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You know, a couple of weeks ago, Garrett, we had
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some options for this weekend and you presented this movie
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as one of those options for us to check out.
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And when I called you up and I said, hey,
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is it you know you told me I had a choice.
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I think in your best john Wick, you said you
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still do. So let's talk about Ballerina from the world
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of John Wick.
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Eve mccarl what brings you here? I'd like to go
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hunt him. You have no idea what you just walk into.
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You don't have to do this.
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You can still me why didn't you leave? I'm working
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on it.
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See how y'all doing. I'm Jeff Johnson with Garrett Gibson,
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welcoming you back to the box office for the film
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by Podcast. Excited to talk about this one. An assassin
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trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma organization sets
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out to seek revenge after her father's death. Garrett, did
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this one just blow the doors off us?
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Or what it really did? There's so much NonStop action
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in this film you kind of forget you're not watching
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an actual John Wick film, because you know, you get
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the Keanu, you get the exact same action, and honestly,
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a pretty solid storyline, so a very.
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Solid story Yeah yeah.
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All right, so it blow us away.
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So for that you mentioned Keanu. For those that haven't
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checked into the Continental recently, let's just clarify something. This
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movie is taking place in between John Wick Chapter three
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Parabellum and John Wick Chapter four, So, uh, you know,
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very clever cameo with Keanu Reeves. But is cameo the
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right word, Garrett, because cameo implies like we see a
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quick scene, a quick shot, and I love I almost
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spoil it, but I love the shot, the first shot
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that we saw of him.
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Saying yeah, yeah, te time.
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Back to the third movie. But he's kind of in
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this what he's got.
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Like two three, maybe four scenes, Yeah, we might get
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about i'd say all together five to eight minutes the
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screen time of him. And I'm okay with it.
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Definitely okay with what Lynn Wiseman has done here. He's
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directing this one. You know, you're watching this movie and
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you're you're quick to just imagine this is probably Chad
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Stahelski again, but it's not. It's Lynn Wiseman who gave
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us the Underworld series. I think the last big movie
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he gave us was Lift re or Die Hard and
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after that he's done some TV. What'd you think of
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Lynn's direction here?
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I think didn't skip a beat on this film Compared
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to the other john Wick films in this universe. I
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think it delivered. I think it touched on all the
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vital aspects, a good storyline, NonStop action, and honestly, a
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great revenge film. I've got to tell you, I think
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it delivered on all those aspects.
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Well, it's one of those things where these movies are
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always fueled by a vengeful act, right, Yes, and you
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think we're tired of it, but we are absolutely not
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tired of it. Eve's storyline, played to perfection by Anna
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di Armis.
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Yes, absolutely.
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I'll tell you something, man, The little hint of her
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capabilities that we saw in No Time to Die really
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prime the pump for her to have her own movie here.
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All I can tell you, look, with all love and
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respect to Keanu, I would be okay with john Wick
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ending at chapter four and giving us two, maybe three
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more movies of honest character, maybe even a team up
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with Keanu at some point. What do you think?
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I think you're right. I think she absolutely nailed this role.
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She's definitely coming into her own at this point in
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time of her career. And if they did decide to
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in john Wick with Chapter four completely, no prequels, no,
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nothing like that, and decided to just run with her
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character Eve, I would love it. I would watch two, three,
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I would even watch four films with her in it,
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because she's that believable in this role. She delivered on
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every aspect and I couldn't be more pleased.
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Ian McShane is back playing Winston. I love this guy.
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I love his character and it's just the right amount
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of Ian McShane for this movie. Would you agree?
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I would agree, And just his character Winston over the
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five films that he's been in now just extraordinary. I
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think this is one of those characters that real captures
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his acting capabilities and it feels like that role is
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tailor made for him. So yeah, now it's always a
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pleasure just to see him in one of these films.
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I'll tell you another pleasure and a little heartbreaking at
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the same time. We get one more moment with Lance
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Reddick's character Sharan at the front desk. I kind of
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forgot that he had filmed this before his passing, so
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I was excited when he when he shows up, and
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then it brought it all back to me. I was like,
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oh man, yeah, we lost we lost this man. But
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great to see him. Great to see Angelica Houston. Tell me,
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tell me about tell me a little bit about the
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director here, Angelica Houston. Oh she.
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I'm gonna start by saying she's gorgeous as always, aging, fantastic.
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But her acting in this film series reminds me of
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why I fell in love with her as a kid
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at while she was playing more Titsha and everything was
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growing up. So it's one of those things where it
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just brings me back to her great acting capabilities. I
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gotta say she gives enough of an almost leading role
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in this film. Every time she's on the screen, she
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kind of steals the scene, and I've got to say
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I fell in love with her all over again.
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Yeah. As she's playing the director of the Ruska Roma Organization,
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you know, we're taking these little girls, We're creating ballerinas.
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We're also creating assassins. Dude, I don't care if you're
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talking Black Widow, Red Sparrow. You know ballerina, Like I love,
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like a school for girls to go training to be badasses.
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That's gonna work it. I don't care what movie it is, right, You're.
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Right, everyone wants to see this new wave that we're
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getting now that we're out of that classic eighties nineties
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kind of Arnold and Sevester and all that kind of stuff.
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Now we're experiencing this new badass wave of his kick
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ass chicks, and I am all for it, I've got
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to tell you. And especially with the direction that they're
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getting in films like this, Oh, it's not going to
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stop brother.
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Women like Anadi Armus showing us exactly why strong is
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the new sexy. Can't get enough of it now. Listen,
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I watched plenty of trailers for this movie to get
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you know, I was all excited for it to come out,
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and I don't recall a single second of the Big
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bad in this movie even being referenced one time, So
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you know, I don't want to spoil it out, you know,
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because I know it was a pleasant surprise for me.
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But damn great to see him back on the screen
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after all this time, right, it really is.
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Honestly, I haven't seen him in much as of late,
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and then he just kind of nails this bad guy
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role and it's not something you typically see him in
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all of it. Yeah, it's one of those things that
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I think without them saying anything in the trailer, it
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just helps it that much more along to where you're right, Uh,
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you know, I don't kind of want to see it.
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He might not be that believable. No, he is freaking believable,
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and he nailed the role.
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Yeah. Well, and this isn't the only person to do
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this with, because there's a there's a side character. There's
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a little subplot with a very popular guy who again
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I didn't see him in the trailer. I didn't hear
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about him being in the movie, And just the right
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amount of screen time for this guy, and again I
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was pretty pleased.
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I think you hit the nail right on the head. Again, Jeff.
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It's one of those things where you don't get a
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lot of screen time of them, but I think it's
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just the right amount that just compliments his film.
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So well, well, I'll tell you what's really complimenting this film.
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You know right away that you're in the John Wick
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world because the cinematography by Romaine le cerbus Is is gorgeous.
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When you think about some of these scene locales that
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we're looking at and then the Tyler Bates score is there.
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Thou and I love it kind of dabbles it kind
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of he kind of dabbles back into the John Wick
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score here and there, but he's also giving Eve her
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own theme and her own, her own storyline. And it
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put me right at home in this universe. I knew
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for a fact, I'm in the I'm in John Wicks world.
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It's just Eve's time now. These movies they always have,
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Like I mentioned, Tyler Bates, he's always got He's always
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given us a great score of these films, but they
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also have some great artists on the soundtrack. How awesome
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was it to hear Evan Essence blarin at the credits?
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That was actually pretty cool. Yeah, it's one of those
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things that kind of takes you back because it's been
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a while since you've heard Evan Essence if you're not,
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you know, huge Evan Assence Lincoln part and then that
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just takes you back to the early two thousands right there.
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Soon as it fires up.
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Yeah, fight like a girl from Evanescence featuring k Flay.
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As soon as we have theater I found on Spotify
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and can crank it up great song. Great song. So
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stay for the credits. You're gonna like it. You're gonna
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you're gonna have a good time with it. Absolutely love
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that you mentioned the action is just over the top.
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It's uh, but I gotta I gotta point something out here. Man.
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We're so used to the gun fu you know, like
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the close quarters you know, fire six shots and then
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use the butt of the gun. We've seen it time
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and time again. Truth truthfully, I'll never get sick of it.
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But this movie is it is it basically all bets
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are off for any anything that you can pick up
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and use as a weapon. I'm talking duct tape, I'm
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talking ice skates.
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What definitely is. I don't think there's one household it
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on that they skip past it in this one. When
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they're fighting, whether it's kitchen, you know, the restaurant, whatever,
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they're picking it up and using it and it it
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also makes me smile. There's a lot of scenes in
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this where something gets used and I just had to
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look at you and just chuckle real quick because it's yep,
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it's comical, but it's also freaking awesome action. It's you know, brutal,
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and I don't I don't have any other words to
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say other than I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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I walked out of there thinking, if there wasn't a
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single knife in my kitchen, I now can think of
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like fifteen, maybe twenty five kitchen items that I can
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turn into a lethal weapon. Weapon. Now I love that
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speak of leath the weapons. Will we ever see a
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movie that gets more creative with grenades?
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Oh my gosh, now no, I don't think so. Yeah,
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there's a there's a heavy usage of grenade grenades in
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this film.
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Creative grenade.
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Yeah, very creative, and it's not something we've seen a
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lot and the John Wick films or anything. So you know,
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the first time, the second time, you're like, oh man,
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that's pretty cool, and then it just keeps going and
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it's like.
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Whoa what Yeah, yeah that four? Like that fourth creative
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grenade kill You're like, just keep serving them, keep tossing those,
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because I am loving everything you're doing. Man.
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Uh.
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Ballerina from the World of John Wick is in theaters
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this weekend. Garrett, we haven't even pretended to keep people
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in the hook. Obviously, stream it, see it, skip it,
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you got we gotta we gotta tell me. I want
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to see this one right.
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I would walk, run, ice, skate, I don't care how
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to get to this film. I would go check it
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out in theaters.
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We've been enjoying the Baba Yaga for four films, and
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now it's time for the Kiki Mora to take her
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rightful place on the silver screen. And we we're here
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for it.
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We love it and give five like a girl, fight
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like girl.