I watched the 2 sequels on Patreon! BOGUS JOURNEY: www.patreon.com/posts/bill-and-teds-64975969 FACE THE MUSIC: www.patreon.com/posts/bill-and-ted-66174449
Bill and Ted are very much inspired by Sean Penn's character Spicoli from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". I can confirm people like this really did exist in the 80's, I may or may not have been one of them.
I can totally confirm this as I may have been someone resembling these two most excellent fellows. The bit that was most unexpected in my case is that when this movie came out, I had already been in the Marine Corps for two years. When I saw this, just two years back my life as a slacker in high school seemed a lifetime away. I total dig this movie!
@@SYLTales Face the Music was a terrible film it subverts the two previous films, as if the people who sent Rufus back wouldn't know who created the music.
I am still prone to walk into the Circle K after midnight and tell the clerk, "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K." Fewer and fewer of the employees seem to get it.
I liked how they really leaned into the possibilities of time travel when Bill & Ted snuck into the police station. "Later, we'll go back to 2 days ago, steal your dad's keys and leave them here."
There's not a person who grew up in the 80s who didn't see Back to the Future and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Time travel is always a fun plot device, so if you want a more obscure time travel movie from the 80s, but one that might actually be more profound than both, check out Peggy Sue Got Married. It's brilliant. And it's got a young Nicolas Cage & Kathleen Turner.
If you have not yet checked it out, the sequel "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" is also a great movie on its own that takes the characters in a completely different direction. Oh, and the two waiters from the "Ziggy Piggy" scene are the two writers of the Bill & Ted series. 🤫
Not only are they the waiters in this movie, but they also cameo as the two men at Missy's seance in the second film and in the last film as two demons who give Bill and Ted directions. Not only did co-writer Ed Solomon also write the first Men in Black film, but his name backwards is what they used for DeNomolos, the villain of the second film.
@jenmurrayxo You ought to check out a movie called "Parenthood" from 1989. It has a stacked cast, including Keanu Reeves, Joaquin Phoenix (and he's like 12 years old and he went by the name Leaf Phoenix then), Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Mary Steenburgen, Diane Wiest, Jason Robards and Martha Plimpton. It's comedy gold and a wonderful film.
"Cheesy special effects - I'm sure they were great at the time." No, they were cheesy for then, too - remember, 1989 was also the year James Cameron's *The Abyss* also premiered, followed two years later by *Terminator 2*, so the cheese was very intentional. Also, casting George Carlin (a *very* famous counter-culture comedian and social commentator) as "straight man" Rufus was a stroke of genius, IMHO, as he served as a counter-balance for the silliness of not just Bill and Ted, but of the whole thing.
@@williamshelton4318 I'd say a case could be made for either reason, but we'd already had *TRON* 7 years earlier, and *The Last Starfighter* 5 years before, and,*Honey, I Shrank The Kids* the SAME year (though with a US$18 Million budget vs *B&TEA*'s US$10 Million), the ability to do better was there - and the reality probably was a point between the two reasons... but I still think the cheesey effects were deliberate on some level.
Fun fact: the lady playing Joan of Arch(Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin) was actually a Musician herself? She was most noted as a member of the GoGo’s, and early 80s all female band!
I went to visit my parents in Arizona for the first time in 2020 and besides baseball, the one thing I had to do was go to the circle k they filmed those scenes at. They've got the movie poster behind the counter and if you ask employees if they know when the mongols invaded China, they have to answer, "I don't know I just work here."
The havoc scene at the mall is the most excellent part of the movie for me! I loved this the first time I saw it back in '89. You should definitely watch the sequel as well as "Wayne's World" plus it's sequel. Party on! 🎸
George Carlin makes this movie. His presence gives it more credibility and keeps it grounded, letting the rest of the cast be super silly and still hilarious.
I was 17 when this movie came out. I’ll never forget me and my friends sneaking beers into the theater to watch this and just laughing the entire time. We were constantly quoting the lines for years. Anytime something bad would happen we’d tell each other not to forget to go into the past and change something that would make everything ok. Most excellent memories!
I was born in 1987, my brother in 1984. We grew up watching this movie. Most of our vocabulary as kids came from this, Wayne's World and the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. We still say "bogus," "excellent" and such regularly.
When I first watched this movie, phone booths were everywhere. Now you'd almost have to travel back in time to see one but you need a phone booth to time travel. It's a catch 22 situation. Whoa! I just blew my own mind. Party on! 🎸🤙 and be excellent to each other.😃
There's a drinking game for this movie: Take one sip every time you hear "dude", two sips for each "excellent", and three sips for "excellent dude!". You will not finish the film.
Bill and Ted made history fun. The next day I went back to school and history actually became my favorite subject. Bill and Ted the chemistry between Keanu and Alex made the movie all the more awesome. I didn't think they could follow-up with another good movie. Bogus Journey is fun but Face The Music was a very good sequel and closes out Bill and Ted's story very very nicely 😊
I found it hilarious that for tv they not only censored napoleon's subtitles, but they changed the French word too. Didn't notice that until i took French class
Such a fun and entertaining movie. One of my favorite parts is when they introduce the group to Bill's stepmom with modern names. Dave Beethoven and Socrates Johnson lol
A cool bit of trivia - Joan of Arc is played by Jane Wiedlin, rhythm guitar player and songwriter for the Go-Gos, who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, so while this song is about 80's rock in a lot of ways, there is an actual 80's rock legend among the cast.
Originally they wanted to have the time machine be their band van, but thought that using a vehicle would be too similar to back to the Future, so they changed it to a phone booth. They hadn't seen Dr Who at the time
The phone booth is based on the idea from Doctor Who as that came first with time travel only difference is Bill and Ted's phone booth on the inside is smaller than Dr. Who's.
If I remember correctly, this movie -- franchise, really -- was the first time we were introduced to the boy who grew into the Keanu Reeves we know. Before The Matrix (1999), The Devil's Advocate (1997), Speed (1994), and Point Break (1991), there were Bill and Ted.
The earliest I have seen Keanu in film was in the 86 hockey movie, Youngblood, with Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze. He played their goalie. Really showed just how young he was and "new" to acting. Great movie though.
Jen: "I don't think I've ever seek Keanu Reeves in a comedy." Whoa. For the longest time he was typecast in his role from B&T's Excellent Adventure, which means he wasn't getting a lot of visibility and when he finally started getting cast in serious roles it was this big reveal that he had acting range and his acting career suddenly got a rebirth.
It's always funny to hear people say they only know Keanu through action movies. For years, his name was synonymous with "himbo" (a term that was coined to describe Keanu himself) - it was assumed that he was a pretty airhead with nothing more to say than "whoa", because so many of his early roles were young airheads in comedies. Being blessed with genes that kept him very young looking for a long time, he was playing those roles all the way up until Point Break, the film that proved he could do action/adventure. From his early period, I recommend "River's Edge", "Prince of Pennsylvania", and "I Love You to Death", in which he steals the film in a small but hilarious role as half of an inept assassin duo. I would also recommend "Little Buddha" (which came out just after Point Break), partly because no one else has reacted to it, but mostly because Keanu playing Siddhartha Gautama, the actual historic Buddha, is a thing that cannot be missed. He's a walking painting from an ancient scroll. The whole thing is amazing. :)
So...when Rufus plays the guitar at the end...the hands you see, the person ACTUALLY playing the guitar...was Eddie Van Halen. Great reaction. I am really loving your videos.
2 minutes in and I think it's the 1st time I've heard you laugh outloud. At the risk of being presumptuous, I think I can safely speak for ALL of us and say, "We're all SO ready to laugh along with you!"
This was our "weekend drinkin' movie" for a bit back in the early 90s :) To this day, I can't pass a Circle K without saying "Strange things are afoot there" .. I get ignored a lot now. Most excellent, Jen!
I remember Wayne's World kind of bothering me because their response to "No way" was "Way". I could never accept it. The correct response to "No way" is "Yes way".
"Bill and Ted's excellent Adventure" is one of those movies, which managed to change the German Language. As few might know outside Germany, that nearly 99% of all movies are dubbed for the german marked ...same happened to Bill and Ted's excellent Adventure. But often it is difficult to find translations for jokes and/or slang terms that also fit the mouth movements of the actors. As the studio was dubbing, they had no clue how to translate "dude" and "be excellent to each other, dudes" ...so they came up with a wide commonly unknown east German word "hoshi" for dude and "Bunt ist das Dasein und granatenstark!" for "be excellent to each other" ...which actually translates back to english with "colorful is the existence and granatefully strong!". The movie was such a success, that by the early 1990s almost every young person has heard or used the term "hoshi" or "volle Kanne, hoshi" (back translatet "full can, dude", for "excellent"), in Germany. And it is a great pleasure, that the studio kept it consistent with the sequals ...that is not typically guaranteed with dubbings.
Most excellent!!!! a favorite, thanks for watching! Bill is played by Alex Winter, who has a background in acting and filmmaking. He's made one of my all-time favorite movies called, FREAKED it's a little more out there in terms of humor, some gross out stuff and dated references but it's such a fun movie and id LOVE to see you react to that one! Keanu Reeves also has an uncredited role as one of the characters as well!
My siblings and I quoted this movie relentlessly throughout our childhoods. We just loved it. I studied history at university and I firmly believe that this movie is at least partly responsible for my love of the subject.
My text notification tone is "EXCELLENT!! [guitar riff]" and every time I get a text I do the air strum. I thought I got a text when I heard it in this reaction 😂
Yeah... Now you have to watch the 2nd and 3rd movie!! Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991), and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). Yes... they just did a 3rd movie in 2020! These movies are Sooo much fun!! I love them all... but I think Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is my favorite! Anyways... I REALLY Hope you react the the next 2 movies... you will enjoy! :)
Jen, strange things are afoot at the Circle K! This came out when I was in high school, and it was filmed in and around my hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. The mall was MetroCenter Mall (which closed only a couple of years ago). Their school exterior was Coronado High School (which had a very memorable roof and mosaic for their auditorium that can be seen in the movie), but the interior of the auditorium was from East High School. Unfortunately, both of those auditoriums are gone...although the roof and mosaic for Coronado are still around on the new auditorium. Some of the waterpark scenes were at Golfland Sunsplash in Mesa. The Billy the Kid sequence was filmed in Carefree, a part of Phoenix, at Southwestern Studio. The bowling alley was in Tempe, close to the ASU campus, as was the Circle K. Being in high school and seeing places you know on a movie screen was kinda wild for me back then. The impressive people in the future...the trio are all rock stars. In the center was the late, great Clarence Clemons, saxophonist and backing vocalist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. On the right was Fee Waybill of The Tubes (a band of the 70s and 80s that was originally from Phoenix), he also appeared in the 1980 musical 'Xanadu' with Olivia Newton-John in the "Dancin'" sequence. The lady on the left was Martha Davis of the 1980s band The Motels. Funny enough, Joan of Arc was also played by a rock star...Jane Weidlin of the 1980s all female rock band The Go-Gos. So, Jen...remember "Be excellent to each other." and "Party on, dude!"
I was a student at coronado during the making of Bill and Ted. I walked into frame as I was changing class which made the director yell cut. It was fun watching the moving being made.
For the longest time this movie pigeon holed Keanu as a dopey and foolish person. If you told someone back then that he would be one of the premier action heroes, they would have laughed at you.
My comment referenced this as well, I still see him primarily as Ted but that isn't a negative thing at all. Bill and Ted despite their faults are both pretty excellent dudes.
Isn't it great that the worst person in this movie is the dad that is worried about the direction his son is taking? There is literally no actual enemy in this film but time.
B&TEA is the smartest "dumb" movie I've ever seen. So many little touches in the background that you'll only get if you know history or culture. One of my favorite examples is when they first meet Joan of Arc. Keep in mind, the legend of Joan is that she received messages from God. When Ted reaches down to Joan, his hand is palm down, fingers curled, with his index finger extended, and Joan reaches out toward his hand. This is a direct reference to the "The Creation of Adam" portion of the Sistine Chapel painted ceiling, in which God's hand is in the same position as Ted's.
Jen, Bill and Ted and Back to the Future were being made at the same time about Rock music playing Teenagers travelling through time, Bill and Ted were going to use a van, but Back to the Future was using a car , so they switched to a fridge? or Bttf did, then they switched to a phonebooth,
This and its sequel were the first movies I ever seen keanu reeves in, lol I didn't realize it was the same dude when the matrix came out until he went 'woah' and I had deja vu
All three Bill & Ted movies are delightful. Sometimes they get wrongly lumped in with the gross teen comedies of more recent times, but these movies are warm and kindly and life-affirming. Do please watch the two sequels!
I’m late to your reaction, but I just have to share: I first saw Bill and Ted’s as a 16 year old on a choir trip to the Phoenix area. It was early summer 1989. We actually spent the day at the very water park that “plays” Waterloo in the movie, then went to see the movie that night - It was excellent! (Don’t know why we went to so many movies that trip, but I also saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade that week - another good one.)
Their message is true today, as it was then, and always will be... Be excellent to each other, and PARTY ON DUDES!! Also... San Dimas High School football rules!!!
I always wondered who they got to do the lights for their show. But they must have used the phone booth to go back in time and set something up for the show for the lights. Lol
fun-ish fact: napoleon grew up in a disputed part of France and Italy, and napoleon grew up only speaking Italian and had to learn how to speak french before trying to conquer all of Europe.
Now when you watch the jump scene in "The Matrix," you will find it funny. He plays a very small part (but gets above-the-title billing), but if you want to see Keanu Reeves do Shakespeare, check out "Much Ado About Nothing" directed by (and starring) Kenneth Branagh. Actually the whole cast is great - Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Robert Sean Leonard, Kate Beckinsale (in her big screen debut), Michael Keaton, Brian Blessed - excellent.
