Twenty-seven years. For as long as Nelson Mandela was in jail, we have waited for a new Bill & Ted adventure. Now, from Cannes, at last, comes news that “Ted” Theodore Logan and “Bill” S Preston Esq are to return in a third adventure: “Bill and Ted Face the Music”. Handily for the prosthetics department, the story will find the duo in middle-age. Burdened by family, they still haven’t written “the greatest song ever” – until a visitor from the future turns up to tell them the fate of the world depends on it, to somewhat force the issue. However familiar the plot may seem, it’s certainly most excellent to have them back. Some revivals are more timely than others, and Bill and Ted’s breezy adventures feel like exactly the kind of cheerful lobotomy we need right now. But what other 80s classics could survive a 2018 reboot?
Big
The creepy tale of a child in a man’s body who gets off with a grown woman is back. The sheer problematic overtones would spawn a thousand hot takes, thereby rendering it the most talked about film of modern times.
ET
“Hey Elliott ;), this is E in case you haven’t got my number saved. Things didn’t work out for me at home. Wondering if I could crash with you?” De-skilled by the gig economy, priced out of the housing market, it’s like the scene in the original where ET gets drunk, only much more Leaving Las Vegas.
Trading Places
Someone bets Eddie Murphy’s wealthy stock trader that he can take an ordinary woman and push her through the glass ceiling. She gets wise to the bet and her viral Facebook post about him earns her a two-book deal.
Top Gun
Much of the action in this claustrophobic sequel takes place in a shed in Arizona, where Lieutenant “Maverick” Mitchell still pulls on his aviators to pilot an unmanned drone through Northern Syria. Director: Michael Haneke.
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