Just got back from seeing the Keanu remake. You know, it was all going along quite well till about half an hour before the end when they just stop bothering about the script business. The story had no ending. It just stopped. Absolutely fucking pointless, especially considering there was a damn fine, pertinent, relevant and utterly awesome ending close at hand IN THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE STORY THE FILM WAS BASED ON. They didn’t even have to look anywhere, fer fuck’s sake.
I thought Keanu did a pretty neat job of playing an alien trying to get around in a human skin. He’s good with that kinda stuff. It’s the Shakespeare he needs to steer clear of. And the big fuckoff robot was awesome.
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I definitely agree. The scriptwriter should have given half the money back for not writing an ending. Interesting movie making choice that one. Not many people would spend millions of dollars and millions of person-hours to make a movie that will ultimately piss off the audience. There’s a fucked up audacity to that.
Maybe Keanu should consider a new Bill & Ted sequel. I’d look forward to that. Kind of Dumb and Dumber with time travel…
It was a bit of a disappointment really. I think Keanu does the no emotion stuff pretty well. I think it is his face or something. What didn’t work for me was how he came to have sympathy with humans…I mean does Jennifer Connelly’s character do it that wel? In what way was he moved. It was more like “I can see there is more to you now.” without any emotional engagement at all. I thought the world was doomed.