quirk #478
last night, instead of rolling my eyes and changing the channel to something like "i love lucy", i saw "the matrix" was on tbs and decided it was time.
not necessarily the most ground breaking blogclamation ever made, but i've never fancied myself groundbreaking so when i say i'm worried about destroying my "rep", that's not what i'm referring to. no sir, that potentially defaming tidbit is to be found in the "why" i decided to finally watch "the matrix".
i love a good conspiracy theory movie as much as anyone (although i did not love the movie "conspiracy theory") but last night i had but one motive. to bundle up in a blanket, eat a bowl of cereal, and witness the phenomenon i can only call "pure keanuness".
it's a thing. a latest obsession kind of a thing.
i'm not proud of it, but neither can i turn away from it. some actors exude warmth, some depth, but keanu? he exudes that certain je ne sais quois. whatever. je sais quois! it's "keanuness". there's no other word for it.
some people say he's a bad actor. up until 2 months ago, i was "some people". but now i see it's simply his varying inability to hide who he is. and that, my friends, is beautiful.
my new goal in life is to study this phenomenon and learn all i can about it. to study this great man's works and rate them on my keanuness scale from 0 to bill & ted.
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by the way, "the matrix" rated a 3. i was kind of disappointed.
not necessarily the most ground breaking blogclamation ever made, but i've never fancied myself groundbreaking so when i say i'm worried about destroying my "rep", that's not what i'm referring to. no sir, that potentially defaming tidbit is to be found in the "why" i decided to finally watch "the matrix".
"surely, you watched it for all of the matrixy goodness. the shooting and fighting and mind blowing idea that our existence isn't real!"
hu.i love a good conspiracy theory movie as much as anyone (although i did not love the movie "conspiracy theory") but last night i had but one motive. to bundle up in a blanket, eat a bowl of cereal, and witness the phenomenon i can only call "pure keanuness".
it's a thing. a latest obsession kind of a thing.
i'm not proud of it, but neither can i turn away from it. some actors exude warmth, some depth, but keanu? he exudes that certain je ne sais quois. whatever. je sais quois! it's "keanuness". there's no other word for it.
some people say he's a bad actor. up until 2 months ago, i was "some people". but now i see it's simply his varying inability to hide who he is. and that, my friends, is beautiful.
my new goal in life is to study this phenomenon and learn all i can about it. to study this great man's works and rate them on my keanuness scale from 0 to bill & ted.
a-like so...
by the way, "the matrix" rated a 3. i was kind of disappointed.
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and i was disappointed when i finally watched "the matrix", too. it doesn't seem so cool and original when you know that it's based on plato's "allegory of the cave" from "the republic". kind of a cheapened version of it.
yeah i wrote this post...
keanu reeves doesn't suck
hope i got the link right
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best keanu movie, a split between bogus journey (how can you not love the reaper rap, STATION!!!), or perhaps, the replacements, a heartfelt story of one man's quest to return to his johnny utah days in a different script. touching.
Anyway, about Keanu. I'm going to have to say my opinion is somewhat skewed. Being a righteous disciple of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, I'm a big advocate of barely post-pubescent Keanu. Then I saw a few movies that made me go, "hu? Wasshetryingtodo?" but I wouldn't automatically categorize him in the sux pile. I think when he gets into the role, he can bring a certain Keanu-flair to it, including the sometimes appropriate oft times not appropriate monotone. (Direct reference to Don John's performance in Much Ado About Nothing.)
i think not.