It isn't that magnitude of movie, and yet it seems to last a lot of other similar movies from that era didn't.'Ĭontent Keanu Reeves Thought He Was Supposed to Play Bill Let's be honest, it's not Citizen Kane, you know what I mean? And it's not Star Wars. 'We really didn't think it was going to be a phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination. I mean, we really did not expect it at all,' laughs Alex Winter, who played Bill S. 'It surprised all of us-and I don't mean that in a lame Hollywood, false modest way. There were also comics, videogames, a cereal and even a musical ( well, kind of). It came out long before memes were part of the zeitgeist, yet the popular image macro known as Conspiracy Keanu spawned from an image of Keanu Reeves as Ted 'Theodore' Logan in the film. However, a lot of the Bill & Ted's legacy consists of things that aren't really part of the movie. It went on to become a cult classic, get a Bogus sequel, and spawn timeless catchphrases like 'be excellent to each other' and 'strange things are afoot at the Circle K.' It did pretty well at the box office for a teen comedy, and far better than most anticipated. Twenty-five years ago today, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure-the seminal burnouts-time-travel-in-a-phone-booth flick of its time-hit theaters.
