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

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

otm

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?

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

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well i guess it depends on the individual. the lake house was corny but i loved it for keanu. knock knock is a thriller/horror which isn't my typical type of movie. but the story was totally utterly stupid and the acting was lame from the whole cast. so if you're not normally down for romance movies, lake house still might be the worst.

it's free if you've got amazon prime

i have seen neither; life is effin' short.

Keanu is not fifty-two gtfo

guess who's skipping JW2

River's Edge was 30 years ago yknowwww

i kinda like eli roth so i might watch...

John Wick 2 is playing at the drive-in out here, so of course, hey maybe I should see John Wick 1 first and omg...

I've rewinded the part where he reloads in the middle of shooting a guy at the club at least three times so far.

It's great at what it does and there really aren't enough movies in any genre that embrace that aim

It tickles my "appreciation of efficient reloading" gland, which I wasn't aware I had. Arguably this would make it an effective video-game movie.

JW2 is okay but pretty flabby and about 10X more ridiculous. I want to know if it's set in a libertarian utopia where all policing is handled via contract killing.

What's the deal with Keanu? I hear he's kind of a loner who lives in a modest apartment in NYC and never got over the tragic death of his fiancee, or something, which makes an intriguing profile. He intersting