Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
March 16th 2008 23:13
'Be excellent to each other, and...Party on dudes!'
Ahh...such sage advice from these most excellent of 80’s dudes.
Like many people, I used to have a cheer-up movie - a movie that you can put on when you’re feeling down and depressed or lonely and it makes you feel a whole lot better.
Well, mine was Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure.
Yes, I’ve seen it many, many times. I’m pretty sure I wore that video tape out good.
(note: even Billy Armstrong from Greenday has said on many occasions the reason he started his band was because they wanted to be the Wyld Stallyons. Also the Atari’s named a song as a tribute ‘San Dimas higschool football rules!’)
Just two fun-lovin’ dudes with rockstar dreams that have to deal with the drag of highschool like the rest of us.
So after they have a short confrontation with their ‘future us’s’ they dive head-first into time travel.
The movie manages to put together a great cast of historic oddball characters. Like Socrates (So-crates), who the boys win over after they give him yet more sage advice from Kansas’ Dust in the Wind, that roughly translates to the Days of our Lives slogan. The unlikely friend adapts well to the future, and before long the great Billy the Kid and him are picking up chicks in the mall – no thanks to Sigmund Freud the geek.
Genghis Khan goes nuts oldschool-style in the sporting department and Beethoven composes Extreme’s ‘Play With Me’ on the keyboards while Joan of Arc teachers a girl-power aerobics session.
But no one does 80’s style better than Napoleon. After being ditched by Ted’s little brother, he hits the coolest place in San Dimas – Waterloo water slides
.It spawned a sequel which was great until about the 3 quarter mark, but thankfully was bought back with the great finale and some sensational lines from The Reaper.
For such a goofy and unrespected movie, Bill & Ted turned into the biggest buddy team of the 80’s. The speech, the soundtrack (which is most excellent), the clothes, the themes were sooo 80’s. But they also managed to include that feel-good aspect, where if you just did what was right, then you could save the world by playing you’re guitar...right?
This movie is a classic feel-good icon of the decade.
Mall scene
'Billy! You’re handling the oddity of time travel with the greatest of ease!'
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Comment by Kim Lock
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The movie I watched over and over in the 80's was 'The Lost Boys', probably more for the soundtrack than the movie.
Early 80's tv show - 'The Young Ones'
Late 80's tv - Red Dwarf.
Kim
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best quote-
Dust... Wind... Dude!!
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Love this flick
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*laughs* I didn;t know what dude REALLY meant then either!
Excellent post dude....*wriggling fingers*
Lilla ...
Comment by Freddo
'Something is afoot at the circle K!'
ha ha ha
I absolutely love this movie.
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keanu reeves has never looked or acted better than this film!
totally shaped my childhood! lol