Keanuthon

7:53am – “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey,” 1991

I begin “Breakfast with Bill & Ted” in the complete wrong order & with the “bonus” (“making of” “featurette”) Seem to offer only a little Keanu & Alex Winter (but the thing is only 8 minutes long). All in all, not the most satisfying “making of” (in my opinion tha hallmark, or at least the hallmark momemt would be the “wacky” comment in “Hardball” making of – but, once again, I am jumping the proverbial gun), but pretty good

8:01am – “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” actually really begins

Confession time… I’ve got this rash. It really itches, right here. Let me show you. Wait. No. Different confession. Have never been the biggest fan of the “Bill & Ted’s” duology (sorry). My friend Sameer is a big fan. This is a good thing. I must have always felt it kind of typed Keanu in the public mind as “that guy who says excellent” (and NEO) – which has irritated me.

Ooh… Pam Grier, way before Tarantino was all “Pam Grier is cool!” – forget those ’70’s blaxploitation movies, I bet Tarantino was hanging out in the video store & saw “Bill & Ted’s Bojus Journey” & thought “wow! who is that “battle of the bands” concert promoter dudette? she looks really cool!” – this movie is most likely sparked his interested in movies and being “Tarantino” and all that stuff.

Admittedly, melikes the “air guitar” “the evil, anamatronic Bill & Ted” thing and the movies i just am kind of principally against these, like I don’t like the “Matrix” movies (which I actually don’t like, story for a couple of days from now)

“a hand phaser, a hand phaser, my kingdom for a hand phaser!”

Really, in a lot of ways, this movie is a work of genius – I can feel my principals (beliefs/values/morals or whatever you want to call “them”) breaking down this is hardly a unique occurence.

The jumping in the adult’s ears and possessing them is uniformly agreed to be awesome. References to Socrates, we are racking our collective brains. “Spirits can you hear me? Tell me can you hear me?” “Prince of Pennsylvannia,” sure, but what else? oh… Hell..

clearly the “Matrix” hallway was ripped off from the this scene. Oats. More Oats. Just like “Act of Vengence” toasty little buttercakes

“I think we’re in our own personal Hell” – anything like “Your Own Private Idaho?” – “Your own personal Jesus?”

there just aren’t many (or is it enough) movies with comedic Bergman references, William Sadler is great, but if they could’ve gotten Max Von Sydow… Twister. who am i? why am i here? is william sadler really, actually tall? taller than Keanu? these are the questions that NEED to be asked.

we got so distracted by the rubber band with a rubber band

9:09 – Went to bed thinking about the wacky parallels between “I Love You to Death” and “Act of Vengeance,” but Matt had already written about it. What I had mostly thinking about was the way Keanu just shows up at the very end to kill somebody. But it’s much nicer to wait through “I Love You to Death” than “Act of Vengeance” for him to show up.

The “PHRASE” “Excellent!” does indeed keep coming up, just like the dickweed in the unauthorized biography told me. Later he said “the WORDS” “Excellent.” We decided those people had never watched any of Keanu’s movies.

Keanu is 27 here (well, probably younger for the filming) but still makes a convincing high schooler. You know, the Bill and Ted movies are kind of a turning point…After this he doesn’t really play teenagers anymore—but he also gets a little more, you know, famous. These movies are, for a lot of people, their first experience with Keanu, which is, as we all know, a little unfortunate for obvious reasons.

“We’ve been all over the afterlife.” ... “The best place to be is here.”

Keanu rocks out to “God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You”—absolute music montage moment.