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Back to the Future (1985)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 11, 2013, 2:21 am
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For me, Back to the Future is easily one of the greatest films
ever made. But what makes it so great? Simply put, the movie is
pure magic. What other movie out that has created the perfect
hybrid film, blending a handful of genres into one without them
stepping on each others toes? There isn't one. Back to the
Future is a Sci-Fi film. It's an Adventure film. It's a Capra
film. It's a Comedy. It's got Time Travel. High School. Rock and
Roll and at it's heart, it's a love story. It's got everything.
The premise, the story itself is great on paper, but on the
Silver Screen you are witnessing.....magic. The perfect blend of
characters portrayed by the only actor's that could and did
breath life into their roles.
I can't sing my praises for Back to the Future high enough. For
me, this movie is in my Top 5 Favorite Movies of all time. Out
of my Top 5, it's by far the most enjoyable. By that I mean I
still feel a sense of wonder and awe and just pure giddiness
whenever I watch it. I still feel like that kid all those years
ago when I saw this Opening Day. It's still fresh and alive
today as it was back then.
What I really love about Back to the Future is all those seeds
that are planted in the First Act deliver in big ways throughout
the film. Some of the seeds where obvious while other's were
more subtle. But the viewer is rewarded in a way that is very
rare now, especially when you notice and see things later in the
movie that force you to flashback to the scene that set it up.
It makes the entire trip of watching the movie all the more
better. The favorite of course is Marty, wanting to be a
rockstar finally gets to fulfill that dream of his by
"inventing" Rock and Roll with his rendition of Chuck Berry's
Johnny B. Goode. Having Chuck's "cousin" Marvin in the scene
just makes the scene....EPIC.
The cast itself as I mentioned before delivered in a way that
only their characterization could, Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly
and Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown have amazing on-screen
chemistry. But it's the secondary characters that also add to
the whole of the film. Crispin Glover is amazing as George McFly
and Lea Thompson was the perfect choice to play Lorraine McFly.
But a movie can't succeed unless they have a great Villain and
there wasn't anyone better than Thomas F. Wilson as Biff Tannen.
Awesome. The movie still pays off, even now when you see some of
the background actors that really didn't have a big role in the
film, but are name actors now: Billy Zane as Match and Casey
Siemaszko as 3-D.
It's a no-brainer that I'm gonna recommend this as a Buy. Duh. I
know I don't have to tell you to do it anyway as everyone
already owns this in one format or another. How do you end one
of the greatest films ever? You end it with THE greatest
cliffhanger ever. Tell me I'm wrong. Ya can't. Great direction,
music and editing as well. This movie has it all. I wish
Hollywood still made movies like this today. Sadly, they don't.
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Re: Back to the Future (1985)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 11, 2013, 2:21 am
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Re: Back to the Future (1985)
By: Neumatic Date: April 11, 2013, 3:04 am
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And now, I feel like I can officially call you a friend.
Love Back To The Future. Love it so much. Absolutely one of my
favourite flicks. Fave film series. This is why I don't feel
like I was missing anything by not seeing Star Wars as a kid.
Cause this had it all. No space stuff, but enough future tech
to keep me interested-- and NEAR future tech-- humour, stakes,
big questions about fate and determinism. Plus the relationship
between Doc and Marty, I think it was Ebert who compared their
kinship to Young Arthur and Merlin, and it made sense, you
didn't need a backstory or anything, it didn't matter how they
met, they just got along so well with each other and taught each
other stuff. There was an emotional completeness to their
relationship, even across the different timespans... so much due
to Christopher Lloyd's performance, I'm sure (as much as I like
John Lithgow, he couldn't have been "Doc" the same way Lloyd
was).
What's really surprising is how little of the first movie
actually takes place in 1955. There's a lot of infodumping and
set-up to get the movie going, and normally that's suicide but
for some reason it works in the flick. Marty in the 50s would
be "fun and games" but it's pretty far in. And there's really
not that much hilarity when he's there, making all sorts of
mistakes and screwing up. They play it pretty safe. When you
consider that, plus the fact that the second movie takes place
in three different time zones, makes the fact that almost all of
the third film takes place in 1885 all the more striking.
I could go on for HOURS about these movies, clearly. And I
should. When's the last time I geeked out about these flicks?
Who else in my life even cares?
I have a DMC (original style, no time machine attachments) on my
bookshelf. When I was a kid I had a half-built model of the
Part 2 version. Fell apart.
More importantly, when I was young and had the VHS covers, I
realized that they were paintings. Someone made those. By
hand. The great Drew Struzan as I would find out later. And it
inspired me like crazy, if someone can draw that well, why can't
I?
I never got to go on the ride, so I'm REALLY happy the blu-ray
set has the ride AND the complete queue video, almost a whole
hour of Doc Brown. Excellent! And even on the Simpsons ride,
one of the little video clips has Prof Frink using the Deloreon
to visit Doc and save the Institute of Future Technology. Dan
Castellenetta drops a great line as Doc when told by Krusty to
get a haircut: "Fine by me! It takes me five hours a day just to
get it like this!"
And it wasn't too long ago that we got a little more Doc Brown,
albeit in Argentina...
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And right here is a little alternate ending for Part II. If the
lightning bolt sent Doc somewhere else...
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Re: Back to the Future (1985)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 11, 2013, 7:56 am
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Speaking of Drew, I've kept all three of my VHS Cassette's
specifically because of the covers when I really didn't need to.
Anything with Drew's stuff on it just does not get tossed out or
sold.
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Re: Back to the Future (1985)
By: Mac Date: April 11, 2013, 11:16 am
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[quote]What's really surprising is how little of the first movie
actually takes place in 1955[/quote]
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I thought a majority of the movie is the past.
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Re: Back to the Future (1985)
By: Neumatic Date: April 11, 2013, 12:24 pm
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I have two books by Drew Struzan... and I've been intending for
ages to make a new cover for the Blu-Ray set (I despise the lock
system that came with them) using the original artwork. Never
got around to it. It's something I used to do quite a bit, my
Star Wars trilogy has the poster art on them, for example,
instead of those awful Photoshop put-togethers.
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Re: Back to the Future (1985)
By: Neumatic Date: July 21, 2013, 12:46 am
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You know, watching this again, I don't think I ever figured out
the clock thing until now: Doc's experiment that he mentions to
Marty on the phone, the reason the clocks are all 20 minutes
off, is because he sent his WHOLE lab forward in time as a test.
How did I not pick up on that?
You ever read the old scripts for this? Wow, we REALLY avoided
a bad movie. Like, Luke Starkiller bad.
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Re: Back to the Future (1985)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 21, 2013, 1:08 am
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I've heard about the first draft, but never got around to
reading it. Didn't have access to it at the time, long before
there was this thing called...."Interweb". Sheesh, someone needs
to go back in time and stop whoever came up with that hokey
name. Should have been 'Online' or 'Net' right from the
beginning and left it at that.
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Re: Back to the Future (1985)
By: Neumatic Date: July 21, 2013, 1:20 am
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Well, you know Al Gore isn't the most creative person when it
comes to names ("An Inconvenient Truth?" Why not call it what it
really is: "You're Living In An Oven And You Don't Know It.")
The original drafts... outside of the fact they introduced the
"Nuke The Fridge" concept, it started with the class watching a
film like in The Iron Giant, they go all the way out to the
desert like in the episode of Futurama... once they made it
LOCAL it became more intimate and stronger for that. They were
also a little more nihilistic, Doc and Marty were old-school
video pirates, duping tapes of theatrical releases like on that
old "The Men Who Stole Superman" Nightline special... I think
Doc was drowning in babes, too.
Maybe it's because I saw this movie so young, or maybe because
it's such a standard in time travel movies, but this movie
REALLY instilled in me this idea that all the characters should
have a disunity. Even BIFF has a problem that's solved by the
end of the movie: he's hopelessly dependent. He comes off as
the strong one in the relationship but he's nothing without
George, he never had to grow up or change until George hits him.
They both get different jobs and are relatively independent,
Biff owns his own business, it's not a great one but that's
nothing to scoff at.
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Re: Back to the Future (1985)
By: Neumatic Date: July 21, 2013, 6:46 pm
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Found and am reading the first draft of BTTF II, titled simply
"Number Two" and... huh. This is why you don't let people read
first drafts. But I think it's more putting down what they want
to say and not what it will actually be. Reading that while I'm
watching the special features for part II.
You know, the trailer for Part II still gets me excited, still
makes me wonder what I'm gonna see, even though I've seen that
movie SO many times... there's such PROMISE in that preview,
gets me excited. Maybe it's just nostalgia in overdrive but
nothing else does that to me.
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