Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: “Sixty-nine, dudes!”

I would say it was 5-7 years after the Simpsons episode originally aired until I realized that A Streetcar Named Desire wasn’t a musical. I knew of the the name and had never seen the play or movie and just assumed it was a musical. I was a little older and wiser by the time the Planet of the Apes musical episode…

Right? When your girlfriend becomes friends with your own daughter BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SAME AGE, you’d think you’d ask yourself some questions?

Well, really, shouldn’t we be?

Kind of lame.. but I never ever noticed the “UFO” on Boston’s first album is actually a guitar.. better seen when viewed upside down.

That first statement — What the fuck is wrong with you? You sure sound like a vagina-fearing, misogynist, rape apologist in need of some serious therapy. And if you aren’t truly that guy, then please take a moment for some serious self-reflection. Life is too short to be a piece of shit.

I just love how, even in the kiss scene, it’s done so...realistically? Like, everything’s picture-perfect, but she’s kinda stumbling on the grass, and almost chickens out at the last minute before he dives in.

That was the first movie I saw with full frontal male nudity. I really wasn’t prepared.

Love EM Forster’s work and read most of his books, Room with a View and Maurice remain two of my favourites and the films are equally good, a young Hugh Grant having sex with a dashing gamekeeper made my teenage years complete. Sadly watching all those Merchant & Ivory films in my teenage years has given me these…

THAT KISS WAS IMPROVISED. Oh do I have a fun clip for you. Julian Sands was just on Elementary, and I was looking him up to put him in context for my spouse. I came across this video, which is pure gold. https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3721-a-room-with-a-view-helena-bonham-carter-kisses-and-tells

I am wildly fortunate in that I was fifteen when this movie came out. I am not a big costume drama nerd, but this movie was just the greatest and every scene is scorched into my memory with its astonishing awesomeness. Not having seen it in thirty years, I still remember how horribly awkward it was when Daniel Day…

Every time I’m stuck in a mildly uncomfortable PDA situation, I think, “Italians drove them.”

I watched it again recently after 25+ years, and it holds up beautifully. Still beautiful and engaging, there’s not a dull moment, and such a great cast. Plus the glorious music. It’s a lovely gem of a movie.

Or Rupert Graves and James Wilby in “Maurice”.... <3

When this movie came out I stopped cutting my hair so I could have it be as long as Helena’s (and the Italian girl in the Fiesole section).

It used to be on PBS all the time. I watched it every time. Sometimes they even left the naked swimming scene in!

YES. This was the very first movie I ever bought on DVD. I was utterly swept away with its beauty and yes, its humor. It inspired in me a lifelong love of Edwardiana and EM Forster.

My four word endorsement: young, naked Rupert Graves. (Not that older, clad silverfoxdaddy Rupert Graves is anything to sneeze at. I am incapable of watching him in Sherlock without blurting out “FUCK, JUST TAKE ME”, which my partner greatly appreciates, I’m sure.)

Helena was just so goddamn cute in this movie. This and Lady Jane Grey she was great, perhaps more ‘traditional’ English performances than what she is currently known for. And DDL all young and skinny and uptight! This movie is a gem.

I used to watch that movie all the time in the third grade. Then revisited it in high school and suddenly I got the “cream of sum yung guy” joke.