I've been lurking around this site since mid December but I only gathered the courage to join the site now.
And when I say lurking, I mean visiting the site daily, going on an Archive binge (I think I read something like 20 articles in a weekend :/), reading entire forum threads, and going on extensive Keanu movie marathons. I watched half his filmography in a month.
Yes, that's like 30 films.
Yes, I watched some of them twice just for the hell of it.
(you are rightfully entitled to feel creeped out)

I may not be cut out to be a fisher (as you may have gathered from my professional lurker credentials :P), but I still would love to help out in any way I can here at winm and elsewhere.
I could try to translate from both Spanish and French if you need it :)

English is not my first language, so if my posts ever dwell into the realm of the unintelligible (faulty grammar and spelling errors included), please do tell me.

Thank you all for spreading word about Keanu!
And a special thanks to Ani, because you're an awesome fanfic writer and your fanfics were what got me so hooked up on Keanu lore :D

Be seeing you!

same for the Matrix trilogy.

in other words : WELCOME aboard ;) :D

I think my personal record is the night I re-watched the Matrix trilogy, Speed, River's Edge and the Bill & Ted movies while pulling an all-nighter working on a model for school. Constantine was on the playlist, but alas, the night ended before his turn.

Glad to know I have insanity partners :).
I already have trouble convincing friends and family that I'm not completely crazy for watching that many films in a row, let alone telling them that they're in the vast majority Keanu films.
I'm trying to the best of my ability to win them over to the "Keanu CAN act" side. It's a slow and long process, but hopefully things will change with time :)

Thanks again for such a warm welcome (and such a quick response)!
I look forward to being a part of winm with all of you (and not just lurking in the shadows) :D

Edit: Did I say most of us? Should have said all of us !!!

Anywoofs, welcome to this wonderful little corner of the Interverse, where we get to be as crazily fangirlish as we please without hurting ourselves or anyone else. :-D

I agree that ours is probably the good kind of crazy; the one that leads to creative and insightful works of art, or at least to interesting ramblings :P
It's also true that the "Guest" provides us with the other kind of crazy, the one that should take their medicine and not take the advice of the voices inside their heads. Because they may be entertaining to watch, but then one day you'll find them at your front door with a blood-stained ax on their hand, half a watermelon on their head, looking at you through wild eyes and saying softly "The ducks told me where to find you."
And then it won't be so fun anymore D:

So yeah.
Let's enjoy each other's sane craziness :D There are insane trolls out there, but hopefully they won't bother us much (and the ducks won't tell them where we live <_< >_>)

ARYA-
I have taken a look at other Keanu fansites, but the humor and the general "let's all be excellent to each other" vibe of this site clicked with me :)
I'll probably go over to those other sites in search of more Keanu related info (since right now I'm still in my "I just need to know about this" phase :P), but I really chose to be a member of winm for all the great people posting around here.

And after these responses, I'm very glad I made this choice :)

It's good to feel so welcome :D

I cannot throw stones at the creepy or the insane,just happy to not be the "resident retard"

You must watch Constantine

Adri-
It's not that I like to throw stones at the crazy people (as a horror movie and comics fan, I actually enjoy weird, creepy stuff in fiction :P). It's just that encountering someone who is truly insane in real life makes me feel very uneasy.
If it's a troll, then I'm just annoyed :/

I have watched Constantine. I really liked it :D (and it's on the list of "films I'll make my brothers watch so that they too may spread the awesome that is Keanu").
I was re-watching Keanu movies that night while working on a model (making a model is a time-consuming but largely mindless task if you did the plans right). I had already seen all those movies, which made them perfect to play as a backdrop of sorts while I spent hours cutting and gluing cardboard.
It just so happened that Constantine wound up late on the list, thus I didn't get to see it that night :P

In fact I'm looking for the Hellblazer comics so I may compare the two portrayals accurately. I'm aware of the bad reputation the movie has among fans of the graphic novels (that's how I heard about the movie in the first place), but having seen the movie before reading the comics I believe it works on its own as an action/supernatural story. It really is a good movie, and I think more people would like it if they actually gave it a chance. "Free your mind", you know? :)

I think I'll re-watch Constantine in the near future in your honor ;)

Ok, now I know I'll be seeing Connie's smirk again soon ;)

one thing I'd like to add. the very first scene when we meet Constantine; we don't even get to see him, just a hand out of the cab window, throwing away the cigarette butt. An apparently simple gesture that speaks volumes. the way he does it is pure Constantine ( to the connoisseurs) It also made a non-initiate raise her eyebrow and ask 'who the ... does he think he is?' and so it began... ;)

Welcome to WINM. No need to be embarrassed by you fangirl obsession. We all have it here. The company here is on the more intelligent end of the spectrum and that is the reason why this is the only site I ever post at. I too visit a few others for the news but really enjoy the company and conversation here.

Where are you from?

Now that you mention it, I've actually met the comic book Constantine. It was through his early roles in Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing" and Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" (both great series; do check them out if you have the chance). And it's true that, while the backgrounds are very different, the essence of the character, the way he faces the world and the forces that surround him, is there.
You can see the movie as an entirely different story from the graphic novels', with just the same spelling for the main character's name. Or you can see it as the translation of a character from sequential art (fancy term for "comics" :P) to film. It doesn't try to stay as close to the source material as possible, because there are things that work in a medium and don't in another. It seems to me that the people behind the movie chose to go their own way with the setting and the presentation of the character and that their decision works well with how Connie comes across on screen.

Some fanboys won't agree with that approach and argue that a film adaptation of a comic should be 100% faithful to the source material. However, I think that characters and settings gain in depth from different portrayals, the same way the Greek myths have become timeless through countless interpretations and deconstructions over the centuries. When you put a new spin to a character, if you keep the essence there, if you manage to convey what makes that person or whatever themselves, then you've given them new depths, new facets that can be explored and analyzed.
It's a fascinating process. (And that's a why I love fanfics when they're written well :D)

I should probably stop rambling now (though as you say Luca, I could keep discussing this all night :P)

Hi lindawn!

If you mean "where are you from?" in the cyberspacy sense, as in "through which site did you get here?", I think I got here through google after reading http://tvtropes.org's articles on Bill & Ted and Keanu (the site is a wiki, and even if it has a slight penchant for fishiness, one can edit almost everything there).

If you mean "where are you from?" in a more geographical sense, I was born and raised in Argentina, spent middle-school and high-school in Spain and I'm currently studying in France. :D

yeah, I know, should shut up now :D

other comics I recommend - IF you haven't read them yet : Mike Carey's 'Lucifer' series. brilliant. Brian Azarello's '100 Bullets' and 'Loveless' - if you like American grit. Garth Ennis... sorry but I don't like his style. which is ironic as he wrote the Hellblazer issues the movie was slightly based on. but I don't particularly like the direction into which he went later, with his other series.
As from the 'contemporary urban themes' genre or whatever it's called, I heartily recommend anything Brian Wood wrote and various artists draw. 'Local', 'Demo', 'Couscous Express'... and so on.
There's a whole world of comics out there, with various genres. I'm barely scratching the surface...

as for the fanboys - one can never please them. so Constantine was not 100% faithful to the Hellblazer series, I agree. But fanboys also dissed Snyder's adaptation of Watchmen and if it wasn't shot frame by frame as the comics, except for a very slight change towards the end ( alien beast in the comics, alternative energy source or whatever it was in the movie), I don't know what to say. what was Snyder's fault, that his movie was TOO faithful to the comics? wake up, people, that's the real Alan Moore stuff, not what Hwood made out of 'From Hell' ! ooops, I said I won't get started on that ... :D

anyway ;)

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I think that characters and settings gain in depth from different portrayals, the same way the Greek myths have become timeless through countless interpretations and deconstructions over the centuries. When you put a new spin to a character, if you keep the essence there, if you manage to convey what makes that person or whatever themselves, then you've given them new depths, new facets that can be explored and analyzed.

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From the resident Tron nut, welcome to the site!