Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: Classic or Beyond Classic?

Sick bastards

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!"

but something "funkier."

what, an antiquated police call box?

oh wait, i know! a taco truck!

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).

Can't wait for the "Dude, Where's My Car?" reboot in 2015.

I've been outta high school way too long, but does the "Bill and Ted" type even exist anymore?

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...)

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.

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, 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

Fact: while never making it past the first 20 mins of either B&T, I did see Freaked, the feature Winter directed. (not good)

Bill and Ted's Totally Deep Hole:
http://vimeo.com/709250

Requiem For a Bogus Journey:
http://vimeo.com/709250

Strangely hypnotic/annoying.

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."

*gets in phone booth, goes back to 2 minutes ago, adds "III" to first line in previous post*

Apparently a third b&t script was actually written, they passed on it, so it was reworked and re-cast as 'Bio-Dome'. Really.

Bogus barely begins to describe this turn of events... >:(

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.

whiney otm

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

Robocop as Fish on Barney Miller. Works for me!

honestly, i'm really fucking glad that horrible chris ware sensibility is confined to comics and charlie kaufman movies

http://i53.tinypic.com/2a8q0q8.jpg

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

I don't know if I am in favor of this – the guy who played Rufus is dead. Who will mentor them now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M6dYiIbRKM

Sigh. The problem is that I think I secretly would see this if it happened. No matter how ill-advised it seems.

"Who will mentor them now?"

they are kinda old now themselves.. - thats another problem for the script writer to deal with.

Clearly they will go back in time and meet their younger selves. And Clarence Clemons can mentor them. Solved and solved.

I like your style, just coming in and solving problems.

he is our mentor.

the question is - will the humour that was funny when i was a teenager, will be funny again now?

i will anticipate this uncynically until i have reason to do otherwise

Keanu's up for it, footage contains bonus Werner Herzog impersonations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db3CRorcPks

"i thought that these two clowns could push our perspective on reality to the forefront of meaning & knowledge"

lolol

spike jonze shld direct imo

I would be so much more down with this project if that were the case

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.

they sort of did that, it was called "Veronica's Closet", "The Dead Zone" and "The Secret Life of the American Teenager"

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.

Jeff Bridges, goddmammit.

Funny part is I knew exactly who you were talking about when you said Jeff Daniels, and mentally pictured Bridges.

Looking forward to seeing a sequel with Hard Harry posting intense Libertarian ramblings on his blog in between Soundclouds of old Samiam tunes.

^^^^^^^

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!

Freaked is awesome

honest lolz @ Keanu's Herzog impression

zim zam

One of the first movies I purchased on DVD.

"Dude this is a history report, not a babe report!"
"But dude, those are historical babes!"

http://www.billandted3.com/billandted3.jpg

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.

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.

if the sequel had come out nowadays, it woulda had its original title

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

lol, I knew sic would correct me that it was shot a couple of years before release. Point still stands!

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.

not correcting, just reasoning why!

Uh, Marina Men?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXDRHOvfFZk

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

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 ...

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

spicoli ?

valley dudes

Ninja Turtles?

mama's boyz

oh...Ninja Turtles that's a good one

bossa nova!

Chevy nova?

is it weird that i like bogus journey more

(i watched them both for the first time this weekend)

it’s very onbrand for you <3

it really is

Station!

Because these guys talk like surfers/stoners/skaters but aren't any of those things. If anything they're ... metalheads?

Faith No More?

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 kiss

i just love her, completely transfixing

i made that very same observation to my wife when we watched this last week. she captures the essence of whoa keanu.

she's great. lil bill was less successful, on both an accent and mannerisms front, though I do like that actress in other stuff.

new movie's thread btw: Come anticipate Bill & Ted 3 aka BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC with me

Because these guys talk like surfers/stoners/skaters but aren't any of those things. If anything they're ... metalheads?

Faith No More?

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