Keanuthon

9:30am – “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” 1988

Ted seems to have less hair in his face than in Bogus Journey.

Oats!

“Strange things are afoot at the KMart.” I like “afoot”—it’s kind of like “askance.”

Movies where Keanu’s dad is a cop (or where his love interest’s dad is a cop). Maybe that’s what inspired him to be a cop later.

Matt would like to point out that Keanu turned down the sequel to “Speed” but agreed to do “Bogus Journey” because he knew that “Bogus Journey” would be a great film. And so it is. Do you think Keanu had to train as much for this swordfighting scene in “Excellent” as he trained for the Matrix sequels? They so just killed Ted.

It bothers me that Ted tells Bill that he does not know how to sword fight, and yet we all know that Keanu can in fact sword fight quite well, as we saw at the end of that movie that begins with “Dangerous.”

Carla would like to point out that in any movie involving peasants, there is always someone chasing a pig.

Matt adds that in all the greatest movies about the medieval times, there is a scene where they are chasing after a phone booth.

10:13am – There is a great slow air guitar ballod scene that needs to go in the musical montage.

The main reason we are watching the “Bill & Ted” adventures out of order are so that we can continue our tradition (of which is the first year) of “Breakfast with Bill and Ted.” The main idea is that we watch the movies in the morning and eat breakfast while watching. It is not really all that amazing of an idea, but then again, what of our ideas (aside from the idea of the ‘Thon itself) are really amazing ideas? This morning we did not eat breakfast until “Excellent Adventure” was on. Carla had a fried egg and toast with jam. I had a double fried egg sandwich with horseradich cheddar cheese, and Matt had a single piece of plain toast.

I feel that we have lost some momentum during the days. We have settled into a schedule of having one person rotate into the watch/log seat while the others do things around the house. We are all sitting together watching “Excellent Adventure” and discussing the ratings of the two “Bill & Ted” movies. We are a bit more on track now.

It is amazing how intellectual the “Bill & Ted” movies are. For instance, Bill and Ted are looking for Napolean who they lost in the suburbs of San Dimas. They ask “If I were one of the greatest generals in history, where would I go?” and conclude that Napolean went to Waterloo. Now, the funny thing about that is that Waterloo is a water park, but it is an oblique reference to a battle that occured for real in history: a battle that Napolean himself lost. So Napolean is not interested in going to Waterloo because it is a water park (how could a Frenchman from the 18th century know about a water park at all?), but instead thinks that Waterloo is the battleground. Ah, history, it is a fascinating thing.