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| I will fear no evil.. Psalm 23:4 |
Yes. Depending on the time. Usually less than half hour. It's extremely close. | |||
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Green Mountain Boy |
Wife and I saw it tonight. Both loved it as much as the first. What was that about at the end when all the people froze and then on command just walked away? Can't quite wrap my head around it. I love the whole continental thing and that guy Winston can't figure him out completely either. Just how much power does he possess. He clearly has a bit of a soft spot for Wick. !~God Bless the U.S. Military~! If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off Light travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak | |||
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For real? |
It was Winston showing how much control he has. Not minority enough! | |||
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| Evil Asian Member |
That was pretty goofy. I was expecting everyone to start dancing in a huge coordinated flash mob, like maybe the "Thriller" dance! | |||
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| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
Winston was showing his power, and showing Wick what he was up against. Showing him if he wanted Wick dead he would be right there, but because of their friendship he was giving him an hour. Rules are rules, so he has no choice but to order the hit, but he doesn't want to. So its not that every other person in NY was an assassin, but that every assassin in NY was summoned by Winston to be in that park for a shot at the $14 million on Wicks head Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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Definitely a show of power. Moriarty did something similar in "A Game of Shadows." The woman he is supposed to meet, dictated they meet in a high-class, filled-to-capacity restaurant to ensure her safety. When he alludes to this, he then snaps his fingers and every single person in the restaurant goes silent, stands up, and leaves. Just showing that his reach was far more vast than she had thought, and he had basically made sure everyone there at that time was on his payroll. ---------- The first 100 people to make it out alive...get to live. | |||
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Semper Fi - 1775 |
Worth the Google Search! ___________________________ All it takes...is all you got. ____________________________ For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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| Move Up or Move Over |
Kind of meh... | |||
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Rented it tonight and I enjoyed it, maybe not a much as the first but it was still solid. The director has already hinted that they are going to change up the paradigm for the next file and it won't be a continuation of the ramp up like there was from 1 to 2. I think the token Winston gave John was the completed one from Dantonio so John could use it to clear his name with the high table. It would seem silly to be from Winston because John could just use it to have his excommunicado revoked. I believe Common is still alive because they forshadowed it immediately after when Morpheus explain how John did almost the exact same thing with him. People need to stop trying to make Ruby Rose a movie star. | |||
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This could have been something. It just wasn't a good film, despite having stuff in it we all like. The director pulled it off in the fist one but you can tell he just doesn't have the experience to pull it all together. Too much flash, little substance. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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I'm Fine |
Liked the first one better. Was thinking last night while watching the DVD - even if you knew it was "John F'ing Wick" when you sent your crew after him: I don't think anyone would send 25 or 30 people just to kill one guy. Just not realistic. Even super shooter Wick would eventually get hit in the face or somewhere the "tactical fabric liner" didn't cover, just due to the shear volume of fire coming at him. AND if you had a Rifle - why would you drop it in favor of a shotgun ? Rifle's going to go through any tactical fabric the other shooters are wearing. ------------------ SBrooks | |||
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I thought it was strange for Wick to have a Trijicon Accupoint on the rifle instead of something lighter like a MRO or T1/T2 or even an Eotech...the rifle-work was all at close range 
...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
The entire John Wick story line is based, in part, on Nicholai Hel in Shibumi. Those that are familiar with this book know in the end, the vast reach of Mother Company is inescapable. The characters align well - Wick = Hel Winston = deLandes Helen = Hannah Aurellio = Le Cagot Viggo = Diamond In Wick 1, the guard sitting in the pickup at the gate at the airport where Wick goes to practice driving and to terrify Daisy is reading a later printing of Shibumi. Even killing someone with a pencil is a feature of Shibumi.
Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
Which, conveniently, means that none of them can be out in front of Wick to tap him once 60 minutes is up. They are all behind him at the onset of pursuit. _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
Heard they had to delay filming for 12 months while the ammo industry caught up.... Both are/were good films, it's action, has a bit of a story, entertainment, the gun skills are excellent, not too much seems out of place when you consider the premise is that there is an underground of assassins paid with coins who have access to all the guns, ammo and a safe place. The sommelier scene was great, as was the taylor, Formal or Social : Social one button or two: Two and what Style?: Tactical... | |||
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Steven Seagal does a lot of press checks in his movies. The one that stands out to me is Underseige when the SEALs are closing in. I'm pretty sure it's a 1911 he press checks. Confirmed: it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVWh7jiS2is __________________________________________________________________ Beware the man who has one gun because he probably knows how to use it. | |||
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^^^ he was talking about that specific style of press check. | |||
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I seem to recall the hero from the Korean action movie The Man From Nowhere doing a similar style of press check with a Glock 19. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes | |||
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| Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
Agreed. _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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With all the crappy "action movies" that have actors that look like actors who were handed guns, we pick nits over a story that has a dude that actually trained hard to look the part of a gunfighter. The internet continues to amaze me.  | |||
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