10-27-2017, 05:17 PM
Why John Wick is a better franchise than Fast and Furious
Full disclosure: I've seen both Wick movies and plan on watching watching Chapter 3. I've seen maybe a total of one and three-quarters of F&F movies out of -- what is it now? Seven? Eight? I couldn't even make it all the way through the first one.
So, John Wick is an ex-assassin. His wife, for whom he left the business, dies of a terminal illness. John mourns his wife and loves his car and the puppy his wife had arranged for him to receive upon her death. A young punk kills the puppy and steal's John's car. Said punk happens to be the son of a local crime boss. Hilarity ensues. Along the way we learn about the classiness of the high-end criminal underground, focusing on five-star hotel, The Continental. In Chapter 2, the hilarity continues. We also learn that The Continental is just a part of a global enterprise. (Rome's hotel is run by the original Django, Franco Nero.)
The John Wick movies are over-the-top, hyper-violent, and completely unrealistic. And that's why they are better than Furious. The first movie was, simplistically, cop and robber flick. With each new installment the locations become more far-reaching and the "action" (and reliance on cgi) increases. And therein lies the problem. John Wick started with an outlandish premise and built a consistent world with consistent stories around that premise. Furious started with a somewhat realistic premise that keeps getting rewritten with each additional installment.
Full disclosure: I've seen both Wick movies and plan on watching watching Chapter 3. I've seen maybe a total of one and three-quarters of F&F movies out of -- what is it now? Seven? Eight? I couldn't even make it all the way through the first one.
So, John Wick is an ex-assassin. His wife, for whom he left the business, dies of a terminal illness. John mourns his wife and loves his car and the puppy his wife had arranged for him to receive upon her death. A young punk kills the puppy and steal's John's car. Said punk happens to be the son of a local crime boss. Hilarity ensues. Along the way we learn about the classiness of the high-end criminal underground, focusing on five-star hotel, The Continental. In Chapter 2, the hilarity continues. We also learn that The Continental is just a part of a global enterprise. (Rome's hotel is run by the original Django, Franco Nero.)
The John Wick movies are over-the-top, hyper-violent, and completely unrealistic. And that's why they are better than Furious. The first movie was, simplistically, cop and robber flick. With each new installment the locations become more far-reaching and the "action" (and reliance on cgi) increases. And therein lies the problem. John Wick started with an outlandish premise and built a consistent world with consistent stories around that premise. Furious started with a somewhat realistic premise that keeps getting rewritten with each additional installment.
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