Posted on 06/09/2025 9:03:06 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The “John Wick” franchise has just returned to life with “Ballerina,” starring Ana de Armas as a Ruska Roma dancer who trains as an assassin to avenge the death of her father. But even if the series’ producers hadn’t come up with the genius idea of making a spin-off movie about a killer who puts the brutal pow in plié, the “John Wick” series would still be coming back to life.
At CinemaCon in early April, it was announced that Keanu Reeves would be returning to star in “John Wick 5.” That might have come as a surprise to anyone who saw “John Wick: Chapter 4” and watched as the title character got killed off in what seemed at the time to be the most dead-as-a-doorknob way possible. That movie, which might have been called “John Wick — The Final Wreckoning,” was explicitly designed to showcase the end of Wick’s reign of mayhem. And the timing felt right. The series had stretched on for nearly a decade, and “John Wick 4” was close to three hours long. Like a marathon round of Mortal Kombat or the trench warfare of World War I, the series had piled up more than enough of a body count.
But, of course, somewhere in the back of your reptile moviegoing brain, you knew that John Wick was going to have to come back. Because how could it be otherwise? No movie franchise today is going to leave its hero on a slab if it means leaving money on the table.
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I blame the idiots who buy the tickets.
Is it good?
They are not supposed to stay dead. A really good horror movie requires at least three post-death reincarnations.
In the John Wick series of movies, one is not really dead unless shot twice in the top of the head.
As Mr. Movie said, If you don’t like a movie it can’t be too short, and if you love a movie it can’t be too long.
This means Robert Downey Jr. can live again as Iron man, which would please me muchly.
Bride of Chuckie nods her cracked porcelain head in agreement.
That was one thing that made Rogue One such a good movie. The heroes did their part in helping others defeat the Death Star, and then they died. No miracle rescue, nothing. Like wat has an actual cost even in Star Wars.
Or alternate timelines, like in “Deadpool And Wolverine”.
I’m binge watching THE WALKING DEAD and no one stays dead in that, either.
Rogue One was the only decent Star Wars movie made in the past 20 years.
Outside of “Revenge Of The Sith”.
In the future nobody in Hollywood will ever die. Our descendants will be watching their avatars still making movies in the 23rd century.
I was going to say I’m camping out to buy tickets for the John Wick 5 movie which hasn’t been filmed yet.
Absolutely love the John Wick movies (missed all of them as they came out but caught up last year).
Quentin Tarantino ones also favorites.
Recommend Vengeance: A Love Story with Nicolas Cage, from the Joyce Carol Oates novel Rape: A Love Story.
Will go to Ballerina soon but I now spinoffs are usually not so good.
About staying dead.
An actor in the X-Files was sadly told by fellow actors one morning “Your character is killed in the script we just saw.”
He said: “Do you mean I’m dead or X-files dead?”
That became a running joke for the people working on the show.
The Native Americans chanting and working on the dead Mulder and then getting back alive was impressive, I thought.
Ha.
You should see the new Mission Impossible movie. Tom Cruise had at least ten life and death close calls. I started laughing inside the theater on the 9th one.
C'mon, Man!
All that needs to be added is a good dose of an Elizabeth Montgomery nose twitch, and, Shazam! All kinds of characters can die to live another day.
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