Burn, Burn down the Damn Hollywood.
Jan. 15th, 2009 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Don't let it take your soul away...
'The Japanese animation studio Sunrise has officially announced the plans for a live-action film adaptation of its Cowboy Bebop science-fiction anime franchise. The American film studio Twentieth Century Fox, the production company 3 Arts Entertainment, and Sunrise itself are collaborating on the project. Keanu Reeves. . . is slated to star.'
Emphasis mine.
You know, I used to say, in the style of Philip J. Fry, to his friend Bender B. Rodriguez, that we either bombed Japan too much, or not enough; either way we didn't bomb them Exactly The Right Amount. Now I know that it was Not Enough.
Now, don't get me wrong: I respected Keanu in the first Matrix, in A Scanner Darkly, and The Gift. I thought he did REALLY well, there, as well as few other places. But Keanu Reeves is NOT Spike Spiegel. He simply isn't.
Keep Keanu away from my badass fictional heroes. Don't let him do to Spike what he did to John. >_<.
'The Japanese animation studio Sunrise has officially announced the plans for a live-action film adaptation of its Cowboy Bebop science-fiction anime franchise. The American film studio Twentieth Century Fox, the production company 3 Arts Entertainment, and Sunrise itself are collaborating on the project. Keanu Reeves. . . is slated to star.'
Emphasis mine.
You know, I used to say, in the style of Philip J. Fry, to his friend Bender B. Rodriguez, that we either bombed Japan too much, or not enough; either way we didn't bomb them Exactly The Right Amount. Now I know that it was Not Enough.
Now, don't get me wrong: I respected Keanu in the first Matrix, in A Scanner Darkly, and The Gift. I thought he did REALLY well, there, as well as few other places. But Keanu Reeves is NOT Spike Spiegel. He simply isn't.
Keep Keanu away from my badass fictional heroes. Don't let him do to Spike what he did to John. >_<.
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Date: 2009-01-15 09:29 pm (UTC)And while were agonizing .. who the fuck COULD one imagine as Spike Spiegel?
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Date: 2009-01-16 06:59 pm (UTC)Constantine
Date: 2009-01-16 05:03 pm (UTC)I find that I can forgive a lot of cosmetic details (exception: Kingpin was a fatcat, which necessitated him being a big fat white guy) if the writing is proper. It wasn't just, or in my opinion even mostly Reeves' acting that made him Not Constantine. It was his lines, and the way the director presented the man.
I will agree that the bad acting didn't help and, odds are, won't help.
...And now that we've gotten on the topic, I've gotten the mental image of medium-young Macaulay Culkin as live-action Aang.
Don't think it. I promise you, it's aanguish.
Re: Constantine
Date: 2009-01-16 11:09 pm (UTC)