Get your something checked, the first one is an absolute masterpiece and nobody in their right mind would describe it as "braindead action". The Baba Yaga sequence is one of the best character setups in the history of cinema, if not the best, and the closest thing to action it has is someone taking a sledge to a concrete floor.
*shrug* Maybe I was just tired the night I tried to watch it. What I remember is a bunch of guys try to kill him, end up shooting his dog, then then has to go kill them all or some such. There was a car chase that I fell asleep during and that's it from memory. Didn't leave an impression that I should give it a second chance, other than a bunch of people love it, but a bunch of people also love the first Capt. America movie and I fell asleep during it, as well.
You remember less than 10 minutes of the movie, you might as well have never watched it. And this shit is nothing like the first Captain America, it's widely regarded as being among the best action movies ever made.
I may have made it deeper into the movie, but that's all I remember from it. Reading reviews on IMDB: simple plot, braindead action, non-stop action, not original, innovative, or stylish, a weak story...and those are from the people who rated it 7 or higher.
So you went cherrypicking on IMDB for reviews that support you not wanting to watch it again? Why don't you go browse the thread on the forum you're already on where it consists of multiple pages of people raving about how good it is? (and one dude negfarming)
One would need to know what "The Baby Yaga sequence" is, in order for it to mean anything. I mean, you made it more likely that maybe I'll give it another watch, someday, but another part of it is that American style modern shootem ups remind of shitty Michael Bay films; which is a very hard hurdle for me to overcome (which is probably the underlying issue with disliking this and others like Taken, Banshee, 24, RED, etc.).
John Wick is basically the modern version of the John Woo Gun-Fu movies like Hard Boiled.
The directors are a pair of veteran stuntmen too, which is why all the action scenes come together so perfectly.
The Fallout 3 argument of you cant dislike the game unless you played X amount of hours, just play it a little bit more and I promise you will like it! 20 hours? Psh, well you can get 120 hours out of it! So you cant make up your mind until then!
This might work better as a counter-argument if you hadn't already admitted to not watching the movie.
Wat, I watched the first 10 to 20 minutes before falling asleep. Do you normally remember every part of media you are disinterested in? The nice old car Wick was was driving is the last thing I remembered. Hence the "how long do I need to watch before I can say I don't like it?"
Oh my mistake I guess you are right and the entire rest of the world is wrong about John Wick because you picked a sleep deprived night to try watching it.
Your the one asking why I don't like it; I never said anyone is wrong to like it. Furthermore, it only has a 7.3 on IMDB, which isn't great or terrible, so it's hardly the whole world that loves that movie.
Well your posts are certainly making me not want to watch it again. Your shitty replies generally warrant over the top responses, so here we are.
Dredd is a 7.1. Fury Road is an 8.2. The Raid is a 7.6. Fast Five is a 7.3. Rogue Nation is a 7.4. Five more of the best action movies of that decade, all with similar scores except Fury Road.
..and, as movies go, it's not great and not terrible. I never put any "action" qualifier in there. I also said, originally, that I fell asleep, a.k.a. I must have found it uninteresting, but not Expendables bad.