Bill and Ted

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:16:58 GMT

James FP wrote:
My brother and I once got in trouble when our mother took us to a bowling alley and we kept imitating the scene where Napoleon falls over and yells, "Merde! Merde! Merde!" But of course, we did the English translation of the word.

That made me laugh just trying to picture that.

I think the first movie generally had more laugh-out-loud moments like that one.

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (SETZERtheGREAT) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:44:20 GMT

I saw the first one again not that long ago and I was surprised that it held up pretty well and I still laughed at it. Especially since I can't stand Keanu Reeves in almost anything else he's been in.

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (James FP) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:49:20 GMT

My brother and I once got in trouble when our mother took us to a bowling alley and we kept imitating the scene where Napoleon falls over and yells, "Merde! Merde! Merde!" But of course, we did the English translation of the word.

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (Kairobi King) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:41:19 GMT

Crawl and 1OOO wrote:
But one thing that's good about the 2nd one, which ties into the first, is that after the first one, I was left with the feeling of, "How can these guys' music change history for centuries to come?" And the ending of the second one answers that, sort of, though of course in a nonsensical and fantastic way.

Of all the crazy things in the first movie, including a time traveling...

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:42:00 GMT

they only shown the 1st bill and ted on tv like once, and shown the 2nd one for ... must be at least 5 times.

so the only thing i remember about the 1st one was a telephone booth, travelling into some war during some babaric age, their history class, and rescuing some princess babes.

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:01:13 GMT

But one thing that's good about the 2nd one, which ties into the first, is that after the first one, I was left with the feeling of, "How can these guys' music change history for centuries to come?" And the ending of the second one answers that, sort of, though of course in a nonsensical and fantastic way.

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (Kairobi King) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:52:21 GMT

I liked the original Bill & Ted movie more, although I admire that the sequel did something completely different instead of just having them go through time again. I didn't care much for the alien, either, but I don't entirely mind it since I think the whole point of that movie was to get as ridiculous as possible. If you could suspend enough disbelief, you might be able to think of the first one as something that could've really happened, but there's no...

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:37:49 GMT

There is exactly one specific thing I can remember from it, which is that once they were falling while in some sort of box, and they had the idea to jump before they hit the ground to survive.

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:22:20 GMT

Crawl and 1OOO wrote:
I almost would say that the movie would have been better if they got rid of that damn alien altogether, but it was the basis of at least one funny joke (The guy who can make one word mean anything!)

I also thought it was funny when Bill complimented him on his huge Martian ass.

I wish they'd put the animated series on DVD. I remember liking it when I was a kid, although...

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:57:08 GMT

I don't know if it was a budget issue, because they obviously had a pretty big budget. They might just not have known how to do it at all. Nowadays, they might have done it with CGI.

On the other hand, maybe it was supposed to be a joke that they didn't put up a fight. Didn't they just happily say that they met their match?

I almost would say that the movie would have been better if they got rid of that damn alien altogether, but it was the basis of at...

Re: Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:45:24 GMT

I liked the first one more than the second one. It's not that the second one was bad, but I noticed the pacing problems from about the 3/4 mark on (it's obvious the reason the robot Bill & Ted didn't put up a fight at the end is because while they had a better budget, they must not have had enough to animate a believable fight with the other robots).

While the movie did make me laugh out loud a few times, I don't think it made me laugh as much.

Both...

Bill and Ted

feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:22:35 GMT

FO and I recently watched Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey.

Even if you somehow knew nothing about these movies, you could probably guess from watching them that the first one was a surprise hit, because the production values skyrocketed from the first to the second. There were some things about the first movie that must have been that way because of compromises (the future world was kind of boring, the background music wasn't very good) while the second movie was probably...