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He doesn't look young for his age.


Never did. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Keanu in alot of his work. But to me he's always looked his age even when he was in his 20's in the 80's.

Was the whole Keanu looks young a meme from that old French portrait? The whole Time traveler meme? just google it to find out.



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What is a meme? I honestly don't know. Thanks.

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A meme is a ‘viral idea’ which quickly sweeps across the internet. It can be a link to a video or image, a joke, a website, whatever.

Popular memes include Sad Keanu (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keanu-is-sad-sad-keanu) and Conspiracy Keanu (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/conspiracy-keanu).

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Ok. So does that mean that Pokeman Go is a meme?


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I can't say I agree. I don't think he's suspended aging or anything, but I think he looks better at 52 than many of his peers. Some, of course, have led hard lives or failed to take good care of themselves, but many others have not and still look older than Reeves. It's possible he's had expertly done plastic surgery, but it's also possible he's just been lucky in the gene pool.

Let's compare him to male entertainers born the same year, 1964, and let's use only images from 2016, to be as fair as we can.

Nicolas Cage has a deep line between nose and mouth, the start of jowls, crow's feet when he smiles, a slight double chin, a receding hairline, and what appear to be false teeth.
http://images.thehollywoodgossip.com/iu/v1460131677/video/nicolas-cage-and-vince-neil-fight-in-vegas-watch-now.jpg
http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/styles/tout_image_612x380/public/i/2016/02/12/nick-cage.jpg?itok=Ng_w_a8w

Stephen Colbert has substantial forehead lines, a permanent smile line on his cheeks, crow's feet when he smiles, and a sublime sense of humor.
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/09/06/arts/06COLBERT/06COLBERT-blog427-v2.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Stephen_Colbert_MFF_2016.jpg

Russell Crowe's got forehead lines, the line from nose to mouth, a crease from mouth to jawline minimized by his beard, crow's feet, and struggles with his weight.
http://photoshdwallpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Russell-Crowe-2016.jpg
https://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/rc.jpg?w=620&h=420&crop=1

Matt Dillon's sporting deep forehead lines, a pair of lines surrounding his mouth a la Homer Simpson, and a hair style that suggests he's thinning on top from the front.
https://www.picsofcelebrities.com/celebrity/matt-dillon/pictures/matt-dillon-2016.html
http://storage.canoe.com/v1/dynamic_resize/?src=http://www.canoe.com/Travel/Activities/CelebrityTravel/2015/06/02/RE_2015_06_02T081339Z_932745914_GF10000114680_RTRMADP_3_ASIA_MI.jpg&size=650x366&quality=85

I've already spent a silly amount of time finding 2016 pictures of Reeves' contemporaries, so anyone who cares to look further can check out Linus Roache, Tom Sizemore, David Spade, French Stewart, or James Purefoy for themselves.

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There's a difference between looking good and not looking your age. Even if someone has minimal lines, you can tell that one's facial features have aged. By the surrounding eyes, the lips, the skin itself [not lines], etc. There's far more to someone's face than just lines.

Apply that with Keanu. He just looks 'old'. Which is not to say he looks bad. But seeing, say, Keanu in the late 2000's with no facial lines, compared to say, in his Matrix-days. You can still see he's aged despite both periods not having any noticeable lines.

It's just the aging of the facial features. The lines are just the tip of the iceburg.



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He does not look younger than his years in my opinion. And it seems he spends very little time in the sun but his smoking and drinking made up for that.

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Pokemon Go is a game not an "idea".

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he really does. his face, hair, figure- he could easily pass as under 40. His mannerisms certainly don't hurt that either

as someone else mentioned- if you're going to make this argument go ahead and give some examples of 52 year old well known actors who appear to have aged as well as he has? I would be shocked if you could find someone in his generation who's been a star that long who has.

Go ahead, provide some examples. no one's claiming he looks 20, but he looks like a young as hell 52

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