Bohemian Rhapsody the film is a bog-standard musical biopic, but I do like the touch of Mike Myers playing a record producer who refuses to release the song because it's not commercial enough.
As someone who was alive and just got his driver's licence in 1992, I can confirm that we did indeed pull up at red lights, get the driver next to us to open his window, and ask him if he had any Grey Poupon.
100% correct. One of the few movies I remember seeing with my entire family at the time in the theater (we didn’t get out to movies much) and it was a huge laugh riot and great experience for us all.
I have eagerly awaiting this moment and it did not disappoint. Wayne's World is brilliant. It has "every type of joke" (to borrow a phrase applied to The Graduate) and some that seem to have been invented for it. Its plot is an extremely common "snobs vs slobs/selling out" plot but taken to its finest extreme. The characters are lovable and memorable. It commemorates a moment in time but also, weirdly, foretells YouTubers and the hassles of monetization.
The Bohemian Rhapsody scene just doesn't work with any other song. This is not a "tough" song to prove how cool or manly you are, but an interactive and weird one you act out with everyone else in the car.
Weirdly, apparently nobody, even Myers, wanted to do the headbanging, because it felt physically awkward and was not "funny." But it's important to get to know characters in a comedy just as much as it is for them to get you to laugh. Specificity is funny, and Wayne's World has that.
(In another weird piece of trivia, Dana Carvey didn't know the song and faked his lip movements. The idea that someone could not know Bohemian Rhapsody is proof that this movie was filmed before the release of the film Wayne's World.)
It also has a sequel (which I assume you will cover soon/last?) that does not feel like a cheap cash-in, even if it is not as beloved at this one. Sorry haters.
They spent their music budget on "Bohemian Rhapsody" and didn't have enough left for "Stairway to Heaven," at least for the video release, on which it was replaced with generic rock music.
Speaking of which, "Wayne's World" was one of the first films released cheaply on VHS, and it sold millions of copies. (Videotapes used to be extremely expensive and marketed exclusively to video stores until Paramount released the "Beverly Hills Cop" video for $20 in the mid-eighties.)
I revisited it a few years ago after decades and was really struck by the authenticity that Spheeris brought to it. The biggest thing that stands out to me all these years later is just how fucking criminal it is that Tia Carrere didn't have a bigger career after this. This movie was huge hit commercially and critically. She's funny, charismatic, performs her own vocals on all the numbers, and is drop dead gorgeous. I can only chalk it up to the racism of 90s Hollywood casting that she didn't become an A-list star off of this movie's success.
At the time it was good... today not so much, And if I remembered correctly I once saw an interview with Mike Myers where he admitted that he didn't quite find his character that funny in this movie which I don't blame him... It's just that the comedy is too outdated that only carry on within the west on SNL than anywhere else which is only watched by those who are from the 80s and 90s due to they were from a generation when comedy was goofy and cheesy that they stick with... but yeah Wayne's World is just too cheesy and goofy where there are so many moments where the actors are trying too hard to be funny that makes it cringe which they also still do within SNL along with the fake edited laughing to every sentence that's barely has a punchline but when there are no edited laughing in Wayne's world it feels even worse due to the quietness makes it feel either awkward or extra cringey after they say these goofy and cheesy lines... the only moment within Wayne's World is the Bohemian Rhapsody moment and it makes sense on why that moment was a popular moment simply because it was the only best moment throughout the entire movie than anything else. And I must mention the racist moments towards Tia Carrere's own race within this movie is one of the things that made this movie not age so well... and I really felt sorry for Tia in this movie and she deserved so much better along with respect than what she was delivered in this movie. But yeah we got to a point where this type of comedy was just not so funny anymore which I guess started slowly within the early 2000s... because it you look at Mike Myers characters he's always that same character from Wayne's world... and you could see that the ratings of his movies were dropping as years go by when he plays this same character which just shows that this type of comedy from this guy is getting old where people had just moved onto different comedy like hardcore British comedy that Americans react to a lot on YouTube these days.
Bohemian Rhapsody the film is a bog-standard musical biopic, but I do like the touch of Mike Myers playing a record producer who refuses to release the song because it's not commercial enough.
As someone who was alive and just got his driver's licence in 1992, I can confirm that we did indeed pull up at red lights, get the driver next to us to open his window, and ask him if he had any Grey Poupon.
100% correct. One of the few movies I remember seeing with my entire family at the time in the theater (we didn’t get out to movies much) and it was a huge laugh riot and great experience for us all.
Kurt Fuller is a delight here.
I have eagerly awaiting this moment and it did not disappoint. Wayne's World is brilliant. It has "every type of joke" (to borrow a phrase applied to The Graduate) and some that seem to have been invented for it. Its plot is an extremely common "snobs vs slobs/selling out" plot but taken to its finest extreme. The characters are lovable and memorable. It commemorates a moment in time but also, weirdly, foretells YouTubers and the hassles of monetization.
The Bohemian Rhapsody scene just doesn't work with any other song. This is not a "tough" song to prove how cool or manly you are, but an interactive and weird one you act out with everyone else in the car.
Weirdly, apparently nobody, even Myers, wanted to do the headbanging, because it felt physically awkward and was not "funny." But it's important to get to know characters in a comedy just as much as it is for them to get you to laugh. Specificity is funny, and Wayne's World has that.
(In another weird piece of trivia, Dana Carvey didn't know the song and faked his lip movements. The idea that someone could not know Bohemian Rhapsody is proof that this movie was filmed before the release of the film Wayne's World.)
It also has a sequel (which I assume you will cover soon/last?) that does not feel like a cheap cash-in, even if it is not as beloved at this one. Sorry haters.
They spent their music budget on "Bohemian Rhapsody" and didn't have enough left for "Stairway to Heaven," at least for the video release, on which it was replaced with generic rock music.
Speaking of which, "Wayne's World" was one of the first films released cheaply on VHS, and it sold millions of copies. (Videotapes used to be extremely expensive and marketed exclusively to video stores until Paramount released the "Beverly Hills Cop" video for $20 in the mid-eighties.)
I revisited it a few years ago after decades and was really struck by the authenticity that Spheeris brought to it. The biggest thing that stands out to me all these years later is just how fucking criminal it is that Tia Carrere didn't have a bigger career after this. This movie was huge hit commercially and critically. She's funny, charismatic, performs her own vocals on all the numbers, and is drop dead gorgeous. I can only chalk it up to the racism of 90s Hollywood casting that she didn't become an A-list star off of this movie's success.
At the time it was good... today not so much, And if I remembered correctly I once saw an interview with Mike Myers where he admitted that he didn't quite find his character that funny in this movie which I don't blame him... It's just that the comedy is too outdated that only carry on within the west on SNL than anywhere else which is only watched by those who are from the 80s and 90s due to they were from a generation when comedy was goofy and cheesy that they stick with... but yeah Wayne's World is just too cheesy and goofy where there are so many moments where the actors are trying too hard to be funny that makes it cringe which they also still do within SNL along with the fake edited laughing to every sentence that's barely has a punchline but when there are no edited laughing in Wayne's world it feels even worse due to the quietness makes it feel either awkward or extra cringey after they say these goofy and cheesy lines... the only moment within Wayne's World is the Bohemian Rhapsody moment and it makes sense on why that moment was a popular moment simply because it was the only best moment throughout the entire movie than anything else. And I must mention the racist moments towards Tia Carrere's own race within this movie is one of the things that made this movie not age so well... and I really felt sorry for Tia in this movie and she deserved so much better along with respect than what she was delivered in this movie. But yeah we got to a point where this type of comedy was just not so funny anymore which I guess started slowly within the early 2000s... because it you look at Mike Myers characters he's always that same character from Wayne's world... and you could see that the ratings of his movies were dropping as years go by when he plays this same character which just shows that this type of comedy from this guy is getting old where people had just moved onto different comedy like hardcore British comedy that Americans react to a lot on YouTube these days.