Charlize Theron teaming with John Wick Directors for 'Atomic Blonde'

Oooh boy, didn't think there would be a heated back-n-forth here.



And as much as this trailer excites me, I actually agree with that last sentence.
Hoping the full fight is overall better.

Aye, it looked like the actors were 'waiting' for the movement of the actor to actor, I appreciate the sequence would be choreographed to finite detail but it looked way too pre-emptive rather than reactionary....
 
Wow. This. Looks. BADASS. I love how this guy films action, raw, brutal and no quick cuts. Thats how John Wick 2 was. I'm a sucker for action films like this.

I'm sold x10000
 
Wow. This. Looks. BADASS. I love how this guy films action, raw, brutal and no quick cuts. Thats how John Wick 2 was. I'm a sucker for action films like this.

I'm sold x10000
He did not direct John Wick 2. :funny:
 
He worked on it. And Chad worked on this. Just not to the extent they did on the first John Wick.
 
Aye, it looked like the actors were 'waiting' for the movement of the actor to actor, I appreciate the sequence would be choreographed to finite detail but it looked way too pre-emptive rather than reactionary....
That has to do with this single shot Leitch tried to do.
Even John Wick used cuts, effectively for sure, within those fights.

People seem to instantly gravitate to those "one take" scenes.
It's funny because Leitch and Stahelski just gave an interview on how they can pick apart what goes wrong with stunts,
so I'm also hoping this is the only fight of its kind in the movie.
 
He worked on it. And Chad worked on this. Just not to the extent they did on the first John Wick.
Interesting. How divided up was the work on the first John Wick in comparison to these two films?
 
Not near to the extent of JW1 naturally. But each director helped the other's films on a creative level. The reason they didn't direct JW2 and Atomic Blonde as a pair was scheduling.
 
Not near to the extent of JW1 naturally. But each director helped the other's films on a creative level. The reason they didn't direct JW2 and Atomic Blonde as a pair was scheduling.
Do you know if they both directed scenes on each movie, or is it more simply the "creative" writing and planning action scenes phase?
 
It looks ok, certainly a bit weird tonally and the action looks a little stagey as others have mentioned.
 
More the latter, but I'm still looking for confirmation on the former.
 
It looks ok, certainly a bit weird tonally and the action looks a little stagey as others have mentioned.
I think the "sex appeal" angle really mixes up the tone, but I get the point of it. If nothing else, this looks like it is going to be the right kind of bonkers.
 
I think the "sex appeal" angle really mixes up the tone, but I get the point of it. If nothing else, this looks like it is going to be the right kind of bonkers.

To be honest I wasn't really meaning the sex part of the trailer, although I am surprised to see it getting so much of a reaction in this day and age with the internet lol. The tonal shift to me is that some parts of the trailer look like a washed out and grimier type of spy flick, and then it gets garish and cartoony in other parts, just an odd mixture to me.
 
To be honest I wasn't really meaning the sex part of the trailer, although I am surprised to see it getting so much of a reaction in this day and age with the internet lol. The tonal shift to me is that some parts of the trailer look like a washed out and grimier type of spy flick, and then it gets garish and cartoony in other parts, just an odd mixture to me.
Ah, I see what you mean. There is a bit of that in Wick, so maybe I am use to it. It also feels like a way to set up the "joke".
 
To be honest I wasn't really meaning the sex part of the trailer, although I am surprised to see it getting so much of a reaction in this day and age with the internet lol. The tonal shift to me is that some parts of the trailer look like a washed out and grimier type of spy flick, and then it gets garish and cartoony in other parts, just an odd mixture to me.

Which is exactly why it looks great to me.
 
Ah, I see what you mean. There is a bit of that in Wick, so maybe I am use to it. It also feels like a way to set up the "joke".

The "joke"? With Wick it always felt like a live action graphic novel to me (although the mythology expansion surprised me), kinda like how Max Payne felt like a videogame graphic novel, but this kinda started out like Bourne and then flipped.
 
The "joke"? With Wick it always felt like a live action graphic novel to me (although the mythology expansion surprised me), kinda like how Max Payne felt like a videogame graphic novel, but this kinda started out like Bourne and then flipped.
It reminds me of the "wink wink" scenes in both Wick films. Like the first scene in Wick 2. Which is juxtaposed with scene like where he loses his dog, remembers his wife, etc.

I get what you mean about he "Bourne" elements here, but I think that has more to do with her being a spy, where as Wick is a hitman with a thing for his car. So the cliche touches in Wick are nods to hitman flicks and classic car scenes, where here they are nods to spy movies.
 
To be honest I wasn't really meaning the sex part of the trailer, although I am surprised to see it getting so much of a reaction in this day and age with the internet lol. The tonal shift to me is that some parts of the trailer look like a washed out and grimier type of spy flick, and then it gets garish and cartoony in other parts, just an odd mixture to me.

That garish looks like it takes place in a club or ****ehouse which looks like one would expect a 1980s Berlin establishment to look. And I'm sure drugs are involved on those scenes. That's probably why those bits are more stylized.
 
Yeah, it's actually pretty indicative of East Europe. The cities can look grimy as **** in certain areas, but generally every night club is insanely garish.
 
It reminds me of the "wink wink" scenes in both Wick films. Like the first scene in Wick 2. Which is juxtaposed with scene like where he loses his dog, remembers his wife, etc.

I get what you mean about he "Bourne" elements here, but I think that has more to do with her being a spy, where as Wick is a hitman with a thing for his car. So the cliche touches in Wick are nods to hitman flicks and classic car scenes, where here they are nods to spy movies.

I get what you mean about the nods and winks to various tropes of the respective genres. :woot:
 
That garish looks like it takes place in a club or ****ehouse which looks like one would expect a 1980s Berlin establishment to look. And I'm sure drugs are involved on those scenes. That's probably why those bits are more stylized.

Is the book set in the 80's?
 
Yes. It's set during the closing days of the Cold War.

Also I do find the "stagey fights" thing interesting. Because, well lots of movies have those because the fight ARE staged. If anything this looks far less so. I wonder if you just showed this to someone in the general audience if they'd have those same kind of critiques? I kind of doubt it.

And as for the John Wick comparisons, well Keanu has been involved in martial artists for a long time now, and he's apparently a gun enthusiast as well. So him being better at it isn't surprising really.
 
A little quick to judge, don't you think? :whatever:
Doesn't seem like the same kind of movie. The action and visual style does echo John Wick, which is pretty normal, considering that it's from the same director. But the story and the movie itself look different enough to me.
But it's cool to have a cinematic Nostradamus on these boards, who's already decided (at his second feature film) that David Leitch only knows how to make one kind of film and... how dare he throw some lesbian love sex in? Such as sleazy and low-end thing to do.

Also it seems like Charlize's character is more bisexual (the trailer implied that she's slept with men before to) than full-on lesbian.
 
Yes. It's set during the closing days of the Cold War.

Also I do find the "stagey fights" thing interesting. Because, well lots of movies have those because the fight ARE staged. If anything this looks far less so. I wonder if you just showed this to someone in the general audience if they'd have those same kind of critiques? I kind of doubt it.

And as for the John Wick comparisons, well Keanu has been involved in martial artists for a long time now, and he's apparently a gun enthusiast as well. So him being better at it isn't surprising really.

Fight scenes are staged but the idea is for them to not look so when you watch the finished product, the fottage on the stairs in the clip looks very slow and more like a run through with each person doing a very obvious feed to each exchange, compare that with the stairwell fights in Civil War and Daredevil season 2 and they look vastly more visceral and competetive.
 

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