‘John Wick’ Spinoff About Blind Assassin Caine Set to Begin Filming Next Month; Donnie Yen and Rina Sawayama Are Set to Star, with Yen Directing

I wasn't a fan of that movie but that was such a good gag lol.

"Jyn gave me her kyber crystal, and I'm a jedi now, and that's all there is to it." \-- Chirrut Imwe, HISHE

It’s such a silly line but honestly it cracks me up every time. Finn’s brief look of excitement on his face as he suggests “we can use the force!!” Will never not make me crack up 😂😂

Oddly he was mute

It's always nice when the 40 thugs come at you one at a time.

First movie I saw of his, in the theaters, as he was just being pushed over here. Blew my f****** mind.

First 20 minutes suck. Then it gets pretty good

Definitely enjoyable!

The Continental I couldn't get more than an episode in.

Yeah same I’m trusting this thread too lol I’ve been looking for a series to binge for my week-long chemo and will do John Wick. If it sucks and/or I die, I’ll haunt you all 😂😂😂😂

It’s good, I went to the cinema not really expecting much, same as my friend and we came out the other side and enjoyed it. It was exactly what I would hope and expect for the John Wick film. I’m hoping we get a sequel for it because they left it on a good ending.

A whole town of John wick people was awesome. And her initial reaction to the lady cook suddenly h******* fighting her was great. The flamethrower fight was cool. There’s a lot of great stuff in the Ballerina

They were bulletproof suits though, so that makes sense: the second film introduced them, developed while John was retired with Helen.

Donnie Yen has been directing martial arts action since before Chad was actually in the industry (1980s)

damn never meet your hero

I feel like you don’t really have a choice if you want to be safe as an actor in mainland china

So... A regular Chinese person?

>Most Chinese (especially Hong Kong) actors need to at least pay lip service to the CCP. It is the price of operating in that market. Donnie, like Jackie, has a long history of going above and beyond in that regard. I've worked with Jackie quite a lot and my take is that he has a lot of business in the mainland and if you're going to run a business in the mainland then you need to play ball with them. He employs hundreds of people and owns facilities there, and all that would could be almost instantly cancelled if he didn't do the things he does. Is that a moral issue? Yes. But it also demonstrates the complexity in such things and I think it's very hard to judge such things as an outside. Which is often how I feel about China in general, and I lived and worked there for a decade. I don't think I like how these guys have gone about things ... but even with having some access to them, I don't feel confident judging either way. Anecdotally, I know Jackie found living in HK really difficult by the 2010s. He was constantly hounded by media and it made it really difficult for him while he was there. I think China felt like an escape for him a lot of the time. >Also there are a LOT of rumors of him being "inappropriate" with the actresses in his films. But, to my knowledge, nothing concrete (even by "open secret" standards). I've worked with Donnie too, albiet much much less than Jackie, and never say anything personally that I would deem inappropriate. I wouldn't want to comment on this too much but my personal experience is to the negative on this. I found him good to work with. For what it's worth, the whole lip service to the CCP thing is even more exacerbated when you look at how the film industry evolved and changed in HK. The industry went after money from the mainland quite early; Wilson Yip told me once that movies like SPL could never be made anymore because of the money situation: you could make it in HK for $2,000,000 and hope to maybe get $5,000,000 back at the extreme end of things (lucky if that) or you could get ten times that budget and twenty times the return by working with Mainland. It's really, really, hard to deal with such discrepancies in budget when you're making a film ... particularly action films. These changes happened well before the mainstream changes in HK too, when the one country, two systems situation was still being more adhered too. And my conversations and work with all the above happened well before the 2019 riots, so perceptions were different then and I don't think most of these people expected such a sharp decline in the freedoms of HK. I guess what I'm getting at is the situation is really pretty complicated. I have a very love/hate relationship with China, and I desperately miss something that's now missing in Hong Kong.

That was an improvised line. Makes Bill's reaction to the line all the better.

Marcus could have killed him easily. Putting aside the plot armour of bad guys who try to suffocate him rather than shoot him in the head (!), John's got the right friends. Marcus, the Doc from the Continental, big Francis on the door of the Red Circle: he treats the right people well😁

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