I think I like Hayden better than Keanu but that's like saying I'd rather eat cardboard than plastic.
The Society for Whatever, We Love Keanu respectively disagrees.
Mal: Cut it out. Job's not done until we're back on Serenity. Zoe: Sorry, sir. Didn't mean to enjoy the moment.
'Ariel'
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lisah - Jan 09, 2008 5:41:48 pm PST #3285 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Hayden - Jan 09, 2008 5:50:32 pm PST #3286 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I thought Christiansen was great in Shattered Glass, too.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 09, 2008 7:08:27 pm PST #3287 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Christiansen gives me a pain in general, but he does have the virtue of never having butchered one of my favorite novels. I'm looking at you, Mr. Whoa-look-how-gnarly-my-British-accent-is.
Cashmere - Jan 09, 2008 7:10:15 pm PST #3288 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I just watched Hard Candy and all I can say is, "whoa." In a non-Keanu kind of way.
P.M. Marc - Jan 09, 2008 7:10:21 pm PST #3289 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The Society for Whatever, We Love Keanu respectively disagrees.
YEAH!
That said, HC has managed to get good reviews for his acting for pretty much everything he's been in that wasn't Star Wars.
Which indicates to me that HC was not the problem.
Cashmere - Jan 09, 2008 7:11:12 pm PST #3290 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
We all know what the problem is.
*coughGeorgeLucascough*
Polter-Cow - Jan 09, 2008 7:24:10 pm PST #3291 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just watched Hard Candy and all I can say is, "whoa." In a non-Keanu kind of way.
Yep.
DavidS - Jan 09, 2008 7:38:00 pm PST #3292 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That said, HC has managed to get good reviews for his acting for pretty much everything he's been in that wasn't Star Wars.
I haven't seen him in anything else so it's hard for me to say, but Lucas did manage to make actors as good as Samuel Jackson and Ewan McGregor sound wooden so I expect he's the recurring ingredient.
shrift - Jan 09, 2008 7:41:26 pm PST #3293 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Which indicates to me that HC was not the problem.
All right, I'll reserve judgment on poor HC until I see some of his other work, because only George Lucas should be held responsible for that dialogue. A bicycle messenger couldn't deliver that shit.
Fay - Jan 10, 2008 1:13:37 am PST #3294 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Ooh, is it called Chocolate?
Cool. I saw a trailer for it a few weeks back, in the cinema, but it was, alas, entirely in Thai. So I just got to go "...hey, this looks good! Um. Wonder what it's called..." and look sadly at the curly wiggles of Thai script on the screen. It was very River Tam, the trailer I saw.
...I rather like Keanu. Risible though he was in Dracula and Much Ado About Nothing (and I have to say that I couldn't fault Branagh's casting rationale: get kids into the cinema to watch Keanu get oiled up while wearing black leather pants, then hit them with the Shakespeare). Also, I rather liked Speed, have a mighty slashy fondness for Point Break and actively heart The Matrix. (Actually, I enjoyed all 3 of the Matrix films.)
And he seems like a good bloke.
And there's always the memory of that black and white photo shoot with the falling towel, back when he was all young and pretty.
Oh! Constantine. I liked it. I remain sorry that there will be no Hellblazer movie with a scruffy blond Scouser played by Paul Bettany - or possibly even Alan Tudyk or Callum Keith Rennie (who, OMG, totally looks the part, but I've no idea whether he could pull off the accent)...but I was very pleasantly surprised by the movie they did make.
Er. Which isn't to invalidate anyone's Keanu-loathing, obviously.