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DrunkCaveman posted...

Like Jay and Silent Bob Reboot - most of the "fan service" was self-referential garbage, jokes that don't stand on their own and only serve to remind you that you watched the previous movies

So in other words, it's exactly the same as the original Jay and Silent Bob movie?



WhiskeyDisk posted...

The other is keanu helping an old friend get mailbox money.

If anything, the opposite is true. Keanu's the one who has been desperate to do this movie for like 20 years, Alex Winter is the one who had to be talked into doing it.

Alex Winter is pretty comfortable financially (and his wife is in a pretty significant position in television production as well). He almost certainly has more money that literally anyone posting on PotD right now. He didn't need to do this movie. And he doesn't really enjoy acting - like a lot of actors, he found the art of filmmaking behind the camera to be more fulfilling than just playing roles. That started as early as the 90s (it's why he did Idiot Box and Freaked), and it's sort of morphed into a passion for doing documentary films on subjects that interest him personally.

Keanu mostly just wanted to do it because he really, really enjoyed working on the first two films. He really likes Alex, but he also liked the two writers, and has repeatedly commented multiple times that making the original Bill and Ted movies were some of the best times he's ever had as an actor. He really just wanted to get a chance to hang out with all those people again, and have a fun couple of months making a new film. Every time talk about this comes up, it's always Keanu who seems to be the one pushing for it the hardest (even at times when Keanu's career wasn't all that stellar either - he put out a lot of dogshit movies between The Matrix and John Wick)

If anything, the fact that this movie exists at all was Alex Winter doing a favor for Keanu, not the reverse.

Realistically, it's very much on par with Andrew Ridgeley from Wham. People always same him as the failure of the group, and assumed he'd be desperate to do a reunion to grab a little bit more money and relevance, but George Michael is the one who basically spent 20 years constantly trying to talk him into doing a Wham reunion (or even just showing up for guest appearances at George Michael concerts whenever he was in the UK), and Andrew Ridgeley was always like "Nah, I'm good." He was financially secure, and was just enjoying the hell out of riding horses, racing cars, supporting charities he believed in, and fucking one of the chicks from Bananarama on a regular basis. He had ZERO interest in getting back on stage because he was already living his best life. Whereas George Michael constantly brought it up and tried to kind of wheedle him into doing it because he thought it would be super-fun for the two friends to be out there performing together again, even if only for one night.

There are plenty of people in the world who find more fulfilling things than being in the spotlight.



WhiskeyDisk posted...

oh noes, don't ignore me. i'll never be able to show my face here after 15 years because a rando doesen't see things my way.

You seem really bitter and anrgry about this whole thing. At his point I'm just going to assume Alex Winter ran over your dog or something, and now you've sworn a vendetta against him that can only end when one of you are dead.

So of course, you've chosen the most effective and vicious form of vengeance - badmouthing him on an Internet web-site about video games that was pretty much obsolete 12 years ago. THAT will show him!
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