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Watched the original Bill and Ted (1 Viewer)

Movies changed a lot around 1965 to 1970 because the Hays code was no longer in effect, or no longer enforced as much.  There were plenty of good movies from 1950-1965, but not showing a man and woman in the same bed, etc, makes them seem very old-fashioned.

 
I remember thinking B+T was humorous at the time. Haven't seen it since, so can't really add a lot to the 2019 discussion.

On a sidebar note, my wife found out I never saw any of the Karate Kid movies, so those got fast tracked to the top our movie queue. I never had a burning desire to watch them. What am I getting myself in for? Will I at least be mildly entertained?

 
Anarchy99 said:
I remember thinking B+T was humorous at the time. Haven't seen it since, so can't really add a lot to the 2019 discussion.

On a sidebar note, my wife found out I never saw any of the Karate Kid movies, so those got fast tracked to the top our movie queue. I never had a burning desire to watch them. What am I getting myself in for? Will I at least be mildly entertained?
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Absolutely.

STRIKE FIRST. STRIKE HARD. NO MERCY, SIR.

 
Anarchy99 said:
I remember thinking B+T was humorous at the time. Haven't seen it since, so can't really add a lot to the 2019 discussion.

On a sidebar note, my wife found out I never saw any of the Karate Kid movies, so those got fast tracked to the top our movie queue. I never had a burning desire to watch them. What am I getting myself in for? Will I at least be mildly entertained?
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Wax on, Wax off

It's painful. Only the first was watchable back in the day....

 
Anarchy99 said:
I remember thinking B+T was humorous at the time. Haven't seen it since, so can't really add a lot to the 2019 discussion.

On a sidebar note, my wife found out I never saw any of the Karate Kid movies, so those got fast tracked to the top our movie queue. I never had a burning desire to watch them. What am I getting myself in for? Will I at least be mildly entertained?
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I highly recommend watching the YouTube series Cobra Kai after watching the Karate Kid movies (First is a must.  Second is OK.  Personally, I'd stop there, but third is meh at best).

 
Anarchy99 said:
I remember thinking B+T was humorous at the time. Haven't seen it since, so can't really add a lot to the 2019 discussion.

On a sidebar note, my wife found out I never saw any of the Karate Kid movies, so those got fast tracked to the top our movie queue. I never had a burning desire to watch them. What am I getting myself in for? Will I at least be mildly entertained?
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Yeah I don't think I've seen B&T since it came out.  

Karate Kid is great.  First one's the best ... by far.

 
nirad3 said:
Yeah I don't think I've seen B&T since it came out.  

Karate Kid is great.  First one's the best ... by far.
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Watched the first one. Never knew that's where the world got to hear Bananarama's Cruel Summer for the first time. I also didn't realize Elisabeth Shue pretty much kicked off her career in this. Oddly enough (for me at least), I enjoyed everything up to the tournament and liked the characters and the story. I couldn't buy into Daniel-son being much competition for people that had been studying karate for years. I expected the opposite . . . that I would like the fighting scenes and not the set up. As a coincidence, we had just recently watched Grease and The Outsiders and all three have a very similar story line. In the main, entertaining enough and I will give the next one a shot.

 
Titans_fan said:
I highly recommend watching the YouTube series Cobra Kai after watching the Karate Kid movies (First is a must.  Second is OK.  Personally, I'd stop there, but third is meh at best).
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If one is going to watch Cobra Kai, then watching the third Karate Kid movie is kind of necessary to understand the John Kreese history. 

 
TheIronSheik said:
Love that movie.  It was on one of the pay channels and I watched it, laughing the whole time.  Was going to see if my daughter wanted to watch, but I got thinking and realized that it's 31 years old.  In 1988, that would have been the equivalent of watching a movie from 1957.  If my pops showed me a movie from 1957 when I was her age, I would have laughed in his face.

Are movies aging differently now?  Obviously, the industry was much bigger in 1988 than 1957.  And it was much more mature, meaning it had found it's grove more so than in 1957.  

Is it reasonable to assume kids would enjoy 30 year old movies now than when we were young?  Or is that just old man thinking, in that "we liked it, so everyone must like it."?
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My 12 y/o daughter loves the movies.  Not as much as BttF, but still enjoyed it a lot.  I think the first Bill & Ted holds up pretty well.  

 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
Bill & Ted 3 is scheduled for release next August: https://twitter.com/BillandTed3
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I'm torn on this.  Do we really want to see that Bill & Ted didn't really become a world famous band that brings world peace and harmony to the universe?  

"Wonder what happened to that Rufus, dude?  You'd think that he would've come to help us out when our debut album totally bombed.  Death doesn't even answer my calls anymore.   And Station... well, that was most non-non-heinous when Station ran off with the babes!"

 
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Kraft... said:
I watched 3 O'Clock High yesterday, still awesome. My kids weren't interested though :kicksrock:  
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I got in so much trouble in 7th grade when I brought this movie to watch in class one day when we had a sub.  The sub was so excited, because he thought it was gonna be like 12 O'Clock High.  We got to where Buddy tells Jerry to take his paper and wipe his d*** off with it and off it went.  

 
Jayrod said:
cap'n grunge said:
I think unfortunately alot of stuff doesn't age well. I tried to watch Christmas Vacation with my daughter and we only got about halfway into it. Honestly I was almost as bored as she was.
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McJose said:
Yeah, that movie was crap when it first came out as well.
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I will fight you all, including the daughter.

This movie is my favorite comedy of all time and in my top 10 movies of all time. I have never quoted any movie as much as I quote this one.  My 13 year old son thought this movie was freaking hilarious.

ETA: I'm referring to Christmas Vacation
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:hifive:  Yearly watch for us.. Helps that my neighborhood calls me the Griswold of the neighborhood at Christmas time. 

 
McJose said:
I'm batting .1000, Skipper.  
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Ten percent does seem about right. 

Or are you warping math like a “good” movie warps physics by filling an entire ####### bathroom with water and not having it collapse?

 
Zow said:
Ten percent does seem about right. 

Or are you warping math like a “good” movie warps physics by filling an entire ####### bathroom with water and not having it collapse?
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You’re really obsessed with that movie

 
nirad3 said:
Yeah I don't think I've seen B&T since it came out.  

Karate Kid is great.  First one's the best ... by far.
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Saw the second Karate Kid. Pretty meh. Didn't love that they took it out of the U.S. to the Orient. I liked the characters and the set up better in the first one. I am pretty much a captive audience for the third one, so that one will be coming soon. Is The Next Karate Kid even worth bringing up or do most people group the first three together and call it a day?

 
Hmm, didn't realize there was another kk in the line, my bad.  That probably sucks too

 
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McJose said:
You’re really obsessed with that movie
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Shape of Water and Love Actually probably anger me more than any two other movies out there because, unlike something like Bill and Ted's, they are touted to be serious, really good and artistic movies. They had really good actors and actresses and good directors. But they're both ridiculously dumb.  Yet people who hold their noses to something like Bill and Ted's champion these as good movies.  

 
Anarchy99 said:
Saw the second Karate Kid. Pretty meh. Didn't love that they took it out of the U.S. to the Orient. I liked the characters and the set up better in the first one. I am pretty much a captive audience for the third one, so that one will be coming soon. Is The Next Karate Kid even worth bringing up or do most people group the first three together and call it a day?
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Next Karate Kid and the Jaden Smith reboot are worthless and skippable. Unless you just want to see Hilary Swank in her first big role. Edit: I recall 3 just being plain boring and involving a lot of bonzai trees.

2nd Karate Kid is awesome, but maybe you needed to originally see it 30 years ago... "Daniel-son, this is no tournament. No trophy for second place!"

 
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Zow said:
Shape of Water and Love Actually probably anger me more than any two other movies out there because, unlike something like Bill and Ted's, they are touted to be serious, really good and artistic movies. They had really good actors and actresses and good directors. But they're both ridiculously dumb.  Yet people who hold their noses to something like Bill and Ted's champion these as good movies.  
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Love Actually has a 7.6 rating at IMDB and 63% at RT.   Nobody touted it.

 
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