2019)
the cabin in the woods (2011)
nimona (2023)
whisper of the heart (1995)
mad max: fury road (2015)
birds of prey (and the fantabulous emancipation of one harley quinn) (2020)
john wick: chapter 4 (2022)
to wong foo, thanks for everything! julie newmar (1995)
bird box (2018)
oculus (2013)
we are still here (2015)
it follows (2014)
sorority girl (1957)
american mary (2012)
daybreakers (2009)
edge of tomorrow (2014)
push (2009)
ringu (1998)
the matrix (1999)
donnie darko (2001)
death proof (2007)
planet terror (2007)
slaxx (2020)
stomp! shout! scream! (2005)
bingo hell (2021)
ginger snaps (2000)
saw (2004)
saw ii (2005)
saw iii (2006)
silent hill (2006)
scream (1996)
hostel (2005)
house of wax (2005)
gunpowder milkshake (2021)
dual (2022)
saw iv (2007)
saw v (2008)
jennifer’s body (2009)
i like movies (2022)
seven (1995)
machete (2010)
machete kills (2013)
hostel part ii (2007)
heathers (1989)
doors (2021)
pathology (2008)
the vampire lovers (1970)
i am divine (2013)
the silence of the lambs (1991)
the poughkeepsie tapes (2007)
the craft (1996)
halloween (1978)
the belko experiment (2016)
tau (2018)
at first light (2018)
mad max (1979)
wishmaster (1997)
mad max 2: the road warrior (1981)
mad max beyond thunderdome (1985)
barbarian queen (1985)
horror effects hosted by tom savini (2008)
suspiria (1978)
saw vi (2009)
jigsaw (2017)
spiral: from the book of saw (2021)
alien (1979)
aliens (1986)
pontypool (2008)
predator (1987)
games
signalis (2022)
jump king (2019)
inscryption (2021)
kentucky route zero (2013-2020)
call of the sea (2020)
abzu (2016)
erica (2019)
sagebrush (2018)
pictoquest (2019)
shin chan: me and the professor on summer vacation - the endless seven day journey (2022)
the last campfire (2020)
manifold garden (2019)
evan’s remains (2020)
grow: song of the evertree (2021)
disgaea 1 complete (2003/2018)
little noah: scion of paradise (2022)
klonoa: door to phantomile (1997/2022)
final fantasy x (2001/2013/2015)
save room (2022)
dragon’s dogma: dark arisen (2012/2013)
voice of cards: the isle dragon roars (2021)
paleo pines (2023)
dredge (2023)
rain world (2017)
darkest dungeon (2016)
nelke & the legendary alchemists: ateliers of the new world (2019)
tasomachi: behind the twilight (2022)
the good life (2021)
audio dramas
re:dracula (2023)
the magnus archives (2016-2021)
general other podcasts
the yard (2021-present)
trash taste (2020-present)
brain leak (2023-present)
fear& (2021-present)
wine about it (2021-present)
tv
good omens (2019)
cunk on earth (2022)
books
our wives under the sea | julia armfield (2022)
convenience store woman | sayaka murata (2016/2018)
book of night | holly black (2022)
the terror | dan simmons (2007)
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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) Movie Review
My relationship with the John Wick films has been a turbulent one. My review for John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum revised my review of John Wick: Chapter Two. In re-watching the films in preparation for this new, epic-length chapter, I found my fondness for the first film waning. There is enjoyment to be had in all three films, and the stunt work in the first film was arguably a wake-up call to…
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