…and party on, dude!
Greetings from my hovel on the shores of the Bow.
Showed a friend Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure for the first time last night. That movie holds up INCREDIBLY well. It’s such a cute and above-all JOYFUL film. A delightful, lighthearted comedy from a time before cynicism and irony and sarcasm in mainstream comedy. Bill & Ted is the true antithesis of what I hate about modern comedies.
Everyone in modern comedies sounds alike, they’re all aloof and ironic and snide. The jokes are all mean-spirited (when there ARE jokes instead of lightly edited, shitty improv), the characters are all unlikable and every single one of the films is interchangeable. Bill & Ted, by contrast is this beautiful, slight adventure about being decent and sweet that is unlike anything else. I really hope the coming Bill & Ted Face the Music captures that same joy that Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey managed so effortlessly.
Also, Excellent Adventure gave us one of the all-time greatest lines in the history of cinema:
Currently Playing: Random Japanese 80s Citypop Compilations
Currently Reading: THE FLOWERS OF EVIL COMPLETE EDITION VOL. 1, Shuzo Oshimi
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