June 4, 2025 • 33 mins
Jason and Rosie check in to the Continental and speed recap every single John Wick film in preparation for the upcoming Ballerina. Then they gush about Keanu Reeves’ incredible career and share their favorite Keanu films that aren’t The Matrix.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Warning, you killed my dog. I just wanted to live
a quiet life with the memory of my beautiful wife, Helen,
who died of cancer, and the beagle puppy she got
me in my Mustang Boss for twenty nine. But you
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couldn't let me do that. You spoiled the John Wick franchise.
Be warned that you are marked for death if you
listen to this episode and you have not watched the
john Wick franchise.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion and on Mercy Night,
and welcome back to Extravy, to the podcast where we
dive me but your.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Favorite shows, movies, comics and pop culture work.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I mean, with my hard podcast, we'll we'll bring you
three episodes a week every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, plus news.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
In today's episode, I am acting as the concierge from
the Continental Hotel, and I'm giving Jason an impossible task,
a job no one could pull off.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Recap all the john Wick chapters one to four in
ten minutes. And why ten minutes. Well, let's give one
point five seconds per kill.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
If we are to go off the general accepted number
that John Wick has killed four hundred and thirty nine people,
that would be ten point nine minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Can you do it? Jason?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Let us see I believe, I believe you.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Can do it.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I believe in you.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, before we get started, let's talk briefly about John
Wick and his incredible kill numbers four hundred anywhere from
mid three to four hundred. Screen says four thirty nine
people have counted this. This is just on screen, not
counting his you know, free John Wick core Wick. Yeah,
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which is so this guy might be in the I
don't know, he might be in the five digits.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's crazy what he's done.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
It's definitely in the pantheon of cinematic killers with the
biggest body.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Count, no question.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This franchise is notable for.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Kind of the way it was created. Created by director
Chad Stahelski, who is a former stuntman, and his stunt
Centric production company that they got Keanu Reeves involved and
a surprise hit has ensued. Now quick note, this is
not going to include the lore of the continental television
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program which follows which follows the lore of that particular
New York City assassin Centric eighth Ground hotel.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And that's because we have a limited ability to cover.
Mel Gibson we just have a limited.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
We exactly probably probably.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Limited, you know, just like a limited ability to stand.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
The climic of Gibson.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yes, so here we are.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We're going to do John Wick. The speed recaps all
four pictures one point five seconds per John Wick Kill.
I'm ready when you are, Aaron. Okay, Yeah, oh here
we going okay, John Wick, twenty fourteen. This is where
it all started, First class glance. John is a regular guy,
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simply mourning the recent passing of his wife Helen, who
left John with a puppy.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
One day is John. One day.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
John is at the gas station filling the take of
his gorgeous nineteen sixty nine Mustang Boss for twenty nine.
When a Russian mobster's son, Joseph decides he wants the car.
John insults the kid drives off, so Yoseph does the
normal mafia princelink thing and sends his goons to John's house.
They beat him up, they steal the car, They kill
the dog.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
John's That's right.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Orielo, local mob connected chopshop guy flips out when he
sees the car, and he refuses to work on it.
Turns out John is a bad motherfucker. How bad so
bad that Joseph's dad, crime boss Vigo, beats Yoseph's ass
and tells him, Hey, you just crossed the Boogeyman of
Eastern European legend, our former star hitman, a guy who
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once exterminated an entire crew with school supplies. Vigo tries
to smooth things out with John over the phone, but
John's already digging up his case of gold doaballoons and
guns and bulletproof suits, and so Viggo sends a squad
a hitman to kill him, but John chews them up easily.
John checks into the Continental, a hotel that's neutral ground
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for assassins, and we learn about a bunch of lore,
including the High Table. This is a shadowy council that
governs the entire assassin underworld. John chases Yoseph across the city.
He misses him at a nightclub, but kills a bunch
of guys, maybe seventy guys in the nightclub.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
He fights off a rival.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Assassin, Perkins, and then finally snipes Joseph outside of a
safe house where he was playing video games. Vigo tortures
and kills John's mentor, Willem Dafoe. Oh no acting under
his real name, Willem Dafoe. He's I think for his name.
Wick goes after him, leading to a big fight in
which John Rex's car gets severely injured but kills Viggo
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and then he survives and lives and gets another dog,
John Wick.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Chapter two, twenty.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Seventeen minutes and kill count currently seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
John just wants to live a peaceful life with his
dog and his Mustang, but he's dragged back into crime
life because an Italian crime lord, Santino, wants to hire
John because John once made him a blood oath back
in the day, and he's got this coin that says, hey,
you owe me a blood oath. Santino wants Wick to
assassinate his sister Gianna so Santino can take control of
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the High Table and the criminal enterprise that it controls.
Santino apparently was the guy who helped John retire back
in the day so that he could marry Helen and
live a normal life. John goes to Rome to kill
the sister, who commits suicide while John watches, which kind
of a it feels like a loophole. John is then
pursued by Gianna's bodyguard and the guy Santino hired to
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kill him.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
To clean up the whole deal.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
John kills the Santino guys he gets the former bodyguard
in New York. There, John learns some serious Continental lore
about not conducting business from the Continental. How serious that
is and since John broke this multiple times, he is
now excommunicado, which means anybody could kill him. Assassins around
the world and get the call that John Wick is
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available for big money.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Let's go to an.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Ad break the clock, still take it. We're back John Wick.
Chapter three, Parabellum twenty nineteen. After killing Santino in the
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previous film, John Wick excommunicado on the run, Wicks fights
his way through it like a sea of enemies, all
the while being hunted by Zero, a professional assassin who
admires him but is also eager to.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Take him down.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We learn more about John Wick's past, including his highs
to the table why he's so feared. We made Sophia,
a high ranking assassin who John as a marker from,
meaning she owes him a favor of blood oath, so
she has to help him and several dogs.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Die in the process. With John hates.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
John is giving the opportunity to once again live a
peaceful life as long as he kills Winston, the manager
of the Continental, who's helped John so many times and
has helped John break the rules and is who is
in trouble himself.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Because he's broken the rules so many times.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, Winston helps John again, but it all works out
and he agrees to swear renewed allegiance to the High
Table and not break the rules anymore, even though okay.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Winston then shoots John, who falls off.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The roof of the Continental and is badly injured, but
he's taken in by Morpheus aka the Bowery King, who
is a secret weird crime lord who lives in the subways.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
John Wick Chapter four.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Twenty twenty three, six minutes and twenty four seconds. I
think John is okay.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
John is in hiding with the Bowery King, preparing to
take the fight to the High Table itself when he
kills the Elder, who apparently is the guy who sits
above the height. So there's the High Table and then
there's the Elder who's the High Table, the higher loan table.
When he kills the Elder who he promised originally to
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kill Winston for and cut off his finger for in Morocco.
The fucking High Table goes absolutely crazy. Now they finally
put all their resources, which I guess they hadn't done before,
in the hands of one super assassin, the marque with
orders to kill John.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The Marquis fires Winston for helping helping John all those times,
and he rins the Continental.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Yeah over the fact that that friends that just grows Okay,
get over it, High Table.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Wick goes to Osaka to hang to hide out at
the Continental there, but then the High Table pulls Osaka's
like consecration license and then everyone.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Can fight every fucking fighting.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
A full on assassin war ensues.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
John goes to Berlin to seek the protection of some
crime group there that we're just learning about. Meanwhile, Winston
tells the Marquis that hey, let's avoid all the destruction.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
John will duel you one v one.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Several other assassin fights ensue between Then, then Wick and
the Marquee stand in Kine, who he's friends with and
who doesn't really want to fight him, but has to
finally duel, which John gets shot twice.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Now the rules of the duel.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Are everybody gets three bullets one bullet per round, and
the Marque's now excited because he thinks that John's out
of bullets and that he can and he's like, I'll
sub in.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I want to shoot him. I want to do the
coup de grass.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But everybody in the excitement lost track of the fact
that John has his third bullet still.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
And he shoots at the mark he dead.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Wick and Kde get their high table death warrants lifted,
and the high table fucking pushovers, you guys, Like I
was total pushovers anyway, They get their high table death
warrants lifted.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Witch gets his job.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
How like, come on, guys, guys.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
There's like only one rule at the Continental.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Don't do business the Continental and Whiston has helped John
break the rules so many times.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Times and then like put him back at the top.
He gets his job back.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
John then fakes his death and has a fake headstone
put next to his wife Helen's real one, and then
a post credits scene, Cain is approached by the vengeful
daughter of the Osaka Continental and they're gonna team up
and do something and maybe it's gonna tie into Ballerina,
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the latest spinoff from the John Wick universe.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Jason with your impressive priming.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
We still have three minutes and twenty five seconds left.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Tell me about what you learned when.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
You're going back through the John Wick cannon for these
speed recaps.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I learned a lot about the hierarchy of the This
Assassin underworld. Then, so the assassins work for mafia bosses
like Vigo, but they are part of like this Assassin
Union that is assassin like a magical assassin union that
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they all dress in kind of like fifties greaser attire
and have like a broadly kind of grease meets steampunk aesthetic,
and they are ruled by the High Table. But then
there's the elder, who I still don't understand how it works.
I mean, so I learned a lot, but I'm also
confused because when John was ex communicado, only the elder
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could lift it, which I don't. I guess that's the
elders like one job.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
It's just like but then when you see how how
much like work and how many people go into making
him an ex communicato, you feel like, well, it condes
be that one guy. I mean, I will say I
love these movies obviously, Big Chad Steleski sad love love stunts,
love stunt work. Obviously I have a Kiana Reebs tire.
I love Keanu Reeves. But I will say I do
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think that the power of the first John Wick movie
is that the kind of magical realism of the High
Table and the Continental, it adds this kind of expansive
imaginary law, and I think once the movie was a
huge hit, you are then forced to explore that law
and kind of expand it in a way that if
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you just watched the first movie, it's just this kind
of like weird, surreal stylistic edition, which I love.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
But I still love the law of the Continental and
the assassins.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
And I'm very excited to see Ballerina and kind of
see how it plays into it is she gonna get
made ex communicado how many times?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And now, well, listen the High Table they break their
own rules of this dude.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
The High Table a very flighty.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I feel like, I honestly just feel like they're just
kind of like bored, like any kind of they're just like, oh,
these guys are annoying me today, Like put them on
the he's he's.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Out there is a very gay aesthetic at the Continental.
Oh yeah, darkly vampiric kind of.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah, very like very night Yeah, yes, yes, very the Abbeys.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah, there's there's a lot of things going on here.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I love that this gave us a Keanu Reeves kind
of renaissance, though for.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Me, you know, he was never one of the true
nice guys of Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Yeah, and also just like a really interesting creative who
throughout his career has taken like interesting jobs and been
at the forefront of kind of just like being true
to himself and the choices he wants to make.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
And if you look back.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
At his work from The Matrix to his own directorial
kind of efforts, he is a lover of stunts, he's
lover of lover of martial arts, lover of Hong Kong cinema,
and I think John Wick brings all of those together
in like a really fantastic way and with a with
an absolutely massive kill count.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I think the movie with the massive massive the movie
with the biggest kill count from my uh, you know,
the first movie is around seventy seven people, but.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
By John Wick four he kills are He kills one
hundred and forty people minimum in that movie. So free
you're you want a movie with a body count, Freddy Jason,
You're out. This is this is John Wick. He's got
so many guns. He can kill people with a pencil.
He can kill people with a book in my favorite
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death sequence of this.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Former NBA star.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yes, there is just so many kind of shocking. I
actually told my mom.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
To see two in the cinema, and she's not really
a violent person, but she is a Keanu Reeves person,
and I remember she just thought it was great.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Well it's got to break and then come back and
discuss Keanu Reeves in our favorite john Wick.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
And we're at just like just like.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Winston and his job. We're back.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Once we're back.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, Rosie, give us your ranking, You're john Wick movie rankings,
because I think we're both huge ke roops.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I think I'm going for john Wick three. Maybe lost,
Then I'm then I really no.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I love Mark Dacascos so much though maybe Okay, wait,
let's think about john Wick.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
One is definitely number one. I would say.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
At a lean hour forty one minute.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
It is good. It's so light and nasty. It's I
just remember being so blown away when I saw it. Okay,
then I'm gonna say.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
John Wick, I'm gonna put John Wick three, as I'm
going crazy. I'm going back to the other way and
putting three as my second favorite because that's the one
that has the halle Berry stuff, which it's really outrageous.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
It has to casp Us as a villain. Love that.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Then I will put four and then two. I honestly,
I think that all good.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
But that's just my that's just my kind of my
general ranking.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
But yeah, I'm a I'm a lifelong Keanu Reeves fan,
so really I'll check out anything that he does, and
I think these are like the peak of his powers.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I love these movies.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I will go, I go in order. It's just one, two, three,
four for me. I think that I think listen, I
I same as you. I think they're all great. But
I do think that this is a movie, this, this
is a movie that these are movies that runtime needs
to be tight.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah, let's go back to those ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, you don't need three hours of body count from
John like it gets a little you know when John
is falling down the stairs for two straight minutes. Yeah, yeah,
and John week four, it's actually like funny in a
buster Keaton way, but it's also come on, let's what Reeves?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah? You like Top three Reeves movie?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Okay? Should we do non Matrix non Wick?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah? No Matrix, non Wick are the Kanu movies?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, I'm gonna go okay, in no order? Okay, just
just top three that you love in no order? Bill
and Ted's correct. I mean I saw it in the
theater as a kid and was blown away, like blown
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away transported. It's one of my favorite time travel movies
and is still so fun and weird. I honestly can't
believe it ever got made.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
See neither and the second one almost didn't. It almost
got shelved. The River's Edge, Oh that's a great pick.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
He's part of a ensemble cast in this and kind
of emerges. This is a very dark movie about a
group of friends who are This is like a pre
grunge movie. This is nineteen eighty six and this is
said in the Pacific Northwest with Crispin Glover, Keanu Ruvesiety Sky,
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all young actors at the time, and one of their
kind of grunge outsider metalhead group kills their girlfriend and
only Keanu has kind of the moral and ethical like
compass to be like, hey, this is really fucked up,
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you know, and he becomes kind of the hero, the
unwinning and unwilling in a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Ways, hero of the piece. Very dark movie, but very
very good.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
It's very like proto Larry Clark Bully.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Yes, and it definitely is like one of those kind
of PSA movies they were making back.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Absolutely appears no way your children.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Are you know that I have that? Yeah, I own
that movie. I love that movie.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Great, incredible movie. And then finally, I'm trying not to
pick movies from the eighties and nineties, even though I
agree with you that that this is his peak in
terms of just us appreciating him. But like my favorite
stuff non Matrix, non Wick is stuff from this era.
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And so my final are we doing four? Okay, we'll
do four.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Let'stful, let'stful because we love, we love too much to
just do three.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, my own private idaho.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Ah, Yes, oh my god, such a good thing. Three
witch just stay man, Gus van zandt Gus van Zant
Indie thing killing it. This is a what for those
people who think Keanu is like kind of a flat performer,
not an actor actor.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh, he's wonderful in this River Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Doing his like he could have been James Dean and
kind of was his heroes James Dean kind of thing.
Just a wonderful movie about two characters on the edge
of society and finding solace in each other in this
like ragtag community of like street Hustlers, a really really
good movie. And then four Okay, fourth man, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Fuck it. We didn't say not.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
This one's fuck Speed.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Stoker's Dracula or Speed, and for me, brand Stoker's Dracula
is about the other characters, not necessarily uh Keanus. So
I'm gonna go Speed just like a landmark fucking film,
like an action movie that has influenced so many other If.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
You guys haven't watched Speed, like just go and watch it.
It's legitimately perfect movie, Like it's a perfect Hollywood blockbuster. Okay,
I'm gonna do because I just want to say I
love all of those movies. I have a Bill and
Ted tattoo, so yes, that would have been in there.
But because you you picked so many great movies, I'm
gonna go for a different four just because I think
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you did pick some of his fapes. So I am
gonna start with Point Break, which I think is one
of the greatest movies of all time. I love another
perfect film, another perfect film, the chemistry between Keanu Reeves
and Patrick Swayze, or kind of belief. It's burning, it's magnetic,
the unbelievable stunts, It's a heist movie.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
It's a movie about friendship.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Without that movie, the multimillion dollar Fast and Furious franchise
would not exist because the Fimes.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
There's no games.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Without that movie, there's.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
No so Fast and Furious.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
The first movie is just a remake of Point Break,
but with cars instead of surfing. Love that movie. That's
one of my all time favorite movie. Is one of
my favorite Keanu movies. I am also then I'm gonna
recommend I did mention it. Keanu's directorial debut from twenty thirteen,
which is called Man of tai Chi, is such a
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great martial arts film. It's a old kind of throwback
martial arts film. It had Eco Ouays in it, it
had Tiger Chen in it, and it.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Is a really great film that.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I think showcases so much of what he learned from
being in the matrix. It's also a movie that has
Mandarin and Cantonese in it, And yeah, I just I
really do love that movie, and I think it's I
think it's very underrated, and I'm glad and John Woo
is a fan of that movie. So, I mean, what else,
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what more can you say? I would say he has
so many incredible movies. It's so many great one, just
so many great movies. I'm gonna go for. I'm actually,
you know what I'm gonna go for. I'm gonna go
for an out there one just because it's a really
great performance by Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Which is in Toy Story four? Have you seen it?
Heard of it?
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Very successful movie Toy Story four, Keanu Reeves plays a
Canadian take on Evil Knievel called uh I believe his
name is? Oh, it's so funny Duke.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Kaboom, And he is so funny in that role.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
If you think this man is stoic, serious, as some
people may have called them in the past, Wooden, I
would never forgive them.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
This is such a joy filled performance.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
He has so much fun playing with our kind of
understanding of who he is.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And yeah, I just I really love that.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I also, Yeah, I mean, it's such a fun, unexpected movie.
He's in so many great movies, guys, uh, The Devil's Advocate,
The Gift. But I am obviously all the Matrix movies
we didn't pick. I scan it darkly. There's just so
many good ones. But I think for my final one,
I actually I'm gonna go for a hated Keanu Reeves
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film because I love this movie.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
So I'm gonna say go and watch.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
And this is great because if I'm not mistaken, this
stars the ballerina soon to be John Wick Legend and
Armis as well.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
This movie is called Knock Knock, directed by Eli Roth.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
It is an insane twenty fifteen like erotic thriller about
Keanu Reeves and he is a architect and one day
two girls knock on his door and they basically just
like sexily terrorize him.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I thought this movie is so much fun.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
It's a remake of this movie called Death Game from
nineteen seventy seven, SuperCamp, super silly.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's not good, but it's it's enjoyable. It's very Yes,
it's very enjoyable. Yeah, I've shown this movie to so
many people. It's exactly it's very, very much.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
That kind of exploitative situation, but it once again shows
how great Keanu can be in any movie. And I
just thought that was a really fun one. Plus pre
Ballerina and Ana damas Uh collaboration there.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I'll also say Knock Knock as an asthmatic has as
asthma representation in the film, ye inhalo representation in the film.
So good, A wonderful selection. And I also want to
do it. What's the best of the rest, because he's
got so many can't even.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Talk about Constantine, so let's do.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Okay, we've picked our four, let's just pick three more
that are like like the best of the rest that
we I think Constantine, do you want to put it in?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Do you want to as best?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I think we should put it in because I think
it again showcases his depth. It's actually a really dark
movie and it has It's one of the films that
when he was going through a period of what I
think his you know, Wikipedia would called limited commercial success,
the love for that performance and the way that he
brought that character to life kind of kept his fandom alive.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
So I think that's a good.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
How do you feel about a scanner darkly?
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You know what I think we should.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Put it in there because it is an animated movie.
It was experiential, it was trying something new.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
It's rotoscoped.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Once you get into the vibe of watching the movie,
you will kind of understand it. It's Richard Linklater, who
is not afraid to do something weird. It is based
on Philip K.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Dick.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I think it's worth a watch. If you've never seen
a scanner darkly, put that one on your list.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Right, Just be aware that you you will need some
time to figure like eyes to adjust to the rotoscoping.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
It's like two thousand and six. It was not the stuff.
It was not looking fantastic. And then I do think
we should put the old class. Oh you're right, though
I I I like your way to leave out the
you know, leave out Dracula because he is not the Dracula,
even though I do love that. I'm going to say, Okay,
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here we are. I'm going to throw out two crazy ones. Okay,
SpongeBob movie, sponge on the so so funny in that
as like the Sage. And then and then I'm going
to say, I personally like I thought that casting him
a shadow in Sonic the hed Jog three was like
a very iconic choice.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I think his voice acting is very underrated.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
He also played Bruce, Wayne and Batman in the DC
League of Super Pets.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
He has such a cool voice, I think. And yeah,
and I'm very excited.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
They have a documentary that's coming out in the lead
up to Ballerina called Wicker's Pain, and it's basically a
documentary about making John Wick movies. And I'm really really
excited to see that because I love watching the behind
the scenes stuff from the Matrix where you can just
tell he's such a student of Hong Kong cinema and
stump work, and I think John Wick will be very
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The Wickest Pain documentary will be along those lines.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I have.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I have one more to add because I feel like
this film is I tried not to do it nineties one,
but I did it again. But I feel like this
film is completely forgotten and it's good. It's written by
a little guy named Bill Shakespeare.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Oh oh, I call this this one.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I call this movie the hottest movie of all time.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
If you are a fan of hot actors, how about
yourself a favor and watch nineteen ninety threes much Ado
about Nothing, directed by Shakespeare, Lover Kenneth Branna. That stars
ke Reeves looking at like his young Keanu handsome best
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starring Denzel Washington just emanating like hotness off the screen,
starring Kenneth Branda, handsome guy himself, his wife who he
would later cheat on but like they're still together.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
At this time.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Emma Thompson looking beautiful, a young Kate Beckett's sale and
Robert Sean Leonard who we've forgotten about. But this cast
is like stunning, stunning, stunning, and it's a wonderful adaptation
of much ado about nothing written.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Bill Shakespeare, ever heard of him, ever heard of him?
Speaker 6 (30:41):
I mean, wow, this is just like, well, let's do
are we need to do a full Keanu Reeves episode?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Should because then that's again we're leaving out.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
We're the matrix, so much stuff we're leaving out the matrix.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
We're leaving out his time as like a romantic comedy
lead and also somebody who sawed in, you know, like
really weird great films like The Lake House, which is
a remake of a Korean supernatural romance. There's just so
many great things in his career because I think he's
an unafraid actor. He takes so many different kinds of roles.
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He's also a working actor, a rare working actor. So
you see him in I mean God, he was in
The Neon Demon, a movie that I absolutely love. Yeah,
just like what what an unbelievable career And we haven't
even really spoken about his impact as just like a
pop cultural figure from me truth.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
And he was on TV.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
There was a lot of He voiced Ted in the
Bill and Ted cartoon, which I loved as a kid.
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
That's so if you're in, if you're like an LA person,
you might see him on his motorcycle zoom.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Which I see him. He's just out.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Well, this has been fantastic. Ballerina in theater soon. Hopefully
this has gotten you refreshed and renewed and up on
your continental lore and ready to take on the ballerina
and John Wick who will survive, probably both of them.
In the next few episodes of X Ray Vision, we
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which is the better be as the fantasy RPG. Friday,
We've got another summer movie celebration Popcorn pop Out as
we dobate live action remakes and next week More TV's
Sci Fi Talp.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
That's it for this episode, Thanks for listening by.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
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Speaker 6 (32:45):
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Speaker 3 (32:49):
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Warning, you killed my dog. I just wanted to live
a quiet life with the memory of my beautiful wife, Helen,
who died of cancer, and the beagle puppy she got
me in my Mustang Boss for twenty nine. But you
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couldn't let me do that. You spoiled the John Wick franchise.
Be warned that you are marked for death if you
listen to this episode and you have not watched the
john Wick franchise.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion and on Mercy Night,
and welcome back to Extravy, to the podcast where we
dive me but your.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Favorite shows, movies, comics and pop culture work.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I mean, with my hard podcast, we'll we'll bring you
three episodes a week every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, plus news.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
In today's episode, I am acting as the concierge from
the Continental Hotel, and I'm giving Jason an impossible task,
a job no one could pull off.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Recap all the john Wick chapters one to four in
ten minutes. And why ten minutes. Well, let's give one
point five seconds per kill.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
If we are to go off the general accepted number
that John Wick has killed four hundred and thirty nine people,
that would be ten point nine minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Can you do it? Jason?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Let us see I believe, I believe you.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Can do it.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
I believe in you.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Okay, before we get started, let's talk briefly about John
Wick and his incredible kill numbers four hundred anywhere from
mid three to four hundred. Screen says four thirty nine
people have counted this. This is just on screen, not
counting his you know, free John Wick core Wick. Yeah,
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which is so this guy might be in the I
don't know, he might be in the five digits.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's crazy what he's done.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
It's definitely in the pantheon of cinematic killers with the
biggest body.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Count, no question.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This franchise is notable for.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Kind of the way it was created. Created by director
Chad Stahelski, who is a former stuntman, and his stunt
Centric production company that they got Keanu Reeves involved and
a surprise hit has ensued. Now quick note, this is
not going to include the lore of the continental television
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program which follows which follows the lore of that particular
New York City assassin Centric eighth Ground hotel.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And that's because we have a limited ability to cover.
Mel Gibson we just have a limited.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
We exactly probably probably.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Limited, you know, just like a limited ability to stand.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
The climic of Gibson.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yes, so here we are.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
We're going to do John Wick. The speed recaps all
four pictures one point five seconds per John Wick Kill.
I'm ready when you are, Aaron. Okay, Yeah, oh here
we going okay, John Wick, twenty fourteen. This is where
it all started, First class glance. John is a regular guy,
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simply mourning the recent passing of his wife Helen, who
left John with a puppy.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
One day is John. One day.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
John is at the gas station filling the take of
his gorgeous nineteen sixty nine Mustang Boss for twenty nine.
When a Russian mobster's son, Joseph decides he wants the car.
John insults the kid drives off, so Yoseph does the
normal mafia princelink thing and sends his goons to John's house.
They beat him up, they steal the car, They kill
the dog.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
John's That's right.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Orielo, local mob connected chopshop guy flips out when he
sees the car, and he refuses to work on it.
Turns out John is a bad motherfucker. How bad so
bad that Joseph's dad, crime boss Vigo, beats Yoseph's ass
and tells him, Hey, you just crossed the Boogeyman of
Eastern European legend, our former star hitman, a guy who
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once exterminated an entire crew with school supplies. Vigo tries
to smooth things out with John over the phone, but
John's already digging up his case of gold doaballoons and
guns and bulletproof suits, and so Viggo sends a squad
a hitman to kill him, but John chews them up easily.
John checks into the Continental, a hotel that's neutral ground
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for assassins, and we learn about a bunch of lore,
including the High Table. This is a shadowy council that
governs the entire assassin underworld. John chases Yoseph across the city.
He misses him at a nightclub, but kills a bunch
of guys, maybe seventy guys in the nightclub.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
He fights off a rival.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Assassin, Perkins, and then finally snipes Joseph outside of a
safe house where he was playing video games. Vigo tortures
and kills John's mentor, Willem Dafoe. Oh no acting under
his real name, Willem Dafoe. He's I think for his name.
Wick goes after him, leading to a big fight in
which John Rex's car gets severely injured but kills Viggo
(05:29):
and then he survives and lives and gets another dog,
John Wick.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Chapter two, twenty.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Seventeen minutes and kill count currently seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
John just wants to live a peaceful life with his
dog and his Mustang, but he's dragged back into crime
life because an Italian crime lord, Santino, wants to hire
John because John once made him a blood oath back
in the day, and he's got this coin that says, hey,
you owe me a blood oath. Santino wants Wick to
assassinate his sister Gianna so Santino can take control of
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the High Table and the criminal enterprise that it controls.
Santino apparently was the guy who helped John retire back
in the day so that he could marry Helen and
live a normal life. John goes to Rome to kill
the sister, who commits suicide while John watches, which kind
of a it feels like a loophole. John is then
pursued by Gianna's bodyguard and the guy Santino hired to
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kill him.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
To clean up the whole deal.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
John kills the Santino guys he gets the former bodyguard
in New York. There, John learns some serious Continental lore
about not conducting business from the Continental. How serious that
is and since John broke this multiple times, he is
now excommunicado, which means anybody could kill him. Assassins around
the world and get the call that John Wick is
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available for big money.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Let's go to an.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Ad break the clock, still take it. We're back John Wick.
Chapter three, Parabellum twenty nineteen. After killing Santino in the
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previous film, John Wick excommunicado on the run, Wicks fights
his way through it like a sea of enemies, all
the while being hunted by Zero, a professional assassin who
admires him but is also eager to.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Take him down.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
We learn more about John Wick's past, including his highs
to the table why he's so feared. We made Sophia,
a high ranking assassin who John as a marker from,
meaning she owes him a favor of blood oath, so
she has to help him and several dogs.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Die in the process. With John hates.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
John is giving the opportunity to once again live a
peaceful life as long as he kills Winston, the manager
of the Continental, who's helped John so many times and
has helped John break the rules and is who is
in trouble himself.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Because he's broken the rules so many times.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, Winston helps John again, but it all works out
and he agrees to swear renewed allegiance to the High
Table and not break the rules anymore, even though okay.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Winston then shoots John, who falls off.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The roof of the Continental and is badly injured, but
he's taken in by Morpheus aka the Bowery King, who
is a secret weird crime lord who lives in the subways.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
John Wick Chapter four.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Twenty twenty three, six minutes and twenty four seconds. I
think John is okay.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
John is in hiding with the Bowery King, preparing to
take the fight to the High Table itself when he
kills the Elder, who apparently is the guy who sits
above the height. So there's the High Table and then
there's the Elder who's the High Table, the higher loan table.
When he kills the Elder who he promised originally to
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kill Winston for and cut off his finger for in Morocco.
The fucking High Table goes absolutely crazy. Now they finally
put all their resources, which I guess they hadn't done before,
in the hands of one super assassin, the marque with
orders to kill John.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
The Marquis fires Winston for helping helping John all those times,
and he rins the Continental.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Yeah over the fact that that friends that just grows Okay,
get over it, High Table.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Wick goes to Osaka to hang to hide out at
the Continental there, but then the High Table pulls Osaka's
like consecration license and then everyone.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Can fight every fucking fighting.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
A full on assassin war ensues.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
John goes to Berlin to seek the protection of some
crime group there that we're just learning about. Meanwhile, Winston
tells the Marquis that hey, let's avoid all the destruction.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
John will duel you one v one.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Several other assassin fights ensue between Then, then Wick and
the Marquee stand in Kine, who he's friends with and
who doesn't really want to fight him, but has to
finally duel, which John gets shot twice.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Now the rules of the duel.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Are everybody gets three bullets one bullet per round, and
the Marque's now excited because he thinks that John's out
of bullets and that he can and he's like, I'll
sub in.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I want to shoot him. I want to do the
coup de grass.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But everybody in the excitement lost track of the fact
that John has his third bullet still.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
And he shoots at the mark he dead.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Wick and Kde get their high table death warrants lifted,
and the high table fucking pushovers, you guys, Like I
was total pushovers anyway, They get their high table death
warrants lifted.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Witch gets his job.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
How like, come on, guys, guys.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
There's like only one rule at the Continental.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Don't do business the Continental and Whiston has helped John
break the rules so many times.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Times and then like put him back at the top.
He gets his job back.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
John then fakes his death and has a fake headstone
put next to his wife Helen's real one, and then
a post credits scene, Cain is approached by the vengeful
daughter of the Osaka Continental and they're gonna team up
and do something and maybe it's gonna tie into Ballerina,
(11:18):
the latest spinoff from the John Wick universe.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Jason with your impressive priming.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
We still have three minutes and twenty five seconds left.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Tell me about what you learned when.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
You're going back through the John Wick cannon for these
speed recaps.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I learned a lot about the hierarchy of the This
Assassin underworld. Then, so the assassins work for mafia bosses
like Vigo, but they are part of like this Assassin
Union that is assassin like a magical assassin union that
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they all dress in kind of like fifties greaser attire
and have like a broadly kind of grease meets steampunk aesthetic,
and they are ruled by the High Table. But then
there's the elder, who I still don't understand how it works.
I mean, so I learned a lot, but I'm also
confused because when John was ex communicado, only the elder
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could lift it, which I don't. I guess that's the
elders like one job.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
It's just like but then when you see how how
much like work and how many people go into making
him an ex communicato, you feel like, well, it condes
be that one guy. I mean, I will say I
love these movies obviously, Big Chad Steleski sad love love stunts,
love stunt work. Obviously I have a Kiana Reebs tire.
I love Keanu Reeves. But I will say I do
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think that the power of the first John Wick movie
is that the kind of magical realism of the High
Table and the Continental, it adds this kind of expansive
imaginary law, and I think once the movie was a
huge hit, you are then forced to explore that law
and kind of expand it in a way that if
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you just watched the first movie, it's just this kind
of like weird, surreal stylistic edition, which I love.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
But I still love the law of the Continental and
the assassins.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
And I'm very excited to see Ballerina and kind of
see how it plays into it is she gonna get
made ex communicado how many times?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And now, well, listen the High Table they break their
own rules of this dude.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
The High Table a very flighty.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I feel like, I honestly just feel like they're just
kind of like bored, like any kind of they're just like, oh,
these guys are annoying me today, Like put them on
the he's he's.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Out there is a very gay aesthetic at the Continental.
Oh yeah, darkly vampiric kind of.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah, very like very night Yeah, yes, yes, very the Abbeys.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Yeah, there's there's a lot of things going on here.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
I love that this gave us a Keanu Reeves kind
of renaissance, though for.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Me, you know, he was never one of the true
nice guys of Hollywood.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Yeah, and also just like a really interesting creative who
throughout his career has taken like interesting jobs and been
at the forefront of kind of just like being true
to himself and the choices he wants to make.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
And if you look back.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
At his work from The Matrix to his own directorial
kind of efforts, he is a lover of stunts, he's
lover of lover of martial arts, lover of Hong Kong cinema,
and I think John Wick brings all of those together
in like a really fantastic way and with a with
an absolutely massive kill count.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
I think the movie with the massive massive the movie
with the biggest kill count from my uh, you know,
the first movie is around seventy seven people, but.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
By John Wick four he kills are He kills one
hundred and forty people minimum in that movie. So free
you're you want a movie with a body count, Freddy Jason,
You're out. This is this is John Wick. He's got
so many guns. He can kill people with a pencil.
He can kill people with a book in my favorite
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death sequence of this.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Former NBA star.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yes, there is just so many kind of shocking. I
actually told my mom.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
To see two in the cinema, and she's not really
a violent person, but she is a Keanu Reeves person,
and I remember she just thought it was great.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Well it's got to break and then come back and
discuss Keanu Reeves in our favorite john Wick.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
And we're at just like just like.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Winston and his job. We're back.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Once we're back.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, Rosie, give us your ranking, You're john Wick movie rankings,
because I think we're both huge ke roops.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
I think I'm going for john Wick three. Maybe lost,
Then I'm then I really no.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
I love Mark Dacascos so much though maybe Okay, wait,
let's think about john Wick.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
One is definitely number one. I would say.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
At a lean hour forty one minute.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
It is good. It's so light and nasty. It's I
just remember being so blown away when I saw it. Okay,
then I'm gonna say.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
John Wick, I'm gonna put John Wick three, as I'm
going crazy. I'm going back to the other way and
putting three as my second favorite because that's the one
that has the halle Berry stuff, which it's really outrageous.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
It has to casp Us as a villain. Love that.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Then I will put four and then two. I honestly,
I think that all good.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
But that's just my that's just my kind of my
general ranking.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
But yeah, I'm a I'm a lifelong Keanu Reeves fan,
so really I'll check out anything that he does, and
I think these are like the peak of his powers.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I love these movies.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I will go, I go in order. It's just one, two, three,
four for me. I think that I think listen, I
I same as you. I think they're all great. But
I do think that this is a movie, this, this
is a movie that these are movies that runtime needs
to be tight.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Yeah, let's go back to those ninety minutes.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, you don't need three hours of body count from
John like it gets a little you know when John
is falling down the stairs for two straight minutes. Yeah, yeah,
and John week four, it's actually like funny in a
buster Keaton way, but it's also come on, let's what Reeves?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah? You like Top three Reeves movie?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Okay? Should we do non Matrix non Wick?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah? No Matrix, non Wick are the Kanu movies?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, I'm gonna go okay, in no order? Okay, just
just top three that you love in no order? Bill
and Ted's correct. I mean I saw it in the
theater as a kid and was blown away, like blown
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away transported. It's one of my favorite time travel movies
and is still so fun and weird. I honestly can't
believe it ever got made.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
See neither and the second one almost didn't. It almost
got shelved. The River's Edge, Oh that's a great pick.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
He's part of a ensemble cast in this and kind
of emerges. This is a very dark movie about a
group of friends who are This is like a pre
grunge movie. This is nineteen eighty six and this is
said in the Pacific Northwest with Crispin Glover, Keanu Ruvesiety Sky,
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all young actors at the time, and one of their
kind of grunge outsider metalhead group kills their girlfriend and
only Keanu has kind of the moral and ethical like
compass to be like, hey, this is really fucked up,
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you know, and he becomes kind of the hero, the
unwinning and unwilling in a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Ways, hero of the piece. Very dark movie, but very
very good.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
It's very like proto Larry Clark Bully.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
Yes, and it definitely is like one of those kind
of PSA movies they were making back.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Absolutely appears no way your children.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Are you know that I have that? Yeah, I own
that movie. I love that movie.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Great, incredible movie. And then finally, I'm trying not to
pick movies from the eighties and nineties, even though I
agree with you that that this is his peak in
terms of just us appreciating him. But like my favorite
stuff non Matrix, non Wick is stuff from this era.
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And so my final are we doing four? Okay, we'll
do four.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Let'stful, let'stful because we love, we love too much to
just do three.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Yeah, my own private idaho.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Ah, Yes, oh my god, such a good thing. Three
witch just stay man, Gus van zandt Gus van Zant
Indie thing killing it. This is a what for those
people who think Keanu is like kind of a flat performer,
not an actor actor.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh, he's wonderful in this River Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Doing his like he could have been James Dean and
kind of was his heroes James Dean kind of thing.
Just a wonderful movie about two characters on the edge
of society and finding solace in each other in this
like ragtag community of like street Hustlers, a really really
good movie. And then four Okay, fourth man, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Fuck it. We didn't say not.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
This one's fuck Speed.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Stoker's Dracula or Speed, and for me, brand Stoker's Dracula
is about the other characters, not necessarily uh Keanus. So
I'm gonna go Speed just like a landmark fucking film,
like an action movie that has influenced so many other If.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
You guys haven't watched Speed, like just go and watch it.
It's legitimately perfect movie, Like it's a perfect Hollywood blockbuster. Okay,
I'm gonna do because I just want to say I
love all of those movies. I have a Bill and
Ted tattoo, so yes, that would have been in there.
But because you you picked so many great movies, I'm
gonna go for a different four just because I think
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you did pick some of his fapes. So I am
gonna start with Point Break, which I think is one
of the greatest movies of all time. I love another
perfect film, another perfect film, the chemistry between Keanu Reeves
and Patrick Swayze, or kind of belief. It's burning, it's magnetic,
the unbelievable stunts, It's a heist movie.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
It's a movie about friendship.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Without that movie, the multimillion dollar Fast and Furious franchise
would not exist because the Fimes.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
There's no games.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Without that movie, there's.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
No so Fast and Furious.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
The first movie is just a remake of Point Break,
but with cars instead of surfing. Love that movie. That's
one of my all time favorite movie. Is one of
my favorite Keanu movies. I am also then I'm gonna
recommend I did mention it. Keanu's directorial debut from twenty thirteen,
which is called Man of tai Chi, is such a
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great martial arts film. It's a old kind of throwback
martial arts film. It had Eco Ouays in it, it
had Tiger Chen in it, and it.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Is a really great film that.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I think showcases so much of what he learned from
being in the matrix. It's also a movie that has
Mandarin and Cantonese in it, And yeah, I just I
really do love that movie, and I think it's I
think it's very underrated, and I'm glad and John Woo
is a fan of that movie. So, I mean, what else,
(23:50):
what more can you say? I would say he has
so many incredible movies. It's so many great one, just
so many great movies. I'm gonna go for. I'm actually,
you know what I'm gonna go for. I'm gonna go
for an out there one just because it's a really
great performance by Keanu Reeves.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Which is in Toy Story four? Have you seen it?
Heard of it?
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Very successful movie Toy Story four, Keanu Reeves plays a
Canadian take on Evil Knievel called uh I believe his
name is? Oh, it's so funny Duke.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Kaboom, And he is so funny in that role.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
If you think this man is stoic, serious, as some
people may have called them in the past, Wooden, I
would never forgive them.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
This is such a joy filled performance.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
He has so much fun playing with our kind of
understanding of who he is.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And yeah, I just I really love that.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
I also, Yeah, I mean, it's such a fun, unexpected movie.
He's in so many great movies, guys, uh, The Devil's Advocate,
The Gift. But I am obviously all the Matrix movies
we didn't pick. I scan it darkly. There's just so
many good ones. But I think for my final one,
I actually I'm gonna go for a hated Keanu Reeves
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film because I love this movie.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
So I'm gonna say go and watch.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
And this is great because if I'm not mistaken, this
stars the ballerina soon to be John Wick Legend and
Armis as well.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
This movie is called Knock Knock, directed by Eli Roth.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
It is an insane twenty fifteen like erotic thriller about
Keanu Reeves and he is a architect and one day
two girls knock on his door and they basically just
like sexily terrorize him.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I thought this movie is so much fun.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
It's a remake of this movie called Death Game from
nineteen seventy seven, SuperCamp, super silly.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
It's not good, but it's it's enjoyable. It's very Yes,
it's very enjoyable. Yeah, I've shown this movie to so
many people. It's exactly it's very, very much.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
That kind of exploitative situation, but it once again shows
how great Keanu can be in any movie. And I
just thought that was a really fun one. Plus pre
Ballerina and Ana damas Uh collaboration there.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I'll also say Knock Knock as an asthmatic has as
asthma representation in the film, ye inhalo representation in the film.
So good, A wonderful selection. And I also want to
do it. What's the best of the rest, because he's
got so many can't even.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Talk about Constantine, so let's do.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Okay, we've picked our four, let's just pick three more
that are like like the best of the rest that
we I think Constantine, do you want to put it in?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Do you want to as best?
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I think we should put it in because I think
it again showcases his depth. It's actually a really dark
movie and it has It's one of the films that
when he was going through a period of what I
think his you know, Wikipedia would called limited commercial success,
the love for that performance and the way that he
brought that character to life kind of kept his fandom alive.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
So I think that's a good.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
How do you feel about a scanner darkly?
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You know what I think we should.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Put it in there because it is an animated movie.
It was experiential, it was trying something new.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
It's rotoscoped.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Once you get into the vibe of watching the movie,
you will kind of understand it. It's Richard Linklater, who
is not afraid to do something weird. It is based
on Philip K.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Dick.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
I think it's worth a watch. If you've never seen
a scanner darkly, put that one on your list.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Right, Just be aware that you you will need some
time to figure like eyes to adjust to the rotoscoping.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
It's like two thousand and six. It was not the stuff.
It was not looking fantastic. And then I do think
we should put the old class. Oh you're right, though
I I I like your way to leave out the
you know, leave out Dracula because he is not the Dracula,
even though I do love that. I'm going to say, Okay,
(28:16):
here we are. I'm going to throw out two crazy ones. Okay,
SpongeBob movie, sponge on the so so funny in that
as like the Sage. And then and then I'm going
to say, I personally like I thought that casting him
a shadow in Sonic the hed Jog three was like
a very iconic choice.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I think his voice acting is very underrated.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
He also played Bruce, Wayne and Batman in the DC
League of Super Pets.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
He has such a cool voice, I think. And yeah,
and I'm very excited.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
They have a documentary that's coming out in the lead
up to Ballerina called Wicker's Pain, and it's basically a
documentary about making John Wick movies. And I'm really really
excited to see that because I love watching the behind
the scenes stuff from the Matrix where you can just
tell he's such a student of Hong Kong cinema and
stump work, and I think John Wick will be very
(29:14):
The Wickest Pain documentary will be along those lines.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I have.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I have one more to add because I feel like
this film is I tried not to do it nineties one,
but I did it again. But I feel like this
film is completely forgotten and it's good. It's written by
a little guy named Bill Shakespeare.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Oh oh, I call this this one.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I call this movie the hottest movie of all time.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
If you are a fan of hot actors, how about
yourself a favor and watch nineteen ninety threes much Ado
about Nothing, directed by Shakespeare, Lover Kenneth Branna. That stars
ke Reeves looking at like his young Keanu handsome best
(30:05):
starring Denzel Washington just emanating like hotness off the screen,
starring Kenneth Branda, handsome guy himself, his wife who he
would later cheat on but like they're still together.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
At this time.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Emma Thompson looking beautiful, a young Kate Beckett's sale and
Robert Sean Leonard who we've forgotten about. But this cast
is like stunning, stunning, stunning, and it's a wonderful adaptation
of much ado about nothing written.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Bill Shakespeare, ever heard of him, ever heard of him?
Speaker 6 (30:41):
I mean, wow, this is just like, well, let's do
are we need to do a full Keanu Reeves episode?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Should because then that's again we're leaving out.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
We're the matrix, so much stuff we're leaving out the matrix.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
We're leaving out his time as like a romantic comedy
lead and also somebody who sawed in, you know, like
really weird great films like The Lake House, which is
a remake of a Korean supernatural romance. There's just so
many great things in his career because I think he's
an unafraid actor. He takes so many different kinds of roles.
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He's also a working actor, a rare working actor. So
you see him in I mean God, he was in
The Neon Demon, a movie that I absolutely love. Yeah,
just like what what an unbelievable career And we haven't
even really spoken about his impact as just like a
pop cultural figure from me truth.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
And he was on TV.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
There was a lot of He voiced Ted in the
Bill and Ted cartoon, which I loved as a kid.
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
That's so if you're in, if you're like an LA person,
you might see him on his motorcycle zoom.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Which I see him. He's just out.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Well, this has been fantastic. Ballerina in theater soon. Hopefully
this has gotten you refreshed and renewed and up on
your continental lore and ready to take on the ballerina
and John Wick who will survive, probably both of them.
In the next few episodes of X Ray Vision, we
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have a New Year, Wrong Friend Tomorrow, Oblivion Verse Skyrim,
which is the better be as the fantasy RPG. Friday,
We've got another summer movie celebration Popcorn pop Out as
we dobate live action remakes and next week More TV's
Sci Fi Talp.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
That's it for this episode, Thanks for listening by.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
X Ray.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Vision is hosted by Jason Concepcion and Rosie Knight and
is a production of iHeart Podcast.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Our executive producers are Joe Alminique and Aaron Kolefman.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Our supervising producer is Abuzafar.
Speaker 5 (32:51):
All produces a common Laurent Dean Jonathan and Bay Wack.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
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songs by Aaron Kaufman.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
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