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

ban everyone who doesn't vote for bill & ted

single vote for johnny mnemonic is me, bcz of the room service monologue basically, and the computer hacking in TCP/3D

ally i am trying to work here and now i'm totally distracted by keanu

point break, speed, and the devil's advocate are also acceptable votes though is the thing. though really bill & ted is the best film ever made.

keanu reeves looks like my cousin.

I don't like him as much as the others but this is a harder choice.

I love Johnny Mnemonic!

this is weird but i really liked him in that movie where he gets together with diane keaton. i didn't like that movie so much but i liked that part.

he is very good playing a fake james dean character in that paula abdul video.

grow up and vote Pvt Idaho.

J Mnemonic is horrifying.

keanu has been in more good movies than rudd and cusack combined--but point break is the ultimate all time classic

if growing up means preferring my own private idaho to bill & ted's excellent adventure, then kill me now

Much Ado About Nothing, lol

he's better in Much Ado than K Branagh.

^^^^ otm!

he's a totally horrible actor who has been in some great great movies.

And the correct answer is River's Edge (even tho Crispin's role is better)

and wait there's a movie missing from this list - Permanent something...? where he has a friend who commits suicide and they have a shitty rock band... Lou Reed is in it and Joe Strummer wrote "Trash City" for the sdtk. It isn't very good.

permanent record.

Permanent Record

arrgh x-post

it is kind of lame that the gene hackman movie with keanu in it is about the 1987 redskins

I also wd like to borrow B&T's time machine and see Keanu in the Vancouver production of Hamlet that he starred in.

man i cried over that hard ball movie

I would feel unfair to myself if I didn't vote for Point Break, but Bill & Ted is my runner-up, should Point Break not be able to serve its duties.

but other than that shakey mo and dr morbius are as usual total know-nothings when it comes to the movies

ppl should not be all "hey it's a funny movie about keanu coaching a little league team" and then all mix it up with crazy sad shit

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/video/stills/ken-riv.jpg

the crazy sad shit is completely telegraphed from a mile out though

oh don't even start with this shit that you were all expecting that little kid to die

I really dig Pvt Idaho but ugh those Shakespeare monologues

i remember when that was my favourite movie. i was a teenager.

btw The Lake House was better than it had any right to be

negative bro points

I do kinda know nothing about the Bill & Teds, I lasted 20 mins w/ each.

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Shakey, those are good! "You wouldn't even look at a clock unless hours were lines of coke ..."

I'm voting BOGUS JOURNEY. One of the rare sequels that's better than the original. I also like Constantine and Parenthood probably more than I should.

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missing Chain Reaction w/ Rachel Weisz

bogus j

I am voting on my wife's behalf. She sez "My Own Private Idaho".

no THE GIFT = you have failed as a poll maker you fuck.

Bill & Ted - no question about this one.

Mer-cew-shee-ooh...

bill & ted's bogus journey is a better "remake" of the seventh seal than private idaho is of chimes at midnight.

his best character after Scott Favor is Siddhartha.

I actually meant to do a Keanu poll last week. Point Break anyway because Bill & Ted is more about Alex Winter for me.

My Own Private Idaho, naturally. Could he have played Mike Waters too?

no river's edge love? eh i'm kinda leaning point break tho

morbs - little buddha stupidest movie evar

He was also pretty good in that Cate Blanchett movie in which he plays sullen white trash.

yes! i was surprised, i don't think i've seen him act better than in The Gift

The Gift is terrible though - it has the most predictable twists imaginable.

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Write in vote for Sweet November.

Keanu Reeves stories are the new Chuck Norris jokes (only true)

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

yea its weird

well not weird its kinda exactly what I expected

this lady doesn't look even old, she just has grey hair, which is rare to see on a woman in Hollywood

Disappointed "Ortiz the Dog Boy" in "Freaked" was not an option.

Oh, shit, the whole movie is on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYXmCZxSeFI

It's time for him to ditch the unclean John Wick movies

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.

more like john sic

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?

sic otm

also, casting the guy from the matrix and constantin is part of it

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.

plot summary on wikipedia before watching, eeeshup

two is the poorest its merely good

The opening scene of 2 wasn't great in fairness.

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

two is the poorest its merely good

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

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

or in a gallery

John Wicks in one room, Playtime in another, The Clock in a third. please give me a grant now

2 is my favorite but i gotta watch 3 again

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...?

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.

2 is my favorite but i gotta watch 3 again

this is also my position

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.

jack was more age appropriate

for whom?

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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.

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

john wick movies are absolutely brilliant, they strike me as exactly the right way to do an action flick

which wick flick do u pick

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.

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.

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

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

lol Brad, you get an honorary “heyooooo” for that

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.

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.

you diseased action junkies

Junkies are non-discerning, this thread overflows with discernment!

guess Morbs really does want more The Lake Houses and Henry's Crimes and Generation Um...s and Exposeds and Destination Weddingses

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mmm i dont think squinting + hair + beard = keanu but if ppl go for it then good for him lol

idk he looks pretty close to me

something's a bit off about the accent

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ahhh <3
sandy & keanu stories are my favorite subgenre

idk he looks pretty close to me

Adam Driver is the Nu-Keanu.

i love Adam Driver but no

listen to me:
there is no nu-Keanu, it’s not ~possible~