ALL SCI-FI

[Bogmeister]

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__________ Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey Trailer


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Sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (89).

As established in the previous film, paradise on Earth exists 700 years in the future due to the influence of Bill & Ted (Alex Winter & Keanu Reeves), a couple of slackers from 1989.

However, in 2691 A.D., there is a faction led by a disgruntled fascist named De Nomolos (Joss Acklund) which denies this utopia. De Nomolos sends a couple of android duplicates of Bill & Ted to 1991 so that they will kill the two moronic heavy metal wannabes. De Nomolos happens to be the ex-teacher of Rufus (George Carlin, reprising) and — in traditional villain mode — announces his plans to him.

Rufus also goes time traveling to warn his buddies, but he gets lost. Meanwhile, in 1991, Bill & Ted plan to hit it big in a concert, and Ted's dad still wants to send him to military school. The two dudes also are going out with the girls from medieval Britain (played by different actresses) and live in an apartment (how they afford this is not explained).


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Galaxy Overlord Galactus

[Bud Brewster]

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IMDB has 52 trivia items for this movie. Here’s a few of the ones I found the most interesting, in the blue text.
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~ The evil character from the future is called "De Nomolos", which is writer and producer Ed Solomon's name spelled backwards.

Note from me: I never would have figured that out on my own, but the trick produced a suitably ominous name!

~ When Bill and Ted go to Missy's séance, you can see Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, the creators and writers of Bill and Ted. They're the only men that are attending the séance. (Chris is the guy with the white shirt, and Ed is the guy with the glasses.) They also say "ed and chris rule the world" backwards

Note from me: Obviously the creators of this movie had a good time making it.

~ The mountain, to which Bill and Ted are brought to be killed by the evil robots, is the same mountain Captain Kirk climbs in Star Trek: The Original Series: Arena (1967), which Bill and Ted watched in their apartment.

Note from me: Hey, I like the way they tied the clip in with the location they used.

~ The evil robots arrive in the parking lot of the Circle-K convenience store, the same place where Bill and Ted first meet Rufus in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). That's why there's a second square burn from the phone booth.

Note from me: Nice attention to detail.

~ When Bill and Ted are addressing God, the two statues at the base of the staircase are of Michael Powell and David Niven, an homage to A Matter of Life and Death (1946) (titled Stairway to Heaven in the US). The stairway was also used in that film.

Note from me: Hey, I love that movie! But I can't help wondering if the item above is actuate. How could a set from a 1946 British film still be around, much less end being used in an American production . . . 45 years later?

It's obvious from the clip below that the stairway is just a matte, but it does seem to be somewhat patterned after the one in Stairway to Heaven.

______________ Bill and Ted Talk to God Scene


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_A Matter of Life and Death - on the stairway to heaven


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~ The Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, California is used to represent Bill & Ted University in 2691. It would later be used to represent another future university, namely Starfleet Academy, in Star Trek: The Next Generation: The First Duty (1992) and Star Trek: Voyager: In the Flesh (1998).

Note from me: More Star Trek connections. Interesting.

~ The Ria Paschelle character was partially modeled after The Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).

Note from me: Another Star Trek connection!

~ The film came in at No. 2 at the American Box Office, behind Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Incidentally, the film mocks The Terminator (1984). The evil robot duplicates of Bill and Ted are sent back through time by De Nomolos to stop the real Bill and Ted from winning The Battle of the Bands and when the evil Bill and Ted robots time travel in the stolen time machine, they wear sunglasses.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Captain Starlight]

I enjoyed the fist Bill & Ted movie, and this sequel was almost as good. But the recent second sequel just didn't appeal to me. Maybe I'll watch it again and see if my opinion improves.