Alex Winter is clearly still Bill, but Keanu Reeves is like someone’s dad doing a Ted impression.
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Seriously, the John Wick movies are amazing. In an era where everything seems to be reboots and things based on comic books, creating a new successful franchise based on new IP is no mean feat. That said, I am optimistic for a new Bill & Ted movie, as different as that franchise was from the action stuff Keanu has been in since.
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Yeah, I love Keanu, but damn if he didn’t remind me of De Niro in the Irishman w/ the way he moves in this trailer.
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Thanks to pandemic boredom I introduced myself to the John Wick franchise a few weeks ago, and can attest, it’s ridiculously entertaining.
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Highly recommended. They are really dumb and some of the jokes haven’t aged all that well (they are very much a product of their time), but they have heart and don’t take themselves too seriously.
On a related note, I was watching the (“excellent!”) Panama Papers documentary a few days ago – written, produced, and directed by Alex Winter. I was like, surely not that Alex Winter, and yup, it was.
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Was this supposed to be a comedy? Because watching that trailer left me desperately sad.
I’m sorry, Keanu can NOT be 10 years younger than me, Can he? Whoa!
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I want to to believe that the narration went like “Weird things are afoot in the Magic Offshore Circle (K). Mossack Fonseca is most heinously bogus!”, but I imagine it didn’t.
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May this movie be more Whooooaaaa and less Woe…
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I only saw like half of the first one on a plane, and it was fine, but that kind of action movie isn’t really my bag (I am someone who occasionally has reservations about using power tools because I feel like they might be too violent).
But I was immediately impressed with how progressive it was from a queer standpoint – and I bet a lot of viewers didn’t notice this – because if you compare the inciting incident from the first John Wick movie with almost every other action movie, it is like 100% less reliant on the audience’s sense of women as possessions.
Anyhoo, while modern Keanu Reeves is merely an attractive man I would be honored to bone, that just highlights how god damn hhhngh he was in (for example) that one bit in Point Break. You know the bit I mean.
ETA I couldn’t find a YouTube clip of that exact scene but, this clip made me realise why I found Lori Petty so anomalously hot when I watched Orange is the New Black. This version of Keanu literally makes me slightly tearful with how beautiful he is
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Badly. Because as we all know, Keanu really can’t act.
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I kept wondering how much more ridiculous it could get, and then Peter Serafinowicz turned up as the gun sommelier. Not sure how sillier it can get from there, but I will definitely see JW4 to find out.
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They’re not making them old enough.
They should be like Krist Novoselic and Morrissey. That should be the whole joke.
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The two women at 0:42 are playing their daughters, so, quite probably?
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I have a bad feeling about this.
Alex Winter is a very underrated, and multitalented, filmmaker.
Outside of B&T he has had his finger in all kinds of pies, from activist documentary to absurdist farce:
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I never knew. I was very impressed with his Panama Papers documentary and I’m definitely interested in seeing more of his work.
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