I Love You To Death Keanu is the average between Parenthood Keanu and Wick Keanu
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.
1) obviously it takes a dedicated super-martial-artist / performer to spend the best part of a year learning and enacting that choreography so no it could not be played by anyone
2) the specifics of his blankness are, for real, extremely nuanced throughout the film. the first was him putting on a mask, a hated piece of armour that his entire identity was built on having shed, and alternating between that and exhausting grief - not just the breaking down scenes, but the tearing hollow emptiness that you feel having to go about any daily activities when someone has been torn out of existence. the second was him accepting that he had an obligation to fulfill, and he keeps that visible above (and as a cover for) his conflicting resentment/regret over being drawn back into the rules of the Continental / High Table, and the satisfaction he takes from being so good at what he trained for. the third sees him play tones of "blankness" ranging from shutting out all internal distractions from immediate survival, to sorrow over past hurt he committed on others, to 100% in-the-moment focus on tasks & fights, to desperation over how far out of control events have spun / stubbornness that he absolutely will not change course for anything, to various glimmers of how badly he has shut himself off emotionally & from basic human connection, especially when McShane sets up outs for him, or when Dacascos breaks kayfabe.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
more like john sic
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
I "auditioned" to be one of dozens of fake Keanus in Matrix 2 tbh, but spread my legs to fit inside the outline of a person they had drawn on the wall and got dismissed for now not reaching the 6'1" line they had painted
It's time for him to ditch the unclean John Wick movies
in order to get back to making more The Lake Houses and Henry's Crimes and Generation Um...s and Exposeds and Destination Weddingses?
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
sic otm
also, casting the guy from the matrix and constantin is part of it
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
OK sic has convinced me that I should try watching John Wick 1 at some point; I can only say that coming in cold to -- well, looking at the Wikipedia plot summary, I see it was John Wick 2 I watched 45 minutes of, not 3 -- none of the depth you're talking about was visible.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
plot summary on wikipedia before watching, eeeshup
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
two is the poorest its merely good
The opening scene of 2 wasn't great in fairness.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
tbh its v hard to pick out what scenes are in which, of the ways you could divide the eight-odd hours up, "by movie" isnt necessarily the way to do so
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
otm
it's a necessary build-out from the revenge/grief unstoppable line of the first movie* to the glorious camp universe of 3 and presumably 4-6 and the Atomic Blonde crossover, but it has Ruby Rose in it
this scene is basically a masterpiece though * Mandy / John Wick double feature pls
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
of the ways you could divide the eight-odd hours up
a tiny arthouse here showed the three b2b for $25 one weekend afternoon recently.
honestly you could run them in a loop on TV or in a gallery and just drop in/out at any point at all to watch some beautiful lighting and dance scenes, but yeah if you want a story to follow eephus, you gotta start at the beginning
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
or in a gallery
John Wicks in one room, Playtime in another, The Clock in a third. please give me a grant now
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
2 is my favorite but i gotta watch 3 again
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
this scene is basically a masterpiece though
I couldn't grasp what was happening in this scene! Were they just... constantly missing with their shots for some reason? Or was Keanu hitting the pillar on purpose or...?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
I mean I haven't seen this one, but it seems like the joke is that they're trying to shoot each other while also acting casual and not causing a scene.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
this is also my position
― Simon H., Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
Reeves was perfectly cast in Speed.
No one mentions his work in Something's Gotta Give, where he falls in love with Diane Keaton but the stupid plot mechanism requires her to dump this guy 25 years her junior so that Jack Nicholson can sex her. He's poignant and hilarious.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
jack was more age appropriate
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
for whom?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
twitter
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
this guy gets it
as well as being visually funny, it's a meta-joke about the global secret society of assassins with their own network of hotels & communications & ludicrously impractical currency existing right alongside a completely oblivious populace, as if everything about what they do wouldn't be completely obvious IRL
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
john wick movies are absolutely brilliant, they strike me as exactly the right way to do an action flick
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
which wick flick do u pick
― cryborg (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
it's a meta-joke about the global secret society of assassins with their own network of hotels & communications & ludicrously impractical currency existing right alongside a completely oblivious populace, as if everything about what they do wouldn't be completely obvious IRL
My theory is that John Wick exists in a universe where the Enlightenment and Reformation mostly never happened and all of the assassin stuff is known by the world at large but it's treated as an extension of pre-modern privateer rules and Catholic secret society shit.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
My favorite ridiculous thing about the Wick films is not that there is a secret society of assassins but that seemingly every single person in the world belongs to this society, which sort of negates the need for secrecy. I love it, so dumb.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 00:09 (four years ago) link
he falls in love with Diane Keaton but the stupid plot mechanism requires her to dump this guy 25 years her junior
i guess keanu played the something that had to give
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
tbf Keanu’s presumptive girlfriend has the silver hair color that a bunch of women in their 20s have, and probably colored it that shade. she’s just bold enough to do it over age 40
― mh, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 01:18 (four years ago) link
lol Brad, you get an honorary “heyooooo” for that
― mh, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
i must be spending way too much time on Keanu sites cause I knew about his girlfriend like months ago? When they went together to the YSL show. I figured they were just being private. Anyway happy for both of them, she seems cool and looks amazing, wtf is wrong with people.
― Roz, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 06:46 (four years ago) link
John Wick would easily top this poll now I think, and I appreciate his Constantine more now than I did then. certainly the best thing Akiva Goldsman has ever been involved in lol.
― Roz, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 06:51 (four years ago) link
you diseased action junkies
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 06:54 (four years ago) link
Junkies are non-discerning, this thread overflows with discernment!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 08:33 (four years ago) link
guess Morbs really does want more The Lake Houses and Henry's Crimes and Generation Um...s and Exposeds and Destination Weddingses
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/marcosjeeves/
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
mmm i dont think squinting + hair + beard = keanu but if ppl go for it then good for him lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
idk he looks pretty close to me
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
something's a bit off about the accent
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
another addition to the canon
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― Roz, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 08:20 (two years ago) link
ahhh <3sandy & keanu stories are my favorite subgenre
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
Adam Driver is the Nu-Keanu.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:16 (two years ago) link
i love Adam Driver but no listen to me:there is no nu-Keanu, it’s not ~possible~
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link