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
-- iiiijjjj, Sunday, April 6, 2008 8:04 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
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
I like your style, just coming in and solving problems.
― Mormons come out of the sky and they stand there (Abbbottt), Friday, 24 September 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
he is our mentor.
― Zeno, Friday, 24 September 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the question is - will the humour that was funny when i was a teenager, will be funny again now?
― Zeno, Friday, 24 September 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i will anticipate this uncynically until i have reason to do otherwise
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 24 September 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Keanu's up for it, footage contains bonus Werner Herzog impersonations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db3CRorcPks
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Friday, 24 September 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"i thought that these two clowns could push our perspective on reality to the forefront of meaning & knowledge"
lolol
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Friday, 24 September 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
spike jonze shld direct imo
― dirk funk (gr8080), Friday, 24 September 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I would be so much more down with this project if that were the case
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 24 September 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Touching on Whiney's "dropping in" thoughts, weren't there rumors of doing that with the Breakfast Club characters at one point? Not sure it would have been very good, but it was interesting to think about.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 September 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
they sort of did that, it was called "Veronica's Closet", "The Dead Zone" and "The Secret Life of the American Teenager"
― Monkeys? Um, no. (HI DERE), Friday, 24 September 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not much of a sci-fi geek, but seeing both versions of Jeff Daniels starring in the new Tron movie got me psyched.
But then again, you've got Godfather III, Indiana Jones IV.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 24 September 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Jeff Bridges, goddmammit.
Funny part is I knew exactly who you were talking about when you said Jeff Daniels, and mentally pictured Bridges.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 24 September 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking forward to seeing a sequel with Hard Harry posting intense Libertarian ramblings on his blog in between Soundclouds of old Samiam tunes.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 24 September 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 September 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Have you all seen Alex Winter's Freaked? Keanu's cameo as Ortiz the Dogboy convinced me he has at least more range than Tom Cruise.
Forget Bill & Ted III, let's get Freaked 2 in production!
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 24 September 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Freaked is awesome
― Gene Shalit in a Child's Sailor Hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 September 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
honest lolz @ Keanu's Herzog impression
― Gene Shalit in a Child's Sailor Hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 September 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
However if they have a So-crates-like encounter with Karl Marx that would redeem it for me
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Friday, 11 May 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
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!
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