What was your biggest pop culture disappointment?

[mongers]

We have no admins anymore.

Someone could leave a message for Vm in the general issues pinned thread about this, as he often reads that one and responds in good order.

I'm just teasing mongers, i talk to Moldy on Facebook, that's how Saladin got back in, and we've set it up for Lucidor to come back as well.

Thanks, Vm and you guys do a good job.

Interesting that old timers are returning.

[Admiral Yi]

I think it's a great movie, but tastes are like assholes and all that...

Have you read the books?

[celedhring]

I think it's a great movie, but tastes are like assholes and all that...

Have you read the books?

Yep.

[Savonarola]

Maybe not the biggest, but it was big, and it's a good story...

It's 1995 in Winnipeg.  The Manitoba Theatre Company has a special showing of Shakespeare's Hamlet, starring... Keanu Reeves!  Now Keanu must have agreed to this at least a year in advance, when he was a B-list movie star known for Bill and Ted, or maybe Bram Stoker's Dracula, but in 1994 a little movie called Speed came out which propelled him to super-stardom.  But he was a good sport, honoured his contract, and came to Winnipeg.

So I get a ticket, sit down to watch... and he was terrible.  I mean, in a few actions scenes he did very well (he is an action star after all), but To Be or Not To Be was wooden as could be.  I recall he just kind of stood there and said it in an almost monotone.

So there we go - big movie star bombs in local theatre show.  Except of course he didn't bomb - by strength of Keanu himself every show was sold out, and went for big bucks through scalpers.

Hamlet:  Get thee to a nunnery... woah!  Farewell

That does sound like "I Hate Hamlet"; life imitates art.

Edit:  Minus the ghost of John Barrymore, of course.  Obviously the ghost of Buster Keaton gives Keanu acting advice: Now, no matter what, never show emotion.

[Duque de Bragança]

Maybe not the biggest, but it was big, and it's a good story...

It's 1995 in Winnipeg.  The Manitoba Theatre Company has a special showing of Shakespeare's Hamlet, starring... Keanu Reeves!  Now Keanu must have agreed to this at least a year in advance, when he was a B-list movie star known for Bill and Ted, or maybe Bram Stoker's Dracula, but in 1994 a little movie called Speed came out which propelled him to super-stardom.  But he was a good sport, honoured his contract, and came to Winnipeg.

So I get a ticket, sit down to watch... and he was terrible.  I mean, in a few actions scenes he did very well (he is an action star after all), but To Be or Not To Be was wooden as could be.  I recall he just kind of stood there and said it in an almost monotone.

So there we go - big movie star bombs in local theatre show.  Except of course he didn't bomb - by strength of Keanu himself every show was sold out, and went for big bucks through scalpers.

Hamlet:  Get thee to a nunnery... woah!  Farewell

That does sound like "I Hate Hamlet"; life imitates art.

Edit:  Minus the ghost of John Barrymore, of course.  Obviously the ghost of Buster Keaton gives Keanu acting advice: Now, no matter what, never show emotion.

Time for you to discover Keanu's Québecker accent in Youngblood. Great goalie.