What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

I bought BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE on blu-ray months ago, and I couldn't believe how much I missed watching the film when I was a kid.

Get THE LOST BOYS while you are on a shopping spree.

[AppleQueso]

Of the three I mentioned, it's been the longest since I've seen Bill and Ted. I'm pretty sure the last copy of it I watched was on VHS.

I remember so much of it so well though.

"If you're really us, then what number are we thinking of?"

"SIXTY NINE, DUDE!"

[Luke]

When they call each other "Fags" I thought, "This wouldn't fly today".

[AppleQueso]

My vacation days at work were rejected last minute

They gave me the week before off instead

I don't really have anything much planned, but I figure a few dinners and feeding the ducks by the local Zoo will suffice. Me and my girlfriend haven't really gotten the chance to just go out and do things together like that in a while.

[Retrodude]

When they call each other "Fags" I thought, "This wouldn't fly today".

Stuff like that doesn't bother me so much since George Carlin explained on one of his albums that originally, it just meant the guy was a sissy, nothing more ("We all knew what a queer was, a queer was a queer. A fag was a guy who wouldn't go downtown with you to beat up queers"). It's only jerks and homophobes that have turned it into something else.

[J T]

When they call each other "Fags" I thought, "This wouldn't fly today".

I laughed when I was kid. I felt embarrassed as an adult.

It's weird to watch old movies/TV that I loved as a kid and find all kinds of homophobic, racist, and misogynistic stuff that would instantly turn me off today. I still like the original Bill & Ted movie, though that scene makes me cringe.

I watched Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey more recently too and that movie was mostly pretty terrible. Not because it was homophobic or anything, it was just plain bad. I liked it so much as a kid, but now I don't think I ever want to hear the word "station" again.

[Ack]

When they call each other "Fags" I thought, "This wouldn't fly today".

I laughed when I was kid. I felt embarrassed as an adult.

It's weird to watch old movies/TV that I loved as a kid and find all kinds of homophobic and misogynistic stuff that would instantly turn me off today. I still like the original Bill & Ted movie, though that scene makes me cringe. I watched Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey more recently though and that movie was mostly pretty terrible. I liked it so much as a kid, but now and don't think I ever want to hear the word "station" again.

What bothers me the most about this is that it doesn't seem to even be approachable nowadays. Take the film Blazing Saddles, which managed to critique race relations in the Old West while offering up raucous comedy. I don't think a film like that could be made in our modern social climate.

[Retrodude]

I watched Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey more recently though and that movie was mostly pretty terrible. I liked it so much as a kid, but now and don't think I ever want to hear the word "station" again.

Bogus Journey's problem is that it's a parody of a film almost no one has seen these days (Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal). I already liked the film, but once I finally got all the references, it became a lot funnier.

[prfsnl_gmr]

"Does this guy know how to party or what?"

That movie is so geat. I cannot believe I do not own a copy. I think I am going to buy it right now...

...or not.

My car wouldn't start on my way out of the office for lunch; so, I had to take it to the shop...

[irixith]

When they call each other "Fags" I thought, "This wouldn't fly today".

Stuff like that doesn't bother me so much since George Carlin explained on one of his albums that originally, it just meant the guy was a sissy, nothing more ("We all knew what a queer was, a queer was a queer. A fag was a guy who wouldn't go downtown with you to beat up queers"). It's only jerks and homophobes that have turned it into something else.

If only more people understood the world the way Carlin did.