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Sep 3, 2020 • 116 tweets • 42 min read • Read on X
We are most triumphant to announce that we'll be watching BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE for our next watch party. 🎉
Follow #ACMIwatches to join in with host @moviemazz Fri 18 Sept, 7pm AEST, dudes.
acmi.net.au/events/acmi-wa…
ICYMI: This month #ACMIwatches BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989). bit.ly/ACMIwatchesBil…
Party on with us and @moviemazz next week when #ACMIwatches BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE.
bit.ly/ACMIwatchesBil…
Don’t be a medieval dickweed, come along to our #BillandTed watch party tomorrow night. To miss it would be most heinous. #ACMIwatches
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⌚Remind yourself to wind your watch, because #ACMIwatches BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE with @moviemazz at 7pm tonight! bit.ly/ACMIwatchesBil…
What’s afoot exactly? Well, BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC – the threequel 29 years in the making – just hit Aus cinemas last week, excluding Victoria 😔
To ease our FOMO we’re watching the OG tonight, and you can join in no matter where you live. #ACMIwatches bit.ly/ACMIwatchesBil…
Remember, this is how a #watchparty works:

📼 Rent/buy/stream the film justwatch.com/au/movie/bill-…
⏰ Meet us here just before 7pm
📺 Cue it up, @moviemazz will show you how
▶️ Hit play at 7pm on the dot
💬 Follow the convo on the #ACMIwatches hashtag

See you 3hrs in the future!
Not many franchises have had this long breather between installments. There’s THE GODFATHER, INDIANA JONES and BILL & TED. #ACMIwatches ImageImage
The writing team, and of course the beloved duo Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, reunite for this one, helmed by Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest).
The long-time buddies announced in March last year that the threequel was really happening. #ACMIwatches
In the new film, Bill and Ted – yet to write the song that saves the universe – are now world-weary, middle-aged dads playing at Taco Tuesdays. Tonight however, we travel back to a time when they were but babes. #ACMIwatches ImageImage
It is time. Our watch party is imminent. #ACMIwatches
Get in, we’re heading to San Dimas 1988 – don’t worry there’s room for everyone in the magical phone booth. #ACMIwatches
Twitter party house rules:
1) be excellent to each other
2) use the #ACMIwatches hashtag
3) party on, dudes
Tonight, host @moviemazz plays the role of Rufus, our guide on this nostalgic journey. And so, we hand over to her to count us in. #ACMIwatches
Sync as instructed, then hit play at precisely 7pm. #ACMIwatches
And we’re off! #ACMIwatches
Big Pig are an Aussie band btw #ACMIwatches
Originally there was a big choreographed opening number – with much aggressive air guitar – that was cut. (Rehearsals were at Stevie Nicks’ house!?! 🤩) At least we have a certain musical moment coming up at 41:30 to look forward to. #ACMIwatches
However, as a homage to Carlin, Rufus does appear in FTM as a hologram, created with some of the footage we’ll see tonight. #ACMIwatches
Keanu Reeves was already a fan – he remembers going to the library as a kid to listen to George Carlin comedy albums. The three of them would talk politics together off camera. #ACMIwatches
Almost as good as Winter’s fashion in THE LOST BOYS (1987) – pity the mullet had to go. #ACMIwatches Image
Just noticed the hand-drawn horse on the back of Bill’s shirt 😆 #ACMIwatches
Hard agree
TV too: FREAKS AND GEEKS, MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE, THE SOPRANOS – even the first THE SIMS game. #ACMIwatches
They originally wanted to cast ZZ Top. #ACMIwatches
It was almost Bill & Ted & Bob, but the dude playing Bob wasn’t as into it, so trio became duo 👬 #ACMIwatches
Director Stephen Herek has said his thought after reading the script was “Wow, this is either going to be a huge hit or a huge flop.” #ACMIwatches
The four of them hatched the idea for FACE THE MUSIC together while “goofing off” one night. #ACMIwatches
Herek would regularly direct Alex and Keanu with, “I need more Labrador retriever”. #ACMIwatches
Maybe sometimes just the gesture says all it needs to say. 🤷‍♀️
The cast hated getting in the booth though. It was a rickety hydraulic contraption and once they had to stuff 10+ characters in there the novelty wore off quick. #ACMIwatches
Impressive – considering its production company, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (MANHUNTER, EVIL DEAD II), went bankrupt and this excellent adventure nearly wasn’t released at all. #ACMIwatches
Five films *is* pretty bodacious.
A few hundred actors auditioned for the title roles, but once Keanu’s lovable goofiness won the creators over, they just had to find him the right partner. Pauly Shore, Sean Penn and River Phoenix were also in the mix. #ACMIwatches
You can see Reeves and Winter’s rapport in this audition footage. They both bring a total sincerity to the characters without taking themselves too seriously. #ACMIwatches
Reeves says that B&T are too naïve to be stoners like Penn’s character in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982). “I’m playing, like, a child of the universe. A babe in the woods.” #ACMIwatches
Well, maybe the 28 min mark now.
Never seen it? Bogus!!! 🧣
Yee-haw
These *were* really heavy suits of armour. Not prop suits. And this “lightsaber” fight is a moment of improvised goofing that stayed in. #ACMIwatches
It must be said that this is highly irresponsible time travel. The butterfly effect of “bagging” historical figures is 🤯.
An earlier plot had our dudes bumbling around the past causing historical catastrophes, which *is* mighty feasible. #ACMIwatches
It was partially changed due to similarities to Terry Gilliam’s TIME BANDITS (1981). Yup, Bill & Ted were set to cause the sinking of the Titanic. #ACMIwatches Image
Not silly, this is the moment we’ve been waiting for! #ACMIwatches
It’s up there with this moment from 1985’s THE BREAKFAST CLUB #ACMIwatches
These Ziggy Pig waiters are played by writers Solomon and Matheson. They appear in all three movies playing characters billed as “stupid”.#ACMIwatches
The size of that bowl though. 🤤 #ACMIwatches
Some of their time-travel scavenger hunt was shot in Europe. This music room, the square where they just lassoed "Frood-dude", the castle and that building where Socrates was playing with sand were all captured during 10 days of filming in Rome. #ACMIwatches
Gonna be a major buzzkill here: No surprise, this film is far from historically accurate. Eg: Beethoven playing a Steinway piano in this scene set 40 years before it was invented. #ACMIwatches
😱
We admire your skills of deduction #ACMIwatches
So true!
B&T doesn't even pretend to be logical though. #ACMIwatches
"What is a geek?" #ACMIwatches
Digging Beethoven’s 10th symphony here. 🎶 #ACMIwatches
Honestly very worth exploring the podcast that @moviemazz has subtly posted here if the words “Josie & The Pussycats” make your ears prick up. #ACMIwatches
Bill and Ted really use their time-travel to full advantage to help themselves out towards the end here, what with key stealing, jail breaks and such. The writers have suggested that it's another set of Bill & Teds doing the lighting for their imminent stage show. #ACMIwatches
The history report scene originally shot lacked all of this scale and pizzazz. Set in the classroom and delivered to a small audience, it fell flat, so they turned it into this history extravaganza. 🙌 #ACMIwatches Image
And then Bill & Ted went to the prom with their princesses. It’s bogus that these outfits didn’t make the final cut. #ACMIwatches Image
Glaring Oedipal complex in BACK TO THE FUTURE too, just saying #ACMIwatches
Spawning an animated and live-action TV series; a videogame for Commodore 64, Amiga and MS-DOS platforms; and even a cereal, B&T has quite the legacy. Plus it launched Keanu into stardom, without which we would not have a whole internet full of wholesome memes. #ACMIwatches Image
Alex Winter became a director and documentary filmmaker whose films include DOWNLOADED (2013), THE PANAMA PAPERS (2018, from @humanrightsfest 2019), SHOWBIZ KIDS (2020) and the upcoming ZAPPA. #ACMIwatches
Where EXCELLENT ADVENTURE featured no notable female characters (Joan only had a few lines in French, and don’t get us started on the princesses) BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC introduces the dudes’ daughters Billie (Brigette Lundy-Paine) & Thea (Aussie Samara Weaving) #ACMIwatches Image
Curious? Here’s the first 6 minutes #ACMIwatches
This has been a most triumphant time. Huge thanks to our distinguished colleague @moviemazz 👏👏👏
What a bodacious host, we can't wait to have you back. @moviemazz #ACMIwatches
And thank YOU for joining us, dudes. Until next time. #ACMIwatches
It is a truly epic track #ACMIwatches

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