Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

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Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#1 Post by domino harvey » Wed Mar 20, 2019 2:11 pm

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter just confirmed Bill and Ted Face the Music will film this summer

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Re: New Films in Production, v.2

#2 Post by Brian C » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:18 pm

domino harvey wrote:Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter just confirmed Bill and Ted Face the Music will film this summer
I’m cautiously on board for this. You don’t often see the combination of good-natured and surreal that the first two movies had. If the new one can hold on to that, despite the characters being middle-aged now, i feel it would be a pretty impressive achievement.

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#3 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Mar 20, 2019 5:55 pm

It's an awesome title, that's for sure.

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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#4 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:00 pm

And it's with Orion, of all places

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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#5 Post by domino harvey » Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:27 pm

It's such a shame Alex Winter never got any mileage out of these films and especially Freaked. In some alternate perfect world, Freaked would be as well-known as Anchorman et al


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Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films

#7 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jun 10, 2020 12:05 pm

Surprisingly does not look terrible

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Re: Trailers for Upcoming Films

#8 Post by knives » Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:56 pm

Does look ancient though.


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#10 Post by Monterey Jack » Thu Jun 11, 2020 12:25 am

Rather odd, considering how much he looks down his nose at "mainstream" cinema.

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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#11 Post by domino harvey » Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:10 am

Dude, like half his films ARE mainstream cinema, what are you even talking about

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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#12 Post by Jack Kubrick » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:46 am

Yes, the man behind the ultra- austere arty film series as the Ocean's (insert number) is a precocious snob looking down at Hollywood entertainment.

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#13 Post by PfR73 » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:47 am

Monterey Jack wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 12:25 am
Rather odd, considering how much he looks down his nose at "mainstream" cinema.
Soderbegh has a working relationship with Bill & Ted screenwriter Ed Solomon, who wrote Mosaic and the upcoming Kill Switch.

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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#14 Post by Monterey Jack » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:33 pm

I just remember some story about him watching The Rocketeer, leaning over to whoever he saw the film with, and referring to James Horner's score with "Don't you hate this shit...?"

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#15 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Fri Jun 12, 2020 4:18 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Wed Jun 10, 2020 12:05 pm
Surprisingly does not look terrible
It looks about the same as the other two films did, albeit this was shot digitally.

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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#16 Post by smccolgan » Sat Aug 29, 2020 12:16 am

I’ll admit that I went in with low expectations, but I ended up really enjoying this. It felt like a throwback to the era of the earlier films, and the familiar faces from those films were integrated well, I think.

I will say Anthony Carrigan was not in it enough for my liking - he’s one of the best parts of Barry and he eventually gets to shine in this. Keanu clean-shaven is a little unnerving, but I enjoyed that this film says a bit about the aging/familial process without hitting you over the head.

William Sadler is a joy in this, too.

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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#17 Post by domino harvey » Sun Aug 30, 2020 1:31 am

Wow, I sort of remember this but I guess everyone involved is only too glad no one is bringing it up

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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#18 Post by TheKieslowskiHaze » Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:42 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Sun Aug 30, 2020 1:31 am
Wow, I sort of remember this but I guess everyone involved is only too glad no one is bringing it up
These guys brought it up. Looks pretty embarrassing.


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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#20 Post by Pavel » Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:04 pm

Finally watched this. It had two fun ideas: continuing the finding-historical-figures-and-bringing-them-to-the-present tradition, this time specifically focusing on great musicians in an attempt to form the coolest, most stylistically-diverse band imaginable; and going forward in time and meeting future iterations of Bill and Ted, often created by actions taken previously in the film.
The fatal flaw—and fatal it is—is that it's just not particularly funny. I could barely breathe watching Excellent Adventure (which I adore), this barely got a chuckle out of me. But totally serviceable, inoffensive, etc.

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Re: Bill & Ted Face the Music (Dean Parisot, 2020)

#21 Post by therewillbeblus » Sat Jun 19, 2021 12:34 pm

I felt similarly, Pavel, and though I’ve forgotten almost everything about the movie already, I recall feeling that a major factor in its failure was the choice to essentially replace the two daughters as the leads. I’m not convinced that it was a casting problem, but probably just an error in judgment that even talented young actresses could or should try to pull off Winters’ and Reeves’ mannerisms. Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving seem to be passionate performers tapping into versatile skills, but none of their interplay was funny to me and came off as egregiously, actively unfunny. They get some points for trying, because these are not easy shoes to fill (which is the whole problem with trying, really) and they go for broke in their attempts, which is admirable in theory. In practice, though, it was hard to watch. The future scenes with future Bill and Ted had some promise and it was a shame the elements didn’t gel there.

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