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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2265745" data-attributes="member: 5171"><p>I'm always surprised by the amount of vehement hatred dished to Keanu. I mean, he's not my favorite actor, and I didn't even particularly like the Matrix, but he doesn't seem any worse than any other action-movie leading man.</p><p></p><p>Although I will doubly damn myself by saying that I didn't particularly mind Ben Affleck or Tom Cruise, either. Affleck may not be bad enough to transcend bad material, but he's good enough to rise to good material. As is Tom Cruise.</p><p></p><p>TranceJeremy, I don't mean to bash on you in particular -- everyone's entitled to their opinion -- but it seems like you might a) dislike brown-haired trying-to-be-serious leading men in general, b) dislike the poor writing that the actors can't rise above (although I did like Minority Report once I separated it almost completely from the short story it was based on), or c) just don't like movie adaptions of PKD. </p><p></p><p>I consider a) a legitimate opinion -- I can't stand watching deliberately immature man-boys, so even a very good deliberately immature man-boy is going to tick me off. I consider b) a legitimate opinion, since I'm against poor writing in general, although there's a difference between poor writing and departure from the original material -- as I said, I liked Minority Report, although not as an adaption of the short story. And I consider c) a legitimate opinion, since PKD's work is striking enough that getting it to work onscreen seems pretty much doomed to failure unless you re-imagine the original storyline pretty severely.</p><p></p><p>Or, of course, you could simply dislike Reeves, Cruise, and Affleck, which is a totally fine opinion as well -- but I've liked each of them in different roles they've played, so I don't agree with you that they are bad actors. Maybe not good enough to transcend a bad script, and possibly not right for some of the roles they've played, but that's true even for brilliant actors sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takyris, post: 2265745, member: 5171"] I'm always surprised by the amount of vehement hatred dished to Keanu. I mean, he's not my favorite actor, and I didn't even particularly like the Matrix, but he doesn't seem any worse than any other action-movie leading man. Although I will doubly damn myself by saying that I didn't particularly mind Ben Affleck or Tom Cruise, either. Affleck may not be bad enough to transcend bad material, but he's good enough to rise to good material. As is Tom Cruise. TranceJeremy, I don't mean to bash on you in particular -- everyone's entitled to their opinion -- but it seems like you might a) dislike brown-haired trying-to-be-serious leading men in general, b) dislike the poor writing that the actors can't rise above (although I did like Minority Report once I separated it almost completely from the short story it was based on), or c) just don't like movie adaptions of PKD. I consider a) a legitimate opinion -- I can't stand watching deliberately immature man-boys, so even a very good deliberately immature man-boy is going to tick me off. I consider b) a legitimate opinion, since I'm against poor writing in general, although there's a difference between poor writing and departure from the original material -- as I said, I liked Minority Report, although not as an adaption of the short story. And I consider c) a legitimate opinion, since PKD's work is striking enough that getting it to work onscreen seems pretty much doomed to failure unless you re-imagine the original storyline pretty severely. Or, of course, you could simply dislike Reeves, Cruise, and Affleck, which is a totally fine opinion as well -- but I've liked each of them in different roles they've played, so I don't agree with you that they are bad actors. Maybe not good enough to transcend a bad script, and possibly not right for some of the roles they've played, but that's true even for brilliant actors sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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