So, Bill & Ted, we can all agree this is like the best film ever, right? So let's go beyond that, is it so much better than the best film ever that it deserves some word besides "best"? I think so. You'll never see such a great performance by Keanu Reeves as long as you live, I can guarantee that. Plus: it was filmed where I used to live. I've BEEN on those waterslides.
― Ally, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― james e l, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The best part of the film is clearly when Bill thinks Ted is dead but then he's not and they hug. It's fantastic.
― Kris, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Michael, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
And the bit where they ask that woman: "When did the Mongols rule China?" and she goes: "How should I know? I only *work* here!" Heheh.
AND! The bit where Ted catches Bill letching at his own Mother: "She's your *Mom*, dude!"
So many bits...
― DavidM, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― bnw, Monday, 11 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dave, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― patrick, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
NO:
MGM is developing a straight-to-DVD revisiting of the late-'80s cult classic "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" for producer Frank Mancuso Jr. at 360 Pictures. Although their deal is still being worked out, writers Gabe Grifoni and Suzanne Francis ("Wieners") have already turned in an outline for an updated take on San Dimas' most excellent native sons.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that a *NO!* as in gnarly or NOOOoooo! as in bogus?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
o_O
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Quite obviously the latter, Thermo.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
More than a decade later, they actually tried to get a third "Bill & Ted" feature made, with the idea of checking in with the guys as middle-aged men. Actors Keanu Reeves (Ted "Theodore" Logan) and Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston, Esq.), now both in their 40s, were reportedly game until Reeves' manager advised his client, by then a major movie star (although still on-screen climbing in and out of phone booths), against revisiting the material.
God, Keanu Reeves's management SUCKS.
― accentmonkey, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Sucks for being sound of mind.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 12 July 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Spoilsport.
― accentmonkey, Thursday, 12 July 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Keanu, we've got this great movie lined up for you...Johnny Mnemonic. Can I put you down as a yes?
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 12 July 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://io9.com/375484/bill-and-teds-completely-unnecessary-remake
The main differences are that the phone Bill and Ted use to travel through time isn't an old-school phone booth, but something "funkier." Their band is called the Atomic Gorillas instead of the Wyld Stallions. The script is supposedly full of "hip" pop culture references for today's kids, like Bill and Ted worrying they're going to miss The Dark Knight.
http://www.htlc-ch.org/LP/LordsPrayerJesusCrying5.jpg
― latebloomer, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't need to read that. You didn't need to post that. I blame you, the messenger.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Sick bastards
― Tom D., Thursday, 3 April 2008 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
At one point in the movie, a character utters, "San Dimas High School football rules!" This was inserted at the behest of the town of San Dimas in lieu of the previously-written line for the character, which was "Stage fright, go away!"
― caek, Thursday, 3 April 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
but something "funkier."
what, an antiquated police call box?
oh wait, i know! a taco truck!
― kingfish, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Look I'm just glad Alex Winter's getting some work. Guy never did shit else, but not for lack of effort apparently -- IMDB credits him for his uncredited role as Subway Passenger in Fever (1999).
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 6 April 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't wait for the "Dude, Where's My Car?" reboot in 2015.
― Bodrick III, Sunday, 6 April 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been outta high school way too long, but does the "Bill and Ted" type even exist anymore?
― Terrible Cold, Sunday, 6 April 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, please let this be an April Fool's which got out of hand.
(I was caught out last night getting dismayed at a Zelda trailer which turned out to be one, so...)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 6 April 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Alex Winter did go on to do some fun, weird stuff. His sketch show on MTV ran for a summer, but was killed off way too early.
― kingfish, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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i thought he directed that
also someone posted something recently about how he's a successful commercial director
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Fact: while never making it past the first 20 mins of either B&T, I did see Freaked, the feature Winter directed. (not good)
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 7 April 2008 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Bill and Ted's Totally Deep Hole:http://vimeo.com/709250
Requiem For a Bogus Journey:http://vimeo.com/709250
Strangely hypnotic/annoying.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure confirmed by both Keanu and the other guy! Don't worry, it's not going to be cynical.
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/09/23/most-excellent-exclusive-alex-winter-confirms-bill-ted-3-is-on-the-way/
"We kicked around the idea over the years and had always thought if we could make something that was as kind of genuine in spirit as the originals and without falling prey to kind of retro cynicism or something that was unnecessary, it would be worth doing," Winter told MTV's Adam Rosenberg in an interview arranged, amusingly, via Twitter. "Now the cat's out of the bag, and the truth is that, yeah, we have finally hit upon an idea that we think is pretty great.""We've been working on it for the past couple of years, honing that idea and getting it into shape," he continued. "Screenwriters Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon are working on it now. The bottom line is that we still all feel like we need to sit down and look at a script and see if it's everything that it can be before we set about doing anything with it."Winter wasn't able to divulge much about what "Bill & Ted 3" will focus on, though he emphasized that the movie won't be "cynical.""The essence of what we've always wanted to do is to make a 'Bill & Ted' movie," he said. "We don't want to make a cynical 'here's Bill and Ted — you guys are our kids, now YOU guys go be Bill and Ted and the franchise can live for another 25 years!' It's not that. It's a straight up, what's the funniest and most surprising take on where Bill and Ted would be right now if we stopped back in on them? That's what we're doing."
"We've been working on it for the past couple of years, honing that idea and getting it into shape," he continued. "Screenwriters Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon are working on it now. The bottom line is that we still all feel like we need to sit down and look at a script and see if it's everything that it can be before we set about doing anything with it."
Winter wasn't able to divulge much about what "Bill & Ted 3" will focus on, though he emphasized that the movie won't be "cynical."
"The essence of what we've always wanted to do is to make a 'Bill & Ted' movie," he said. "We don't want to make a cynical 'here's Bill and Ted — you guys are our kids, now YOU guys go be Bill and Ted and the franchise can live for another 25 years!' It's not that. It's a straight up, what's the funniest and most surprising take on where Bill and Ted would be right now if we stopped back in on them? That's what we're doing."
― del griffith, Friday, 24 September 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
*gets in phone booth, goes back to 2 minutes ago, adds "III" to first line in previous post*
― del griffith, Friday, 24 September 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently a third b&t script was actually written, they passed on it, so it was reworked and re-cast as 'Bio-Dome'. Really.
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Friday, 24 September 2010 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Bogus barely begins to describe this turn of events... >:(
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 24 September 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm all for this. I wish more movies would do this. Especially in a way that truly advances the characters 20 years. Like I would love a Bill & Ted where they're in shitty, unfulfilling marriages with the babes from Bogus Journey and have crappy jobs and talk about the glory days at the San Dimas Watering Hole.
― ^^^that's lightweight jammin (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 September 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
whiney otm
― gr8080, Friday, 24 September 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, I always imagined a Robocop sequel where the original Robocop is like 20 years past being totally outdated useless technology after they invented all the rad new robotcops. And Robocop is reduced to being the precinct's office manager or secretary or some pencil pusher and the movie is all about his sad life as an old man robot
― ^^^that's lightweight jammin (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 September 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Robocop as Fish on Barney Miller. Works for me!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 24 September 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly, i'm really fucking glad that horrible chris ware sensibility is confined to comics and charlie kaufman movies
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Friday, 24 September 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i53.tinypic.com/2a8q0q8.jpg
― Cunga, Friday, 24 September 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it's a good idea or in other words - station!
if it won't fail - Wayne's World reunion movie is just a matter of time
― Zeno, Friday, 24 September 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know if I am in favor of this – the guy who played Rufus is dead. Who will mentor them now?
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Friday, 24 September 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M6dYiIbRKM
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 September 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Sigh. The problem is that I think I secretly would see this if it happened. No matter how ill-advised it seems.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 24 September 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"Who will mentor them now?"
they are kinda old now themselves.. - thats another problem for the script writer to deal with.
― Zeno, Friday, 24 September 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Clearly they will go back in time and meet their younger selves. And Clarence Clemons can mentor them. Solved and solved.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 September 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
it's better than both Bill and Ted movies imo
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
bizarro - that's not the end of the film afaic
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Yup. That's essential to the way the film ends for me.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 May 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
What’s the story of Bill & Ted Face the Music?ED SOLOMON: Bill and Ted were told at 16 that they were going to be the greatest people who ever lived. That they were gonna write a song that is going to save the world, and it hasn’t happened. And now they are middle-aged men. They’ve got wives who used to be princesses in medieval England who are now working double shifts at Denny’s, they’ve got teenagers that are about to leave home, money is tight, and they’ve been chasing this dream, writing song after song, when somebody from the future shows up and says, “You have 24 hours. The fate of all of space/time depends on it – and if it doesn’t happen now, it’s never gonna happen.” Bill and Ted are confused because they know they had to have written it, because after all the people in the future told them they did.. so they just must not have written it yet. So in their desperation they decide their only option is to go into the future – to when the have written it – and to steal it from themselves. What follows is a kind of utterly absurd, Christmas Carol-like journey through their lives past, present, and future. Their daughters (Bill has a daughter named Thea, Ted’s daughter is named Billie) are also very involved in trying to help them.http://collider.com/bill-and-ted-3/
ED SOLOMON: Bill and Ted were told at 16 that they were going to be the greatest people who ever lived. That they were gonna write a song that is going to save the world, and it hasn’t happened. And now they are middle-aged men. They’ve got wives who used to be princesses in medieval England who are now working double shifts at Denny’s, they’ve got teenagers that are about to leave home, money is tight, and they’ve been chasing this dream, writing song after song, when somebody from the future shows up and says, “You have 24 hours. The fate of all of space/time depends on it – and if it doesn’t happen now, it’s never gonna happen.” Bill and Ted are confused because they know they had to have written it, because after all the people in the future told them they did.. so they just must not have written it yet. So in their desperation they decide their only option is to go into the future – to when the have written it – and to steal it from themselves. What follows is a kind of utterly absurd, Christmas Carol-like journey through their lives past, present, and future. Their daughters (Bill has a daughter named Thea, Ted’s daughter is named Billie) are also very involved in trying to help them.
http://collider.com/bill-and-ted-3/
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 May 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
this is a nice launching off point. they have a run-in with this timeline:
https://i1.wp.com/methodsunsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/shorts-bill-ted-2.jpg
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 May 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
Freaked is so good. Rasta eyeball henchmen named Eye & I!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 May 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
Oh man freaked is the best movie ever made
bogus journey is really really really really crazy and really GOES FOR IT in a way few movies especially sequels would.
I'm so good with people doing the thing they got famous for in their youth when they are old. It's cool to see people old.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 10 May 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
I still stand by this:
Bill & Ted traveled time, conquered death, met aliens and God itself, and defeated their own ego — all with the simple commandments of Be Excellent To Yourself and Be Excellent To Each Other.No other organized religion has delivered as much. https://t.co/B8HKTJaWc8— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) May 9, 2018
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 11 May 2018 01:46 (five years ago) link
yeah it is flat out insane. the first movie had them time travelling around hanging out with historical figures, so how do they top that? any other time travelling franchise would just relocate their adventures. instead they kill them in the first half hour and have them traverse life and death and the supernatural space in between. they possess their parents, they haunt a seance, they quote Poison lyrics to God, they beat Death at Twister and later have him join their band, etc. just non stop insanity
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 May 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
For some reason this immediately made me think of when I saw the 50-year-old Jesus and Mary Chain play and indeed they were great
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 11 May 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
one thing that’s kinda interesting to me about bill and ted is that i’d struggle to tell you much about what differentiates them from each other as characters but yet they don’t feel underwritten - they’re this kinda unique friendship gestalt where they’re so in sync that they’re essentially one character
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 May 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
and that character’s name is WYLD STALLIONS*air guitar*
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 May 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
indeed a big part of the appeal is the two leads, their chemistry. it is a pair of best friends, a bromance for the ages. they talk about this in the Totally Non Bogus Disc interviews, how when they casted the first one they saw the actors in line at a fast food place and thought "These people should be Bill & Ted" because they just looked like two Cali best friends hanging out together. it is a very cute & wholesome relationship that avoids being twee even with Keanu tilting his moppey head like a puppy. this friendship is super important, it anchors the films while the most insane shit - time travel, life and death - is going on around them.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 11 May 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
i’d struggle to tell you much about what differentiates them from each other as characters
Well, Ted did take Bill's stepmom Missy to prom . . .
― Westworld more like Worstworld right? (Phil D.), Friday, 11 May 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
Bill is the "smart" one, Ted is the gregarious one. I think.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 11 May 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
Step Brothers had a pretty similar vibe. it didn't really register how strange that was until a while after
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
in theory a B&T III could be great. I'm just kind of jaded by all the terrible fan service reboots that are out there right now though and it's hard for me to believe this will possess any of the creative spirit that made Bogus Journey a genuinely good sequel.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:02 (five years ago) link
Like I can already picture this:
Bad guy: Use the Slipknot on them.B&T: Excellent!Bad guy: Hang them.B&T Bogus!
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
However if they have a So-crates-like encounter with Karl Marx that would redeem it for me
Freaked is great and I'm happy to hijack this thread in the service of reemphasizing that point.
Alex Winter talked about Bill & Ted 3 in his Film Threat interview about Freaked (ca. 1992). It involved one of them being shrunk and deposited into the brain of the other in order to make him less of a dumbfuck. Or fuck-up. Can't remember the exact quote.
― Delightful in Microdoses (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
I'm just kind of jaded by all the terrible fan service reboots that are out there right now though and it's hard for me to believe this will possess any of the creative spirit that made Bogus Journey a genuinely good sequel.
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Friday, 11 May 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Like I can already picture this:Bad guy: Use the Slipknot on them.B&T: Excellent!Bad guy: Hang them.B&T Bogus!
I'm guessing this is your example of a lazy sequel joke, but I actually did chuckle at it
― Vinnie, Saturday, 12 May 2018 10:06 (five years ago) link
I was watching the Red Letter Media take on the first two, and right at the start one of the guys brings up a good point. The first one came out in 1989, and it's an iconically '80s movie. The second one comes out just two years later, '91, yet it already feels totally '90s. Really underscores that cultural shift.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 August 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
First one was written in 1984-85 and shot in 1987 iirc? Second one was probably written and shot all in 1990 - even the Evan Dorkin sequel comic series started in 1991.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 27 August 2020 04:42 (three years ago) link
if the sequel had come out nowadays, it woulda had its original title
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 August 2020 05:07 (three years ago) link
re-watching the original with a couple 90s babies who haven't seen it, and they are absolutely loving it. pure joy for us all
― davey, Thursday, 27 August 2020 06:07 (three years ago) link
lol, I knew sic would correct me that it was shot a couple of years before release. Point still stands!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 August 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
Unrelated - and I say this as someone who spent time in the valley as a kid - was there a male equivalent of a valley girl? A valley guy? Because these guys talk like surfers/stoners/skaters but aren't any of those things. If anything they're ... metalheads? But don't really act like that, either. It's one of the movie's many charms.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 August 2020 13:06 (three years ago) link
not correcting, just reasoning why!
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 27 August 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
Uh, Marina Men?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXDRHOvfFZk
― everything, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
Because these guys talk like surfers/stoners/skaters but aren't any of those things. If anything they're ... metalheads?
I grew up in the 80s 3000 miles from the Pacific and being a "surfer dude" was definitely a way of life that did not involve actual surfing
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Yeah, me too! There were surfer dudes at my school in suburban Philly. Though they also went surfing on the shore, as I recall. Still, would surfer dudes also be metalheads but not stoners? Hmm ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 August 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
it's definitely cool to see an on screen adaptation of those types where they're actually likeable, idk if I can think of another example quite like it
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
spicoli ?
― budo jeru, Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
valley dudes
― calstars, Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Ninja Turtles?
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
mama's boyz
― calstars, Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
oh...Ninja Turtles that's a good one
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 August 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
bossa nova!
Chevy nova?
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 August 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
is it weird that i like bogus journey more
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 7 September 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
(i watched them both for the first time this weekend)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 7 September 2020 01:31 (three years ago) link
it’s very onbrand for you <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
it really is
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
Station!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
Faith No More?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 September 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
The casting of the two daughters in the new movie is so fucking good, especially brigitte lundy-paine ie Ted’s daughter Billie her physicality & mannerisms are so hilariously on point and her wardrobe is a fever dream of perfection: rash vest + long shorts (dickies maybe?) with the classic 80’s sunset strip medallion belt & docs = chef’s kissi just love her, completely transfixing
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 September 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
i made that very same observation to my wife when we watched this last week. she captures the essence of whoa keanu.
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Monday, 7 September 2020 03:17 (three years ago) link
she's great. lil bill was less successful, on both an accent and mannerisms front, though I do like that actress in other stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 September 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
new movie's thread btw: Come anticipate Bill & Ted 3 aka BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC with me
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, 7 September 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, September 6, 2020 10:51 PM bookmarkflaglink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agaHP0eQHmU
― Neanderthal, Monday, 7 September 2020 03:58 (three years ago) link