Double-feature choices include No Country for Old Men and 8MM, the latter for more Stormare; the intense theater experience is recalled.
Hardcore availability is mentioned. A triple feature combines Raising Arizona, Fargo and No Country for Old Men, tracking the Coens across decades. — Kyle Brandt
Apex affirmatives include Swedish meatballs, GMAC financing and TruCoat sealant. — Bill Simmons
The Coens are assigned No Country instead; Macy’s later roles and Minnesota sports peaks compete. Windshield-scraper scenes receive an affirmative. — Chris Ryan
Buscemi’s performance is a favorite but his apex is disputed among later stardom, Con Air, Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos. — Bill Simmons
McDormand’s apex is unresolved with Three Billboards suggested. Blue Ox, shovel murders and Fargo the town are discussed; the Coens reportedly preferred Fargo’s sound over Brainerd.
Stormare’s other apex candidates include Dino Velvet and Armageddon; Minnesota accents receive an affirmative, while dangling cigarettes prompt a Ghostbusters comparison.
An unranked facial-wound Mount Rushmore considers One Battle, Freeway, Fargo and The Dark Knight, with Gus Fring also mentioned.
Stormare receives the smoking award for dangling the cigarette, enclosed-car smoking, nasal exhalation and the flick before pursuing witnesses; Hoffman, De Niro and DiCaprio are compared.
Stormare is reaffirmed for smoking. The trooper is credited for noticing the tags and bribe.
Stormare is considered too recognizable and better suited to Dion Waiters; Patrick Kilpatrick and Steve Harris are candidates, with Harris’s television recognition qualified. — Van Lathan
Arye Gross is considered recognizable in his own right; The Experts prompts an enthusiastic recommendation. — Van Lathan
Steve Harris receives an explicit choice; his relationship to Wood Harris inspires an imagined role in The Wire. — Chris Ryan
An explicitly invited CR flex selects Peter Stormare’s surgeon for the Teddy KGB Award for Actor Doing His Own Thing; earlier memorable roles are recalled.
Stormare is praised for improving small roles and dominating the anesthetized Cruise’s scene with his own eccentric performance.
Cage’s telephone call during the Eddie confrontation is initially presented as the overwhelming choice.
Stormare’s costume, consistently extreme readings, and complaint about his death’s cinematic quality change the discussion; the initial Cage preference yields toward Dino Velvet.
Why Tarasov is left alive at the chop shop; the Commodore 64; the never-ending bullets and coins that never fall out; the 'I'll kill them all' speech needed one more take; John Wick is bad at talking
Why did he not kill Tarasov at the beginning after killing everybody else in the chop shop, and what kind of honor is that, when he had just killed 39 people.
Using a Commodore 64 is shaky, since no 1999 computer would survive being hacked, though it felt purposeful: like the 69 Mustang, which was forgotten for what aged best, the film mixes cell phones with an out-of-time feeling to seem timeless.
A passion nitpick: he always has more bullets and cartridges in his pockets, then the bigger machine-gun magazines too, and nothing falls out when he rolls around, not even the gold coins, while a normal person's pants burst with wallet, phone and keys; the defense is that a tailored suit creates space where none exists, and a suit that is literally bulletproof could hold extra rounds.
Forgotten for what aged best: Wick uses dead people's guns instead of reloading during his killing barrage, and he may kill Santino with someone else's gun since he has no rounds left; the lesson is not to brag about duck fat.
The 'I'll kill them all' speech at the end wanted a little more, a fastball with one more take dialed up ten percent and perhaps another sentence about people coming at him his whole life; another thought the reading was great, and one host, seeing John Wick 3 that day, immediately wanted the third film when this one ended.
John Wick is good at many things but not talking; he has very few good lines, and 'I'm thinking I'm back' from the first film sounds cool but makes no sense, so he may be a little brain dead with assassin CTE.
Asked whether assassins can get CTE, the answer is that CTE does not exist in the world of John Wick. — Chris Ryan
The whole movie is that-guys; Tarasov has been seen in 40 movies without anyone knowing the name, making him a rare possible Dion Waiters and Joey Pants double; the guy from The Wire is a case but people know his name; it is Peter Stormare, a well-known actor from Fargo and The Big Lebowski.
Thomas Sadowski (as transcribed), Don from The Newsroom, who plays the cop in both films, is the pick and is agreed to be a good call; Ruby Rose does not get it since she has no dialogue, and her credits include Orange is the New Black, Resident Evil movies, the Meg and now playing Bat girl (as transcribed); Leguizamo as the mechanic Aurelio is up there, though he is Leguizamo.
Leguizamo's friendship with Wick almost went in what aged worst: how did they become friends, do they hang out on a Tuesday night watching Mets against the Braves with Sicilian pizza delivered to his Joe house, and Aurelio simply agrees to fix the car.
A lot of candidates; Peter Stormare's Tarasov is a great five minutes at the top, with reactions and everything, a guy who starts at 11 with no warm-up time; Michael Nyquist played Tarasov in the first film and Stormare plays his brother, both Russians played by Swedish actors.
Gianna is one host's pick; Common, in only a couple of scenes, is still in it too much to be Dion, and Fishburne is slightly too much as well; Tarasov is called the definition of a Dion Waiters (transcribed 'demon later'), so over the top for five minutes.
Franco Nero as Julius, manager of the Rome Continental, greets John as an old friend and immediately asks whether he is there to kill the Pope; a larger question is that Gianna's coronation as a mafia boss involves clergy high up in the Vatican, with a cardinal at the club.
