This shot served no purpose, I wonder why they included it at all. It doesn't add to the emotion of the scene, only distracts from it.
Andy Garcia looks more like he just saw his assistant brought the wrong coffee than his cousin murdered.
Ventimiglia dated her for over a year, he knew Hayden better than everyone else and genuinely loved her even for a time. Of all the Heroes castmates, it has to be him that was hurt by this new the most.
I'm just happy for this guy, he's an absolute legend.
I've been quite curious about John's stance on killing innocent people. So far, we've only ever seen John kill guys who were either would-be killers or guys who already had blood on their hands.
I don't believe John's who would be indifferent to innocent lives, he most definitely avoids harming people who don't deserve to be killed when he can, but who knows how far he'd go when business demands it.
There's no doubt in my mind that in the decades he'd been an active assassin there were employers who requested him to murder innocents. It'll be good for the game to flesh out John's character by showing how he'll react to being tasked to take out a civilian - whether or not he'll do as he's told or react like Tony Montana.
Recently I rewatched John Woo's The Killer and Hardboiled, I've also seen the A Better Tomorrow movies but that was years ago. They are all incredible.
I've known about John Woo being a highly influential action director but it's only now that I actually felt the influence of his works on a visceral level.
I think John Woo's Hong Kong action flicks are must-watch material for John Wick fans.
We've now seen what Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are like now as they approach their late 30s, it's really not looking great for either of them to continue on with boxing. Comparing them to Lennox Lewis in his final fight against Vitali Klitschko, I honestly believe that Lennox was very clearly a superior fighter to the both of them - not only prime for prime but also in longevity.
I wouldn't even say Lennox was washed by the time he fought Vitali, he just did not get enough time to get in good shape or train for Vitali specifically, yet he still won albeit with struggle.
Lennox wanted to retire mostly because he was about to get married and also wanted to start having kids with his wife, he did not want to be an absent husband/father in favour of boxing. I must say that is fair.
Knowing that though, if he were to instead have fought for two more years, how do you believe he'd fare against his contemporaries then?
Need to remember that Aurelio was still the first to give Josef a taste of consequences by punching him as he boasted about killing John's dog, before Viggo did the same and of course before John himself started going after Iosef after Aurelio told him who he was.
Aurelio's a loyal friend to John, he seems like the type of guy who really has his friends' backs.
I honestly believe his chances of winning would be lower. Although Usyk is most definitely getting up in age and will likely turn 40 before the rematch, I think a primary reason why he struggled so much in the first fight was because he went into the ring expecting an easy win which could not have been further from the truth - not only did he go in with the wrong mentality, he also went in out of shape whereas Rico was in his natural weight range.
If a rematch happens, we can expect Usyk to be in better shape and equipped with better knowledge of Rico's movements from keenly studying the first fight. I don't think lightning will strike twice for Rico.
Caine will be set in Hong Kong and various parts of Europe, we will see at least one new Continental in the film. The Triad will also make an appearance in this one.
I arrived an hour late because I had to work overtime and by then the house was full, festive and hedonistic. I was going to use one of the bathrooms but some couple was having sex in there, the girl's moan was loud and stopped me before I could even knock. I heard they spent a lot of time in there too, maybe more than half an hour.
The house was big and had three bathrooms so I did not have to wait for them to finish, but I am repulsed by the idea of people shamelessly having sex at a house party with dozens of guests present and holding up the bathroom as a result.
Of course I do feel envious of people with partners willing to have sex with them at the wrong place at the wrong time, but it is really poor behaviour too when there's like 40 people at a party and only a few bathrooms. Couldn't they have waited until they got home? My god.
For me, it'd be:
Hired gun - Easiest
Assassin - Moderate
Elite Assassin - Hard
Baba Yaga - Hardest
I know this page from All-Star Superman #10 has helped many people dealing with depression and still does, so in a way Superman actually saved real life people with his encouraging words. Thank you Supes, or better yet thank you Mr. Grant Morrison - those were really his words to any reader who was in pain.
Superman is really just the perfect older brother to anyone who needs him to be one for them, not only can be step in to defend you from just about any bully who wants to hurt you (even if the bully is Darkseid) but he can also be there to assure you when you are suffering emotionally.
That said, has reading Superman comics or consuming other Superman media helped you in dealing with your own depression or other personal struggles?
Honestly, I'm very curious to view this world of assassins through the eyes of someone was minding his own business but is suddenly caught up in dangerous underworld business and has no idea what's going on.
Even though Keanu was already nearing 60 by John Wick 4, all four films were set within a span of less than a year so John remained what I assume to be in his early 50s throughout the first four films.
By the start of John Wick 5, there's got to be a massive timeskip - at least 10 years I say, John should be in his 60s at least by then. They need to accommodate for Keanu slowing down in real life by having John older and slower too, of course he'd still be deadly but it nonetheless would be interesting to see John in greater adversity due to him being even older.
Superman fans, Hulk fans, Goku fans, Sun Wukong fans, SCP fans, Elder Scrolls fans, World of Darkness fans, Lovecraft fans - among them are people who love those characters or verses so much JUST for the mere fact that they are so powerful, and in the minds of many of these obsessive fanboys their favorite character solos 100% of fiction, they would spread propaganda for their favorite characters and would want their character to be #1 so badly that they'd go exploring a new franchise they don't even like because they are so worried that someone somewhere just cooked up a new character for that franchise that may be comparable to their favourite - yes, fanboys can be THAT obsessed.
I should be real with you powerscalers - no matter how much we want our favorite characters to remain unbeatable, we can never keep up with fiction to keep them unbeatable EVEN if we had authority over that character; yes even if you were the boss of DC Comics or the successor to Toriyama in writing Dragonball or the creator of your own series with as much creative freedom as you want, you still CAN'T give your character an answer for every powerhouse out there, fiction is just tooooo big and the human imagination is just too limitless. Your favorite character is Tier 0/Extraversal in the VSBW and CSAP scaling systems? Oh that's nice, who's to stop some idiot from saying "fuck that, my character is so insanely powerful and beyond logic that to measure him by these established powerscaling metrics is to misunderstand him completely" - there are no rules when it come to fiction, no one's imagination is bound by existing logic so anyone can come up with anything to beat up every popular character they know.
Someone somewhere is cooking up even higher absurdities that we've never dreamt of as we speak, maybe even just to spite fanboys of any of the above mentioned characters and we can't stop him from doing so any more than we can stop the countless other powerscalers doing likewise as we speak. Imagination itself is what's truly boundless, no one has the power over anyone else's imaginations to stop the creation of more and more characters - today's character that solos fiction could be tomorrow's fodder to a new character introduced specifically to kill that character, that latter character would then be a victim of another character that will pop up the next day in some new book.. then that character also ends up being a bum when more characters are introduced.... it can't ever truly end. That said, there is no strongest character.
You've a favorite character who you admire for their strength and resilience? Good, enjoy that character and don't worry too much about what's going on elsewhere.
This is just my opinion of course. I already accepted that there will always be new contenders and Usyk simply can't fight them all - like all of us, he can't stop aging.
Usyk's ring IQ is legendary and he'll always be a genius who totally gets boxing (to a level most of his heavyweight contemporaries never will), but we've arrived at a point that even if he sees the weaknesses in Kabayel and Itauma that we don't and knows exactly what would need to be done, his body really might no longer be able to accomplish it.
When Father Time tells you to hang your gloves, take a bow and accept that it's other people's turn to take the stage that you've had your time shining on, the fair thing to do is to listen; that would be fair not only to yourself but also to your loved ones, the next generation of boxers in your division and to the fans of the sport of boxing. I'm more than happy now to see Usyk retiring from boxing himself and pursuing his other interests that still involve boxing - he has mentioned that once he retires he'd like to become a boxing trainer and build his own sports academy where I'm sure there'd be numerous young talents that would gladly learn from him and aim to become the next Usyk. I'd love to see Usyk's story continue and hear about him staying actively involved in Ukranian boxing (again, as a trainer) even into old age, but he must retire by the time he is 40 the latest so that we can see him in good health once he's in his 50s, 60s and older.
Usyk has proven at this point that he is an all-time great P4P boxer, very few could ever be a 3x undisputed champion across two divisions. We know that him in his prime (specifically during his fights against AJ) would've been a dangerous opponent against not only Kabayel and Itauma but also any heavyweight in history, lets just be happy with that and not see this older Usyk punish himself to prove more to some fanboys who still NEED him to have more big wins. He should just fight Verhoeven (who I believe he'd easily defeat in a rematch) and retire at 40 a true great.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" - Abraham Lincoln
^I like this quote and we can all see how true this assessment is in the real world, so many people in positions of wealth, power and authority abuse their status for selfish gain. Obviously we don't like those types of people, but none of us could confidently say that we ourselves won't become just like them if we were to become just as privileged.
Now put this in the context of Superman - he holds much more power than any real person, he is not even bound by the laws of conventional physics or any scientific logic, he could defy every rule in any book if he wanted to and also avoid being held accountable (ok there are beings in DC Comics who could step in and confront him but lets not go too into the granular detaills) - point being, he's insanely privileged yet he never lets power or glory get into his head, he has no real ego nor has he at any point shown hints that he could become a narcissist - he's in a position that would corrupt most men to shamelessly act mostly in their own self-interest yet he is a better person than any man could hope to be.
Most don't consider how easy it is for someone to become a selfish, entitled bully (like Homelander in The Boys) once they attain so much power over everyone else. Think about it, how long could you trust the average man to not peek under women's clothes once they get X-Ray vision? We know Supeeman would never do that, he'd be disgusted with himself if he did - but the average man? Yeah, you wouldn't trust him to be disciplined for life and this is not even scratching the surface of how depraved some people can get.
Kal-El/Clark Kent never needed to be humbled, he is already humble by his very nature. Growing up you may think to yourselves "Ooh I want to be Superman! It'd be so fun!" but as mature, reasonable adults you should think to yourselves "do I even have what it takes to even be a Superman as good as Clark Kent?", because being Superman is not JUST about having his Kryptonian abilities, not even close. On the same note, a reasonable person would grow from thinking "I wish Superman was real" to "can I really trust anyone to be Superman?".
Although Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a fictionalized account of real history and focuses little on the otherworldly, there definitely are legitimate supernatural elements in the novel. Around the time it was published most people in China still believed in the supernatural and the unexplainable, Luo Guanzhong himself probably did too.
