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The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day says be excellent to each other… and… PARTY ON, DUDES!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
Today’s photos come from the source… In this case it is Bill S. Preston Esquire himself, Mr. Alex Winter.
Like most children of the ‘80s the Bill and Ted movies were HUGE for me. In fact, I remember celebrating taking my stepfather’s name at the age of 10 with a family outing to see Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey.
Those are two great movies, with Bogus Journey a sequel that has grown in my estimation the more I see it. It’s a rare sequel that doesn’t just rehash the first, does something different, but captures everything that made the first film so good.
Today we look at two shots from the making of the original Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure… one of Mr. Winter giving the camera a one-finger salute and the second being the crew shot.
Big thanks to Alex for sending this along (as well as some nice stuff from Freaked, which will make its way to this column sooner than later). Hope you folks like the pictures! Click to embiggen!
If you have a behind the scenes shot you’d like to submit to this column, you can email me at quint@aintitcool.com.
So… tomorrow’s behind the scenes pic is a dog!
-Quint
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Bring on a third!
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Thanks Alex for sending these! Hope there'll be a third.
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It's been Sad Keanu ever since.
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May 17, 2011, 8:03 p.m. CST
I remember watching Excellent Adventure at a christian familys home...
by Prydie
...and laughed my arse off when they got really uncomfortable during Napoleon's missed bowling attempt. Swearing in foreign languages is classy, isn't it?
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What a great movie still to this day, does anyone see Carlin in the second photo? I'm trying to pick out all the cast members. Great Pics, would love to see a third, but didn't they in the last scenes of bogus actually create the music that made it a paradise?
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It was very cool of you to send these in.
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A pretty excellent dude. Here's hoping Freaked comes out on Blu someday!
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This shot was from our last day of the shoot, which was in Rome. I don't recall Carlin being in any of the Rome scenes which is why he's not in this. So it's us and the historical figures primarily. Director Stephen Herek on the far right in the chair, Ed Solomon second from far left and Chris Matheson hiding all the way in the back behind Beeth-Oven. If everyone looks soused it's because we probably shot this after lunch. And when you shoot in Italy, the crew is totally soused after lunch. It's all about grabbing the important stuff in the morning...
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May 17, 2011, 8:16 p.m. CST
Tomorrow's Behind The Scenes Pic of The Day would be... 35 ft long, weighing approximately 600 lbs
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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If it's really you, which I don't really doubt, due to the detail of your description (I had no idea this actually had any shots outside of the US)... Any chance of some Freaked pics? I LOVE that flick.
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May 17, 2011, 8:19 p.m. CST
Alex is cool as hell for sharing this! Was this before of after Keanu became David Geffen's boy toy?
by Professor_Monster
just wondering
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May 17, 2011, 8:21 p.m. CST
"Since I saw the Behind The Scenes Pic Of The Day, I have seen SHIT that'll turn you WHITE."
by Squinty CGI Flynn
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I remember watching the first Bill and Ted thinking Alex was going to be a huge MEGA STAR, yet Ted "Theodore" Logan was "The One." Freaked is still one of my favorite cult classics.
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I've always loved the moment when you and Keanu are in the castle messing around in the armor. I love that moment because of your expression/reaction when you think your best friend has been killed. It felt real and had a lot of heart to it. In a film with so many brilliant jokes and gags, it was nice to have a moment like that.
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You were "Most Excellent" in the Bill and Ted's movies *Air Guitar* :)
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My best friend and I are going to be Bill and Ted for Halloween. He's got the curly hair, so I get to be Keanu.
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a class act! Thanks for the pics!
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May 17, 2011, 8:30 p.m. CST
Cynical asshole talkbacker who will rip into Alex Winter TO HIS FACE just because he can do so anonymously in 5, 4, 3...
by DiscoGodfather
Welcome to AICN, Alex! (By the way, I'm a fan.)
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May 17, 2011, 8:32 p.m. CST
Ah, the late 80s, early 90s...A time when movies were still easy to enjoy...Without a bunch of brainless fucks on the internet claiming they know better...
by RobertoInfinite
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This movie is near and dear to my heart.
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I'm certain everyone was (including me) looking for Carlin immediately in that shot. <p> Good times, dude...and an excellent pic.
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This would have been a classic BTSPOD even if you hadn't popped up in the talkbacks... those shots are a lot of fun
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I loved that flick. Need to watch it again sometime soon!
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I recently introduced my 9 year old daughter to Bill and Ted - she loved both movies and makes every friend who comes over watch them both. It blows my mind that kids exist who've never even heard of Bill and Ted! All her friends dig it too, and suddenly air guitar is cool again. Except when I do it.
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May 17, 2011, 9:17 p.m. CST
"Like most children of the ‘80s the Bill and Ted movies were HUGE. "
by bah
Hey, I was a child of the 80s, and I was scrawny as hell. I guess you did say "most", not "all".
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Loved "The Idiot Box" on MTV. Jerry Garcia vs Wu Tang Clan -- gold!
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Is the Metro Center Mall in Phoenix, AZ. It's wicked to see the old ice skating rink that isn't there anymore. They turned it into an arcade and then that closed and it became a movie theater.
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Yeah, I recognized the Mozart Parlor and looking at the characters makes sense for the abduction scene. Was that just the one scene shot in Italy? Anyway thank you for sharing these very cool shots.
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When I was a kid,the first Bill and Ted was one of those movies I WORE OUT at the video store....must have rented it every weekend for at least 3 months before I broke down and bought it....after paying god only knows how much in rental fees.
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May 17, 2011, 10:02 p.m. CST
As much as I love the two Bill and Ted movies, my favorite scene between Keanu and Alex is in Freaked
by SifoDyasJr
It never fails to make me laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye-j6f0n0tE
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non heinous
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May 17, 2011, 10:05 p.m. CST
if it really is Alex, what number am I thinking of right now?
by seabiscuits
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Pretty good if I recall and it had Fishbone in it.
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I live a few miles away from the place. Everywhere they filmed ie the ice rink, the food court, the sporting goods place, the piano store, etc are all gone or have been remodeled. Very cool to be able to show my daughter what the place used to look like. Also, a skater kid who was in my journalism class way back in '87-88 at Apollo High was paid $50 to be an extra in the film.
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Bogus Journey is a TERRIFIC sequel, managing not to be a straight re-hash of the original and adding a lot of great new characters (William Sadler's Grim Reaper being the best...to this day, whenever I see Sadler in a movie, I immediately think "It's Death...!"). And what I like about the Bill & Ted movies is just how LIKABLE they are. None of the humor is mean-spirited or unneccesarilly gross, and they just wash over you in a pleasant, geneal way. I'd *love* to have the third movie become a reality. Station...!
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Alex, any chance for some Eddie the Flying.. er.. Developmentally Disabled Person pictures? If not, something with the guy with visible eye lines.
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Proud to say I saw it in the theater when it came out.
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May 17, 2011, 10:39 p.m. CST
if it really is Alex, what number am I thinking of right now?
by nostairway
Sixty-nine, dude!!!
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Alex Winter deserves recognition for the woefully underappreciated, dignified masterpiece of televised drama. Votar "The Future of Television Announcing" getting shot was the first time I've actually seen 2 people simultaneously piss themselves laughing. Stereo piss. Good times. Party on.
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My favorite lines in B&TEA: 1. When the phone booth crashes down at the Circle K. "Not Bad!!" 2. "Put them in the iron maiden!" Iron Maiden?? EXCELLENT!! Execute them! Bogus...
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Who WAS Noah's wife?
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works of fucking art. Truly excellent. STATION!
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Never mind BILL & TED (the first one was great, the second one had a few great moments) -- I wanna see the stuff from FREAKED! That film was a cult epic from the get-go and deserved a better studio than Fox to actually get behind it!
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May 18, 2011, 1:12 a.m. CST
Alex Winter, I have a question for you if you're reading this...
by JethroBodine
This question isn't meant to seem indelicate, although it may come across that way... When I was younger and following your career when you were making these movies, I would have bet money that YOU would have been the stand-out talent and that YOU would have had the kind of career success that Keanu Reeves now enjoys. Instead you have all but disappeared from the scene. What happned? Did you give up, or did you just zig when you should have zagged? This isn't the first time I've been wrong, I also thought Cyndi Lauper would have been the major success, but it seems that that distinction has gone to Madonna.
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Bogus Journey features one of the best depictions of hell I've seen.
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But where's Carlin? Gahd I miss that guy.
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Check out his IMDB. He's no superstar, but he's worked pretty steadily throughout the years. And that's just in entertainment. He may have accomplished any number of other things unrelated to the entertainment biz.
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you're the best, buddy!
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I was wondering if your character in Lost Boys, "Marco" was fleshed out in any more scenes in the movie? Did they shoot any extra footage? I always wondered because your character was the least fleshed out other than Billy Wirth. That rocker looking dude with the long hair seemed to be the most other than Kiefer Sutherland's.
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I have so much geek love for both of these movies, and my kids are about the age I was when Excellent Adventure came out. STATION!
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http://www.latinoreview.com/news/enchanting-thor-sequel-could-hit-alongside-iron-man-3-13622
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May 18, 2011, 3:52 a.m. CST
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.
by Denty420
That's US, dude!
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Stop with the embiggen. Most of the time the link doesn't make the pic bigger. Also, it makes you sound like an asshole. If you won't stop writing altogether, please at least grow up a bit. And it certainly is too much to ask, but a writing class or eight would do you a world of good.
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Bogus Journey to this day is the only film I went to and paid to see twice in the cinema . That’s saying a lot considering I hadn’t even seen Excellent Adventure at that stage . I would have been 11years old when this came out in Ireland and due to my Dad being out of work at the time, going to the cinema was a real treat and a privilege. To pay to see the same film twice rather then go to see a new film speaks volumes of my love for Bogus Journey.
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Whenever we played Bill & Ted as a kid, there was no question who I was picking. Freaked is one of those films that as a kid wierded the shit out of me but I could never turn away, so of course I love it. Also, a really cool Lost Boy.
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May 18, 2011, 5:10 a.m. CST
Seriously though, Alex Winter in a talkback, that's fucking rad.
by IndustryKiller!
I live in LA and I see celebrities on a basis that is constant, I never get starstruck, but this is really cool. Unless it's an impostor, in which case fuck you dude, not cool.
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Reports are the pre-vis has shut down too. I know I posted it before but this talkback is even more on topic.
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I guarantee you every time I put an "embiggened" link in this column there's a bigger picture. Know how I know this? Because I'm the one doing the coding work. If there's not a bigger image it saves me a little work uploading and coding. I look at the pixel sizes of each picture. It may not seem bigger when you click, but if you looked at the two side by side you'll see a difference. Sometimes that difference is 100 pixels, sometimes it's 2,000 pixels. Thanks again for the support. Keep clicking and commenting on my stuff! I don't know why you do it since you seem to dislike everything I do, but keep on doing it. Every single time you do you support my work and this site as a whole, so keep at it!
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Wait a second....Winger?! But really, we rocked the Bogus Journey soundtrack a lot in high school.
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Seeing Bogus Journey at the theater and about 1/4 of the parents in the audience yanking their kids outside when Bill and Ted went to Hell.
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May 18, 2011, 7:04 a.m. CST
the cheating death scenes make Bogus my favorite of the two
by vin_diggler
Death "you sunk my battlesheep!" Ted " best two outa three?" Death " You're Damn Right!" That whole scene is priceless.
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May 18, 2011, 7:16 a.m. CST
The second picture would almost make a great poster...
by Shut the Fuck up Donny
...at least a good wallpaper on a computer screen. Just for Alex, Keanu, and Socrates alone... Everything that has been said about Freaked has been said, but I still want to give props to the film that was really behind Mr. T's comeback!
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and reaping burns a lot of calories.
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We were totally lied to by our album covers!
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But sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper!
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Come to think of it he must say "lowly".
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this TBs proving the second is at least the more quotable. "I've got a full-on robot chubby"
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May 18, 2011, 8:24 a.m. CST
I love that second photo. Guess everyone had a great time making it.
by Mr Nicholas
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...without Socrates (Soh-crates) in the pic. That's hysterical.
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May 18, 2011, 8:57 a.m. CST
If you look closely at the second pic...you can see Freud and Billy the Kid, too
by Bobo_Vision
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You once said that it was extremely important for Bill & Ted 3 to avoid applying any degree of 'retro-cynicism' to the previous films. I think you really hit the nail on the head there – they're soaringly feel-good entertainment, and a sequel that disrespects their tone in such a way that it casts a shadow over their optimistic worldview would be a shame. However, Keanu told us that Bill & Ted 3 would essentially retcon the happy ending of Bogus Journey, and that the duo have failed to create the music that saves the world (despite the fact that they did exactly this). His description sounds dangerously similar to the 'retro-cynicism' you describe – almost as if the third film was ignoring the lighter aspects of the other two and adopting a more realistic and less fantastical approach. Now that you've read the script, could you tell us what sort of tone it has? Is it a lighthearted adventure along the lines of the first two, or something darker and more down-to-earth, set after 'the party is over'?
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....a young Larry Bird.
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"Bootch ahnd Sahndance, de eerly yeers...!"
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"All we are is dust in the wind, dude."
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We, collectively, beg you, good Sir Winter. Please do what you can to make this happen.
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"Dude, our girlfriends are most chaste." And the Star Trek "Arena" nods are classic, just classic. Rock on Alex!
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this was one of the few movies my parents allowed me to watch. I idolized the Wyld Stallyns in the same way that the future dudes did - lots and lots of air guitar. Bogus Journey had more swearing but was still relatively harmless (and my parents weren't looking over my shoulder with Journey since Adventure was so decent). Watched the cartoon on Saturday mornings, and owned the impossibly hard game for Nintendo too.
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I bought it from Amazon immediately after watching it. No other film compares!
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Also William Sadler who played Death went on to movies like Shawshank Redemption.
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I had the pleasure of talking on a number of occasions with the great Tony Steedman who played Socrates in 'Excellent Adventure'. Living in the same area I'd often bump into him and his wife in the supermarket or at my old work and he was always so gracious and would tell me some amazing stories from his career. The last time I saw him before he passed away he humored me by taking and reading a script I'd written. A class actor and a true gentleman! Party On!!
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Alex Winter's short film MEALS ON WHEELS. It's on Youtube and it's pretty genius!
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awesome photo
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"Oh no, that's a baked alaska sir. You don't want that."
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That never made any sense to me whatsoever.
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Also, bringing the posted "Fuck you" pic for you to sign. Cheers
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First you took a beating in that parking garage and then you died! Punk.
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He owned as Death. It was great to see him do a comic turn, and he rocked it.
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Love Bill and Ted, and one of the few times I can 100% bring on a third one.. these films do categorically represent the statement "for what they are".. movies that looked like they were crafted out of love and dedication and hard work.. yeah, sure, a bit bold for lowly Bill and Ted, but the movies just have a feeling that everybody fucking CARED, and it wasn't just a 'everybody is a "rockstar" blow-fest and let's get together and blow each other in the name of money' type of production.. true or not, who knows, but well crafted, clever, with a unique and creative reason to hang a time travel premise on.. Brilliant art? No. Great fucking movie that blows all this stupid money-generating mentality fuckhead SHIT we get now? Yes.
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That show was so tragically underrated... ok maybe it wasn't all awesome but I'm getting nostalgic here, damnit !
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One of my favorite comedies. Great theater experience.
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1) Did you attend Lindenwood University in St. Louis, MO? I went there for drama and my wardrobe teacher said you had. I brought in the spread in Gorezone showing your make-up process for Freaked. 2) Can we look forward to Aisles of Doom to be released on a Blu of Freaked. I love Squeal of Death, but I have fond memories of watching both, together. Glad to see you here. And looking forward to you getting The Gate off the ground. Good luck!
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I can't find it anywhere!
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I can't find it anywhere!
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classics. joan of arc was cuuuuuuuute. i loved Bogus Journey up until station's arrival- (in whole or in two) the big unappealing suit and the limited vocabulary just bugged me. the film also felt very rushed from that point on. and yes, Bogus journey has the most accurate depiction of hell yet put to film.
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May 19, 2011, 7:32 p.m. CST
umm does anyone else see sad keanu in the back between the curtains?
by matthew
or am i reallly damn crazy. i aint that stoned.... zooom that sucker in. also see beethoven!
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