Come anticipate Bill & Ted 3 aka BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC with me

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Don’t fuck it up guys, need something positive in these dark times.

Trailer is out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAL7emClFM

I'm all for it.

I had no idea Orion Pictures still existed, or was revived, or whatever, but that's weird.

Trailer is a little skimpy, but looks good so far. I'm extremely trepidatious about any and all sequels, reboots, and remakes.

lol how little i knew back then in the good old days of december 2019

bill and ted are a force for good in this dying hellworld and nothing you people can say will change my mind

― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 19 December 2019 13:05 (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Xp I assumed that it was an ironic nod back to the the original films, but no it’s a real live company. They seemed to have disappeared between 1999 and 2014. Slate of pictures since then is underwhelming to say the least, other than the excellent ‘God’s Own Country’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Orion_Pictures_films#2010s

They remade Valley Girl as a musical!

I always thought the funniest joke of the first two movies was that the inevitable sub-shredder pop metal garbage these two would record could save and unify the world. Love that they remain committed to such a silly concept, though as much as I love Bill & Ted I watched this new trailer keenly aware that "the world" means "the western world," though I kind of hope it ends with the generic montage of one room of representative people in each continent celebrating their victory with high-fives.

I suddenly remembered Don McKeller's pretty good "Last Night," where the world is going to end at some very specific time, and as the various people of iirc Toronto handle the news different ways, a radio station in the background keeps counting down the greatest songs of all time, concluding, eventually, moments before the end of the world, with - hilariously, anticlimactically, almost inexplicably but in the end, why not - "Guantanamera."

I'm gonna be honest, that trailer did not impress

Also honest, the "how could we steal from ourselves" joke it basically the same as the "why would we lie to ourselves" joke from the first movie.

This was exactly as good and/or bad as I expected. I enjoyed it OK, and never want to see it again.

We watched it tonight with our kids. I had pretty low expectations and it was way better than I expected. It was a nice melding of the 1st and 2nd movies, with an added layer of middle-aged melancholy.

I enjoyed it OK, and never want to see it again.

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possibly the drive-in made it seem better than it was, but I enjoyed this very much

Had the spirit of the originals but I wish it had been funnier

you know I'm kind of stunned that Andrew W.K. was not asked to be involved with this in any capacity

Also saw at the drive-in, also enjoyed enormously. Obviously rushed and trimmed due to a small budget being cut just before production, but the commitment of the cast keeps everything running. As well as retaining the spirit of the originals, it deepens them not only by the doubts and weaknesses of the middle-aged Bill & Ted, but the way those are resolved. Manages to not only be a B&T updated for middle-aged viewers, but to still be goofy silly fun for kids.

It's not jammed with jokes, but I was grinning most of the time, and my group (in lawn chairs in front of our respective cars) all LOL-ed periodically.

As good as it needed to be. And the actor who plays the daughter played an extremely good young Ted -- almost too good as I felt it showed up the one who did not even seem to be trying to play young Bill.

Weaving does the 'turning at the shoulders' thing that Bill does, and plenty of reacting with her jaw, it's just that Lundy-Paine is uncannily great at the upper-body rubberiness of Ted

(also used by Reeves in Parenthood iirc)

OK I can see you've thought this through more fully than I have

I started looking for what Billie was doing after being amazed at Theodora's wavy posture :)

i think billie tied her voice more directly to her whole body movement rather than head/facial movement but she also went pretty big

i think samara has everything put together in the right way but it comes off as slightly too subtle somehow & doesnt quite read as big on camera esp in close-up

but bless them forever, they truly help make the movie the joy it is in a major way

this was pretty shitty. keanu looked weird, the plot made no sense, the new characters were boring (exception for the kill-bot, who i got a couple of laughs out of), kid cudi had a major role for some reason, but mostly it just wasn't funny

i was annoyed by the keanu impression that the actress playing ted's daughter was doing

i wasn't looking for much out of it but i got even less

and oh my god trying to pull this off is a thankless task but that final song that unites the world was so awful

A song that unites the world would be awful, to be fair

I was expecting the song to be the Diarrhea Song

I mean *every country* knows it.

i was annoyed by the keanu impression that the actress playing ted's daughter was doing

― na (NA), Monday, July 19, 2021 12:36 PM bookmarkflaglink

no way, she was badass

most countries don’t even spell diarrhoea “diarrhea”

Letterboxd claims I gave this 3/5 several months ago, but I have almost no memory of it now.