Wednesday, January 20, 2010

By the Numbers: Keanu Reeves


Twice in one week for this picture. Laziness and I are BFFs.

I don't care what some people may think, I used to love Keanu Reeves. He was a favorite of my sister's and I ended up seeing just about everything he did early on. My interest in the last few years has been more cursory, but in the right role I still think he kicks butt. Still that doesn't mean he's a good actor. For that we must do the math.

For those who don't know how this works I shall explain.

I take all the films an actor or actress has been in and break them down into three categories, 'Good' 'Bad' and 'Ok.' I do not count TV appearances or Made for TV movies. Afterwards a quick analysis will show whether or not they're a good actor by the numbers. Invariably there is a 2-3 +/- point bias on a person to person basis.

Enough chit chat let's see that chart:



I know you'll argue about my bias on this one, since admittedly I like the guy, but I truly only judge the movies. For instance, the first matrix movie I considered good, the second I thought was ok, but the third counted as bad. At any rate since ok movies are still a positive and cannot be counted in the negative column, that puts Keanu at surprising 61% good over a 39% bad. Doubters beware, Keanu is officially a good actor.

8 comments:

  1. Matrix and Speed are good, other than that? Pure garbage.

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  2. Disagree. The Bill and Ted movies are classic. Constantine was fantastic. The Gift was great. He's been a part of a lot of good things.

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  3. I have to call shenanigans based on your flawed scoring system. Keanu can du no wrong wit me.

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  4. I'm confused. You're calling shenanigans because my system said he's a good actor?

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  5. During a corporate fancy pants meeting a guy said, "be excellent to each other" and made sure to cite bill and ted's.

    Also, the replacements is funny ... to POOP ON! (But seriously I find it funny.)

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  6. lol, that's awesome. Yeah the replacements was good.

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  7. " The Bill and Ted movies are classic. Constantine was fantastic. The Gift was great. He's been a part of a lot of good things."

    I have to agree. Constantine was fantastic indeed , and it made me become a Hellblazer fan. A Scanner Darkly is a great movie too ( and has one of Reeves' best performances, but that's not the criteria here ;) ) Street Kings, genre movie and clicheistic as it is, has a certain intensity.
    He had a small role in Thumbsucker but he helped getting the movie made, and that's something.
    The guy never stops experimenting, and that's the best thing an actor could do.

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  8. Well put. I respect any actor that's willing to take chances.

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