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tyrannosaurus-trainwreck · 1 year ago

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I appreciate that John Wick 1 was like, oh, an action film, hmm. Okay. Then for every film after that, they were like "Well, we just need a vague plot and we'll let the actors madlib some yeahs and some huhs and we don't really need a screenwriter for that, right? So all that extra money can go to hiring a human-sized swarm of moths to be the DP?" And they did.

#the home depot lighting aisle is the john wick cinematographer's happy place istg #like i know the fighting is theoretically the point because this film was by and for stuntpeople #but if you look at the sets and the lighting 90% of the fights are clearly just an excuse for everything else happening in the shot #i'm kicking myself for not seeing No. 4 in theaters when it came out #a bunch of reviews were like 'diminishing returns' and 'interminable fight scenes' and it's almost 3 ass-numbing hours long #but jesus christ the fight in the abandoned house on the way to sacre coeur #you're only supposed to be paying attention to the fighting in the fight scenes for three minutes tops #the rest of it is for admiring the flawless shot composition you heathen fucks

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