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 Originally Posted by BananaStand
No, the premise is entirely silly.
Lots of people have all kinds of sentimental attachments to pets that die. I've never heard of one going on a vengeful murderous rampage over it.
We may still disagree about whether or not John Wick had substance that these other movies lacked, but I do agree that Jack was looking in the wrong place.
This video I think does a really good job of explaining why ostensibly similar movies with similar production values, narrative arcs, and dialogue can be so substantively different.
https://youtu.be/pT75YHqlD9k
I think the reason John Wick became such a cult hit is because it marries parody or burlesque with a love for not just the genre but the craft of the spectacle of the genre. So while the entire story is sort of tongue in cheek mocking the motivations of action heroes and villains, and maybe more importantly the leaps a script needs to make to string action sequences together, when John Wick actually gets to the action sequences, it takes them very seriously and executes them flawlessly. The sequel lost some of it's charm, not because it dropped the ball with the action, but because it felt like it lost some of it's self awareness and started to take its dramatic sequences, world building, and plot too seriously.
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