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

i saw keanu in the lobby of a staging of Robert Wilson's Tom Waits/WSB musical The Black Rider in SF about 16 years ago and the excitement among others who also saw him was palpable. He was just standing around by himself looking like a dude.

Has Keanu played a light-hearted or goofy (or even expressive) character in the last two decades? the Wicks are the only things I've seen since the first Matrix on VHS, but I get the impression that he's pretty much all stonefaced all the time. RIP Parenthood Keanu

I haven't seen it but he apparently did 13 episodes of detective comedy Swedish Dicks, basically as a favour for Peter Stormare.

And it's divisive but I loved his deadpan, depressive Constantine. Plus goofy voice-over work as Keanu the cat, the upcoming Toy Story 4, etc.

I love Constantine.

JW3 - easily the most violent movie I've ever seen, and the gunshots and explosions were so loud in my super-Dolby theater I felt like I should have worn earplugs.

i think this interview/profile was posted in a different Keanu thread - anyway it’s a few months old but its ~excellent~

https://www.gq.com/story/the-legend-of-keanu-reeves

a) Thank u Justin3 for hipping me to Keanu & puppies

b) fuck YES cast him as Wolverine jfc why is everyone sitting around

https://youtu.be/rOqUiXhECos

I'm really surprised he's never found himself in a Jim Jarmusch movie.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/18/keanu-reeves-grief-loss--bill-ted-john-wick-actor-tragedy

In the 1980s and 1990s, he was offered every hot young part under the sun, including the lead in Platoon (which went to Charlie Sheen) and Val Kilmer’s role in Heat. But when I ask if he regrets turning any of them down, he smiles and instantly replies, “No.” He also turned down a $12m pay cheque to make Speed 2 because he, rightly, thought the plot was nonsense, which resulted in him being shut out of 20th Century Fox films for the next 11 years (and no, he doesn’t regret that, either). He is about to start shooting Bill & Ted Face The Music, in which the now fiftysomething duo have to write a song so good it will save the universe. “There has to be a reason for making a movie, and the writers have come up with a good ‘why’ for telling the story,” he says. When I ask what gives him an ego boost, given that he’s not driven by money or fame, he is so baffled by the idea of his ego needing a boost that he is silent for a full 28 seconds before finally answering, “The work.”

Saw John Wick 3 and enjoyed it very much. Simplicity of the first is still the most appealing to me of the 3 but the setpieces are still so, SO good. I just love how baroque & bananas the situations & backstories keep getting, expanding on the Russian stuff, etc Keanu on horseback <3 obv ... and Halle Berry was excellent.

for all things Wick:

Something Wick This Way Comes

It def isn’t as good as the first two but it’s Keanu so

And it looks like there’ll be a fourth chapter??

I personally preferred this to part two, which was entertaining but kind of numbing and monotonous by the end. This one was much better at keeping the action and scenery fresh.

Also this movie gets a lot of mileage out dogs biting baddies in the dick, so kudos.

jfc I’m keeping out of the Wick thread bcz spoilers, ban latebloomer

55 today

the best canadian

I just saw John Cusack in a thing this afternoon where he looks like they wanted Michael Madsen. He's the villain in the Connemara made Western Never Grow Old. I thought he was a lot thinner but he looks pretty massive in this.

I assume the cusack in the title of the thread meant him.

I don't remember seeing him in a film for a while. Looked him up when I got home and saw some scandal about retweeting antisemitic images or something. Has he been relegated to foreign films now or something?

he was in Spike Lee's Chiraq a couple years ago

I don't understand this thread title. What is Y?

/N

I may need someone to outline this thread title for me. Or maybe it's the inclusion of Cusack that is throwing me off.

Y = Yes

Harkens back to a time when Cusack wasnt a complete nonstarter

I have a lot more problem with Rudd than Cusack in the title, but such was the way of Ally.

ally has some shit to explain. This and the jimmy fallon love.

Cusack has never been pretty. His deal was always non-descript everyman.

shhh / let peaceful like things (wins)
Posted: 19 May 2019 at 10:35:30
Every time I see this thread title I think “poor John Cusack”

Cusack has a worse career than Travolta at present

This thread was started in 2007. I can only imagine ally was a huge Must Love Dogs fan.

I may need someone to outline this thread title for me.

JOHN CUSACK Y

PAUL RUDD: ALSO Y

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

the only things I hear about Cusack are when he accidentally retweets the wrong thing because he can’t quite tell anti-establishment memes from bigoted ones, and occasional instances of women complaining about his tendency to slide into their messages

keanu very wise to keep a low profile

xpost ah! thank you.

happy birthday keanu ilu

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/72/fd/fa/72fdfa2425df36ea663505d54b489a46.jpg

yerac you are deeply wrong about cusack but this is not the cusack thread ONLY TALK ABT KEANU BC ITS HIS GODDAMN BIRTHDAY

One of the best things about my marriage is the Keanu-love I share with my husband

He really is the best

sry 5 daily mail content but i love keanu and i want him 2 be happy

He has not had a serious girlfriend in decades it seems, and has never been affectionate with a woman while on the red carpet during his 35 year career.

But that changed this weekend when Keanu Reeves held hands with business collaborator Alexandra Grant at the LACMA Art + Film Gala Presented By Gucci in Los Angeles.

The actor, 55, and the artist, 46, never let go of each other as they exchanged loving glances while posing for dozens of photos in front of the international press, proving they had nothing to hide

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/11/05/12/20595756-7649103-My_girl_Keanu_Reeves_held_hands_with_and_shot_loving_looks_to_hi-a-1_1572956693300.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/11/05/12/20601066-7649103-Lean_on_me_The_two_looked_very_happy_in_mid_October_when_they_we-a-7_1572956693496.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/11/05/12/20595748-7649103-Two_good_The_Speed_star_had_on_a_black_suit_with_workman_boots_a-a-4_1572956693398.jpg

awww

<3

It was really disheartening to see the Twitter tide suddenly turning against Keanu for this of all things. I guess people think she looks too old? A lot of gross comments out there.

They look happy!

she’s a decade younger than he is ffs!

Everybody congratulating Keanu Reeves for having an "age appropriate" girlfriend. Em, she's 9 YEARS YOUNGER than him. That's like a 5 year old man having a girlfriend that won't be born for another 4 YEARS.

— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) November 5, 2019

It shows we have NO IDEA how women age or what they--WE--really look like.

otm

sadly

lol @ limmy

It's time for Keanu to ditch the John Wick beard IMO

incorrect

What more recent Keanu numbers would break into this list now?

Surely we agree that the poll overrates Keanu in Bogus Journey at the expense of Keanu in Point Break and River's Edge (honestly I also love him essentially playing Ted again in Parenthood but I recognize that's an idiosyncracy)

John Wick movies are set 30 seconds apart and made 3 years apart, he needs to hide the terrible ravages of time upon his visage until the entire series is complete

I tried to watch John Wick 3 but nah, it's kind of depressing seeing Keanu play the blank-faced super-martial-artist that could be played by anyone. I made it through 45 mins or so. He is no more interesting in it than the guy who plays Bourne is in The Bourne Agglomerate.

Reeves is too funny to waste in movies that aren't funny (and I include River's Edge and Point Break as movies which are, in their dark way, funny)

River's Edge is totally funny

What more recent Keanu numbers would break into this list now?

the Wicks and Always Be My Maybe are great screen performances, would probably outrank Rush Rush but not Excellent Adventure

Surely we agree that the poll overrates Keanu in Bogus Journey at the expense of Keanu in Point Break and River's Edge

otm

(honestly I also love him essentially playing Ted again in Parenthood but I recognize that's an idiosyncracy)

otm except that how dare u he's not playing Ted, he's playing a nuanced and entirely differentiated teen goofus

kinda creepy how theyre focusing on yerwans age

obv john wick casting is 💯 💯 💯 all time and keanu is amazing on six levels in that role