Keanuthon

2:44pm – Point Break: “Making Of” Featurette Keanu (among other things) answers somewhat “Who is Johnny Utah?” – but we can never fully know, can we?

2:49pm – “Point Break”, 1991

Matt had forgotten about the training sequence in the beginning of this movie. Silly guy, bad memory on that kid. This is when we see just how good Johnny Utah really is. He hits 100% of his targets, showing us that he is just as good of a special agent as he is a quarterback punk.

Man, I love John C. McGinley. He adds a spunky touch to every role he tackles: “Young, dumb and full of cum…. guess we must have ourselves an asshole shortage.” and Keanu’s response: “Not so far”

Why is it that Gary Busey looks so much like Nick Nolte? It gets confusing sometimes.

2:55 – We have our first robbery scene. It harkens back to the good old days of “Brotherhood,” when they made their first hit. And we end with a Nixon two handed peace sign “I’m not a crook”, but this one adds a mooning with a big old “Thank you” on the rear.

“Apparently my job is to stay awake and bring you motherfuckers food.” – Matt I’m just so glad that he finally figured out his lot in life.

I am a bit disturbed by the lack of attention to detail. A key point in figuring out that the Dead Presidents are surfers is the tan line on the guy who mooned at the bank robbery. It is clear in the bank video reel that his shirt is above his pant line, but in the real action that we saw, the robber’s shirt tail was covering his tan line. This movie just isn’t what I remembered.

Just realized (well it just dawned on me) that Keanu has lied about his parents dying in car wrecks in two movies now, both times to pick up the girl. In “Young Again” he tells the daughter of his adult self’s high school girlfriend that his parents died in a car accident (and then later a plane accident when a plane hit the car they were in), and he lies to the surfer girl in “Point Break” using his dead parents to appeal to her sentimentality about why he wants to surf while convincing her to teach him.

Ah, we just caught the reason this movie is called “Point Break.” The forensics team identified which beach the Presidents surf at, and when Keanu finds out he says “nice point break” about it. It is all coming together now.

Ah yes, the appearance of Anthoney Keidis as a surf punk. It is a classic moment of Keanu getting into some trouble with some tough guys, but able to get out of it with a little help from his friends.

Youngblood/Point Break Patrick Swayze/Keanu Reeves one/two combo punch That is my summary when Matt reminded me to comment on the fact that Patrick Swayze and Keanu are back together again after a long hiatus since “Youngblood” to work together in this classic work of art. Do you think the Swayziac & Keanu were chatty on the set of “Youngblood” (which I still maintain might not actually be the Rob Lowe character’s name, but a metaphor/nickname that they just put on the back of his jersey) or did Swayze (already established somewhat) even give Keanu the time of day? And why hasn’t there been a reteaming (Pointblood/Youngbreak, anyone?) of this dynamic duo? I think I remember reading Swayze was originally offered the role of Trinity in the “Matrix,” but turned it down.

CKPL: “Goosebumps”

Got a classic Busey-looking-for-his-dog-named-“Scooby” while guy-puts-beer-in-the-cereal-a-l�-“RevengeOfTheNerds” scene – great stuff, but sometimes I worry I’ve seen it in too many movies – seems a little trite at times, but still gets me every time.

One thing that really bothers me about this scene is that once it is all over, the FBI comes in and complains that they had a guy deep undercover who was casing the drug dealers. Now, my question is, why don’t the departments within the FBI work better together to figure out what is going on? If the FBI knew these guys were small time drug dealers, then Busey never would have had to kill that guy (a la: “The last time you had a hunch, I had to kill a guy.”) Just upsets me, you know?

Apparently it is Tom Sizemore who was working deep (deeeeeeeep) undercover.

3:47 – nip. 3:48 – double nip. 3:58 – discussion of potential metaphors implied by the use of the President masks. Was an early Ronald Reagan campaign slogan (maybe in his failed 1976 run?) “I’ll set fire to your car”? Did Ronnie ever say, “Don’t shoot me, I have eyes behind this mask?” Keanuthon is taking a political turn right when it always does, in the middle of Point Break.

4:04 – bootie!!

4:05 – nip, double nip

We all agree that we hate the ridiculous parachute-exchange routine that takes place in the airplane, but then, it does lead to a great Keanu line: “Are we gonna jump, or jerk off?” Keanu’s always trying to get straight to the action, just like in The Night Before, when he asked “Are we going to talk, or are we going to rock?” Sometimes you wonder if Keanu himself realizes all of these connections between his movies—did he read the script for Point Break and chuckle to himself when he got to the “jump or jerk off” line, thinking, “wow, that’s just like what I said to George Clinton three years ago”?

I feel like this is when Keanu’s characters start taking on that confident/young punkitude that we see again in Speed, in Devil’s Advocate (to name but 2)...

There is some doubt that Patrick is actually that spiritual—Matt says, “Oh, yeah, I’m all spiritual and deep…I’m a shit.” You can’t take it with you!

We get Keanucam for a second. Then they have a frame with him with a tank top and he is looking huuunk-y. We are digging on the hunkiness but also enjoying us some Gary Busey. Keanu does a nice little pirouette and we all note the almost dancelike quality of his physical movements.

This movie is really violent—I’m not sure we remembered just how violent it really is.

Quick note on the difference between Busey and Nolte. Nolte has never (and hopefully never will at this point) played Buddy Holly.

We’re thinking if someone really did basically skydove out of a plane from a few miles up, then didn’t pull the chute until 15 feet off the ground, they might actually die. Thusly, this might be one of 3.5 movies (Bogus Journey & Matrix & possible Matrix Revolting) where Keanu dies, then comes back to life.

4:41 – This is reminding me of Speed, in which there’s an ending, but then there’s another ending. Jeff rightly points out that this is much better than that extended ending on Speed, but here it just feels like they could have cut a lot of the half-hour that’s spent skydiving shots. We decide that Patrick and Keanu must have a lot of pent-up Youngblood anger to work out between them, or maybe Patrick decided way back then that he hated French Canadians. We all forgot about the mask floating in the water…

Keanu says “Vaya con Dios,” tying us back to Brotherhood (which we have never really been untied from)

12:59pm – “Tune In Tomorrow”, 1990

We are finally into the 90s. Matt has already deemed the opening credits of this movie to be “great.”

A scant three minutes in and we have already seen Keanu. This is gonna be a good one. OK, I admit, I’ve seen this one before, so I already know it is gonna be a good one. Does that count as cheating?

I think I just detected a bit of a Southern accent in Keanu’s voice, but just a bit.

In this movie, we are firmly, firmly out of high school. In “Parenthood” he was dating someone in high school. In “Life Under Water” he was out of high school but not in college, and in “Bogus Journey” (which was released after this), he was after high school, and was in fact, dead.

Matt made the fine observation that there are no college age Keanu movies, to which I made the point that the reason is because Keanu never went to college. Although he does have numerous “high school” movies despite the fact he dropped out of high school. But (returning if one can to the original, highly unoriginal point) Keanu is a notoriously hard worker and I am willing to bet he would have actually gone to college, if someone had (or even if someone were to offer him a role a l� the Rodney Dangerfield opus “Back to School”) offered him a college student/collegeagekidthypething role. And we are all pretty sure he has been to colleges, even if he has not “been” to college – which gives him more than enough experience for a college movie. Keanu is also referred to many times as “college boy” in this movie.

Does Keanu have an honorary degree from anywhere?

1:31pm – This looks like the second “Oedipal complex” reference of the day—first was back in the Bill and Ted… there are also some ties to “Young Again,” where Keanu also goes for the older woman. Offering ice cream with chocolate and what not, but I guess the big difference would have to be the lack of pretending to be his own son (because his wish was granted by an angel on the bus) in this movie.

THE KEANUS! Huge big idea oh my god that’s enormous! We hold the Keanus at the end of the ‘thon! 5 nominations for each category: Best leading performance, best supporting actor, best Oedipal complex reference… Wow. This stemmed from another, more “minor” idea, that of having the Keanu scorecard, where ‘thon participants (“invitees”? “thonners”?) keep track of things like number of whoa’s, number of River Phoenix references (or actual number of River Phoenixes) (or actual number of Phoenixes, River, Leaf or otherwise), etc.

CKPL: “I’m 21 I lost my cherry 5 years ago.”

Apparently Keanu “lost his cherry” at 16. That’s what he’s saying here. Maybe he means the time he zipped two sleeping bags together and got it on with Ione Skye.

We’ve moved on from low-level unfunny racist content (in the really early movies) to this classic and wonderfully done scathingly askance look at Albanians, courtesy Peter Falk. Love me some Falk.

Keanu is telling Barbara Hershey, “I’m sincere. I’m not filthy.” But in Prince of Pennsylvania he says “yuckiness is truth.” Difficicult to tell where he is on this filthiness/yuckiness issue.

Keanu gets to wear both a wacky pyjama-looking swimsuit and a wacky tennis outfit in this movie.

2:00pm – great dance montage moment (swing dancing this time)

Had forgotten Patricia Clarkson was in this (way back before she was “Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson”) – great to see her (if even somewhat wasted), think she is super.

The end of this movie (not the very end, but the end of the radio serial & the radio station) is good, but needs more Keanu (I know, I know, broken record – but still the truth. Liking his accent in this – only noticed one spot where it wavered was when he was battling with his little brother to pick up the phone.

Fun movie – might or might not be one of the reasons we ‘thon (which we’ll debate later), but it sure is good.

10:58am – “Parenthood”, 1989

This is a prime example of a movie where Keanu doesn’t have a big part (but is still great and really integral), but the movie is still really good (unlike our current whipping boy “Youngblood”). A pleasure to watch. Still, one is left with a bit of longing and one plaintive question (“where is that darn Keanu?”). Not sure we laughed this much since “Bogus Journey” or “I Love You To Death” – we watched those movies ages ago, right?

If only Keanu had sung the diarrhea song. Well maybe this isn’t much of a dream and Keanu has kind of left the “kids” roles behind, so I retract. But still would be a nice moment for the video montage (potentially).

11:10 – nip.

The ‘Thon could use a little more Rick Moranis, maybe Keanu could make a “Honey, I shrunk the Neo” movie. Of course for this idea to work, it would also have to have Rick Moranis (that was the original idea, after all). Also Carrie-Anne Moss might maybe should be in it. Maybe we should stop there – we cast cast an ultimateKeanumovie some other time.

Multiple ponytails. Multiple birthmarks. Bad dudes.

“Matt, none of that. We’re a team.”

Jeff is beginning to suggest Keanu play practically every part in the movie. The older, thankful Kevin. The Rick Moranis role (which would mean we would really NEED the “Honey, I shrunk the…” movie) The younger Kevin. The Mary Steenburgen role. I think you get the picture. Not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, it just is.

12:03 – Parenthood is still on. A rather oblique tie here: not only is a child Joaquin Phoenix in it, but so is Martha Plimpton, who later shows up in “Mosquito Coast” with River, who, as we know from that really terrible Uncovered video. Moment of creepiness when we all think about having to listen to Joaquin on that really terrible Uncovered video.

12:05 Keanu picture op: Keanu with the wacky glasses, smiling at Joaquin. Then Keanu makes what is arguably the best speech in the whole movie.

Now we are all gathered back in front of the TV, eating a little mac ‘n’ cheese. Things are back on track.

Whoa. Steve Martin just asked why they shouldn’t have a dozen kids. Creepy foreshadowing.

Is this the only movie where Keanu has a baby? Matt points out that there are the three girls in “Dracula” who double (triple?) up on him, and Carla points out that he gets in on with his half sister in “Devil’s Advocate”, but in neither of those does he have a kid. But he might in the potential sequels. TItles forthcoming.

Just want to send a shout out to Randy Newman for his wonderful musical soundtrack.

9:30am – “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” 1988

Ted seems to have less hair in his face than in Bogus Journey.

Oats!

“Strange things are afoot at the KMart.” I like “afoot”—it’s kind of like “askance.”

Movies where Keanu’s dad is a cop (or where his love interest’s dad is a cop). Maybe that’s what inspired him to be a cop later.

Matt would like to point out that Keanu turned down the sequel to “Speed” but agreed to do “Bogus Journey” because he knew that “Bogus Journey” would be a great film. And so it is. Do you think Keanu had to train as much for this swordfighting scene in “Excellent” as he trained for the Matrix sequels? They so just killed Ted.

It bothers me that Ted tells Bill that he does not know how to sword fight, and yet we all know that Keanu can in fact sword fight quite well, as we saw at the end of that movie that begins with “Dangerous.”

Carla would like to point out that in any movie involving peasants, there is always someone chasing a pig.

Matt adds that in all the greatest movies about the medieval times, there is a scene where they are chasing after a phone booth.

10:13am – There is a great slow air guitar ballod scene that needs to go in the musical montage.

The main reason we are watching the “Bill & Ted” adventures out of order are so that we can continue our tradition (of which is the first year) of “Breakfast with Bill and Ted.” The main idea is that we watch the movies in the morning and eat breakfast while watching. It is not really all that amazing of an idea, but then again, what of our ideas (aside from the idea of the ‘Thon itself) are really amazing ideas? This morning we did not eat breakfast until “Excellent Adventure” was on. Carla had a fried egg and toast with jam. I had a double fried egg sandwich with horseradich cheddar cheese, and Matt had a single piece of plain toast.

I feel that we have lost some momentum during the days. We have settled into a schedule of having one person rotate into the watch/log seat while the others do things around the house. We are all sitting together watching “Excellent Adventure” and discussing the ratings of the two “Bill & Ted” movies. We are a bit more on track now.

It is amazing how intellectual the “Bill & Ted” movies are. For instance, Bill and Ted are looking for Napolean who they lost in the suburbs of San Dimas. They ask “If I were one of the greatest generals in history, where would I go?” and conclude that Napolean went to Waterloo. Now, the funny thing about that is that Waterloo is a water park, but it is an oblique reference to a battle that occured for real in history: a battle that Napolean himself lost. So Napolean is not interested in going to Waterloo because it is a water park (how could a Frenchman from the 18th century know about a water park at all?), but instead thinks that Waterloo is the battleground. Ah, history, it is a fascinating thing.

7:53am – “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey,” 1991

I begin “Breakfast with Bill & Ted” in the complete wrong order & with the “bonus” (“making of” “featurette”) Seem to offer only a little Keanu & Alex Winter (but the thing is only 8 minutes long). All in all, not the most satisfying “making of” (in my opinion tha hallmark, or at least the hallmark momemt would be the “wacky” comment in “Hardball” making of – but, once again, I am jumping the proverbial gun), but pretty good

8:01am – “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” actually really begins

Confession time… I’ve got this rash. It really itches, right here. Let me show you. Wait. No. Different confession. Have never been the biggest fan of the “Bill & Ted’s” duology (sorry). My friend Sameer is a big fan. This is a good thing. I must have always felt it kind of typed Keanu in the public mind as “that guy who says excellent” (and NEO) – which has irritated me.

Ooh… Pam Grier, way before Tarantino was all “Pam Grier is cool!” – forget those ’70’s blaxploitation movies, I bet Tarantino was hanging out in the video store & saw “Bill & Ted’s Bojus Journey” & thought “wow! who is that “battle of the bands” concert promoter dudette? she looks really cool!” – this movie is most likely sparked his interested in movies and being “Tarantino” and all that stuff.

Admittedly, melikes the “air guitar” “the evil, anamatronic Bill & Ted” thing and the movies i just am kind of principally against these, like I don’t like the “Matrix” movies (which I actually don’t like, story for a couple of days from now)

“a hand phaser, a hand phaser, my kingdom for a hand phaser!”

Really, in a lot of ways, this movie is a work of genius – I can feel my principals (beliefs/values/morals or whatever you want to call “them”) breaking down this is hardly a unique occurence.

The jumping in the adult’s ears and possessing them is uniformly agreed to be awesome. References to Socrates, we are racking our collective brains. “Spirits can you hear me? Tell me can you hear me?” “Prince of Pennsylvannia,” sure, but what else? oh… Hell..

clearly the “Matrix” hallway was ripped off from the this scene. Oats. More Oats. Just like “Act of Vengence” toasty little buttercakes

“I think we’re in our own personal Hell” – anything like “Your Own Private Idaho?” – “Your own personal Jesus?”

there just aren’t many (or is it enough) movies with comedic Bergman references, William Sadler is great, but if they could’ve gotten Max Von Sydow… Twister. who am i? why am i here? is william sadler really, actually tall? taller than Keanu? these are the questions that NEED to be asked.

we got so distracted by the rubber band with a rubber band

9:09 – Went to bed thinking about the wacky parallels between “I Love You to Death” and “Act of Vengeance,” but Matt had already written about it. What I had mostly thinking about was the way Keanu just shows up at the very end to kill somebody. But it’s much nicer to wait through “I Love You to Death” than “Act of Vengeance” for him to show up.

The “PHRASE” “Excellent!” does indeed keep coming up, just like the dickweed in the unauthorized biography told me. Later he said “the WORDS” “Excellent.” We decided those people had never watched any of Keanu’s movies.

Keanu is 27 here (well, probably younger for the filming) but still makes a convincing high schooler. You know, the Bill and Ted movies are kind of a turning point…After this he doesn’t really play teenagers anymore—but he also gets a little more, you know, famous. These movies are, for a lot of people, their first experience with Keanu, which is, as we all know, a little unfortunate for obvious reasons.

“We’ve been all over the afterlife.” ... “The best place to be is here.”

Keanu rocks out to “God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You”—absolute music montage moment.

10:15pm – “I Love You to Death”, 1990

We just discussed our ratings of today’s movies. There was quite a lot of dissention about the rating for “Life Under Water.” I do not think that it is a [whoooooa!], but both Carla and Matt did. I liked the movie a lot and it was quite a nugget of wonder, but I would not say that it is the reason we ‘Thon. Although there is some certainty from some of us that Jeff will come around on repeated viewings.

Ahhh… Marlon & Harlan. Keanu looks sorta like Todd Graff (but in really not good shape) in this

Not much Keanu in this one, but still viewed by us (and perhpas only us) as very worthwhile. Much hilarity, sobre todo Keanu.

Jeff snoozes before Keanu’s first moments (playing pool, kind of) onscreen.

Although much is made of the Keanu/River friendship, My Own Private Idaho is the movie almost exclusively mentioned, but this gem was their first movie together. Earlier in the day – I might be able to stretch this thought to make an actual point, but I think I’m as tired as Jeff (who still sleeps).

“Harland, man, I can’t watch” – which is more or less how I felt about the horrible “Keanu: unauthorized Biography” (as i belabor the point to flogging an old dead horse) – but it was BAD.

How redundant is the statement: “Keanu is really good in this” – and you can not get much more completely different than “Life Under Water”

Thinking about having a MidnightMatrixMiniMarathon (takeoff on the yet-to-come Breakfast with Bill & Ted), if only to avoid having to watch them in their entirety.

Based on past Keanu movie titles, one might be able to call this “Act of Vengence 2: Wacky Time!” both feature Keanu as a hitman (working in a team), are based on a real story, have leading characters with goofy accidents, and feature our accosted, accented stars being shot in bed (albeit with decidedly different results). Thusly, we are eagerly awaiting the spiritual sequel to “Brotherhood of Wacky Vigilantes” or “River’s Wacky Edging Time” or “One Step Away From Canadian Wacky Teens” or “Under the WACKY!” and many, many more. We’ll work on scripts and plot outlines later. Wackiness seems integral (at least in these treatments or in the titles of these treatments). Perhaps just wackiness up to a point. Up to a point.

11:51pm – It’s over; Day II is over. I’m heading off to bed. ‘night.

9:16pm – “Life Under Water,” 1989

Happy to be over with Malkovich and Close. Talk about a movie with not enough Keanu.

I like movies that start with Keanu right away, so I’m not sold yet. “The Night Before,” for instance, starts right out with a Keanu voice-over: “Where am I?” ALL movies should start with that.

This has Sarah Jessica pre-“LA Story,” so she’s very young and cute. Keanu is always very young and cute. We’re towards the end of Day II and he doesn’t look any older. Matt says “Keanu has been really really good in this so far”—plus it has that woman who we saw in “the Normal Heart.” She’s his mother. I’m looking forward to watching roles where he no longer has parents.

9:34 – no sooner had this been said (written), Keanu runs away from home! Great timing.

Have chosen to watch “Life under Water” (skipping over “Excellent Adventure”) – in favor of “Breakfast with Bill & Ted” (“Bogus Journey” first (Jeff’s idea) then “Excellent Adventure”) tomorrow morning. Despite the anathemaic switching of movie order and schedule swapping this will be perfection, as none of us have seen “LIW” – and all of us are very excited about it… Firstly, this does have Keanu in it and he is a fan favorite. Secondly… Well, you can see where this is leading

CKPL – “I’d like to get you between the sheets”

“This is one of the most intelligent movies of all of Keanuthon.” – Carla “And of all movies.” – Matt

10:06pm – Culo: Keanu’s!

“This answers the question: when do we get to see Keanu naked?” – Carla

58 minutes of sheer wonder.

7:18pm – “Dangerous Liasions”, 1989 Keanu gets billing between Swoosie Kurtz & Mildred Natwick

This movie could be called “Dangerous Glenn Close’s pushed together breasts” They went with another title, but we are all prety sure ours would have sold as many (if not more) tickets.

“Fuck Moosewood’s! I’m Jeff!”

We are now arguing over the hotness levels of the women in this movie. I contend that Michelle Pfeiffer is a major hotty despite lack of breasts, but Carla and Matt agree that she is the fourth hotest babe in the movie, and that is behind Keanu.

We have lost a bit of focus now after “The Night Before.” We have been doing some cooking and have had to make two runs out for groceries. While our concentration is breaking down a bit, we are keeping to our policy of always having someone watch the movies as they play. Right now I am in charge of watching, logging, taking down quotes (though I doubt there will be many) and watching for a good photo op with Keanu. It is tough working this shifts during the ‘Thon. It is kind of like the graveyard shift at a graveyard, or worse, as a desk guard at an old folks’ home.

The currently planned schedule for tonight: Life Under Water, I Love You To Death, Parenthood. This should be a pretty damn good night. “I Love You To Death” is a cute little movie about a filandering Italian man who owns a pizza parlor with his wife. “Parenthood” is the classic 1989 family comedy with Steve Martin, and “Life Under Water” is a new addition to this year’s ‘Thon. It stars Sarah Jessica Parker alongside Keanu. Looking forward to this one.

Blood work. Blood work.

This movie is kinda crap. The people all seem to just stare oddly at each other. You know what would make this movie great? If everyone stared at Keanu. It could be called “Dangerous Keanu.”

Malkovich promises to be “merciless.” I have no response to that.

“It’s beyond my control.” – Some other crappy actor says that, not Keanu. Not really sure who. Don’t really care.

“Do as I say!” – Keanu declares after stabbing Malkovich in the stomach and then yelling for someone to get a surgeon.

I think if we were viewing this in a non’Thonic context it might not be bad, but it is just not a Keanu movie.

5:45pm – “Prince of Pennsylvania”, 1988 We have already discussed taking naps during this film. Matt recounted that last year during this movie he chose to “rest his eyes” to which I said that I might choose to do the same this year. There really is no comparison to “The Night Before” and most of the movies for a while are going to be let downs in comparison.

Keanu has one of the world’s strangest hair cuts in this movie. It is long on the left side and shaved up on the right. Then the shaved side has white striped dyed in. Only his haircut in “Parenthood” could rival this one probably, but really it’s not even close. And the “I Love You to Death” haircut. But that even completely forgets Keanu plays “Dogboy” in Alex Winter’s “Freaked” Now THAT was a weird haircut.

6:22pm – Still Prince of Pennsylvania. Keanu crashes Homecoming. Most of his characters up to this point are the type that would crash Homecoming. Whoa. There’s a little nudity in this one. But not Keanudity, which would be really great.

He’s 23-24 now and still playing high school kids. At least in this one he gets some adult poontang.

6:27 Nip!

To pass the time while watching “PoP,” I am mostly thinking about the greatness that was (is/will be) The Night Before. It seems like if that’s going to be the birth of the Keanu (the drink), maybe it should come at a more appropriate hour in the day. Like, not four in the afternoon. But that observation aside, “The Night Before” is just a great, great movie, at any time.

So far the highlight of “PoP” has been that the adult pootie he’s getting is named Carla. She’s a little crazy but so is Keanu in this movie. What with the haircut and all. “Will you help me, Carla? Will you come away with me?”

Matt and Jeff are making mac ‘n’ cheese. As in real mac ‘n’ cheese. Where you grate the cheese and all that. Keanu is telling Carla that he doesn’t want to be a tadpole; he wants to be a dolphin. A very rich dolphin. Man, I can identify with that one.

Keanu (Rupert) in a plastic bunny mask – kinda animalistic “Point Break” – sure, without the Surfing, Johnny Utah, Quarterback Punks, Bank Robbery (although kidnapping & robbery are kinda plot points), Swayze, Culo, or all that “Point Breakishness” – we do seem to come back to those presidential rubber masks. And the “100% pure adrenalin” aspect that is Keanu.

Day II feels like a gift, a reward, after Day I, which was mostly just not enough goddamm Keanu. And too many goddamm bad movies. Day II is more Keanu and a few really goddamm good movies. (Not just saying this because of a few too many Keanus.) Well, maybe not bad movies. Maybe so. Certainly not enough great Keanu moments (or movies for that matter).

Keanu gets mistaken for a woman in this movie, just like he does in “The Night Before” But is it really all about “The Night Before,” isn’t it?

If only Jay O. Sanders was there to help all of us out with our “fridge door issues” And we could meet the girl we love (or the girl Ed Harris loves) with “You’re not dead!”

Sure Fred Ward (Remo Williams: the Adventure Begins) gets first billing, but who is the “Prince?”

4:08pm – “The Night Before”, 1988 We went to the video store to get a copy of “The Night Before.” Now it is on. Matt is lollygagging around while I log. I’m so psyched. Let’s do it.

Ah yes, Lori Loughlin. Her second appearance in the ‘Thon; her first was in “Brotherhood of Justice.”

Fortunately Keanu does not play a troubled teen in this one. He does though play a teen. Oh and does he play it well. In fact, for a 24-year-old, he makes quite a convincing 18-year-old.

Not only does George Clinton make a cameo appearance in this film, it also is culturally significant for the birth of “The Keanu.” The Keanu is the drink that Keanu orders when he goes to the bar at the Rat’s Nest:

Bartender: What’ll you have? Keanu: Ginger ale Bartender: and? Keanu: Tequilla [then in a low stern ‘adult’ voice] tequilla [then in a questioning ‘what the hell did i just order’ voice] tequilla

By the way, when I say “culturally significant” I am referring solely to the culture that is Keanu.

Matt made the Keanu’s this time. They are terrible. He pretty much made a tequilla shot with a splash of ginger ale. My jawls are pulled taught with the bitter taste of tequilla. Matt is currently redoing this batch.

Keanu complained to George Clinton that they were not rocking enough. Now they are rocking. He is dancing, some crazy boogie dance.

Matt just instigated the “great chip mix off” where we take four bags of chips and mix them all up. So far we have Maui sweet onion kettle chips, nacho cheese corn tortilla chips, guacamole flavored corn tortilla chips and Lay’s baked. We have some Newman’s Own salsa: medium unfortunately and some gooey tomatilla salsa. We have already disgarded the mango salsa that smelled bad.

This is the first movie that we have rewound to see parts again. We needed to listen to a few quotes again and to see a few moments, like when Keanu gets out of the truck and is wearing crazy snake skin boots.

THAT WAS A GREAT FUCKING MOVIE.

I feel a relief in my bowels having finally seen that movie again. It is just such a great movie. It combines comedy and suspense with action and romance. There is just about a little of everything in that one. It really is a great reason to keep doing this ‘Thon thing.