'Harm's Way'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
On its own merits,ignoring its source, is it a good movie?
NobutIlikeitanyway.
I can distance myself and see everything about it that's utter crap, I really can. But there's my Keanu problem, see, and Tilda Swinton being so awesome, and the whole faux-epic feel of the Good-v-Evil thing and...yeah. Sometimes I am just that easy.
I seem to remember enjoying Keanu in My Own Private Idaho. On the other hand, it was years ago and I don't know what I would think of it now.
Keanu does have extensive Shakespeare training. I liked him in Point Break, and we know all about my unreasonable and unholy love for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (in which he's playing himself, more or less).
I'll take people's word for it that Keanu once had the ability to speak. I'll make a point to see River's Edge and Johny Mneumonic at some point.
From the NYT review:
Most of the performances are as natural and credible as the ones in ''Tex,'' with Mr. Roebuck a sad and helpless figure as Samson, and Keanu Reeves affecting and sympathetic as Tim's older brother
Perhaps the last time those words were said about Mr. Reeves, who brought a charming cluelessness to the excellent adventures of Bill and Ted, but unfortunately got stuck there.
(That said, I have mad, mad love for Keanu Reeves, and hope that one day, he gets that groove back.)
I have mad, mad love for Keanu Reeves, and hope that one day, he gets that groove back.
So very much this.
Greg Berlanti is co-writing and directing a Green Lantern movie.
GF and I watched Oldboy this weekend. What a twisted crazy movie! Great one.
My sister LOVES that movie. A bunch of my male friends swear it has a happy ending. They're misusing words. One of them has a daughter and I asked him to think of it in those terms--suddenly he was quite defensive, although he wouldn't grant me my point.
Dude, there really was no way to have a happy ending of any kind. I think he should have told his daughter the truth. His only other options were to continue with the wrongness of that relationship, or cut ties with her altogether, neither of which is great.