Comments on: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:29:36 +0000

@Lee, hey, hey… be careful with that kind of talk. We could declare war on the MidMoClub, you know…

(though, I gotta tell you, I’m with you on the metric thing)

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:13:00 +0000

@Arjan, LOL next week’s is going to suck for you time wise

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:27:42 +0000

@MC, I don't think I've actually seen all of She's Having A Baby, I know I've seen some but not the Al Leong scenes as I would have remembered them - does he have the moustache?

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:15:01 +0000

@Jeff, I just assumed that the US rejected Dr Who like they do with other good things, such as the metric system*

*Lee’s comments don’t necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the Midnight Movie Club

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:12:06 +0000

@Dan, I don't think that they were Australian, I mean they could've been but that would require fact checking to confirm. OK so I went to Wikipedia. Originated in London and moved to Australia and were big here for at least a couple of songs.

By: MC

MC — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:55:17 +0000

@Jeff, indeed I didn't.

By: MC

MC — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:26:51 +0000

@Dan, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8d43gpicI0

They showed that on TV BTW. For many, many seasons. Makes me ashamed to be Canadians it does.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:12:57 +0000

@Kevin Spencer, Never seen the Simpsons. Never seen Bill and Ted. what are you, some kind of freak??

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:11:51 +0000

@Dan, he didn't say it was a good career...

By: Kevin Spencer

Kevin Spencer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:33:42 +0000

I have nothing to add to your review because I’ve never even seen the movie. Yeah, I said it.

By: Arjan

Arjan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:42:55 +0000

@Dan,
I don’t mind the rambling too much, it’s part of what makes it funny.
A bit shorter wouldn’t hurt, 55 minutes is quite long to keep being concentrated.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:29:10 +0000

@Arjan, I don't think Lee and I could ever not ramble. It's in our genes. Would you rather the podcasts be shorter? Any feedback is appreciated. I used to have it on the wall, but then we moved to a smaller house and it never got unpacked. Kerry is cool about having stuff like that up, and it's leaning against the wall as I type waiting for me to get round to it.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:27:19 +0000

@MC, really, a career out of it? becauyse her English accent is absolutely awful. I am really going to have to watch She's Having a Baby again. I remember loving it.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:26:25 +0000

@Jeff, As neither of us grew up in the US we were just guessing about the popularity of the good Dr.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:25:09 +0000

@JJ Daddy-O, I’d never heard of Big Pig – don’t think they made it to the UK. I shall add it to the list of Australian Rock bands – INXS, Men at work, and …erm…

By: Arjan

Arjan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:09:25 +0000

First of all, I hate the voice in the trailer. I like the trailer, but the voiceover just kills it.

Really great podcast.
Sometimes got into a bit of a rambling maybe, but it sure does make me want to watch this again *and it’s sequel..thanks Lee*

@ Dan do you’ve actually got that page on the wall somewhere or did Kerry make you put it away in a dusty corner.
Oh and you must have hated that 80s music

I wonder if you’ll end up watching a movie where you will disagree completely, would be funny

By: MC

MC — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:28:41 +0000

You know, I had forgotten the Al Leong scene in She’s Having a Baby until you brought it up. Let’s just say, in retrospect, it is comedic gold, as he has a hissy fit and does something which in describing it won’t do it justice.

And the Brunette Princess (the one Dan described as having a bad accent rather than the one who did not have one at all), was played by Diane Franklin, who basically made her career playing women with accents. You may remember her as Monique from Better Off Dead.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:44:15 +0000

Gotta say Dan, my mother wouldn’t explain the Oedipal Complex to me either. I wonder why…

I don’t know that I agree that Doctor Who didn’t take off in the US. It was certainly biggest in the geek community, but by the mid-eighties it was well known enough. By ’89 it had lost a lot (as it had everywhere), but it was the earlier popularity that eventually led to the ’90s film (which was unfortunate).

Hmmm… a 9? It’s an excellent film, but I don’t think I could go higher than an 8.

By: JJ Daddy-O

JJ Daddy-O — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:52:20 +0000

Ha, I posted that comment before I heard the whole podcast…

By: JJ Daddy-O

JJ Daddy-O — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:44:53 +0000

Ooooh! Big Pig interstitial music!

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