The Director for this movie, Chad Stahelski, is a former Stunt double as well as an internationally recognized MMA fighter. Keanu Reeves trained with one of the world's top Special Ops/Agent trainers in the world to develop his fighting/choreography abilities. (maybe be some of the reasons the action scenes feel so real to you)
Ah, the feels. Well, Michael Howards comment made me reminisce about man's best friend so I'll leave a wall of text here: I can still see our dog. Sometimes lying in the doorway to the terrace, part of the lace curtain wrapped around his bum because he would head into it then make a 180° turn and lie down facing into the living room. Or lying on his side in the hallway, waiting for us to come down the stairs. Or back from the disco at weekends. When you'd appear he would still lay there, one eye open, tentatively wagging his tail. As if saying "Will you take me walkies? Should I actually bother getting up?" Early in his life I'd often forget the house key. Coming back from school I'd peek through the letterbox and call him: "Josh, c'mon. Hop, hop! Jump! One day he actually did it! Jumped up onto the door handle, depressed it enough and moved backwards and opened the door! After that he would open the door for you. Or the postman. Or simply anybody who rang the bell. And then you'd hear someone say "Hallo? Hilfe"! when suddenly confronted by an open door and a big black wooly thing in front of them. Or he'd open it for himself and go outside to lie on the grass. If you called "walkies!" he'd jump up and get all excited. One time he even brought the chain and collar in his mouth, apparently we were taking too long! Everybody in the street loved him. What was once a tiny bag of fur that actually scared me a bit the first time I held him became an alsatian-sized dog with lots of wooly, mostly black fur. A few white, brown and gray patches came with the years. He had a softly rounded face and a friendly, kind demeanour. If you were sad or tired he'd gently nudge his face into your lap or your face as if to say "it's okay, I'm here." You could lie on the floor next to him and he would snuggle up. Or use you as a cushion. One day I found him lying the middle of the road. He didn't seem to want to move so I had to pick him up and carry him back into the house. Later that year we had to put him down. He couldn't breathe properly any more and it was time. My brother rang up and I drove to pick them up in town. Put his body into the back of my estate then drove home, crying half the way. I later went to the nearby Animal shelter which had a pet cemetary opposite. Luckily we got an appointment for later that evening to bury him, the guy would start digging soon. Then I went to pick up my other brother to ask if he could leave work early. We would bury him together. Mum didn't come, it was too painful for her. We layed him to rest, wrapped in his favourite tartan blanket. Possibly the saddest day of my life, the first time I really experienced loss. Josh. Josh was his name. It's been 30 years now. I can still see him now, lying in his corner. One day we'll be together again.
I don´t like dogs or dislike them, but this particular scene just broke my heart. You are very brave to watch the movie at all, knowing that something of that sort is going to happen 💪
You should watch "Nobody" with Bob Odenkirk. It's a very similar formula and made by the same people, but much more fun. And you get to see Bob Odenkirk kicking ass :D
When I watched your John Wick reaction (great as usual) yesterday, I typed a comment to you but, before I could send it, something happened with the UA-cam page or my web browser and it vanished. Since then I've been trying to remember everything I said. So here goes... So sad to hear about your dog. On 30 November 2021, my best friend of 15 years, "Kon" (a terrier who was with me since he was a tiny puppy I could almost hold in just one hand), had to be euthanized. He'd become mostly deaf and blind and his arthritis had become so painful he was no longer able to stand or sit up even with assistance. It broke my heart to have him euthanized but it hurt me even more lying with him and trying in vain to comfort him while he let out little whimpers. Fuck. I'm crying just remembering it. So you have my absolute sympathy. A dog's total devotion and unconditional love is one of the purest things in the world and it rips out your heart when you lose that. It doesn't feel right to follow that with comments about John Wick other than I love the movie and I loved your reaction. Thank you, sweet lady. Give your current dog a big hug for me. And for him. And for you.
@@MichalZismanReactions Thank you. I hope he did. Sometimes it feels like you can't do enough to show them how much you love them and appreciate them. Damn it. Crying again.
I feel you. Your comment made me write some words about our own dog Josh. It became a wall of text so I won't put it as a reply to you 😉 But yes, if you're a decent person a dog will give you their unconditional love. We are lucky to have had them.
"I heard you struck my son." "Yes, sir, I did." "And may I ask why?" "Yeah, well, because he stole John Wick's car, sir, and, uh, killed his dog." "Oh." Boom! HEADSHOT!! 😎 Fun Fact: Bacon grease was placed on Keanu Reeves' face to attract his dog to jump on him when he wakes up in bed. Real Action Star Fact: According to Keanu Reeves, he did 90% of his own stunts in the film and memorized the nightclub fight sequence the day that the scene was filmed. Stealth Adaptation Fact: The security guard who waves Wick onto the airport runway is reading the 1970s thriller novel "Shibumi" by Rod Whitaker, under the pen name Trevanian, also about a retired master assassin dragged back into the game. The story Viggo tells about how Wick once killed three men "with a pencil" is describing a crucial scene from the same novel.
I liked the fact that John wanted Iosef to suffer. He could’ve easily shot him at the club and killed him but it wouldn’t have been satisfying enough. During his fight with Vigo he directed Vigo’s blade to his wound from earlier to bring him closer and to give him a false sense of winning. One fact about this movie is originally the dog wasn’t supposed to die. Keanu felt that the dog needed to die to push John over the edge and send him on a revenge tour.
Hi, first of all sorry for my English, I'm using google translator. John Wick was one of the deadliest assassins in that world. And it was his wife who took him out of that World and gave him a reason to live away from crime. In full mourning, they kill the last bond he had with his wife, the little dog. Without his wife (the dog was his memory)the real Killer reappears: Baba Yaga. When he prepares his revenge, he goes with a mace to unearth his past (the weapons, the suit and the coins). Even though it's an action movie, underneath is a world rich in detail. Apart from weapons he digs up coins, those coins are only used in the underworld to buy weapons, favors (the murderers who clean the house charge in those coins) the hotel room, the doctor who treats his wounds. There is an underworld. Finally, the girl couldn't be killed in the room because the fight happened on the Continental, a safe and secure place for all assassins.
Sorry about losing your dog. It is always so hard. Wick 2 and 3 are good, 3rd is better than 2. Nobody the movie is this in a more somewhat comic though still very violent way, if you like Bob Odenkirk worth a watch. In a different vein, Tucker and Dale vs Evil is a gory comedic movie that plays with all the traditional horror movie tropes.
To answer some of the questions you asked: 1) John Wick didn't kill Perkins because the one UNBREAKABLE rule of The Continental is "You do NOT conduct 'business' on Continental grounds." - that is, you DO NOT KILL _ANYONE_ for _ANY_ reason. AT ALL. NO MATTER THE PROVOCATION. Had John killed Perkins, he himself would have been "revoked" by Winston. 2) _"Crocodile_ tears", not alligator. English idioms are a cast-iron sonfagun to learn - especially the American ones. :) (FULL DISCLOSURE: Am American) 3) Outside of areas of the United States where large groups of immigrants live, it would be VERY surprising to find someone who is bilingual, let alone multilingual (especially Russian, as there is - or was - a bit of a stigma for Russians, due to the Cold War). Americans have an atrocious amount of linguistic arrogance. 4) The dog at the end was marked down (you can see the notation on the paper on the cage door if you zoom in) to be "put to sleep" or euthanized. 5) American culture is that dogs are not just pets, they are treated as a family member (sometimes cared about more than actual family members), so the premise of "You killed my dog, so EVERYONE DIES!" is not entirely absurd. It has president in real life. Additionally, John's grief (as he states toward the end of the film) gets both assuaged and transferred to the dog, creating the emotional bond that drives him, for the loss of both. 6) The underlying theme of _John Wick_ is that EVERYONE is the "bad guy", though some of the killers, thieves, extortionists and lackeys are WORSE than others. Thus, in addition to being bad-ass, John is also very much a "bad _guy"._ So, your conclusion is not as good as controversial - or unreasonable - as you think.
There are more than enough clues that John could've killed Perkins in self-defense without repercussion had he chosen to. He let her live because she gave him information, just like he did with the bouncer.
Glad you liked it. If you're looking for some more amazing action/crime movies then I would recommend The Raid and Raid 2 (both Indonesian movies) and The Man from nowhere (Korean movie). They are amazing and you should watch them in their original language with English subtitles.
05:20 It's really not that common in the USA for people to know another language than English: the country is very big, not many people travels abroad and English is already the Lingua Franca of the world and the web so a lot of US citizen don't have the urge to learn.
They can't kill her in the hotel, that's why they were holding back. They would rather not get themselves killed. Its unfortunate because she doesn't care so she killed the guy in the room. There is no clause as far as I know about it being ok to kill on hotel's ground in self defense.
One would assume that Wick is aware of all the rules, and he gave her a choice to give him information or die. The other assassin in the hallway seemed surprised that John was willing to "catch and release", and Charon offered a "dinner reservation" (body disposal) if John needed one. He could have killed her in self-defense without repercussion if she hadn't given him information. It would be ludicrous to not allow self-defense in a hotel filled with killers. The rules prohibit offense, not defense.
Ummm did you miss the part where they front desk called about a noise complaint. Then asked John if a dinner reservation was required?? You are aloud to kill in self defense. That is why Marcus could not shoot her to defend John.
You kept asking why didn't he kill her, it was explicitly stated that there is no business to be done on Continental grounds, which is why her membership was revoked and killed, killing people on Continental grounds results in death, so John would have been killed if he killed her there
@@MichalZismanReactions That is also the same, absolutely no business on the Continental grounds, weather it being self defense, or intentional or by accident, the Continental is made to be a neutral ground
Hi Michal, could you react to the film VANILLA SKY from 2001? It’s my Favorite Tom Cruise movie of all time and literally nobody seems to have reacted to it on UA-cam lol. Sorry to hear you lost a dog. They really do become part of the family don’t they?
I am wary of investing any of my time watching your reaction. This is simply because the thumbnail lauded the cinematography. I have this quaint notion that movies are about story telling. If the most notable characteristic is the cinematography (per the thumbnail), I'm probably going to pass. I mean, there can be great cinematography showing paint drying. Great cinematography can supply the cherry on top of dessert, it's never the main course.
As far as I can tell... Dogs are the closest things we get to unconditional love. Truly "man's best friend"
The Director for this movie, Chad Stahelski, is a former Stunt double as well as an internationally recognized MMA fighter. Keanu Reeves trained with one of the world's top Special Ops/Agent trainers in the world to develop his fighting/choreography abilities. (maybe be some of the reasons the action scenes feel so real to you)
Ah, the feels.
Well, Michael Howards comment made me reminisce about man's best friend so I'll leave a wall of text here:
I can still see our dog.
Sometimes lying in the doorway to the terrace, part of the lace curtain wrapped around his bum because he would head into it then make a 180° turn and lie down facing into the living room.
Or lying on his side in the hallway, waiting for us to come down the stairs. Or back from the disco at weekends. When you'd appear he would still lay there, one eye open, tentatively wagging his tail. As if saying "Will you take me walkies? Should I actually bother getting up?"
Early in his life I'd often forget the house key. Coming back from school I'd peek through the letterbox and call him:
"Josh, c'mon. Hop, hop! Jump!
One day he actually did it! Jumped up onto the door handle, depressed it enough and moved backwards and opened the door!
After that he would open the door for you. Or the postman.
Or simply anybody who rang the bell. And then you'd hear someone say "Hallo? Hilfe"! when suddenly confronted by an open door and a big black wooly thing in front of them.
Or he'd open it for himself and go outside to lie on the grass.
If you called "walkies!" he'd jump up and get all excited. One time he even brought the chain and collar in his mouth, apparently we were taking too long!
Everybody in the street loved him. What was once a tiny bag of fur that actually scared me a bit the first time I held him became an alsatian-sized dog with lots of wooly, mostly black fur. A few white, brown and gray patches came with the years. He had a softly rounded face and a friendly, kind demeanour.
If you were sad or tired he'd gently nudge his face into your lap or your face as if to say "it's okay, I'm here."
You could lie on the floor next to him and he would snuggle up. Or use you as a cushion.
One day I found him lying the middle of the road. He didn't seem to want to move so I had to pick him up and carry him back into the house.
Later that year we had to put him down. He couldn't breathe properly any more and it was time.
My brother rang up and I drove to pick them up in town. Put his body into the back of my estate then drove home, crying half the way.
I later went to the nearby Animal shelter which had a pet cemetary opposite. Luckily we got an appointment for later that evening to bury him, the guy would start digging soon. Then I went to pick up my other brother to ask if he could leave work early. We would bury him together. Mum didn't come, it was too painful for her.
We layed him to rest, wrapped in his favourite tartan blanket.
Possibly the saddest day of my life, the first time I really experienced loss.
Josh.
Josh was his name.
It's been 30 years now.
I can still see him now, lying in his corner.
One day we'll be together again.
🥺💔
I don´t like dogs or dislike them, but this particular scene just broke my heart. You are very brave to watch the movie at all, knowing that something of that sort is going to happen 💪
Omer Barnea was so bothered by even pretending to kill the dog that after that shot was over he picked up the puppy and held it for over two hours.
You should watch "Nobody" with Bob Odenkirk. It's a very similar formula and made by the same people, but much more fun. And you get to see Bob Odenkirk kicking ass :D
Ooh yes! I'll check it out!
When I watched your John Wick reaction (great as usual) yesterday, I typed a comment to you but, before I could send it, something happened with the UA-cam page or my web browser and it vanished. Since then I've been trying to remember everything I said. So here goes...
So sad to hear about your dog. On 30 November 2021, my best friend of 15 years, "Kon" (a terrier who was with me since he was a tiny puppy I could almost hold in just one hand), had to be euthanized. He'd become mostly deaf and blind and his arthritis had become so painful he was no longer able to stand or sit up even with assistance. It broke my heart to have him euthanized but it hurt me even more lying with him and trying in vain to comfort him while he let out little whimpers. Fuck. I'm crying just remembering it.
So you have my absolute sympathy. A dog's total devotion and unconditional love is one of the purest things in the world and it rips out your heart when you lose that.
It doesn't feel right to follow that with comments about John Wick other than I love the movie and I loved your reaction. Thank you, sweet lady. Give your current dog a big hug for me. And for him. And for you.
That is so sad, Michael... At least Kon had the best love and care until the end ❤️
@@MichalZismanReactions Thank you. I hope he did. Sometimes it feels like you can't do enough to show them how much you love them and appreciate them. Damn it. Crying again.
I feel you. Your comment made me write some words about our own dog Josh. It became a wall of text so I won't put it as a reply to you 😉
But yes, if you're a decent person a dog will give you their unconditional love. We are lucky to have had them.
There is a beast beneath the boards!
The boogeyman!
@@MichalZismanReactions It's a quote from House of the Dragon, prequel series to Game of Thrones.
Ohhhh still haven't seen it 😁
2 and 3 get better and better, part 4 is coming in march!
"I heard you struck my son."
"Yes, sir, I did."
"And may I ask why?"
"Yeah, well, because he stole John Wick's car, sir, and, uh, killed his dog."
"Oh."
Boom! HEADSHOT!! 😎
Fun Fact: Bacon grease was placed on Keanu Reeves' face to attract his dog to jump on him when he wakes up in bed.
Real Action Star Fact: According to Keanu Reeves, he did 90% of his own stunts in the film and memorized the nightclub fight sequence the day that the scene was filmed.
Stealth Adaptation Fact: The security guard who waves Wick onto the airport runway is reading the 1970s thriller novel "Shibumi" by Rod Whitaker, under the pen name Trevanian, also about a retired master assassin dragged back into the game. The story Viggo tells about how Wick once killed three men "with a pencil" is describing a crucial scene from the same novel.
I liked the fact that John wanted Iosef to suffer. He could’ve easily shot him at the club and killed him but it wouldn’t have been satisfying enough. During his fight with Vigo he directed Vigo’s blade to his wound from earlier to bring him closer and to give him a false sense of winning.
One fact about this movie is originally the dog wasn’t supposed to die. Keanu felt that the dog needed to die to push John over the edge and send him on a revenge tour.
I actually have the counterpart to the shotgun Wick uses to stop the car Viggo is in.
Hi, first of all sorry for my English, I'm using google translator.
John Wick was one of the deadliest assassins in that world. And it was his wife who took him out of that World and gave him a reason to live away from crime. In full mourning, they kill the last bond he had with his wife, the little dog. Without his wife (the dog was his memory)the real Killer reappears: Baba Yaga.
When he prepares his revenge, he goes with a mace to unearth his past (the weapons, the suit and the coins). Even though it's an action movie, underneath is a world rich in detail. Apart from weapons he digs up coins, those coins are only used in the underworld to buy weapons, favors (the murderers who clean the house charge in those coins) the hotel room, the doctor who treats his wounds. There is an underworld.
Finally, the girl couldn't be killed in the room because the fight happened on the Continental, a safe and secure place for all assassins.
So sorry to hear about your dog!x
You#re exactly how I am with cats.
Thanks. They're just so innocent 💕
yay!
😃
Sorry about losing your dog. It is always so hard. Wick 2 and 3 are good, 3rd is better than 2. Nobody the movie is this in a more somewhat comic though still very violent way, if you like Bob Odenkirk worth a watch. In a different vein, Tucker and Dale vs Evil is a gory comedic movie that plays with all the traditional horror movie tropes.
I also was going to suggest Nobody
They messed with the wrong former assassin for hire in this movie!
They sure did!
To answer some of the questions you asked:
1) John Wick didn't kill Perkins because the one UNBREAKABLE rule of The Continental is "You do NOT conduct 'business' on Continental grounds." - that is, you DO NOT KILL _ANYONE_ for _ANY_ reason. AT ALL. NO MATTER THE PROVOCATION.
Had John killed Perkins, he himself would have been "revoked" by Winston.
2) _"Crocodile_ tears", not alligator. English idioms are a cast-iron sonfagun to learn - especially the American ones. :) (FULL DISCLOSURE: Am American)
3) Outside of areas of the United States where large groups of immigrants live, it would be VERY surprising to find someone who is bilingual, let alone multilingual (especially Russian, as there is - or was - a bit of a stigma for Russians, due to the Cold War). Americans have an atrocious amount of linguistic arrogance.
4) The dog at the end was marked down (you can see the notation on the paper on the cage door if you zoom in) to be "put to sleep" or euthanized.
5) American culture is that dogs are not just pets, they are treated as a family member (sometimes cared about more than actual family members), so the premise of "You killed my dog, so EVERYONE DIES!" is not entirely absurd. It has president in real life. Additionally, John's grief (as he states toward the end of the film) gets both assuaged and transferred to the dog, creating the emotional bond that drives him, for the loss of both.
6) The underlying theme of _John Wick_ is that EVERYONE is the "bad guy", though some of the killers, thieves, extortionists and lackeys are WORSE than others. Thus, in addition to being bad-ass, John is also very much a "bad _guy"._ So, your conclusion is not as good as controversial - or unreasonable - as you think.
There are more than enough clues that John could've killed Perkins in self-defense without repercussion had he chosen to. He let her live because she gave him information, just like he did with the bouncer.
Fyi John wick 4 it's done it will be out next year march 24 2023 Soo make plans with your friends have fun 🍿
This movie takes place in about two or three days.
I'm thinking she had a crush on John Wick and with the wife dead she probably thinking here's my chance.
Not wasting any time 😄
Glad you liked it. If you're looking for some more amazing action/crime movies then I would recommend The Raid and Raid 2 (both Indonesian movies) and The Man from nowhere (Korean movie). They are amazing and you should watch them in their original language with English subtitles.
05:20 It's really not that common in the USA for people to know another language than English: the country is very big, not many people travels abroad and English is already the Lingua Franca of the world and the web so a lot of US citizen don't have the urge to learn.
They can't kill her in the hotel, that's why they were holding back. They would rather not get themselves killed. Its unfortunate because she doesn't care so she killed the guy in the room. There is no clause as far as I know about it being ok to kill on hotel's ground in self defense.
One would assume that Wick is aware of all the rules, and he gave her a choice to give him information or die. The other assassin in the hallway seemed surprised that John was willing to "catch and release", and Charon offered a "dinner reservation" (body disposal) if John needed one. He could have killed her in self-defense without repercussion if she hadn't given him information. It would be ludicrous to not allow self-defense in a hotel filled with killers. The rules prohibit offense, not defense.
Ummm did you miss the part where they front desk called about a noise complaint. Then asked John if a dinner reservation was required?? You are aloud to kill in self defense. That is why Marcus could not shoot her to defend John.
If it's to keep from getting killed yourself...in defense of your life
You have 2 more sequels too go wick 2 n wick 3
best scenes for me: jimmy the policeman and of course: miss Perkins???
You are one of the few reactors that notice the dad was smoking a joint, which is why he was so high in the SUV and played around giving his gun away.
He should have been sleepy amd unresponsive 😆
He knew John would eventually get to him, he knew he was going to die, that's why he did that, also that was just a regular cigar
He didn’t spare her cause she’s a woman, he spared her because you can’t kill in the hotel,
You kept asking why didn't he kill her, it was explicitly stated that there is no business to be done on Continental grounds, which is why her membership was revoked and killed, killing people on Continental grounds results in death, so John would have been killed if he killed her there
Depends on how the establishment views self-defence killings.
@@MichalZismanReactions That is also the same, absolutely no business on the Continental grounds, weather it being self defense, or intentional or by accident, the Continental is made to be a neutral ground
Also, get your partner to watch the newest Mission Impossible films!
The only people i have ever met who speak Russian fluently were born in Russia.
Hi Michal, could you react to the film VANILLA SKY from 2001? It’s my Favorite Tom Cruise movie of all time and literally nobody seems to have reacted to it on UA-cam lol.
Sorry to hear you lost a dog. They really do become part of the family don’t they?
But he spare Perkind and at least two die because of it
I am wary of investing any of my time watching your reaction. This is simply because the thumbnail lauded the cinematography. I have this quaint notion that movies are about story telling. If the most notable characteristic is the cinematography (per the thumbnail), I'm probably going to pass. I mean, there can be great cinematography showing paint drying. Great cinematography can supply the cherry on top of dessert, it's never the main course.
You had some questions that had obvious answers….not very good reaction
Uh oh