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Thursday, Sept 10, 2020 Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page A-25 s a member of Generation X, it’s perhaps a Agubious point of pride for me to point out that 11 three of pop culture’s greatest metalhead comedic duos are among my generational contem- poraries, but it’s legitimately heartening to realize that William “Bill” S. Preston Esq. and “Ted” Theo— dore Logan are among the most enduring, precisely because they are also the most kind. . Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt- head made their debut in a couple of animated shorts that aired in the fall‘of-1992 as part of MTV’s “Liquid Television,” just as I was starting my senior year of high school. And the characters of Wayne By KIRK BOXLEITNER Campbell and Garth Algar ap- peared in “Saturday Night Live’s” first “Wayne’s World” skit just as “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” was hitting theaters. In fact, “Bill &_Ted’s Excellent Adven- . ture” premiered Friday, Feb. 17, 1989, while Mike Myers and Dana Carvey first welcomed vieWers to “Wayne’s World” the next day. While Beavis and Butt-head entertain through the chaos they cause with their malicious idiocy, and Wayne and Garth deftly mix meta-fictional mass-media commentary with post-adolescent crudity, what stands out about Bill and Ted is they’re good guys with good hearts, even as their intellectual simplicity frustrates their elders.- EXCELLENT ADVENTURE , A big part of what made “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” such an enduring movie was how it extended the “Chosen One” trope to the point of ab- surdity, that two dimwitted, teenage would-be rock- and-rollers would somehow manage to make music that would unite all life in peace and align the cos- mos, even though they don’t even know how to play ’ their instruments when we firstmeet them. “Excellent Adventure” also played with the para— doxes that time travel would hypothetically make possible, aided by throwing a phone booth full of history’s most notable figures into San Dimas, Cali- fornia, in 1988. The mayhem at the mall montage ‘ ' now comes across like a time capsule of America in the ’80s. The original film’s distributor went bankrupt before the film was released, so the critical and commercial success of “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Ad- venture” caught people off—guard. .Co-writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon weren’t about to waste the opportunity to follow up on it, which they did two years later with “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.” BOGUS JOURNEY Whereas “Excellent Adventure” benefited from. a winnowed-down premise — the songs of a pair of Mlill , was“; “we”! M www.5heltoncinemas.com TEN ET (PG-13) alongside Tim Burton’s 1988 “Beetlejuice,” and the ‘ Week of 9/11-17 REGULAR FIRST ADMISSION NIGHTLY 6:00 RM. Week Of '9/1 1 -17 on screen-2 h FIRST RUN ADMISSION Bill Ted Face the Music (Pen 3) RNI'GHTLY 6:30 P.M. aspiring rockers will save the world and create a utopian future, but only if they can collect enough celebrities from the past to pass their high school history report “Bogus Journey” was more sprawl- ‘ ing and less disciplined. Bill and Ted are killed, sent to hell, ascend to heaven, and came back to life in time to play the concert that would get them noticed by the world. Not every running joke landed, and the change in aesthetic from the muted chrome future envisioned by the late 1980s to the screaming neon future en- visioned by the early 19905 was jarring, but “Bogus Journey” offeredone of the most innovative depic- tions of the afterlife ever put to screen, ranking right franchise gained one of its greatest characters, as '3 William Sadler stepped into the heavy black robes of a Grim Reaper who was hilariously influenced by . Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film “The Seventh Seal.” So, Bill and Ted had two well-regarded films, and that would have been that, if not for Keanu Reeves. NEO JOHN WICK While the acting career of Alex “Bill” Winter found greater success as a director of documentaries. Reeves went from Ted directly to “Point Break” with Patrick Swayze in 1991, “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” with Francis Ford Coppola in 1992, “Speed” in 1994, “The Devil’s Advocate” with Al Pacino and Charlize Theron in 1997, and the big one, “The Matrix” with the Wachowskis in 1999. Reeves has played Neo and John Wick in three box office blockbusters each, and he’s gained recog- nition as one of the nicest humans in Hollywood this side of Tom Hanks. While their career paths diverged, Reeves, Win— ter, Matheson and Solomon all remained friends, and after so many years playing hard-boiled hitmen and stone-faced martial artists, Reeves admitted how much he missed the total absence of cynicism in Bill and Ted. Which leads us to “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” now playing at the Shelton Cinemas. KY1"! PNVE'N, ’THEATER Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter return to the big screen in “Bill and Ted Face the Music,” playing now at Shelton Cinemas. Courtesy photo FACE THE MUSIC Since their 1991 concert, Bill and Ted have failed to follow up their big ‘hit with the one song that they’d been told would save the future, and while they’ve retained their boyish enthusiasm, even two dudes who remain a bit slow on the uptake have grown mature enough to realize it might be time to make some concessions to adulthood. 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