it's just as classic as i remembered it being. and keanu was just as cute as i remember-forever making his starring spot pinup (from some teenybopper magazine or other naturally) on the inside of my high school locker completely timelessly worthy.
a few things i noticed while watching the movie that i hadn't realized before:
1. the tributary move in the future is really just a pete townsend windmill slowed waaaay down.
2.the movie takes place in 1988. their time machine from the future brought unto them by rufus is from the year 2688. it's a phone booth.in the present time only 20 years in the future from 1988 we really don't even have phone booths anymore. which means if i ever have children or grandchildren i'm going to have to explain to them what the hell a phone booth is. ( incidentally the same can be said if we wind up watching any old superman movies.)
3. the time travelling phone booth they use is quite a bit like what dr. who uses to travel in time...
4. jane wiedlin of the go-go's played joan of arc in the movie. i forgot she never had a single line in english.
she was totally one of my guitar heroes when i was younger.
(she was WAYYY cooler than belinda).
and speaking of...remember her big solo hit "rush hour"? it was a pretty big one hit wonder back in the day.
5.i never realized how much my friend devin looks like alex winter. you can't quite get the full idea of it from these pictures but trust me he really does...which is funny because i used to think that devin looked like andrew mccarthy in mannequinn.
the whole thing kinda comes around full circle...george carlin is in bill and ted's excellent adventure as rufus. the first time i think i saw george carlin's stand-up comedy was with devin while staying up all night at his parents' house watching hbo after being his date to his sister's wedding. good times good times...
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