KEANU REEVES: HE'S PRETTY MUCH Y TOO BUT IN A DIFFERENT WAY THAN RUDD OR CUSACK

he is the best at killing people, it's true, but he's not really conflicted about it - those motherfuckers killed his dog and he will get his revenge. it's about as straightforward as it could be and it's too deadpan gleeful about it to be gritty. it's really a stripped-to-the-bone mash note to fight choreography.

cmon hes conflicted, i mean he retired right why did he retire

enh who gives a shit he kills people real nice

and i mean its all moody there are shadows in the language of contemporary cinema when combined with violence this is symbolic of grit

enh who gives a shit he kills people real nice

― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 19 January 2015 14:37 (49 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are so many movies where gritty conflicted man kills people better than anyone in the world and this is one of them

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i cannot stop thinking about how much i love this fking movie

http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/keanu-reeves-to-give-talk-on-gauguin-say-what-236009

i've been trying to understand why my crush on keanu reeves has increased exponentially over the last five years and i think it's because the dream of the 90s is alive in him

the dude took his matrix money and has explored a variety of artistic interests, which thankfully still include movies where people hold guns sideways

despite his fame and millions, there is some part of him that would be happy watching kung fu movies all day and playing bass in a crappy bar band at night

he's also self-effacing in interviews, despite the ease with which he could get away with being a pompous ass-bandit

he talked p candidly on Nerdist podcast about how no-one would even take his calls after 47 Ronin

Like you just want to give him the good will hunting speech: "dude, 47 Ronin was a dumpster fire. *it's not yr fault*"

still regret missing his Hamlet

give a call, Shakespeare in the Park

when was that? he'd be a p good hamlet imo

reprise bill & ted as morg and guilders are dead

well i guess bogus journey was that already

He played Hamlet in Winnipeh, 1995.

http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/essays/reeves.cfm

Immoral shit like John Wick fills me with despair.

"fight choreography" my ass

I am glad they mentioned Ortiz the Dog Boy, unlike this poll.

so this piece got a lot of attention this week.

I’ve found myself attracted to Keanu’s presence because of the way he marries typically masculine and feminine qualities. He’s both intense and vulnerable, kind and tough, honest and mysterious. Keanu, of course, isn’t the first star to exist at the crossroads of virile and vulnerable. Actors like James Dean, Montgomery Clift, and Paul Newman embody a similar alchemy that have drawn women (and men) to them. But these actors often seem to fight against the lustful gaze of the camera, while Keanu supplants himself to it. Where they seem cynical, disinterested, or too wounded as a romantic lead, Keanu is utterly open.

http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/bright-walldark-room-february-2016-the-grace-of-keanu-reeves-by-angelica-jade-basti%C3%A9n

John Wick is still a brainless action version of Le Samourai.

a lot of that reads like rationalization of simple physical attraction. oddly no mention of River's Edge.

I guess I fall into the standard crit line about him - he has his virtues, but the gap between his good and bad movies is vast, and his hit:miss ratio is quite bad.

I should've mentioned how effective he was in one of his serious realist parts in Permanent Record.

no one ever mentions that movie! def in the "good" category. also: Lou Reed cameo

being beautiful has traditionally been a big part of being a movie star

I didn't think he was handsome until the late nineties.

in most cases it's sort of the bare requisite, if that's all you've got you aren't bringing much to the table that everybody else doesn't already have

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well, i think his stillness/presence/Zen factor is key as that author is not the first to discuss...

most naked in his pair of 1994 roles -- sitting under the tree as Siddhartha : boom BUS EXPLODES!

in most cases it's sort of the bare requisite, if that's all you've got you aren't bringing much to the table that everybody else doesn't already have

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― Οὖτις, Friday, February 12, 2016

are you confessing?

to being a remarkably good-looking movie star? yes

no wonder there's a frisson b/w us

j/k I am actually Jonah Hill

aw that keanu piece is from the movie magazine i write for

is it available at finer downtown bookstores?

nah it's like an ipad magazine http://brightwalldarkroom.com/

Interesting piece, but I'm not convinced. There's a reason why is best role is still Ted Logan.

This thread just reminded me, though: I really should watch Permanent Record some day.

Do you have a vhs player?

Yes!

it was streaming on Amazon Prime not long ago

keanu is a benediction, a blessing, a bestowance of cool breezes. keanu is the bodhisattva but he also confronts the bodhi, and grants him the space to annihilate himself inside the wave.

the world moves around keanu. when he moves at all, people claim that it is inauthentic and they sneer and poke at his ribs, but still the birds are fed.

i figure his woodenness works in certain roles because that's who he's often playing: a character who doesn't necessarily understand the script or the rules of the world he's been tossed into, repeats the lines in the voice of the character he's been given because there's nothing else to do, and eventually comes to realize his purpose is to simply add mass to the diegetic reality he's in so it changes the orbits of the others around him, and he's ok with that.

i don't think the world truly appreciates how fortunate it is to have had keanu and swayze appear together in the same filmspace.

xps it's streaming on netflix

happy 52nd you grizzled hot fucker

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I saw john wick finally a few months ago, that movie is fucking awesome

i love it so much

morbs and vg did you guys see 'knock knock'? i'll rep for a lot of keanu movies that everyone else hates but this one was really, REALLY fucking terrible.

worse than the Lake House?