Change of target - Bill and Ted
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From : Dominic Thomas <dominic@>
To : chat@Date : 16 October 2001 15:48:26
Subject : Re: This Weeks Flame Bait - The Matrix
Just for the record I think Keanu Reeves is good. Expecially in Bill & Ted
I thought Johnny Mnemonic was particularly piquant.
I actually enjoyed "Johnny Mnemonic", although I don't think ofI thought Johnny Mnemonic was particularly piquant.
it as high art. I also enjoyed "Sleepy Hollow" and "Dracula". But
SH was superb for its direction, and (of course) for Christina Ricci;
and "Dracula" for the superb portrayal of Von Helsing, and general
over-the-top purpleness.
These films I enjoyed in spite of Canoe, not because of him.
"Bill and Ted" I found to be nauseating, depressing tosh. Tosh
can be good - look at "Ghostbusters", or "Galaxy Quest". Or
even, if you want teen tosh, "Wierd Science", or the mighty
"Back to the Future" - another time travel story. "Bill and Ted"
was not good. There was nothing to redeem it whatsoever.
To me it goes in a very small category, with films like "Ace
Ventura - Pet Detective" as things you would have to pay
me very large sums of money to watch again. I'm talking hourly
rates in three figures, minimum.
There is a certain type of film that is obviously intended for a
target audience of illegally-drunk educationally-subnormal American
teenagers. "Bill and Ted" is clearly such a film. Sometimes adjectives
like "repellent" or "moronic" just aren't good enough.
Real people would need a lobotomy to enjoy this film. But it's not
Canoe Reeves that makes it awful. It's just awful.
Is that inflammatory enough?
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