Them playing Death in a bunch of board games is an incredibly famous film reference. In 'The Seventh Seal', by Ingmar Bergman the most famous scene a knight is playing a game of chess against Death. That's why the Grimm Reaper in this movie has a Swedish accent and his makeup was too look like that version.
20:29 And since she asked, "Electric Football" was a weird game in which little plastic players were set up on a metal plate, which was then switched on. It would vibrate, causing the players to move (pretty much at random).
Indeed not Swedish! William Sadler hails from Buffalo, NY, and is a terrific actor. Known from the Shawshank Redemption, Die Harder, and also, he's the sheriff of Roswell.
"What is your mission?" "Death to Bill & Ted!!!" ✊ I'm gonna have to fight you on this one Ashleigh. It's an incredible sequel that builds on the lore of the first and having the boys play evil versions of themselves really lets Alex and Keanu shine. The cameos of musicians, a journey from hell to heaven to rival Dante, the gorgeous Pam Grier (excellent choice of disguise for Rufus), and William Sadler crushing a comedic version of Death from Seventh Seal make this my fave of the B&T movies.
There is no proof one way or the other that they're stoners. You never see them ingest, but there's also nothing that tells you they don't. That was deliberate.
I don't think they're stoners. In the big picture, they're basically "DHARMA BUMS". Two simple, but good hearted guys who go with the flow and are instruments of Fate.
This is one of the greatest sequels ever. It didn’t repeat the first story AT ALL…and was completely batshit crazy…Heaven, Hell, time travel, robots, martians…yet still retained the charm and humor of the first. Jay & Silent Bob are camera mugging poseurs compared to Bill & Ted.
Rufus is played by George Carlin Who was also Cardinal Glick in "Dogma" and the hitch-hiker in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike-Back". He was also the most prolithic Comic ever.
What's weird is she's one of my top 3 reactors, but every now and then, she will have what I think is a bad take on a movie that she looked like she was enjoying lol. I'm glad she's honest though. I hate being pandered too. The ET one surprised me the most. Beloved by many. Definitely in my top few. All around well done film, and she hated it.
Well, I appreciate you watching it, even if it didn’t hit for you. (The reason they put that clip from Star Trek in the movie is because it’s filmed on the same rocky outcropping that Bill and Ted get thrown off of a little later on.)
I love this movie, it's so bizarre and I really like the fact that they didn't just repackage the first movie. They took big risks with this sequel and I love this movie for it.
One of the best performances Alex Winter ever gave is in this movie. He absolutely throws himself into the role in this one as both Bills. But, Hal Landon (Ted's father) is insanely good when Ted takes over his body. Landon absolutely rocks the Keanu Reeves impersonation.
Don't forget Speed, Point Break, Devils Advocate, My Own Private Idaho, Constantine...The guys been around. He's 60 now...and looks great. Age has only now started to catch up to him. The Beard helps. In Bill & Ted Face The Music and when shaved he does look a little older. By the way I'm 59 and people think I'm 10 years younger...big wow. 50 or 60 to young people that's ancient.😊😊😊😊
The biggest difference between “Bill & Ted” and “Jay and Silent Bob,” is that Bill & Ted are actually funny, entertaining, and not annoying and “edgy.”
nah I'd say it was a good one of it's time but we saw how it wouldn't fit in with modern days when they made part 3 face the music. don't think Ashleigh should watch that one. it's bad.
The song they quote to get into heaven is “Every Rose Has Its Thorns” by Poison/Brett Michaels. The song at the end of the movie is “God Gave Rock n Roll to You II” by KISS. This movie had a great soundtrack.
Kiss merely covered a song by Argent and added II (#2) and buggered some lyrics --> Argent recorded GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU in 1971 but released it in '73 on the IN DEEP album and as a single. In 1977 Petra recorded and released it on their 2nd album Come and Join Us, with some heavy spiritual rewording of lyrics, and a 1985 rerecording - Kiss is covering a cover in the nineties - so let's keep it real.
The Bill & Ted movies are a blast, and I especially love Bogus Journey. But hey, I totally understand if not everyone feels the same way. Maybe the quirky afterlife antics or over-the-top humor don't resonate with everyone, and that's perfectly okay! We all have different tastes, and it's what makes movie discussions interesting. Whether you're a fan or not, there's always room for friendly chats about what makes these films unique. Party on in whatever way suits you best! 👍 🎸
This was one of my childhood favourites. I love how creative it was with all the freaky creature & robot effects that you hated so much lol also the excellent soundtrack
Ok, so another great Keanu Reeves movie, with a side helping of Patrick Swayze, is 1991’s “Point Break”. It’s a really good movie, or at least I always thought. This is something Ashleigh will understand… I watched it at the movies at East Towne Mall, then ate at The Great Steak Escape, played some video games at Aladdin’s Castle, then went home to Seymour.
While I prefer the original & wish the sequel went down a similar time traveling road, I can't help but appreciate how bold it was for the team behind the movie to come up with a completely different (and bonkers) adventure for Bill & Ted to take. They were making a serious bet on their leads being a bigger draw than the time travel comedy, and I can understand why.
@smashbrandiscootch719 I think you're wrong about your handle. The last smashybrandiscootcher was much nicer to me, gotta remember the unfriendly one is 719. Be excellent to yourself
In 20 questions, a popular first set of questions are, are you an animal, mineral or vegetable? Narrows down the search. That he guessed tank right after is just to show how linked these two are. No one would get that in 2 guesses.
kinda weird considering the movies that she does enjoy, especially since she gave the first one a 5/5 and loved it. I think something was off with her that day, or maybe I’m wrong and she just genuinely didn’t like it, but she just seemed so disinterested from the start. Guess she really didn’t remember the first one at all and that killed it for her.
I think it had to do with the time of day. She said she started it at 9 AM, and I can't imagine anyone responding well to a movie like this so early in the morning. "Bogus Journey" is definitely more of a late-night kind of film.
I dunno, I'm not that surprised. It wasn't really well received in general when it first came out. It took a while for people to warm up to the weirdness and originality to eventually reach cult classic status
@@Pohgrey You can say that about a lot of films that are considered some of the greatest, like The Thing, Shawshank Redemption, Big Lebowski and many others. Not saying this movie is on that level, it’s not, but I just don’t like people judging a film based on how it initially did either at the box office or from critics. Sometimes it’s just bad timing of release with other films or world events going on, to just the zeitgeist at the time where people just aren’t ready for that sort of thing. But yeah, I am biased though, I really love this film and I realize it’s probably just the nostalgia factor, but yeah. Sorry for the long comment.
@@smashbrandiscootch719 If it sucks so much, why do you stick around and keep commenting on the video? How many comments have you made so far, I keep seeing you. I think this has become an obsession for you, are you okay?
I don’t like it as much as the first. But I appreciate how original and weird it is. They could have just done the same thing but slightly differently.
Ok 28:20 that's Primus. Now in case you didn't already know they're an alternative rock band and they've been around for long time ( almost 40 years)! Their music is unique for sure and definitely not for everyone. Their lead singer is a man named Les Claypool, who is probably more known for his impeccable bass playing ability than his singing. The song that's used in this movie is a song of theirs called "Tommy The Cat"
If you’re working on your Keanu Reeves filmography, don’t forget to check out Keanu’s Shakespearean work in the 1994 “Much Ado About Nothing”. Watching Ted and John Wick recite the Bard is…about what you’d expect. 🤭
90s Keanu was such a wild time 😅 He was trying out a lot of things creatively and not all of them landed (Dracula 😅) but I applaud Kenneth Branagh for giving him a shot at Shakespeare.
@@christopherlundgren1700I saw that one at the cinema as a teen when it was first released, the cinematography is so gorgeous, seeing it on a small screen doesn't do it justice. Lovely film.
"Station!" is such a good joke, but its got a back story. Apparently when writing the movie they had to remove an entire scene at a police station, when they deleted it somehow the word "STATION" stayed on the page all by itself. The writers thought it was really funny and started walking around saying "STATION!" at each other and then wrote it into the movie a few times just as an inside joke that only a couple people knew at the time. "Station!"
One actor you've seen before that's in this movie is the guy playing Death. It's William Sadler, who played the villainous Army colonel (who was doing naked katas in front of the mirror) in "Die Hard 2." It's a connection that seems to be missed by a lot of folks.
I can't wait for you to watch the third movie. Bill and Ted Face The Music is a movie that actually restores my faith in humanity for a while, every time I watch it. I did not expect that movie to become my happy place, but here we are.
I feel like on another day Ashleigh would enjoy this film a lot more. You've got to tune into the right level to appreciate a silly film, and today Ashleigh was just not in the right type of mood.
Notice her eyes. She's in analytical mode. The premise of the movie is absurdism and she simply doesn't get it - THAT is how you a person doesn't have a sense of humor.
Death is played by a character actor who is in everything. The prez in Iron Man 3, father of the 2 girls in the Green Mile, and One of the 3 main villains of Die Hard 2. To see him play “silly” in this movie, (as opposed to his standard “stressed out” characters) I give his performance as a meh. Jim Martin from Faith No More - with Prophet Carlin & The South African villain from Lethal Weapon 2. (“Diplomatic Immunity!!!!” Murtaugh: “Has just been revoked”) Shows the care this movie received. Do not watch the 3rd. It is a bait&switch where you ask yourself? “This is not what I want. What is going on? After watching the 3rd, this movie seems like high art.
I think there's a lot of elements to this that you don't resonate with and you might think differently if you saw it in another time or even place. There are a ton of musical references - you clocked the "Every rose has its thorn" joke exactly the same way I did when I was little. I knew it must have been a song, but had no idea what song it was. There are also a ton of hidden references elsewhere, and the song at the end has actually made people tear up and rethink their own personal philosophies with the "Be excellent to each other" phrase in mind. Another part people loved about the movie is that the special effects were amazing for the time! This came out in 1991 - two years before we'd all be blown away by Jurassic Park and movie effects were always a little dodgy and hokey in that era. Even the alien effects were pretty groundbreaking since they moved around and had the textures of organic beings. Today we take special effects for granted, and if they're not amazing then they're awful in a lot of cases, and it's hard for people who didn't live through the time to appreciate effects like these with equipment like the big, boxy video cameras they showed toward the end. Also people respected how ambitious the movie was. The first one had time travel, and they couldn't just stick with time travel like Back to the Future did, so they had to up the ante somehow. They upped it by not only having robots, but also ghosts, all of the figures and locations of the afterlife, aliens, more different robots, and some fun time travel shenanigans at the end as well. All of this led audiences to hold Bogus Journey around the same level as the original, which is hard to do for a sequel! Now the third one, that would be the disappointment in just about every way.
The words that the singer of the band (Primus) was singing was “Say, Baby do you want to lay down with me? Say baby do you want to lay down by my side? Say, baby do you want to lay down with me? Say, Baby. Say, babyyyyy?”
@@misslizzy9182 You must be new to the band. "Primus sucks," is what fans say to each other for decades as a way to know who is in with the band. It's also screamed at their concerts to get them to do encores. Honestly, google "Primus sucks," to see that this is true.
Originally titled "Bill and Ted Go To Hell". When I saw they were making that movie, I roared laughing at the title for a solid minute. Then they renamed it Bogus Journey. 😞 I just love the villain, because he turns out to be the old gym teacher, and because his name sounds so evil and yet it is just the producer's name spelled backwards.
The US movie rating association has a real problem with "Going to Hell" in titles. The South Park movie was originally titled "South Park Goes to Hell". Weird, because movies like Hell Raiser never seem to have a problem.
Other Star Trek reference, the building used for Bill and Ted University was also used as Star Fleet Academy. How do robots make loogies? Just one of those things you're not supposed to think about I suppose.
@@LordVolkov yeah I thought of something like that. But as long as it's not toxic or burning or something, it wouldn't bother me much. It's nowhere near the grossness of a loogie.
"Is that the guy from the last movie?" It is,and he's not just any guy. That's George Carlin. The GOAT! He was a 20th century Socrates who gave his lectures on a comedy stage. Would love to see you react to his stand up specials Most notable bits: The American Dream, Religion, Football vs. Baseball, A Place for my Stuff.
20 Questions usually begins with "Are you animal, mineral, or vegetable?" And Granny was played by Bill. Yes, pay phones were inside stores as well as outside.
Bill and Ted came before Jay and Silent Bob, and were definitely an influence. This film was popular enough to have it's own cartoon and comics (also featuring Death). That character IS the best part of the film! The whole journey to Hell and Heaven, and the games against Death make this a more philosophical film, not too serious but not good first thing in the morning.
Well the Grim Reaper is played by William Sadler, you've seen him before in Die Hard 2 (he played Col. Stuart, the main bad guy), he was also in The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile. He's also in a movie you haven't seen yet called "The Mist"(a horror/monster movie from 2007), which I kind of recommend but I kinda don't, it's a good movie, but the ending....
Better than the first film. So to explain the joke of Death playing Chess it is a reference to The Seventh Seal a Swedish Art House film from the 50’s where a knight play chess against death for his life. With the boys not knowing how to play Chess and going to other games where Death loses it's because everyone before knew how to play Chess and he never learned how to play the others.
Bill and Ted was a product of it's time, so I can understand that it wasn't your cup of tea. There's also references to things you haven't seen or heard, so that probably didn't help much. It definitely isn't at the same level as EJ, but I love the goofy characters so much I don't mind. ☺ Be Excellent To Each Other!
Don't Fear The Reaper is a VERY famous song by the rock band, Blue Oyster Cult (look it up on RUclips); "Every Rose" etc. is by Bon Jovi; Bill nd Ted pre-dates Jay and Silent Bob by several years.
I happened to have seen this movie first. I skipped “Excellent Adventure” when it came out, assuming it was some stupid stoner non-com. When I went to the theater somewhat low in spirit to see “Bogus Journey”, its silliness genuinely cheered me up. I picked up the DVD of “Excellent” on the way home, and found it amazingly fun. No, I do not believe this sequel is as good as the first Bill and Ted, but it lifted me up when I needed it, and it turned me on to the original, so I will rewatch it from time to time, if only for William Sanderson’s performance. If you’ve never seen the Swedish movie “The Seventh Seal”, a serious movie wherein a Knight stalls for time by engaging a similar-looking Death in a game of Chess, you will not truly understand how extraordinarily humorous it was for me to see them playing Clue, etc. Not four stars for me, but a solid three. Thanks, Ashleigh.
Oh wow i love bogus journey, better than the first one imo. Sad to hear you didn't enjoy it. But oh well if we all thought the same life would be pretty boring. 🙂
When this came out i didn't care for it, but rewatched it before the 3rd one came out. much different movie when you're older. Bill and ted beating Primus in the battle of the bands is pretty funny.
Oof. Gotta say I REALLY disagree with Ashleigh on this one. I love all the Bill and Ted movies, including this one. And like many are already saying, Bill and Ted pre-date Jay and Silent Bob. They're also not stoners at all. Just lovable, charming idiots.
The "Don'r Fear The Reaper" joke refers to an almost perfect but definitely classic rock song by Blüe Oyster Cült. Almost perfect. Can't put my finger on what's missing...
There was a brief period in the 90's where 'Melvin' meant wedgie. For guys anyway. For women it's a 'Claudia." Oh, and the song in the van near the end was 'Battle Stations" By Winger.
Ashleigh, 9/17/24 is the brithday of the late Anne Bancroft, also known as Mrs Mel Brooks. You should watch the movie they did together To Be Or Not To Be.
"Don't fear the Reaper"
"I don't get it"
The Cult of the Blue Oyster has seen your sins
All through 2020 I was singing "This Ain't the Summer of Love"
Very ironic...
Didn't Ashleigh used to work in radio?
@@CaptHayfever They had both kinds of music at her station.
For Ashleigh, the band Blue Oyster Cult had a big hit with the song Don't fear the Reaper. You can find it on youtube.
@@marcbloom7462Country AND western?
Them playing Death in a bunch of board games is an incredibly famous film reference. In 'The Seventh Seal', by Ingmar Bergman the most famous scene a knight is playing a game of chess against Death. That's why the Grimm Reaper in this movie has a Swedish accent and his makeup was too look like that version.
Not just that - but the entire Heaven sequence is a refference to the 1946 movie A Matter of Life and Death.
@@wembleyford Just without the smell of fried onions.
He does not have a Swedish accent...
/Swede
20:29 And since she asked, "Electric Football" was a weird game in which little plastic players were set up on a metal plate, which was then switched on. It would vibrate, causing the players to move (pretty much at random).
Indeed not Swedish! William Sadler hails from Buffalo, NY, and is a terrific actor. Known from the Shawshank Redemption, Die Harder, and also, he's the sheriff of Roswell.
Jay & Silent Bob knockoff?
Both of these movies predate Kevin Smith's movie career. This one came out 3 years before Clerks.
Jay and Silent Bob suck especially compared to Bill and Ted
‘You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with The Reaper’… love William Sadler as Death. STAYSHUNNNNN.
I was just waiting for my favorite line of the movie.... Death walks towards the mic and... *skip* 😶
Here is an interesting fact William Sadler was in the first episode of tales from the crypt and the episode was called "the man who was death"
get down with your bad self! I love show business.
Shame that he was a part of ‘Section 31’ though.
"This is not what I expected this place to look like at all"
"Yeah, we got totally lied to by our album covers"
"What is your mission?"
"Death to Bill & Ted!!!" ✊
I'm gonna have to fight you on this one Ashleigh. It's an incredible sequel that builds on the lore of the first and having the boys play evil versions of themselves really lets Alex and Keanu shine.
The cameos of musicians, a journey from hell to heaven to rival Dante, the gorgeous Pam Grier (excellent choice of disguise for Rufus), and William Sadler crushing a comedic version of Death from Seventh Seal make this my fave of the B&T movies.
Knock off Jay and Silent Bob? Bill and Ted were before them. 😅 Also you saw Keanu in Speed.
Yeah Ash needs to see this
Also, Jay and Silent Bob suck a mile of dix.
Jay and silent Bob came after bill and ted
You should check out Parenthood with Steve Martian and Keanu Reeves
@@Joe-pe2yd No she said bill and ted were knock off jay n silent bob, and thats not accurate
Jay and silent Bob don't hold a candle to Bill and Ted. THEY'RE the knock-offs.
I wish someone _would_ hold a candle to Jay and Silent Bob. Preferably while they're standing in guzzoline.
They're like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern meet Vladimir and Estragon
@@The_Mighty_Fiction Ugh, never been a fan of the "askewniverse"
@@BillyBillyBixby Whaaat? You don't like movies where the cure for lesbianism is Ben Affleck's shaft?
@@calbert630 YES! ... Who?
Reaper was the highlight of the movie, he was the Napoleon of this sequel. It was 1991 Ashleigh, there were payphones everywhere
I can still hear Death saying "you sunk my battleship" as if it were yesterday...
😂😂😂 Same.
This is not a stoner trilogy. They are gullible naive and foolhardy, not stoned. They are the most triumphant support friends. life goals.
There is no proof one way or the other that they're stoners. You never see them ingest, but there's also nothing that tells you they don't. That was deliberate.
they are absolutely stoners. this is so stoner coded. don't start this bs.
@@this.is.a.username yeah! but no.... but yeah! 😆
@@this.is.a.username dont shame peoples opinions in a comment box. i can have my.opinion as we never actually see any of that.
I don't think they're stoners. In the big picture, they're basically "DHARMA BUMS". Two simple, but good hearted guys who go with the flow and are instruments of Fate.
This is one of the greatest sequels ever. It didn’t repeat the first story AT ALL…and was completely batshit crazy…Heaven, Hell, time travel, robots, martians…yet still retained the charm and humor of the first. Jay & Silent Bob are camera mugging poseurs compared to Bill & Ted.
Yup. When it came out I had zero expectations of it being good. Glad I was proven wrong.
It's bad.
@@John_Locke_108 I was too young to be jaded by bad movies/bad sequels yet! I expected great & got great! 😛
I have always loved bogus journey. Ashleigh has checked out of some reactions she just phones in the reaction.
@@mynameisnotearl4383 She didn’t like Beetlejuice either. I think she doesn’t like “artsy-weird”
Rufus is played by George Carlin Who was also Cardinal Glick in "Dogma" and the hitch-hiker in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike-Back". He was also the most prolithic Comic ever.
Prolithic?
@@itzakpoelzig330in favor of rock, I suppose. EXCELLENT!🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵🤘
@@itzakpoelzig330he liked stone... Or being that, perhaps
I can't believe you all missed the obvious time travel stone age jokes to put with "prolithic"...
You can't leave out the big one! George Carlin was also Mr. Conductor on Shining Time Station. (STATION!)
This is actually my favorite of the trilogy. It’s so weird and leans into its weirdness. It’s strangely existential.
Same here.
What's weird is she's one of my top 3 reactors, but every now and then, she will have what I think is a bad take on a movie that she looked like she was enjoying lol. I'm glad she's honest though. I hate being pandered too.
The ET one surprised me the most. Beloved by many. Definitely in my top few. All around well done film, and she hated it.
Same! I have mad nostalgia for it
Yeah, I also didn't like it much in the beginning, but when Death got into the mix properly the movie went from 'meh' to amazing!
For me its a Duology the 3rd is complete garbage that disrespects Rufus' character.
I always felt this was great. Creates an entire epic cosmology for Bill & Ted. It's not as easygoing as the first, but just as sincere.
Bill and Ted aren't a knock-off Jay and Silent Bob. They were around before Jay and SB came along.
Well, I appreciate you watching it, even if it didn’t hit for you. (The reason they put that clip from Star Trek in the movie is because it’s filmed on the same rocky outcropping that Bill and Ted get thrown off of a little later on.)
Exactly, and soooo many Westerns were filmed there - Big screen and TV. Ash was not on the bubble for this one.
GORN!
I love this movie, it's so bizarre and I really like the fact that they didn't just repackage the first movie. They took big risks with this sequel and I love this movie for it.
"Keanue Reeves is kind-of ripped."
Wait till you see John Wick!
@@TrickyDicky2006 A good one!
One of the best performances Alex Winter ever gave is in this movie. He absolutely throws himself into the role in this one as both Bills.
But, Hal Landon (Ted's father) is insanely good when Ted takes over his body. Landon absolutely rocks the Keanu Reeves impersonation.
He's also the old gross lady
When they air guitar in the possessed bodies and it sounds like acoustic guitar 🤣🤣🤣
@@LordVolkov easy listening :D
Bl-lunk-a-dunt
Agreed! They absolutely nailed their roles!
I realize John Wick is the Keanu everyone will request, but just a reminder, original recipe Point Break has young Keanu and Patrick Swayze.
And Lori Petty as the "pretty girl".
Don't forget Speed, Point Break, Devils Advocate, My Own Private Idaho, Constantine...The guys been around. He's 60 now...and looks great. Age has only now started to catch up to him. The Beard helps. In Bill & Ted Face The Music and when shaved he does look a little older. By the way I'm 59
and people think I'm 10 years younger...big wow. 50 or 60 to young people that's ancient.😊😊😊😊
OMG, Ashleigh *totally* (heh) needs to watch *Constantine.*
Yes and fast and furious knocked it off
The biggest difference between “Bill & Ted” and “Jay and Silent Bob,” is that Bill & Ted are actually funny, entertaining, and not annoying and “edgy.”
Jay and Bob are dirty and they are mean spirited.
Bill and Ted are chill and just want to rock and roll.
This is possibly one of the best comedies of all time. Well IMO it is. I absolutely love everything about it.
nah I'd say it was a good one of it's time but we saw how it wouldn't fit in with modern days when they made part 3 face the music. don't think Ashleigh should watch that one. it's bad.
The song they quote to get into heaven is “Every Rose Has Its Thorns” by Poison/Brett Michaels.
The song at the end of the movie is “God Gave Rock n Roll to You II” by KISS.
This movie had a great soundtrack.
A remake of the band Argent's song.
Kiss merely covered a song by Argent and added II (#2) and buggered some lyrics --> Argent recorded GOD GAVE ROCK AND ROLL TO YOU in 1971 but released it in '73 on the IN DEEP album and as a single. In 1977 Petra recorded and released it on their 2nd album Come and Join Us, with some heavy spiritual rewording of lyrics, and a 1985 rerecording - Kiss is covering a cover in the nineties - so let's keep it real.
If anything Jay and Silent Bob is a knockoff Bill & Ted... they showed up 5 years later. Hell, even this one came out 3 years before Clerks. :)
RIP George Carlin.
Hes probably in heaven feeling really stupid
he made a better actor than comedian. his jokes were angry when he did stand up and he got too political.
The Bill & Ted movies are a blast, and I especially love Bogus Journey. But hey, I totally understand if not everyone feels the same way. Maybe the quirky afterlife antics or over-the-top humor don't resonate with everyone, and that's perfectly okay! We all have different tastes, and it's what makes movie discussions interesting. Whether you're a fan or not, there's always room for friendly chats about what makes these films unique. Party on in whatever way suits you best! 👍 🎸
This was one of my childhood favourites. I love how creative it was with all the freaky creature & robot effects that you hated so much lol also the excellent soundtrack
Fun fact: the villain's name, Denomolos, is one of the screenwriters' names backward, Ed Solomon.
Now THAT I did not know - KUDOS!
Alex Winters was also Granny S. Preston Esquire as well
Ok, so another great Keanu Reeves movie, with a side helping of Patrick Swayze, is 1991’s “Point Break”. It’s a really good movie, or at least I always thought. This is something Ashleigh will understand… I watched it at the movies at East Towne Mall, then ate at The Great Steak Escape, played some video games at Aladdin’s Castle, then went home to Seymour.
Agreed. I think Ashleigh would love "Point Break"...
Paranthood is another good one
There was a Steak Escape at the Oak Court Mall in Memphis too. I spent lots of time at both. Used to work out at The Rush in East Towne.
@@kingcosworth2643she will flip when she sees the cast for Parenthood, definitely will excite her when she watches the opening credits.
Playing games with the Grim Reaper is a bit of a tribute to an old film called The Seventh Seal where a medieval knight plays chess with Death...
While I prefer the original & wish the sequel went down a similar time traveling road, I can't help but appreciate how bold it was for the team behind the movie to come up with a completely different (and bonkers) adventure for Bill & Ted to take. They were making a serious bet on their leads being a bigger draw than the time travel comedy, and I can understand why.
IMHO, the best Bill and Ted film. It's one of the rare sequels that surpass the original film.
Um. No. Not even kind of. Your opinion is wrong.
@@smashbrandiscootch719 shoot, I'm wrong?? I totally thought I was right about my humble opinion
@@robart1979 Who ever gave you the idea that opinions can't be wrong or are beyond reproach? You're clearly not very bright.
@smashbrandiscootch719 I think you're wrong about your handle. The last smashybrandiscootcher was much nicer to me, gotta remember the unfriendly one is 719. Be excellent to yourself
This is not even close to the quality of the original. Some people just have bad taste.
Fun fact, the actor who plays the grim reaper, is also the British guy watching bill & Ted play on his tv
He's also in Shawshank Redemption as the guy who can't say Alexander Dumbass properly (William Sadler) and The Mist, really good actor
He’s also in the green mile and Shawshank redemption
Die Hard 2
The always great William Sadler!
"They Melvined me..."
My word!
In 20 questions, a popular first set of questions are, are you an animal, mineral or vegetable? Narrows down the search. That he guessed tank right after is just to show how linked these two are. No one would get that in 2 guesses.
"You have sunk my battleship!" lol
kinda weird considering the movies that she does enjoy, especially since she gave the first one a 5/5 and loved it. I think something was off with her that day, or maybe I’m wrong and she just genuinely didn’t like it, but she just seemed so disinterested from the start. Guess she really didn’t remember the first one at all and that killed it for her.
I think it had to do with the time of day. She said she started it at 9 AM, and I can't imagine anyone responding well to a movie like this so early in the morning. "Bogus Journey" is definitely more of a late-night kind of film.
@@ShortyLongstrokin Very true, definitely not a morning film, especially if the person watching it isn’t a morning person lol
I dunno, I'm not that surprised. It wasn't really well received in general when it first came out. It took a while for people to warm up to the weirdness and originality to eventually reach cult classic status
@@Pohgrey You can say that about a lot of films that are considered some of the greatest, like The Thing, Shawshank Redemption, Big Lebowski and many others. Not saying this movie is on that level, it’s not, but I just don’t like people judging a film based on how it initially did either at the box office or from critics. Sometimes it’s just bad timing of release with other films or world events going on, to just the zeitgeist at the time where people just aren’t ready for that sort of thing. But yeah, I am biased though, I really love this film and I realize it’s probably just the nostalgia factor, but yeah. Sorry for the long comment.
This sequel was wildly unappreciated for a long time until time helped people realize how brilliant it is.
It's unappreciated because it sucks.
I'd hardly put this film in the same class as Rocky Horror.
@@smashbrandiscootch719 If it sucks so much, why do you stick around and keep commenting on the video? How many comments have you made so far, I keep seeing you. I think this has become an obsession for you, are you okay?
@@paul16451 Rocky Horror is not a sequel. Its sequel is called Shock Treatment, which is... pretty notorious in its own right.
I don’t like it as much as the first. But I appreciate how original and weird it is. They could have just done the same thing but slightly differently.
Aliens in Walmart would seem normal.
Could have sworn I’ve seen one once or twice
"Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult.
I loved its use in The Stand miniseries. Should she watch that?
Great song
@@MichaelForseeDefinitely it's a must see.
@@ElisaH_DarklyiShine I agree, but I think it'd be better if it had more cowbell!
Thanks, Mr. Obvious!
Ok 28:20 that's Primus. Now in case you didn't already know they're an alternative rock band and they've been around for long time ( almost 40 years)! Their music is unique for sure and definitely not for everyone. Their lead singer is a man named Les Claypool, who is probably more known for his impeccable bass playing ability than his singing. The song that's used in this movie is a song of theirs called "Tommy The Cat"
Yeah, I'd say most people today, if at all, know Primus as "the band who made the South Park theme song"
PRIMUS SUCK!
@@Chicklo11 🤣
Les Claypool was almost in Metalica, but was deemed too good for the band.
@@jrobwoo688 it wasn't that, it was just a completely different style of music that he was into compared to them.
If you’re working on your Keanu Reeves filmography, don’t forget to check out Keanu’s Shakespearean work in the 1994 “Much Ado About Nothing”.
Watching Ted and John Wick recite the Bard is…about what you’d expect. 🤭
90s Keanu was such a wild time 😅
He was trying out a lot of things creatively and not all of them landed (Dracula 😅) but I applaud Kenneth Branagh for giving him a shot at Shakespeare.
I hope Ashleigh watches that Dracula this Hallowbeans. I think she will have a great time with it!
A Walk in the Clouds is one that I love that nobody has seen.
@@christopherlundgren1700I saw that one at the cinema as a teen when it was first released, the cinematography is so gorgeous, seeing it on a small screen doesn't do it justice. Lovely film.
"Station!" is such a good joke, but its got a back story. Apparently when writing the movie they had to remove an entire scene at a police station, when they deleted it somehow the word "STATION" stayed on the page all by itself. The writers thought it was really funny and started walking around saying "STATION!" at each other and then wrote it into the movie a few times just as an inside joke that only a couple people knew at the time.
"Station!"
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K
Aww, to each their own. I personally love this film.
One actor you've seen before that's in this movie is the guy playing Death. It's William Sadler, who played the villainous Army colonel (who was doing naked katas in front of the mirror) in "Die Hard 2." It's a connection that seems to be missed by a lot of folks.
And he was in Shawshank
He was also in Iron Man 3 and was a recurring character in the original Roswell series (and a bunch of other tv shows) Such a great actor.
He's also great as Sloan in DS9
He was also the English dad at the breakfast table in the end sequence.
@@Bad_Wolf_Media I remember him best as "Heywood" in The Shawshank Redemption.
I can't wait for you to watch the third movie. Bill and Ted Face The Music is a movie that actually restores my faith in humanity for a while, every time I watch it. I did not expect that movie to become my happy place, but here we are.
Anyone who likes face the music is probably white and low IQ. At least you admit your faults so people know you have no brains.
I feel like on another day Ashleigh would enjoy this film a lot more. You've got to tune into the right level to appreciate a silly film, and today Ashleigh was just not in the right type of mood.
Notice her eyes. She's in analytical mode. The premise of the movie is absurdism and she simply doesn't get it - THAT is how you a person doesn't have a sense of humor.
Death was played wonderfully by William Sadler. Please add Tales From The Crypt : Demon Knight starring William Sadler to a HalloBeans poll.
OMG yes!
Death is played by a character actor who is in everything. The prez in Iron Man 3, father of the 2 girls in the Green Mile, and One of the 3 main villains of Die Hard 2. To see him play “silly” in this movie, (as opposed to his standard “stressed out” characters) I give his performance as a meh.
Jim Martin from Faith No More - with Prophet Carlin & The South African villain from Lethal Weapon 2. (“Diplomatic Immunity!!!!”
Murtaugh: “Has just been revoked”)
Shows the care this movie received. Do not watch the 3rd. It is a bait&switch where you ask yourself? “This is not what I want. What is going on?
After watching the 3rd, this movie seems like high art.
If anything, Jay and Silent Bob are a knock-off of Bill and Ted.
I think there's a lot of elements to this that you don't resonate with and you might think differently if you saw it in another time or even place. There are a ton of musical references - you clocked the "Every rose has its thorn" joke exactly the same way I did when I was little. I knew it must have been a song, but had no idea what song it was. There are also a ton of hidden references elsewhere, and the song at the end has actually made people tear up and rethink their own personal philosophies with the "Be excellent to each other" phrase in mind. Another part people loved about the movie is that the special effects were amazing for the time! This came out in 1991 - two years before we'd all be blown away by Jurassic Park and movie effects were always a little dodgy and hokey in that era. Even the alien effects were pretty groundbreaking since they moved around and had the textures of organic beings. Today we take special effects for granted, and if they're not amazing then they're awful in a lot of cases, and it's hard for people who didn't live through the time to appreciate effects like these with equipment like the big, boxy video cameras they showed toward the end. Also people respected how ambitious the movie was. The first one had time travel, and they couldn't just stick with time travel like Back to the Future did, so they had to up the ante somehow. They upped it by not only having robots, but also ghosts, all of the figures and locations of the afterlife, aliens, more different robots, and some fun time travel shenanigans at the end as well. All of this led audiences to hold Bogus Journey around the same level as the original, which is hard to do for a sequel! Now the third one, that would be the disappointment in just about every way.
First Keanu Reeves movie I've ever seen, was *"River's Edge"* _(1986)._
Pretty heavy fare, that one.
I love that movie. Very Twin Peaks vibe
Bill's grandma was actually played by the actor who plays Bill himself. Something I never realized until years after I saw this movie.
The words that the singer of the band (Primus) was singing was “Say, Baby do you want to lay down with me? Say baby do you want to lay down by my side? Say, baby do you want to lay down with me? Say, Baby. Say, babyyyyy?”
"Ah say b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-beh-bay"
Primus sucks.
Tommy the cat is my name and I say unto thee
@@misslizzy9182 You must be new to the band. "Primus sucks," is what fans say to each other for decades as a way to know who is in with the band. It's also screamed at their concerts to get them to do encores. Honestly, google "Primus sucks," to see that this is true.
@@misslizzy9182 if you know, you know. And you just don’t know. Smh
This is definitely in my top 3 of Bill and Ted movies.
This one is up there with Gremlins 2 as one of my favorite bonkers sequels.
I totally agree, both Sequels are great!
Originally titled "Bill and Ted Go To Hell". When I saw they were making that movie, I roared laughing at the title for a solid minute. Then they renamed it Bogus Journey. 😞 I just love the villain, because he turns out to be the old gym teacher, and because his name sounds so evil and yet it is just the producer's name spelled backwards.
Wikipedia says the producer was Scott Kroopf
The US movie rating association has a real problem with "Going to Hell" in titles. The South Park movie was originally titled "South Park Goes to Hell". Weird, because movies like Hell Raiser never seem to have a problem.
@@gregsteele806 It's a rating thing probably. Hellraiser was rated R and Drag Me to Hell was PG-13, whereas this is only PG, so that is possibly why?
In us you count hell as a curse word hence bart Simpson always getting told off
In uk it’s nothing like this
@@jimp1151 The OP goofed. Ed Solomon was one of the two writer/creators of Bill and Ted.
I freaking love “Bogus Journey,” and “Bill & Ted Face the Music” is absolutely joyous.
I hope Face The Music was having Keanu & Alex pass the torch to Brigette & Samara and they make movies about Billie & Thea in the future
Other Star Trek reference, the building used for Bill and Ted University was also used as Star Fleet Academy.
How do robots make loogies? Just one of those things you're not supposed to think about I suppose.
I think they spit out some sort of oil/lubricant 😅
@@LordVolkov yeah I thought of something like that. But as long as it's not toxic or burning or something, it wouldn't bother me much. It's nowhere near the grossness of a loogie.
Using a built in LoogieTron, of course!
"Is that the guy from the last movie?"
It is,and he's not just any guy. That's George Carlin. The GOAT! He was a 20th century Socrates who gave his lectures on a comedy stage. Would love to see you react to his stand up specials
Most notable bits: The American Dream, Religion, Football vs. Baseball, A Place for my Stuff.
I know everyone is emtitled to their own opinion, but yours is definitely the wrong one, lol.
You also saw Keanu Reeves in SPEED.
I think Point Break would do well on this channel
CANS! IT'S JUST CANS
Two Words... Point Break.
20 Questions usually begins with "Are you animal, mineral, or vegetable?" And Granny was played by Bill. Yes, pay phones were inside stores as well as outside.
It's you. Bogus Journey is the best Bill and Ted.
Bill and Ted came before Jay and Silent Bob, and were definitely an influence. This film was popular enough to have it's own cartoon and comics (also featuring Death). That character IS the best part of the film! The whole journey to Hell and Heaven, and the games against Death make this a more philosophical film, not too serious but not good first thing in the morning.
"Best of seven?"
"YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT!"
William Sadler killed his role as the Grim Reaper.
"Great Value Darth Vader." X'D That made me laugh harder than it should have.
If I remember correctly, a "melvin" is a reverse wedgie. Yanking the underwear up the front instead of the butt.
Well the Grim Reaper is played by William Sadler, you've seen him before in Die Hard 2 (he played Col. Stuart, the main bad guy), he was also in The Shawshank Redemption, and The Green Mile. He's also in a movie you haven't seen yet called "The Mist"(a horror/monster movie from 2007), which I kind of recommend but I kinda don't, it's a good movie, but the ending....
Yep Ashley, if you've not seen it watch The Mist.
The ending is awesome.
@@StevenJShow I think devastating is a more accurate word. ☹️
@@Temeraire101maybe hallowbeans?
@@FromRussiaWithLuv007 ?
The granny that plays that character is Alex Winter/Bill in all that
Better than the first film.
So to explain the joke of Death playing Chess it is a reference to The Seventh Seal a Swedish Art House film from the 50’s where a knight play chess against death for his life. With the boys not knowing how to play Chess and going to other games where Death loses it's because everyone before knew how to play Chess and he never learned how to play the others.
This came wayyyy before Jay and Silent Bob
Bill and Ted was a product of it's time, so I can understand that it wasn't your cup of tea. There's also references to things you haven't seen or heard, so that probably didn't help much. It definitely isn't at the same level as EJ, but I love the goofy characters so much I don't mind. ☺ Be Excellent To Each Other!
Don't Fear The Reaper is a VERY famous song by the rock band, Blue Oyster Cult (look it up on RUclips); "Every Rose" etc. is by Bon Jovi; Bill nd Ted pre-dates Jay and Silent Bob by several years.
Boo! 😜As an elder millennial I am highly disappointed you didn't like this. This is my favorite of the Trilogy.
I stopped watching her on the regular a while back because she doesnt have the best taste or takes on movies.
Damn, thanks for the heads up. I think I’ll skip this one.
@@gregory3499 Maybe that’s my problem: I keep coming back, expecting things to be different. Guess I’m unsubscribing…
@@RMBittner I've had to unsub to a bunch of reactors I used to like after things like this.
And yet here you are.
You can't compare Bill & Ted to Jay & Silent Bob. Not the same.
I happened to have seen this movie first. I skipped “Excellent Adventure” when it came out, assuming it was some stupid stoner non-com. When I went to the theater somewhat low in spirit to see “Bogus Journey”, its silliness genuinely cheered me up. I picked up the DVD of “Excellent” on the way home, and found it amazingly fun.
No, I do not believe this sequel is as good as the first Bill and Ted, but it lifted me up when I needed it, and it turned me on to the original, so I will rewatch it from time to time, if only for William Sanderson’s performance. If you’ve never seen the Swedish movie “The Seventh Seal”, a serious movie wherein a Knight stalls for time by engaging a similar-looking Death in a game of Chess, you will not truly understand how extraordinarily humorous it was for me to see them playing Clue, etc.
Not four stars for me, but a solid three. Thanks, Ashleigh.
Blue Oyster Cult had a HUGE CLASSIC HIT with "Don't Fear The Reaper"
The soundtrack is still in my rotation. Great CD
Love this movie! Also, definitely need to check out Keanu Reeves in Constantine for Hallow-Beans.
don't fear the reaper is a blue oyster cult song
Everyone in the world already knows that.
She was a radio DJ. There's no reason she shouldn't know that for real. Ignorance is money in reaction content.
Next, you must see the recent third movie, Bill & Ted Face the Music.
Oh wow i love bogus journey, better than the first one imo.
Sad to hear you didn't enjoy it.
But oh well if we all thought the same life would be pretty boring. 🙂
I think that Ashleigh needs more cowbell.
18:30; Fun fact; Granny Preston was played by none other than Alex Winter, AKA Bill S Preston, Esquire.
In very heavy makeup.
Yup
When this came out i didn't care for it, but rewatched it before the 3rd one came out. much different movie when you're older.
Bill and ted beating Primus in the battle of the bands is pretty funny.
The creaters and writers of the movie are the two men in the seance. The chant Missy says is "Ed and Chris rule the world" backwards.
I still want to know why Missy wants to talk to Ty Cobb 😅
She doesn't strike me as a baseball fan 🤔
@@LordVolkovmaybe she's a racist
Older Millenial, yes some stores had payphones inside, and even until around 2012 there was at least one in many truck stops.
Keanu Reeves in 'The Devils Advocate' with Al Pacino... It'll ''freak your chicken-out'' ; as we say back home... .. .
Oof. Gotta say I REALLY disagree with Ashleigh on this one. I love all the Bill and Ted movies, including this one. And like many are already saying, Bill and Ted pre-date Jay and Silent Bob. They're also not stoners at all. Just lovable, charming idiots.
John wick takes place in an alyernate time line where trd goes to military school instead of the band
He then dies, and wakes up in the Matrix.
Bill on the other hand goes to Santa Carla and gets turned into a vampire...
@@eddiejravannen bill is a freaked too
I could get behind that.
The "Don'r Fear The Reaper" joke refers to an almost perfect but definitely classic rock song by Blüe Oyster Cült. Almost perfect. Can't put my finger on what's missing...
'Don't Fear the Reaper' is a song by Blue Oyster Cult. Still gets radio play to this day. Very popular around Halloween.
It's even IN Halloween, it plays on the radio in the original.
@@EdSigma That's right! The scene in the car where they're getting Laurie a date!
BOC still sounds amazing live, too. Just saw 'em a couple years back.
The Stoned Age is a great movie if you haven't seen it.
Blue Oyster Cult - “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
Iconic rock song with an awesome solo.
There was a brief period in the 90's where 'Melvin' meant wedgie. For guys anyway. For women it's a 'Claudia."
Oh, and the song in the van near the end was 'Battle Stations" By Winger.
Technically a Melvin is a reverse (or frontal) wedgie...the aim is to crush the nuts.
One fun idea from this is the John Wick movies are just the timeline where Ted actually went to military school and the band broke up lol
I didn’t realise Justin Hawkins based his look on Ted at the end of this movie 🤔
Ashleigh, 9/17/24 is the brithday of the late Anne Bancroft, also known as Mrs Mel Brooks. You should watch the movie they did together To Be Or Not To Be.