Chula Vista

Two movies I want to see based on the previews and so far both are getting killer reviews on my fave movie review site.

John Wick - Rotten Tomatoes



Nightcrawler - Rotten Tomatoes



I like Rotten Tomatoes because you're not relying on a single critic but a whole bunch of them. If a movie scores over 75% it's pretty much a sdafe bet to be pretty damn good.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Chula Vista

Saw John Wick last night on Vudu. 5 stars all the way. Keanu is beyond bad ass in it. The actions scenes are ridiculously good with killer choreography and camera work.

Right up with The Man From Nowhere as my favorite revenge flick now.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

EPOCH6

Two of my favorites from last year, somewhere in my 2014 top 10 for sure. I actually re-watched John Wick on Wednesday. It's ****ing great and a load of fun no doubt, but I think a lot of its appeal is the surprise you get on your first viewing, no doubt being a bit hesitant that Keanu can pull off another great action movie in his old age. I still love it, but on a second viewing it's a lot more obvious that Keanu and the director carry that entire movie, the rest of the cast are very typical and mediocre. Nightcrawler is fantastic all the way around and possibly my favorite Gyllenhaal performance, but I'm quite a sucker for Gyllenhaal's recent roles, he's been doing such a damn good job with thriller / dramas lately (Enemy, Prisoners, Source Code, Zodiac etc). I'll be watching Nightcrawler over and over again for a long time.

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Chula Vista

I can see that. There's very little depth to any of the characters to get invested in them at all.

Love how they incorporated MMA moves into the various assassin's fighting styles.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

EPOCH6

Loved when the bodyguard got tossed over the balcony in the club and just crunched on the floor, lost my **** both times I saw that.

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Chula Vista

My fave was the choke hold move that Keanu put on the dude that had been giving him the most trouble in hand to hand fighting the whole movie. (right after they tried to suffocate him with the plastic bag) The way he used both of his legs for leverage is classic MMA.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Exo

I thought they were both entertaining films but lacked a certain substance to push them into greatness for me. Both had weak scripts with plenty of holes but I loved the performances from the leads and there were some badass action scenes. The nightclub scene from John Wick was amazing.

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RoxyRollah

Wick had waaay more holes than Nightcrawler.
I loved nightcrawler tho.I thought Gyllenhaal was brilliant.

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Exo

He was.

I hated the end of Nightcrawler. Like, a lot. I wrote about it in my review. I can dig it up if you'd like.

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RoxyRollah

Yep yep.Id love to read it Exo. I fell asleep right before the end of Nightcrawler. Iliked it tho as whole.Nothing was as good as gone girl this year tho.

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