Alex Winter Speaks!

The internet has been abuzz, ABUZZ I SAY about the rumor of a third Bill & Ted movie. I've been talking this up for ages (seriously) but now Alex Winter is talking publicly about it. Check this out:

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Alex looks great, right? Who else kind of loves the idea of sad Keanu sitting in Alex's basement and just riffing on Ted in character?

Bill & Ted Strike Back!

I'd read a rumor on a gossip site last week, but now MTV's movie blog is confirming: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are working on a Bill & Ted 3! Said Winter:

"The essence of what we've always wanted to do is to make a 'Bill & Ted' movie," he said. "We don't want to make a cynical 'here's Bill and Ted — you guys are our kids, now YOU guys go be Bill and Ted and the franchise can live for another 25 years!' It's not that. It's a straight up, what's the funniest and most surprising take on where Bill and Ted would be right now if we stopped back in on them? That's what we're doing."

Here's why I kind of love this: Keanu Reeves is a huge big gajillionaire star. After The Matrix, he could totally retire. And really, he hasn't done tons since then. I love that he wants to do this with his old pal, just for the sheer hell of it. I think mid-life crisis Wyld Stallyns rule.

Though, I agree with Winters, it's not the same without George Carlin.



Be excellent to each other, dudes.

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Better Time-Traveling Flick: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure vs. Back to the Future

Now that the Hot Tub Time Machine has more or less been drained as it limps off movie screens, let's turn our attention to two classic time-traveling franchises. On today's Criss Cross Counter Punch, The Weirdgirl and Archphoenix debate who were the better time traveller(s): Bill & Ted or Marty McFly?

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The Weirdgirl: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is pure energy. This immediately makes it the better pick of time travel movies. There are not many movies that can keep you grinning the entire time but Bill & Ted's manages to do it. It doesn't get bogged down in too many subplots or angsty worries about the space-time continuum (yawn) like Back to the Future. It's just plain fun.

I also think it's the more realistic of the two movies. Bill and Ted got mileage out of their time travels. They went to multiple eras. They partied with interesting people. Really, if you had a time machine, would you go back to one time and slouch around whining about your parents for the entire trip then slink back home? Or would you have taken that machine for a real spin as soon as you got it back up and running? Bill and Ted understood the value of the time traveling tool and theirs was the more realistic teenage response: deal with the crisis at hand and look for babes, while also having the time of your life. And no matter how crazy things got you noticed that not once did Bill OR Ted make out with a family member, right? (What's wrong with you Marty?)