Anonymous asked: Moran, have you seen John Wick 1 or 2? And if you have, what are your thoughts/feelings on the ball of angry Keanu Reeves plays?
I have seen John Wick and very much want to see John Wick 2 because I will tell you a few things that are very important to me:
- Angry Keanu Reeves
- Beautifully choreographed fight scenes
- Dogs! (Yes a dog dies and it’s very sad but he gETS ANOTHER DOG, headcanon that John Wick is the only assassin in the world who has 15 dogs at home, they’re all beautiful and incredibly well cared for and he loved them all very much.)
- Beautifully choreographed fight scenes iN SUITS
- Honestly Keanu Reeves in general? I like him a lot. I was introduced to Bill & Ted very young and have not been able to figure out what the fuck people’s issue with him is since then. I recommend Constantine for more gratuitous Keanu Reeves violence with intricate underworlds and good one-liners. Constantine is one of my top five favorite movies and I’m actually weirdly into the theology in it.
- Complex networks of underground criminal enterprises with Rules (and God save you if you break The Rules)
- Literally any form of media in which the main character is the best and most competent person in any given room, and which isn’t afraid to embrace that wholeheartedly (I really dislike the concept of a character being ‘too competent’ but that’s a separate rant)
- Neutral ground hotels/bars/whatever
- The moment on the phone with the Russian mob boss where he’s very angry that someone dared to hit his (useless) son, and he’s told that the guy killed John Wick’s dog and took his car, and the mob boss just goes very silent for a moment before he says “Oh”
So anyway I love that movie it’s very fun and I like movies with a lot of gratuitous detail in their criminal empires. Also apparently Keanu Reeves trained for John Wick at the same time that Charlize Theron was training for Atomic Blonde (I haven’t even seen that movie yet but I can already tell you: we could make a religion out of that) and they sparred a lot during that time period.
