“The musical choices are cute and the thing looks stylish as all hell, so this is pretty much what you’d expect from a teaser trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3.
“It is… odd how this franchise has been so closely associated with dogs. It’s not like Wick is some hardcore animal rescuer or what-have-you, it’s just that his late wife gave him a puppy and, like the day after her funeral, random gangsters broke into his house and killed that dog.
“Had the inciting incident for John Wick been the brutal murder of a wife, girlfriend or daughter, it would have been par for the course.
“We’re so used to macho action movies that fridge their female characters as a key plot point that merely fridging an animal becomes a defining feature of that franchise.”
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