Watched Dark City, The Walker and that new John Wick pastiche with a content warning Gunpowder Milkshake over the weekend.
Dark City is great, incredible production design and atmosphere. Characters are pretty shallow and the enemies do this weird camp hellraiser thing, but i was digging it. The Walker was confusing and weird, Woody and the crew were fun to watch, but Schrader was not on top form here. Gunpowder Milkshake was a mess all round. Really liked Karen Gillan, and it had some really fun scenes but they lift so much from Wick it's a little embarrassing how poorly they pulled it off. John Wicks world building is beauty in it's simplicity, it's barely functional but pulls it off beautifully, scenes flow, and compared to this the film feels sublime. Milkshake was trying to take influence from a host of different action movies and ham fist it into a formula almost beat for beat following Wick, complete with assassin safehouses and quirky armorys but dialing up the whimsical, absurd edge that detracted from the mostly very good performances. Hospital scene was sick, and the setup was fine. Could've been a decent movie, but I ended up feeling annoyed and bored
