Originally Posted by
burnmotherfucker!
Oh don't get me wrong. I'm glad they keep making them, they are a blast to watch. I just think the first movie is the one that's going to stand the test of time and still be noteworthy 50 years from now. The others aren't bad but they're basically just expanding on the lore now and at some point that can go south in a franchise. To me, the less you know about John Wick and the Continental and the other assassins the more effective it is. I don't want to know some of these assassins were raised and trained in some weird catholic orphanage. That's too much info. The less backstory Wick had the more mythic he seems. Same with the world they're in. I don't want to know the politics of the High Table. How much better is the first movie when you know nothing of Wick's past and all you know about the high table is that if some of these motherfuckers break their rules a bunch of random people pop out and execute them on the spot. The more those type of mysteries are expanded on, the less effective it becomes imo.
But yeah, they gotta make these sequels be about something, they can't just make the 1st one over and over so I get it and I'll probably watch them all until they stop making them regardless. But they're not topping the first one and that's not a knock on them, its just almost impossible for sequels to outdo a genuinely great first film. Godfather 2 being the obvious exception.