Love this movie. I literally wore my first VHS of it out. Beethoven was the one who was deaf. He started going deaf at 28. He was essentially totally deaf by 45. So for more than half of his composing career he was unable to hear it completely. And most agree his best works came after he started going deaf. The type of deafness he had is easily curable by modern standards. Also, it tends to retain your ability to hear bass longer. Which was one of the revolutionary parts of Beethoven's works. He was the first composer to extensively write parts for the double bass that were different than the cello and included a lot of sections that are very bass heavy. It made his music very unique. So it was the prototypical blessing and a curse.
I believe, and I could be entirely wrong, he wept at the end of his premier of his 9th symphony because he thought no one was clapping at the end because he could no longer hear them.
@@sitadulip Charlie Brown: _[reading]_ "At the conclusion of the symphony, the audience stood up and cheered. Beethoven, however, because of his deafness, could not hear them, and because his back was to the audience he could not see them. With tears in her eyes one of the singers led Beethoven to the edge of the stage where he could see the cheering people." Schroeder: **Sob** -- _Peanuts,_ October 26, 1955
Saw this with my best friend when I was twelve. My mom drove us then sat in the back somewhere and she liked it so much she got my grandmother to see it and we all went together. My grandmother loved it too. It was really rare for us to see movies in the theater more than once. This was a special film and I think part of the reason is that they are so innocent and lack the cynicism that kind of dominated movies in the late 80s. Plus it's just so much fun.
There's no antagonist, either. There's a bit with Ted's dad, but you can't really call him a bad guy. He's just a dad who's disappointed with his son's grades. I've never been to film school, but if they aren't analyzing this film there, then they should be. The stakes in this movie are whether or not they get an A on their history report. The logic of the film is completely nonsensical. They fit twenty people into a phone booth, they fix future tech with chewing gum, the stakes almost don't exist, there's no character arcs for ANYONE, there's not a moment where they have a fight and then have to make up... It does absolutely nothing that any normal film would do, but it completely works as a film, was a big hit and people love it. It's one of those movies that just proves that the hero's journey doesn't have to be the only way to make a movie (even though it does do a little bit of that stuff...) EDIT: You know, I've thought about this some more, and I think that Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is actually a throwback to a period of film making before the typical hero's journey stuff was so prevalent, but it's a story that's goofy and charming and fun with a lot of pop-culture references, so it's just more widely viewed by pop-culture junkies today than a lot of classic films from the pre-Star-Wars era of film making. There used to be TONS of movies made this way. We just don't watch them anymore...
💯 % nailed it. It’s got a sense of intentional (by the actors and writers) innocence, but unintentional innocence by the characters that is honestly to this day still refreshing and rare. And the sequels lived up to that somehow, even with the thematic changes. All you have to do is look at films like the Dumb and Dumber sequel or Zoolander 2 to see what happens when you try and update your franchise sequels for cynical modern audiences. Then look at this whole trilogy, and see that lack of cynicism you mentioned 😊
Napoleon could speak fluent Corsican, Italian and French and after being exiled the the island of St. Helena he learned enough English to read British newspapers.
The Napoleonic Era ended with Napoleon's big defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon Bonaparte, when he got lost in San Dimas, turned up at a water park called Waterloop. I thought it was surprising and impressive that Bill and Ted knew enough about the finer points of his military career to _guess_ that.
When I first saw this movie in theaters, I was living in Phoenix and immediately recognized Metrocenter Mall, which is where all of the mall action was filmed and stood in for San Dimas Mall.
Yeah, that's the Die Hard candy bar guy. This movie is an anomaly in his acting career as he neither carries an automatic nor is killed by one. For a short while in Hollywood it was actually illegal to make an action movie without him and you were required to kill him off before the end credits or you would get kicked out the directors guild. True Story.
Al Leung; the 80's most henchiest henchman. Fun fact, there's a reason you almost never hear him talk in any of his roles. He actually had a role as a good guy in one movie, a cop. A lot of spoken lines. His voice is totally California boy. If you heard him and didn't see him you might think he was a surfer dude.
You catch the paradox in this movie? Rufus never introduces himself. Bill and Ted call him that because their older selves called him that. A possible explanation is that "Rufus" isn't actually his name. It is a title created by the great ones themselves. He is The Rufus: Time ambassador.
Taking the Princesses completely out of their time had to have some repercussions. Their names might not have been historical but the bloodline they would've birthed could have been
A perfect example of a film (That shouldn’t have worked) so much fun it deserves to be called a Classic! The Soundtrack is imo one of the absolute best 80’s Soundtracks (It deserves to be re-released and remastered (I can not praise that CD enough) 👍👍❤️❤️👍👍
Bill and Ted's movie was quirky to its core. It actually was shelved for a year by the studio who didn't know how to market it. Also its screenplay was written out on a notepad and they just scribbled out lines they didn't need.
One of the greatest pop culture moments for me was when "In Time" was reused for Mr Robot. Everyone was swooning over how great the song was and all I could think was, "Sure do play excellent music. Most outstanding."
Right?! I was happy they used the song, and it’s a great show, but damned if people need to give credit where credit is due, like you did 😊 idk…maybe others will realize Bill & Ted used it first, in time. It’ll take time
It was Beethoven who was deaf later in life. Story was that he cut the legs off of his piano and would lay his head atop of it, where he could feel the vibrations.
Plus, you've got Clarence Clemons, Martha Davis, and Fee Waybill as The Three Most Important People in the World, and Jane Wiedlin as Joan of Arc! Most excellent musicians!
Party on dudes became a huge catchphrase for my friends and I in middle school when this movie came out. We learned about all these historical individuals from this movie but our teacher didn't like us mispronounced Socrates
A few years after this movie came out, I was picking somebody up in Los Angeles & wound up driving her out through the neighborhood she'd grown up in. San Dimas was on the way. For some reason I'd just assumed it was a fictional city, I found it fascinating that it really did exist (and does _still_ have a water park, Raging Waters; some parts of the movie were filmed there). I believe that the "Ziggy Pig" was inspired by The Zoo, a giant ice cream sundae served at Farrell's Ice Cream locations. I went to a Farrell's once as a kid with my grandparents, and I remember several employees carrying one out on a stretcher, with sirens going off. Grandma & Grandpa wouldn't get me one. :/ Apparently their last location closed in 2019.
One slight correction: the original Farrell's chain closed down in 2001 and were revived by a different ownership group in 2008 before closing again like you said in 2019. I got to eat at the original chain once as a kid, and got to take my son to the revived version before it closed. Too bad they couldn't make it work.
I went to a few birthday parties at a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour between the late '70s and mid-'80s. I heard about it closing and then saw news a few years ago of one re-opening at that same particular mall, but it was far from the original's decor and theme.
@@christiaanvandenakker901 Thanks both of you for the updates! I was an East Coaster, don't think they ever expanded out our way, so the whole thing was just a vague memory with "Farrell's" attached for me.
That circle k was in Scottsdale az. They just closed it this spring but when I visited my snowbird parents in 2020, I had to see it. They had the movie poster up inside and if you asked the employees when the mongols ruled china, they had to answer, “i don’t know I just work here.”
It's weird to think that this Keanu became John Wick but loved the reaction and fact that I've never seen the young Lady laugh so much as she did watching the movie.
I feel that the guy that was in The Lost Boys, Marco(same guy that was Bill from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure), is actually Bill in another universe that came after Bill and Ted failed their history exam, Ted went to Oats Military Academy and it depressed Bill and Bill ran away from home, got strung out on drugs, drifted to Santa Carla, was bitten, and became a Lost Boy. John Wick is Ted's cover name when he joined the group of assassins so he could go away quietly without being tracked down.
I'm pretty sure this is the only time-travel movie that plays with the idea of influencing the present simply by making a decision to later travel back to an earlier point and change something.
@@The-Underbaker Sorry, that's where you're wrong. Jane was the second hottest Go-Go and is THE hottest Joan...and one of the best/hottest female bass players next to Tina Weymouth, D'arcy, Kristen Pfaff, and Geddy Lee.
The part when they go to the future always hit hard for me. That entire future society is based on their music and when they say "be excellent to each other" and "party on, dude", it is almost the same as if one were to go back in time, and see and hear Jesus's sermon on the mount.
It’s both somehow a fun and cheesy yet (like most of the film) self-aware and fun, but SURPRISINGLY emotional and memorable scene that absolutely just SHOULD NOT WORK. And yet it does. Just like the entire film/trilogy (but that even in particular is special 🙂)
One of the great movies to come out of the 80's about time travel, besides Star Trek IV, Time Bandits, and Back to the Future! This movie was a surprise hit..that gained a cult following! Just the"Starlog" Magazine article about it alone made it look fun alone!! And it has a KICK-ASS SOUNDTRACK!!
An absolutely amazing movie based on Beethoven is called Immoral Beloved. Staring Gary Oldman. It's a little long, but it's a beautiful, and heart wrenching story. Top notch acting by Gary.
The history report not only deserves an A for the depth of knowledge and “arena rock” style presentation, but it does exactly what Mr Ryan was hoping it would do: the entire history report portrays both how historical figures would react to the modern world, but also how two bumbling Gen Xers would associate historical lessons. The introduction with Socrates as compared to Ozzy Osbourne for “corruption of the youth” hits this nail right on the head.
The opening song is "Breakaway" by Big Pig. Good song. I really like this movie and it still stands the test of time in our day; love how Keanu and Alex talk like surfers from Southern California. So Crates and Beeth Oven rock. I just finished the limited edition Tropical Blast Twinkies. Tasted like a Pina Colada. Robbi Robb did the song "In Time" for this. Bogus Journey then Face The Music. This is the most I've ever seen her laugh since I started watching your reactions.
Those guitars they get at the end, they still make those types. IIRC, they're called "traveler" guitars. The tuning knobs are at the bottom, at the point of the V. From what I've seen, they're not quite as good as normal guitars in terms of sound, but they're good if you want a guitar to have with you when you travel, since they're smaller.
I was born in '80 and this movie, as well as others ( i.e. Robo Cop, Top Gun, Spaceballs, Neverending Story, etc.), I watched many times and I deeply cherish. This movie gave me an easy way to remember how to spell Beethoven's name. (Beethoven was deaf and played piano by feeding the vibrations made by each piano key when played, if I recall correctly).
The guitars Rufus gives them at the end are Steinberger guitars, which are made of carbon fiber instead of wood, and are tuned at the bridge, since they're headless.
As a kid, it was mind blowing to me that Rufus never once said his own name, but everyone knows it. They only know his name because their future selves mentioned it, and when they become the future selves, they mention it to the new present selves.
Napoleon's final battle, where he lost and was captured, was the battle of Waterloo. *That's* why he goes to the water park, which _is_ named Waterloo. (Can't be the first to mention this, am I?)
Just a good, goofy, and fun. They made 3 movies, and a cartoon. Haven't seen the newest movie yet. Even had the action figures growing up. You squeezed their legs together, and they would move their arms like their are playing the air guitar. They also had a little Amp stack that they plugged into. It was a tape player. It would play a Wylde Stallions cassette. It would only play when you squeezed their legs. So you could do the little guitar noise the punctuate your brilliant monologs. 😆
The fact that both the third film and the animated series are fantastic (even if you can’t touch the first two!) both surprises me greatly, and yet also doesn’t at all. That’s just how Bill & Ted (and the writers, actors, cast, and directors) roll😊
All 3 films are exellent, I remember watching this when it came out as a kid. Jane Wiedlin from the Gogos as Joan of Arc. George Carlin as The Undertaker they both would love that.
Couldn’t agree more. Even if the first two are hard to top, I’m still giddy at how great the third film turned out 🙂 (and hell…even the animated series was great! 😂
I really enjoyed Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure when I was younger, but I also saw Bogus Journey first and that one holds a special place for me as being my favorite but this one is definitely still a fantastic movie. And watching it again being older this movie is sooo much funnier than when I was younger cause now, I can appreciate the jokes and humor a lot more than when i was a kid
Almost the entire movie was filmed in Phoenix, Arizona about an hour from my hometown of Tucson. The water park is most excellent, still looks most like it did in the movie, the school and Circle K are all still standing today too. I’ve been to both Bill and Ted’s “houses” which are both located just off of I-10 just outside of Phoenix.
I'm so stupid. Wtf did it take me this long to realize that they're traveling through time in a phone booth. Paint it blue, call it a police box on the outside, and we're suddenly in Dr. Who's TARDIS (time and relative dimension in space). I'm not stupid. But I wstched Bill and Ted first, Dr. Who many, MANY years later. I rewatched all 3 last year to see the new 3rd movie. How stupid am I? Thick, thickity thicker thick thick!
You know I just realized? You know why this movie is also so great, it PERFECTLY shows how men learn. We don't learn through sitting in class and looking at a board. We learn through entertainment. EVERYTHING I've ever learned/retained, was when it was present in a fun/entertaining way.
This reaction was most excellent dudes, but it's bogus that Mrs Movies watched the latest movie before the original two. That is totally most heinous... - I damn near laughed my balls off at the start when Mrs Movies thought she was wearing a wrestler's t-shirt, especially when she thought it was The Undertaker! - Loved Mrs Movies reaction to Dave Beeth-oven! lol
You do realise that the reason they have a phone booth is the British TV series Doctor Who, in which the characters travel through time in a 1960s Police Box, a fore runner of the phone booth. 23:40 You're only, 64 000 000 years out. 34:19 It was Beethoven who was deaf in later life. Mozart died young.
Great flick. Love that all the historical figures are cool with being abducted and sent through time. I'd be freaking the hell out, confused, scared, and not at all chill. But, that is what I love about the movie. Bogus Journey is great also.
I love this movie, and I love George Carlin. I had the privilege of watching him perform on stage, twice. He was so damn funny. I remember looking forward to his HBO comedy specials. They would come out every 1 to 2 years. They're all great. He had a "angry/tough guy" image, but deep down he was all heart. I miss George. Great reaction, guys.
"Strange things are afoot at the Circle K." I love that line.
I say that literally every time I pass a Circle K.
@@mikelundquist4596 Same here.
Joan of Arc was played by Jane Wiedlin, rhythm guitarist and vocalist for the Go-Go's, who co-wrote "Our lips are sealed".
She’s still a babe too
Great example of "infectious enthusiasm." The characters (and seemingly the actors) never stop having fun, so neither does the audience.
I💕!🤗🥰🥴🤣🤙❤️📺
DUDE! that is your next tee shirt!
"infectious enthusiasm" what? NO NO NO.....
*"Time Travel Fix's Everything!"*
Yep
100%. Combined that with a sense of unintentional innocence and a lack of cynicism, and that’s Bill & Ted to a tee 😊
I think thats the hardest Ive seen her laugh. At the Beethoven joke lol
It’s been 30 years and I still laugh at the jokes in this movie
😊🤣😂
@@Benjamas- Right? It will never not be funny
To be fair it’s a great gag.
It’s Bee Thoven pronounce it correctly
Love this movie. I literally wore my first VHS of it out.
Beethoven was the one who was deaf. He started going deaf at 28. He was essentially totally deaf by 45.
So for more than half of his composing career he was unable to hear it completely. And most agree his best works came after he started going deaf.
The type of deafness he had is easily curable by modern standards. Also, it tends to retain your ability to hear bass longer.
Which was one of the revolutionary parts of Beethoven's works. He was the first composer to extensively write parts for the double bass that were different than the cello and included a lot of sections that are very bass heavy. It made his music very unique.
So it was the prototypical blessing and a curse.
If I remember right, he actually conducted the first part of a symphony while nearly completely deaf. I don't remember the story all that well.
I believe, and I could be entirely wrong, he wept at the end of his premier of his 9th symphony because he thought no one was clapping at the end because he could no longer hear them.
@@sitadulip
Charlie Brown: _[reading]_ "At the conclusion of the symphony, the audience stood up and cheered. Beethoven, however, because of his deafness, could not hear them, and because his back was to the audience he could not see them. With tears in her eyes one of the singers led Beethoven to the edge of the stage where he could see the cheering people."
Schroeder: **Sob**
-- _Peanuts,_ October 26, 1955
I believe they hinted at it as he was the only one not reacting when the phone booth landed in the piano room.
Saw this with my best friend when I was twelve. My mom drove us then sat in the back somewhere and she liked it so much she got my grandmother to see it and we all went together. My grandmother loved it too. It was really rare for us to see movies in the theater more than once. This was a special film and I think part of the reason is that they are so innocent and lack the cynicism that kind of dominated movies in the late 80s. Plus it's just so much fun.
For me, one of the great things about this movie is the complete lack of cynicism. There's not a dark or mean moment in the entire film.
There's no antagonist, either. There's a bit with Ted's dad, but you can't really call him a bad guy. He's just a dad who's disappointed with his son's grades. I've never been to film school, but if they aren't analyzing this film there, then they should be. The stakes in this movie are whether or not they get an A on their history report. The logic of the film is completely nonsensical. They fit twenty people into a phone booth, they fix future tech with chewing gum, the stakes almost don't exist, there's no character arcs for ANYONE, there's not a moment where they have a fight and then have to make up... It does absolutely nothing that any normal film would do, but it completely works as a film, was a big hit and people love it.
It's one of those movies that just proves that the hero's journey doesn't have to be the only way to make a movie (even though it does do a little bit of that stuff...)
EDIT: You know, I've thought about this some more, and I think that Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is actually a throwback to a period of film making before the typical hero's journey stuff was so prevalent, but it's a story that's goofy and charming and fun with a lot of pop-culture references, so it's just more widely viewed by pop-culture junkies today than a lot of classic films from the pre-Star-Wars era of film making. There used to be TONS of movies made this way. We just don't watch them anymore...
I like the part when step mom was making babies in his bedroom.
Yes it is delightfully good natured
💯 % nailed it. It’s got a sense of intentional (by the actors and writers) innocence, but unintentional innocence by the characters that is honestly to this day still refreshing and rare. And the sequels lived up to that somehow, even with the thematic changes. All you have to do is look at films like the Dumb and Dumber sequel or Zoolander 2 to see what happens when you try and update your franchise sequels for cynical modern audiences. Then look at this whole trilogy, and see that lack of cynicism you mentioned 😊
Also, re-watch the mall scene with Freud talking to the girls, and note how his corn dog dips lower and lower as he realizes they're laughing at him.
Napoleon could speak fluent Corsican, Italian and French and after being exiled the the island of St. Helena he learned enough English to read British newspapers.
The Napoleonic Era ended with Napoleon's big defeat at the hands of the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon Bonaparte, when he got lost in San Dimas, turned up at a water park called Waterloop. I thought it was surprising and impressive that Bill and Ted knew enough about the finer points of his military career to _guess_ that.
When I first saw this movie in theaters, I was living in Phoenix and immediately recognized Metrocenter Mall, which is where all of the mall action was filmed and stood in for San Dimas Mall.
I've never seen her laugh so much during a reaction. This video was most excellent. Party on, dudes!
Freud always has something phallic in his hand. I didn't get that until I rewatched this as an adult. Lol
Yeah, that's the Die Hard candy bar guy. This movie is an anomaly in his acting career as he neither carries an automatic nor is killed by one. For a short while in Hollywood it was actually illegal to make an action movie without him and you were required to kill him off before the end credits or you would get kicked out the directors guild.
True Story.
Al Leung is so great! Love seeing him pop up (and 😵), but Ghengis will always be a favorite for me.
So you're saying the makers of this movie broke the law?
There is a awesome documentary on al leung, try to find it and check it out
@@BKPrice 😀No, its an 'in' joke.
Al Leung; the 80's most henchiest henchman. Fun fact, there's a reason you almost never hear him talk in any of his roles. He actually had a role as a good guy in one movie, a cop. A lot of spoken lines. His voice is totally California boy. If you heard him and didn't see him you might think he was a surfer dude.
A detail I love about this movie is that Rufus never actually tells Bill & Ted his name, they introduce him to themselves
You catch the paradox in this movie? Rufus never introduces himself. Bill and Ted call him that because their older selves called him that. A possible explanation is that "Rufus" isn't actually his name. It is a title created by the great ones themselves. He is The Rufus: Time ambassador.
Woah!
Taking the Princesses completely out of their time had to have some repercussions. Their names might not have been historical but the bloodline they would've birthed could have been
A perfect example of a film (That shouldn’t have worked) so much fun it deserves to be called a Classic! The Soundtrack is imo one of the absolute best 80’s Soundtracks (It deserves to be re-released and remastered (I can not praise that CD enough) 👍👍❤️❤️👍👍
Bill and Ted's movie was quirky to its core. It actually was shelved for a year by the studio who didn't know how to market it. Also its screenplay was written out on a notepad and they just scribbled out lines they didn't need.
One of the greatest pop culture moments for me was when "In Time" was reused for Mr Robot. Everyone was swooning over how great the song was and all I could think was, "Sure do play excellent music. Most outstanding."
Right?! I was happy they used the song, and it’s a great show, but damned if people need to give credit where credit is due, like you did 😊 idk…maybe others will realize Bill & Ted used it first, in time. It’ll take time
I liked the fact that none of the historical figures seemed to mind that they were kidnapped. They just went along with it.
It was Beethoven who was deaf later in life. Story was that he cut the legs off of his piano and would lay his head atop of it, where he could feel the vibrations.
I don't think I've ever seen "The Missus" laugh any harder than she did at "Bee-thoven" lol 😆
Plus, you've got Clarence Clemons, Martha Davis, and Fee Waybill as The Three Most Important People in the World, and Jane Wiedlin as Joan of Arc! Most excellent musicians!
I saw this theatrically and loved it but if you would have told me Keanu Reeves would become an action star I would’ve thought you were on something.😂
Or still be relevant in 2022, most actors fade out into obscurity like his co-star in this movie.
To think Bill would one day become John Wick...
@@NecramoniumVideo Alex Winter (Bill) didn't fade into obscurity he just moved his focus to his directing (mostly documentaries)
@@AbsoluteApril and he nailed it in the newest movie. Reeves just couldn’t get back to that “Ted” style of talking and expressing himself
Yeah, I remember how weird it was seeing him all buff and with a buzzcut in Speed just a few years later.
Party on dudes became a huge catchphrase for my friends and I in middle school when this movie came out. We learned about all these historical individuals from this movie but our teacher didn't like us mispronounced Socrates
Everyone should endeavor to follow the wise words of the non-stoner stoners: "Be excellent to each other!"
Party on Dude 🤘😎🤘
A few years after this movie came out, I was picking somebody up in Los Angeles & wound up driving her out through the neighborhood she'd grown up in. San Dimas was on the way. For some reason I'd just assumed it was a fictional city, I found it fascinating that it really did exist (and does _still_ have a water park, Raging Waters; some parts of the movie were filmed there).
I believe that the "Ziggy Pig" was inspired by The Zoo, a giant ice cream sundae served at Farrell's Ice Cream locations. I went to a Farrell's once as a kid with my grandparents, and I remember several employees carrying one out on a stretcher, with sirens going off. Grandma & Grandpa wouldn't get me one. :/ Apparently their last location closed in 2019.
One slight correction: the original Farrell's chain closed down in 2001 and were revived by a different ownership group in 2008 before closing again like you said in 2019. I got to eat at the original chain once as a kid, and got to take my son to the revived version before it closed. Too bad they couldn't make it work.
I went to a few birthday parties at a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour between the late '70s and mid-'80s. I heard about it closing and then saw news a few years ago of one re-opening at that same particular mall, but it was far from the original's decor and theme.
@@christiaanvandenakker901 Thanks both of you for the updates! I was an East Coaster, don't think they ever expanded out our way, so the whole thing was just a vague memory with "Farrell's" attached for me.
That circle k was in Scottsdale az. They just closed it this spring but when I visited my snowbird parents in 2020, I had to see it. They had the movie poster up inside and if you asked the employees when the mongols ruled china, they had to answer, “i don’t know I just work here.”
15:44 One of my favorite lines: "I'm Darth Ted!" "Yeah, well, I'm Luke Bill!"
Yessss!!! What a great movie filled with adventure and positive attitudes. Also, there are no real villains in this film.
Saw this in theaters as a 12 year old. One of the best times ever watching a movie.
It's weird to think that this Keanu became John Wick but loved the reaction and fact that I've never seen the young Lady laugh so much as she did watching the movie.
I feel that the guy that was in The Lost Boys, Marco(same guy that was Bill from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure), is actually Bill in another universe that came after Bill and Ted failed their history exam, Ted went to Oats Military Academy and it depressed Bill and Bill ran away from home, got strung out on drugs, drifted to Santa Carla, was bitten, and became a Lost Boy. John Wick is Ted's cover name when he joined the group of assassins so he could go away quietly without being tracked down.
I'm pretty sure this is the only time-travel movie that plays with the idea of influencing the present simply by making a decision to later travel back to an earlier point and change something.
There's a great bit in a Doctor Who novel where he tries it but it doesn't work. "There's never a temporal paradox around when you need one."
Fun fact: Jane wiedlin from the Go Go's is Joan of Arc.
And the HOTTEST Joan of Arc ever!
@@crewchief5144 Milla Jovovich is the hottest Joan of Arc.
@@The-Underbaker Sorry, that's where you're wrong. Jane was the second hottest Go-Go and is THE hottest Joan...and one of the best/hottest female bass players next to Tina Weymouth, D'arcy, Kristen Pfaff, and Geddy Lee.
I don't believe I have ever seen Mrs. laugh so much as at Beeth Oven. It was a thing of beauty.
Oh, Beethoven did go almost completely deaf by 45
Be excellent to each other! Party on, dudes!
Most excellent reaction! Loved it.
The part when they go to the future always hit hard for me. That entire future society is based on their music and when they say "be excellent to each other" and "party on, dude", it is almost the same as if one were to go back in time, and see and hear Jesus's sermon on the mount.
It’s both somehow a fun and cheesy yet (like most of the film) self-aware and fun, but SURPRISINGLY emotional and memorable scene that absolutely just SHOULD NOT WORK. And yet it does. Just like the entire film/trilogy (but that even in particular is special 🙂)
I love how Mrs. is laughing her ass off at Beeth-o-ven! 🤣🤣🤣
I thought he said Beef oven
One of the great movies to come out of the 80's about time travel, besides Star Trek IV, Time Bandits, and Back to the Future! This movie was a surprise hit..that gained a cult following! Just the"Starlog" Magazine article about it alone made it look fun alone!! And it has a KICK-ASS SOUNDTRACK!!
This movie is still excellent after 36 (!) years. Forgot how good it was. Party on, dudes!
An absolutely amazing movie based on Beethoven is called Immoral Beloved. Staring Gary Oldman. It's a little long, but it's a beautiful, and heart wrenching story. Top notch acting by Gary.
I just wanted to say Thank you, I had forgotten how much I enjoy that movie.
one of my favorites. i saw this 5 times at theaters when i was a kid
I learned that phone boxes can travel through time. No wonder there are less of them.
still one in my hometown, just played ping pong with Gandi, he is a most excellent paddle handler!🤣
The history report not only deserves an A for the depth of knowledge and “arena rock” style presentation, but it does exactly what Mr Ryan was hoping it would do: the entire history report portrays both how historical figures would react to the modern world, but also how two bumbling Gen Xers would associate historical lessons.
The introduction with Socrates as compared to Ozzy Osbourne for “corruption of the youth” hits this nail right on the head.
In an alternate universe Ted flunks out of school and has to go to military school...where he becomes John Wick...it could happen!
That'd a big flange
#DontThinkAboutItTooMuch - what about all the things the people learned...did they remember anything when they were brought back, I wonder?
In this universe, Bill moves to Santa Clara and is turned into a vampire.
Love that you laughed so much as Beef Oven. My favorite of the names in that scene will always be Bob-Genghis Khan
FUN FACT: Joan of Arc was played by Jane Wiedlin, singer/guitarist for the 80s girl group, The Go-Go's!
The opening song is "Breakaway" by Big Pig. Good song. I really like this movie and it still stands the test of time in our day; love how Keanu and Alex talk like surfers from Southern California. So Crates and Beeth Oven rock. I just finished the limited edition Tropical Blast Twinkies. Tasted like a Pina Colada. Robbi Robb did the song "In Time" for this. Bogus Journey then Face The Music. This is the most I've ever seen her laugh since I started watching your reactions.
The funniest thing was actually when y'all thought Mozart was the one who went deaf. Also, this was a most excellent movie and reaction.
Those guitars they get at the end, they still make those types. IIRC, they're called "traveler" guitars. The tuning knobs are at the bottom, at the point of the V.
From what I've seen, they're not quite as good as normal guitars in terms of sound, but they're good if you want a guitar to have with you when you travel, since they're smaller.
Great reaction, it was nice to see you two enjoying a classic movie together.
The most excellent of all the Bill and Ted movies.
Steinberger guitars were big in the 80's. Tuning knobs were at the "bottom" but the bridge and nut worked the same as a regular guitar.
35:45=Guitars with no headstocks were at the height of their popularity in the 1980's. They were tuned using small pegs below the bridge.
Napoleon is the man in the bath tub in The Truman Show.
I was born in '80 and this movie, as well as others ( i.e. Robo Cop, Top Gun, Spaceballs, Neverending Story, etc.), I watched many times and I deeply cherish.
This movie gave me an easy way to remember how to spell Beethoven's name. (Beethoven was deaf and played piano by feeding the vibrations made by each piano key when played, if I recall correctly).
Man...the soundtrack to this movie kicked ass. I listened to In Time about 500 times growing up.
Beethoven was deaf. And the girl that plays Joan of Arc is Jane wiedlin from the Go-Go's
The guitars Rufus gives them at the end are Steinberger guitars, which are made of carbon fiber instead of wood, and are tuned at the bridge, since they're headless.
After seeing this movie I was genuinely surprised to learn that Alex Winter was capable of being funny when they gave him a sketch show.
That was such a great review, guys! Most excellent editing as well! Party on, wyld dudes! 🎸🎸🎸
As a kid, it was mind blowing to me that Rufus never once said his own name, but everyone knows it. They only know his name because their future selves mentioned it, and when they become the future selves, they mention it to the new present selves.
Beethoven went deaf in his later years and continued to compose some of his greatest works.
Napoleon went to the water park because it was named “Waterloo”
I remember the cartoon to and the comic. The cartoon was on Saturday morning during the 1990-1991 season right after TMNT good times
The Battle of Waterloo was basically the end of Napoleon's legacy. That's why it was the best place to find him.
Napoleon's final battle, where he lost and was captured, was the battle of Waterloo. *That's* why he goes to the water park, which _is_ named Waterloo.
(Can't be the first to mention this, am I?)
“This is Deputy Van Halen” line still kills me, especially since I’m a lifelong Van Halen fan 🤣😄
Watched it at least 100 times and still love it!
Just a good, goofy, and fun. They made 3 movies, and a cartoon. Haven't seen the newest movie yet. Even had the action figures growing up. You squeezed their legs together, and they would move their arms like their are playing the air guitar. They also had a little Amp stack that they plugged into. It was a tape player. It would play a Wylde Stallions cassette. It would only play when you squeezed their legs. So you could do the little guitar noise the punctuate your brilliant monologs. 😆
The fact that both the third film and the animated series are fantastic (even if you can’t touch the first two!) both surprises me greatly, and yet also doesn’t at all. That’s just how Bill & Ted (and the writers, actors, cast, and directors) roll😊
35:52 the tuners are in the tailstock. The strings are basically reversed from a standard guitar.
1988 - phone booth
1999 - phone booth (matrix)
2009 - flip phone
2019 - smart phone
2029 - hologram facetime app
The Guitars had tuning keys at the bottom past the bridge. They came with a tuning wrench
This movie is pure fun for me. I believe I was 13 when it came out. It was most excellent then, and it remains most excellent now.
All 3 films are exellent, I remember watching this when it came out as a kid. Jane Wiedlin from the Gogos as Joan of Arc. George Carlin as The Undertaker they both would love that.
Couldn’t agree more. Even if the first two are hard to top, I’m still giddy at how great the third film turned out 🙂 (and hell…even the animated series was great! 😂
The phone booth is a reference to Doctor Who.
Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlen played Joan.
I really enjoyed Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure when I was younger, but I also saw Bogus Journey first and that one holds a special place for me as being my favorite but this one is definitely still a fantastic movie. And watching it again being older this movie is sooo much funnier than when I was younger cause now, I can appreciate the jokes and humor a lot more than when i was a kid
Almost the entire movie was filmed in Phoenix, Arizona about an hour from my hometown of Tucson.
The water park is most excellent, still looks most like it did in the movie, the school and Circle K are all still standing today too.
I’ve been to both Bill and Ted’s “houses” which are both located just off of I-10 just outside of Phoenix.
Well if you see a phone booth in the future it probably is a time machine.
I'm so stupid. Wtf did it take me this long to realize that they're traveling through time in a phone booth. Paint it blue, call it a police box on the outside, and we're suddenly in Dr. Who's TARDIS (time and relative dimension in space). I'm not stupid. But I wstched Bill and Ted first, Dr. Who many, MANY years later. I rewatched all 3 last year to see the new 3rd movie. How stupid am I? Thick, thickity thicker thick thick!
About those guitars the tuners are on the body instead of the neck
One of the Princesses is in the brilliant Better Off Dead.
You know I just realized? You know why this movie is also so great, it PERFECTLY shows how men learn. We don't learn through sitting in class and looking at a board. We learn through entertainment. EVERYTHING I've ever learned/retained, was when it was present in a fun/entertaining way.
My first activity using a time machine would be to flatten a few tires on a particular aircraft that Buddy Holly was about to board.
One of my all time favorite coms...Ted Theodore Wick!!! WHOAHHHHHHH!!!
The Wisconsin Dells is filled with waterparks. Many of them fairly new.
The actor who plays the teacher , was also in " Revenge Of The Nerds ".
The sequel is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Totally bogus, dude! 🎸
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Love these movies! Most Triumphant.
those guitars are steinbergers, the tuning gear is all in the base of the guitar body. theyre pretty famous for their no headstock design.
This reaction was most excellent dudes, but it's bogus that Mrs Movies watched the latest movie before the original two. That is totally most heinous...
- I damn near laughed my balls off at the start when Mrs Movies thought she was wearing a wrestler's t-shirt, especially when she thought it was The Undertaker!
- Loved Mrs Movies reaction to Dave Beeth-oven! lol
You do realise that the reason they have a phone booth is the British TV series Doctor Who, in which the characters travel through time in a 1960s Police Box, a fore runner of the phone booth.
23:40 You're only, 64 000 000 years out.
34:19 It was Beethoven who was deaf in later life. Mozart died young.
I'm probably just a kid at heart but I still love water parks:)
Great flick. Love that all the historical figures are
cool with being abducted and sent through time.
I'd be freaking the hell out, confused, scared, and
not at all chill. But, that is what I love about the
movie. Bogus Journey is great also.
Dennis Frood, Socrates Johnson, Bob Ghanis Khan, Dave Beethoven, Herman the Kid,
Headless guitars do exist so they must have tuning knobs *somewhere*
I love this movie, and I love George Carlin. I had the privilege of watching him perform on stage, twice. He was so damn funny.
I remember looking forward to his HBO comedy specials. They would come out every 1 to 2 years. They're all great. He had a "angry/tough guy" image, but deep down he was all heart. I miss George.
Great reaction, guys.
Time traveling phone booths are always roomier on the inside than they appear from the outside.