actually, I kinda like the idea that their daughters were in Hell for 30-something years, but they’re just so naturally upbeat and cheerful that it never got them down much
I thought that was the idea too, but the other characters that went with them also acted like no time has passed. It would've been so funny if the daughters acted all cheerful and happy and then another character walked up, looking all miserable, yelling about having been in hell for so long.
The thing they discuss about Keanu not being 'that guy' anymore is probably truer than they realise. Between 1999 and 2001, his daughter was stillborn and he was in a horrific car accident that killed his partner. That clearly shook him to his core - he has been much more introverted ever since.
@@ravenshrike No. He's 55. He looks like a guy in his late 40s - early 50s that takes care of himself. They don't need to make his face look 40+ when he already looks 40+.
I mean, can you blame the guy? His real life story is tragic and heartbreaking but also inspiring as to how someone so famous can deal with so much awful shit but still be a huge megastar celebrity whilst remaining grounded and down to earth and just living his life quietly using public transport and living in a small flat and giving away most of his movie money to others.
But Keanu smiles in all the interviews for it though. He ain't sad. It's like someone (or studio?) put pressure on him to be serious in this film to not contradict his John Wick persona perhaps?
@@NateTheScot "his real life story" - What's so "tragic" about having a bazillion dollars and the clout to do anything you feel like doing? Please inform me of the many tragedies that break your heart
The "cave that looks like a face" in Hell is a reference to an awesome polish painter named Zdzisław Beksiński. It's hilarious because his art is terrifying and inspired by the horrors of living through WWII in Poland, so whoever thought to put this recreation in a Bill and Ted movie of all things is a genius and a madman.
have you by any chance seen Astartes? it's a short film series on youtube and it takes clear inspiration from his work too. If you're a fan of Beksiński you'll probably like it
I'm absolutely convinced at this stage that politics consists of going into Old Country Buffet and asking the over-50s what they want. We missed the post-war gravy train.
@@ayylmao2190 I actually did approach that with extremely low expectations and that ended up probably being my favorite peice of Star Wars, period. Excellent call.
As someone who had never seen the bill & ted movies before, I watched them to "prepare" for the new movie. And I am the person they talk about when saying they want to bring it to the new generation. The complaints of it being low budget and not making sense are strange when to me that's a large part of the charm of the series. I'm also not clouded by nostalgia for the first two and don't hold them up as masterpieces as I've seen some reviewers do 😂 that being said, I'm a new bill & ted fan as it's so refreshing to see protagonists who are so positive about everything and never fight. I'd say the movies are all about as good as each other as they all have highpoints and flaws. If they'd never made this movie, I'd probably have never bothered watching the originals but I'm really glad I did. Be excellent to each other. 🤙
"Whoa, dude, you really are from the future!" As an old fart who watched the first Bill & Ted film in the '90s, I just had to do that, even though it might be considered cringey dad humour. Glad to see this series works intergenerationally. Stay excellent, dude!
@@elfsieben1450 lmao my dad showed me these films when I was growing up in the late 90s. Perhaps it's all about the intergenerational time-warping capacity of love and treating one another with respect and care?? Christopher Nolan, I suddenly feel like your movie Interstellar is a conceptual rip off! XD
Mind if I ask what age you are? I ask as one thing I find odd about young people today is that quite a few of them won't watch anything made before they were born. I imagine both movies (especially the first) would look _very_ dated.
Keanu: Father abandons him at 11. Sister gets leukemia. Best friend dies of an overdose. Stillborn daughter. Wife dies in a car crash. "Grief changes shape, but it never leaves me." Jay: "Looks like he's struggling to smile!"
We all go through stuff. Why's he still letting that hold him back after all these years? If thats the case then maybe his should have gone to counselling or therapy and chose a different career. Not good to carry personal issues that long. I always hoped he'd improve in acting. Thats just the way he is unfortunately.
@@mpeacraft8585 Yeah, why did Keanu Reeves, star of The Matrix trilogy and titular star of the John Wick series, not choose a different career? He'd have found some actual success, maybe.
@@mpeacraft8585 Being able to portray stoicism and people suffering from grief and depression are extremely valuable acting tools. You don't have to be happy go lucky to be an actor, just a really bizarre take.
The Keanu Reeves thing reminds me of when Werner Klemperer did a "Colonel Klink" cameo on the Simpsons. Despite being such an iconic roll, he had forgotten how to do the character due to the amount of time since he last played it. The show runners had to find old footage to show him how to do it and practice with him until he could get back into that character.
LustyVonSexist I mean he says it in the movie (and trailer) that he’s just tired from all the trying a failing. I felt he was playing up the weight that such high expectation and consistent failure has had on him. they also brought up how he just wasn’t in touch with himself anymore
Ed Solomon: We cut so much, due to budget. We cut scenes and we cut scope, and sadly, we didn’t really have enough time to shoot it. We had to work pretty quickly because we didn’t have enough money to completely make the movie. Before we started shooting, we lost a series of scenes that, in hindsight, we might miss. We did end up whittling the script down to what people tended to believe were it’s central core elements, simply to make the production schedule and the production budget. We weren’t allowed to have any flights of fancy, or scenes that went off, but didn’t serve the plot. We had to tighten it up. That’s why it’s a 90-minute movie. That was all we could shoot, basically.
Meanwhile, huge, uncreative piece of shit films and franchises get more money an time than god. I'm happy with the final product but would've also loved to see the "bigger" version as well. It's a moot point since this is the film they made.
If you aren't already a Bill and Ted fan, you won't get much out of it. I'm a pretty big fan and I thought it was okay, but unlike the previous movies it isn't good enough to ignore the problems it has
@@makasete30 Aw, I've just seen it and I actually unironically liked it, and I'm pretty embittered about most film-making now. At least we both got an RLM video out of it though, huh?
So, I had a good laugh the other day. I was in my car listening to a news radio station, and some commercial ad was playing. I don't even know what the ad was for, but there was this familiar sounding jazz piano music playing in the background. My first thought it was from the Vince Guaraldi, Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, then it hit me... "Holy shit, it's the Half in the Bag music!!!!" Made my day.
Keanu as a person acts like he's turned Ted's stoner-Cali personality into an adult version; he has evolved it into a sort of slackjawed zen. Something respectable in that. On the other hand, he looks like Neil Breen with a foppy wig.
One of my favorite parts of the first two movies is, in Bogus Journey, when they propose to the princesses... they say "will you marry us?". No one even bats an eye, and it's great.
Honestly, the robot joke was stupid but got so many laughs out of me. With him apologizing and just saying his name over and over. That shit was hilarious.
I hate pointless family drama fluff in movies its always terrible and either unrealistic or not fun to watch cuz it hits to close to home, literally, and they always resolve the plots in the most lazy no shit way like yeah they just needed to talk omg wow, in real life thats either happened but didn't solve anything or they wouldnt suddenly one day decide to talk, like its just a bad thing to write about and then they always try to put it in comedy? Its really a stressful subject its not good comedy material, so yes im very glad they didn't do one of those plots lol
In order for Keanu to become John Wick he needed to remove the “dude” from his soul. But it was too powerful and the dude created a new human vessel which became this actress
RedLetterMedia videos are such enjoyable, well-edited, well-thought-out, thought-provoking, funny pieces of work that I feel I could select any one of them at random and have an infinitely better experience than if I chose any modern Hollywood movie at random
In the final scene, when Bill and Ted go into the phone booth, there's a flash of cartoon 80s lighting effect with all the cgi lightning and I really appreciated that.
Thankfully I was actually able to see this movie in the theater. A locally owned large theater in Pennsylvania had it (drove there from NJ) and visually it was a lot better looking on the large screen then on the streaming service.
Like a lot of people, I now know Alex Winter as "the guy who regularly emailed me with updates about the Frank Zappa documentary that I helped Kickstart."
"Sometimes okay is good enough". That's a good way to look at it. Not everything needs to be a mind blowing, life altering experience. There's times you just want to be entertained for ninety minutes.
You can still see the pain in his eyes today, wondering if it would have been better received if he would have turned that one mic just a smidge to the left...
The twist is in Bill and Ted's universe, the past and future coexist simultaneously and effect each other in real time. San Dimas, according to Kristen Schaal's character, is the center of space and time. That's as deep as explanation as you will ever need in a Bill and Ted movie.
This is my favorite movie of the year so far. It's so unabashedly optimistic and cute it just makes everything seem like it'll be alright. I was in tears during the climax when everyone was playing music together it was just so so wholesome.
Apparently they cut a scene from the script that explained the time travel issues as time from a different possible future colliding on the main timeline, but they realized how distasteful a Cgi George Carlin would be. Now only if Disney could've learned that lesson.
I feel like they kept the explanation that it is actually POTENTIAL futures they're visiting, but it just gets lost in the frantic speed of the film. Also, my favorite line in the movie that ties in with the explanation: "Oh, I'm also an infinite being now."
"BECAUSE OF CORONA VIRUS!" line, as delivered by Rich Evans as 'Mike,' really showcases that this recasting is going to work out. Too bad the last guy drank himself to death.
Man, Mike has lost a lot of weight! :O Way to go dude, EXCELLENT! I don't know about you guys, but I about died laughing when I saw Keanu with a flippin' theremin and when Alex started the Mongolian throat singing (which, I confess, I recognized immediately). That was pretty great.
Y'know, though they cut a bunch of stuff from the script due to the budget, I'm still glad they made it. It has its fun moments and it was nice to see the Stalyns again. BE2EO&POD!
Jay hit the nail on the head about watching Keanu Reeves. He outgrew the dumb guy role, and it's probably hard for him to get back into that headspace he was in 30 years ago.
Keanu went through a lot of tough stuff and it's clear he outgrew the role both personally and professionally. I still find it admirable that he came back and clearly really wanted to do the movie though.
had a new one about child stars come out recently which is currently on HBO Max. haven't seen it my self but it definitely looks interesting, at the very least it gives a number of child stars the opportunity to bring their unfortunate childhoods to light
While the documentary was good, the subject matter is dicey and suspect. The "independent" journalists featured on the story (Independent Consortium of Independent Journalists) is basically a Bezos-funded vanity project. The exception was the Maltese journalist who was killed. She was on the level. These journalists were led down the rabbit hole, exactly where someone wanted them to go. The target of the investigation were basically doing what every millionaire and billionaire does.
If you listen to the full version of the song, you can hear ALL the musicians that the daughters collected participate in the second part of the song- that song *was meant to be the final song of the movie* imo! But then the film makers made a pussy move and changed it to that boring weak crap :/
In the age of unnecessary sequels and soft reboots, the original Bill and Ted movies come out fairly unscathed after their late coming sequel. They could have easily had them travel back in time to meet their younger selves and digitally de-aged Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter (the low budget being a saving grace in that regard). But they thankfully left the originals alone. Which is more than can be said for other franchises, like Terminator for example, that's been royally butt fucked by time travel shenanigans.
right? I thought it was them forgetting how their "future selfs" eventually came back in time after they completed the essay, to then help their past selfs out at their current moment - like leaving the keys or the tape recorder. imagine going back 30 years later because you forget to help yourself out
Ed Solomon (in an interview with Midnight's Edge) said they had considered a scene where Bill and Ted go back and meet their younger selves by inserting the current actors into old footage as a way to include Rufus, but they abandoned the idea when they realized it wasn't going to work to their satisfaction.
@@KasumiKenshirou wouldn't work with Keanu anyway. Jay even mentions how less of an Airhead he sounds in the new one. would be almost weird if it wasn't ripped Dialogue