Boss Baby got an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature. ‘Nuff said.

Eh, the thing about that is that John Wick 1, just like John Wick 2, isn’t about the story for me. If a movie isn’t about the story, whether or not it wraps up and is “self-contained” is sort of irrelevant, no? Both of those movies are more like performance art, it’s about the audio/visual experience, the art of action movies, and 2 topped the first one in that respect. I mean jesus just that opening scene where he uses his car as a whip to send a dude flying is more viscerally effective than anything in the first movie. It starts off running and never stops.

David… I understand where you’re coming from with JW1, but I thought it worked well given it was the first installment. I don’t expect they were entirely certain if JW1 would do well enough to warrant a sequel. Seems these days, there aren’t enough films that are self-contained, in other words not leaving some threads dangling to fire off a sequel with. It’s a nice change to get a film that has an actual beginning, middle, and proper end.