but more importantly (to me) he completely screwed up the single most important scene in the entire trilogy by thinking his dialog for the Eowyn Kills the Witch King moment was somehow better than Tolkien's.
What, you didn't like the whole "Get away from her, you bitch!" aspect of it? The whole Schwarzeneggerian ultra-cool "You know when I said I would kill you last? I LIED!!" of it? The Bruce Willis "Yippee Ki Yay, motherfucker" of it? The Samuel L. Jackson "This ain't no ham sandwich" of it?
What, you thought it didn't fit? What are you, a Communist?
Why 2008 will be an awesome year for movies.
He (I'm assuming the author is a guy) really stretches to make his point. The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Keanu? C'mon.
Unless it's standing still to watch him do a striptease, I don't see that as one of the cinematic heights of the new year.
Maybe Keanu plays the soldier who fires his gun at the alien spaceship and then gets vaporized by Gort....
I like the rating mention in that NYT review of Sweeney Todd: ""Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It’s not “Hairspray.”"
SciFi Wire
article on AvP: [link] I like this quote:
"The thing we were trying to be careful of is we didn't want to have aliens dancing in front of McDonald's and stuff," Strause said in a group interview at the brothers' Hydraulx visual-effects house in Santa Monica, Calif.
Of course, they totally blew the chance for wacky product placement hijinks. Just think - an alien going through a McDonald's drive-through! Zany!
I'll take any Keanu I can get. So there!
Sadly, I draw the line at Keanu as a Jesus metaphor.
How about an
Alien vs. Keanu
movie? Humans have to fight off aliens, Keanu-clones, and the deadly alien/Keanu hybrid.
