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Things I learned from Equalizer 2

posted 6 years ago by AnubisRaydeen (7897)
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1. If someone on the elevator hits the button for your floor before you they must be the killers.
2. When someone slices you with a blade, you go into instant shock and cannot do anything while they get four extra free attacks against you.
3. It's OK to still be starting the plot of your movie when it is already 75% over.
4. If your killing shot on a hostage in a car trunk is foiled, don't bother taking another shot.
5. No minor subplot is insignificant enough to not spend lots of time fleshing it out.
6. It is OK to leave a trail of bodies when trying to tie up loose ends.
7. Flour is flammable and thus when aerosoled in a room it has the explosive power of 10 sticks of dynamite.
8. There is plenty of time to tack up a big stack of photos of your dead friend in the ally while 5 mercs are hunting you.
8a. It is a great idea to tack those photos up during a massive storm. They'll stay up for sure.
9. Sometimes you make a movie just to showcase a couple of books you are proud of having read.
10. Everyone must be afraid of telling Antoine Fuqua what he is doing wrong.
11. Antoine Fuqua sucks.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I actually enjoyed this movie but didn't go in with high expectations and didn't allow myself to overthink it.

Having said that, your list is really spot on and I laughed out loud more than once. Number 4 especially really confused me. Unless I missed something it's not like he even had to reload at that point.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 6 years ago

Denzel was good and so were a few others. That is about all I can say in favor of this film. Denzel is becoming Liam Neeson.

Regarding Fuqua: This guy infuriates me. He has great attention to detail when it comes to cinematography. For instance, little things like a particular jogger will be as far down a street as they should be for the time that has passed in a conversation in the fore. Most other directors will use the same three extras passing back and forth in the background. Fuqua has qualities that are uncommon. This makes it all the more tortuous when he delivers his standard eye-rollers. I think Training Day is way overrated (I give it a B-) but it is certainly his best. I saw this because I thought maybe he could equal or surpass that bar. No dice. D+

[–] Overanalyzer (24) 5 years ago

As for number 7, dust explosions are a thing. Check up grain elevator explosions for example.
It could be discussed, however, if the fans could spread it finely enough in the probably wet air. Another issue is how the fans got electrity after the transformer was shot out.

12. When you find out assassins are after you, wait until you have talked to the assassins before you try to warn the kid you invited to paint your apartment.

13. After assassins search through the apartment you are in, immediately get out of your hiding place when you think they have left.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 5 years ago

Dust explosions are, indeed, a thing. That explosion was disproportionately large. Absurdly so.

On #13: So true! This is a trope that is so common and always bugs me big time.

[–] gbu (545) 5 years ago

When your fighting in a storm you will not get wet in any scene even if you are perched on top of a tower or running through constant rain mist you will remain dry at all times!