Keanuthon

9:57am – “Brotherhood of Justice”, 1986 According to the filmography in the special features, Keanu was in a movie called “The Prodigal” in 1984. We have no record of this, and I will now look into this online.

I am a bit hesitant about my rating of “Dream to Believe”. I enjoyed it a bit, but probably not as much as the sentimentality that I hold for “River’s Edge”. I feel like I might need to give “River’s Edge” a higher rating. I’ll have to go back at the end and readjust my ratings.

This movie really has a message. Just haven’t yet figured it out.

“What’s the matter with you? You see a couple of chicanos and you think they’re guilty.”

Must be the message that chicanos are not always guilty even if they are handcuffed in the back of a cop car.

There have been four movies made titled “The Prodigal”, according to IMDB. None of them has Keanu in it, but most likely the one he did was the 1983 TV movie produced in Canada. I’m sure Matt will look into that one soon.

We just decided that the message is “vigilantes are good, to a point”. This was after trying to figure out whether the movie is portraying vigilantes as good or bad. I suggested they were good at the beginning and then bad at the end, when they get out of hand. Thus the message “vigilantes are good, to a point.”

When the kids put on masks during their first vigilante attack, a couple of them are wearing ex-president masks: Nixon and LBJ. The one wearing the Nixon mask even does the “I am not a crook” double-peace sign thing. This of course all foreshadows one of the all-time classic Keanu movies: “Point Break”. Amazing the links between all of Keanu’s movies.

After their first attack, one of the “brothers” hands Keanu a note saying “We’re heroes. Let’s do it again.” To which Keanu responds, “I plan on going to Harvard next year, not Lebanon.” Now the coincidental thing here is that Keanu was born in Lebanon. Sometimes his movies just hit you on so many levels, it is unbelievable. Which levels those are – we usually have no idea.

We also get our first taste of Keanu the QB. In between, of course, of watching 23 year-olds playing teeanage vigilantes. And a ripoff of “Every Breath You Take” from the Police (in poem form only).

It is a great big brotherhood of justice. A not so benevolent brotherhood of justice. Your lifelong membership is free. In the great big brotherhood of justice. Making a list. Checking it twice. Going to find out who are teenage vigilantes exerting their own moral code through a series of prgressively more offensively horrible vigilante action without reason or cause. Vigilantes coming to town.

“I like any girl who can whistle with her fingers.”

This knifing thing. Really creepy. At this point it should be pointed out the creepiness (which we have noted in the movies) is in no way Keanu’s fault. Keanu is in fact the good guy of the bunch.

This movie “jumped the shark” when they decide to “hit” Pasty Kraznic, a geeky stage hand who rats on everyone and somehow has enough geek appeal to get all the girls. This movie makes no sense at all anymore.

Kiefer’s hair style needs to be mentioned right now. It is a beautiful boufont ‘do that we will probably see in many more Kiefer movies to come.

10:50 – As a “girl” I just have to comment a little more on Kiefer’s hair, namely to say that he has the hair I always wanted in high school. Parted on the side, big bangs, perfectly feathered… too bad I didn’t have Kiefer’s stylist at the time… of course, when this movie came out, I was NINE. Jeez, saying that makes Keanu seem old. I like to think of him as ageless, myself.

Oh my gosh! One of the Brotherhood just told another, “Vaya con Dios”! Another eerie Point Break parallel (and then there’s someone actually calling him “Quarterback”). And we haven’t mentioned the fact that Lori Laughlin is in this. Lori, of course, from the classic “The Night Before.”

Brotherhood of Justice is looking like the first movie Keanu’s in where the offensive racial/etc. stereotype is proved wrong.

“I don’t give a DAMN what you say.”

Keanu is looking a little made up in this movie. Nicely pencilled eyebrows, a little blush on the cheeks, some lip gloss… Matt thinks maybe they’re trying to make him look older, because he looks so young.

Okay. Nobody to get defensive to, but have to say that all those people who say Keanu can’t act don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. Here he’s acting the pants off a young Billy Zane.

We’re discussing the website…one idea is to have different things to click on at the beginning, like “over 18” and “under 18” or “Keanu makes me hot and wet” and “I’m just here to mock”—but no matter what you click it goes to the same spot. The only potential we have for “adult” material would be our idea of pictures of the founders of Keanuthon, naked, with his movies covering the hot and wet parts.

“This made so much sense in the beginning”—the ultimate quote about Keanuthon.

Billy Zane is such a motherfucker. -JK

It’s surprising how many of Keanu’s early roles have him as the one guy trying to do good going against other fuck-ups. I’d like to think they offered him roles as just another one of the fuck-ups and Keanu said, “What if my character was nicer, though? And maybe not as racist as those other bastards?”

Apparently, BOJ (not, of course BJ) is all about going after other kids “wheels” At the end of the movie – the BOJ (excluding Keanu) “wire” Kiefer’s car with a bomb. Keanu rushes to save the Kief (and does) and successfully disarm “creepy (which does seem to be our favorite word for describing all the “creeps”) Billy Zane’s” bomb. Which pushes us forward 8 years to another Keanu role. Jack Traven!

Our epilogue features black and white grainy stills of the main characters in different states of arrest. The ones who had taken the vigilante business too far (such as Billy Zane) were cuffed and being put in the backseat of cop cars, whereas Keanu was just sitting in the backseat of a cop car, uncuffed, but clearly in mental anguish about what has transpired over the last few months of vigilante life. But perhaps not so anguished about those first few months. Up to a point. Up to a point.