so my mom and i drove out to the bay theater last night to catch something's gotta give. i don't go to that theater very often, but it was the locale of many a high school date, or many a group-of-girls chick-flick watchings (officer and a gentleman, anyone? risky business?) anyway, this is not the point of this post. the point of this post is keanu reeves.
i've decided we've sold him short. as a nation of film snobs, we have turned our back. we have put reeves in his excellent-adventure box and shut the lid, bringing it out only to gloat over such missteps as dracula or much ado about a-whole-lotta-nothin'. or gagfests like sweet november (yee-uck). but c'mon keanu's been in some pretty good films: my own private idaho and parenthood, to name two. and i'm not even bringing up the matrix.
but when he won me over i think was last night in something's gotta give. now this is a fun movie, nothing earth shattering fabulous, but entertaining definitely and diane keaton is the woman we all hope to be at her age. thin. graceful. silly. so when keanu's character falls in love with her, well it didn't seem like such a stretch for me. and he was great and more than believable. his body language and the way he looked at her: lemme tell you: that is what we all want, someone to be into us like that. salon called it casual ardor. as a single girl, all i can say is bring it on. and he played it perfectly. and the scene where his face falls (in the paris restaurant) — seriously: great performance.
so from now on, i'm giving keanu a break. go see the movie for yourself and just try to think he sucks. i don't think you'll be very successful.
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