16. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

(99 points, 7 lists of 24, highest ranking: #4 goflyblind)
Release date: February 17 1989
Directed by: Stephen Herek
From IMDB: Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine.
My take: Wait...seemingly?
Anyway, this movie is the kind of goofy high concept fun that the 80s did so well. It also epitomizes the slacker dumb highschool kid that were in a lot of 80s and early 90s comedies.
The very presence of an enclosed phone booth just screams 80s. This is another movie like Ferris Bueller that depends completely on the leads performance and likeability. It's also amazing that Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were cast seperately, and were not actually friends before this movie.
What have we learned?
The future has perfected college pranks like fitting many people in a phone booths. We didn't get to see it, but Rufus could eat 17 goldfish.
Apparently, leaders in the future will just emulate their entire culture on anyone who shows up.
Historic figures are perfectly fine with phone booths and TIME MACHINES, but got nuts at the sight of sports equipement and water.
Leaders of entire countries are fine with doing the bidding of strange idiot teenagers they just met.
In the 80s, cell phones were so big you had to climb inside them, and had wierd rotating buttons.
http://www.youtube.com/v/ZP1flgrfRQUhttp://www.youtube.com/v/LLRu--619F0Remake: There is actual plans for a third movie, so I doubt they would do a remake anytime soon.