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This movie made me laugh

posted 16 years ago by bestintheworld82
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A thriller?? please!! Keanu Reeves a badguy? Yeah ok. The only reason this movie is decent is because some of the quotes they they say in this movie. I did enjoy seeing Marisa Tomei, even those she was beyond horrible. Keanu Reeves proves that he's an overrated actor. You have to turn the volume up really loud to understand what Spader was saying or put captions on your TV.

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[–] Anakin_McFly 16 years ago

Keanu Reeves proves that he's an overrated actor.

I don't think you understand the definition of 'overrated'.

Because if anything, Keanu is underrated.

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[–] TheBeardedWonder 16 years ago

...doesn't someone saying he's underrated (when he sucks), mean that he IS overrated? Just a thought... also a crappy movie in pretty much every way...

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[–] Anakin_McFly 16 years ago

...doesn't someone saying he's underrated (when he sucks), mean that he IS overrated?

1. "he sucks" is a subjective opinion and one that not everyone shares.

2. I don't see that many people around saying that he's underrated. I'm pretty sure that there are more saying that he sucks than those saying that he's underrated, and as such, no, he is not overrated. It's a matter of mass opinion when it comes to rated-ness, and in Keanu's case, I would thus conclude that he's underrated.

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[–] TheBeardedWonder 16 years ago

Fair enough, I could see that.

However, you say most people don't like him, but you also say he sucks is an opinion not shared by many...so which it?

"When a girl has a heart of stone, there's only one way to melt it: just add ICE" - Cool as ice

[–] Anakin_McFly 16 years ago

but you also say he sucks is an opinion not shared by many...

I didn't say that. I said that SOME people don't share that opinion. Namely his fans. The serious fans, that is, not the casual ones who just watch his films because they think he's hot/cool/lukewarm.

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[–] Anakin_McFly 16 years ago

He's not underrated. You should define underrated.

I would say that Keanu is underrated because he is constantly held up as some epitome of bad acting. It started with a small bunch of critics in the early 1990s because of Dracula, which is more or less agreed to have been Keanu's worst performance ever; due to the nature of said film, this led to critics making comparisons between Keanu and the wooden stakes used to kill the vampires. And a bandwagon was born.

Meanwhile there are some of us who have witnessed decent to great performances from Keanu and honestly cannot see why so many people persist in declaring him the worst actor in Hollywood. I was puzzled about this even before I was a Keanu fan, because I had seen (and loved) both The Matrix and the Bill & Ted films and was frankly impressed by how Keanu had managed to pull off two such different characters, even to the degree of making them cinematic icons.

Eventually I became a fan, saw more of his films; some were bad, no doubt, but others were good enough for me to rank him up there with at least the average actor in the industry, if not better. He does at least have one of the greatest varieties in terms of roles and film genres that I've ever seen in an A list actor.

And yet the general public doesn't seem able to see that - what's worse, most of them watch precious few of his films before making their judgement on his acting - which is why I would call Keanu underrated.

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[–] gljbradley 14 years ago

I agree. Keanu is VERY underrated.

[–] marinestone03 16 years ago

I like Keanu, Matrix is one of my favourite movies. I think that in most movies he acts like a normal guy, he is not necessarily bad, just easy to pick on.
But here ( I saw this movie with Greek subtitles by the way) it really took some time to digest in my mind that Keanu was the bad guy. And what was that at the beginning? Was he dancing or something? It also took an hour but eventually I fell asleep, and the worst is that I didn’t care about the end. I came here to see if anyone else agreed that it was terrible. I’ve seen worst movies but the cast had potential, I think :(