Back to the Future

So, in honor of Back to the Future (the first film) who else would hop in the Delorean and go back 30 years ago, back to 1985, and have their own adventure?

edited 9th Apr '15 6:17:26 AM by OmniGoat

Wouldn't it be best to re-edit your post, in order to not make this thread look like a Yack Fest one?

Add things like 'This thread is for talking about the BTTF movies', instead of just having a 'what would you do if X?' type of question.

edited 9th Apr '15 9:44:50 AM by Quag15

If you're making guesses about a remake, you could check this topic too.

I still am amazed we're in 2015.....

I wasn't a big fan of the first film. I liked the sequels much much more.

Probably the first time I've ever heard anyone say that....

Well, actually, I have heard a couple say they do like the third one more, or it's their favorite.

The 2nd one on the other hand.....

Oh, I used to think Back to the Future was like Star Wars in that everybody on the Internet loved the second movie best but my family didn't for reasons I never understood.

I don't know which I like more between the first two movies.

Part III is my least favorite, though.

The second one suffered for trying to have an actual villain.

The first movie was Marty vs. Marty's Temporal F*ck-Up. The third was Marty vs. the Wild, Wild West. In both films, the circumstances brought on by the time travel was the primary antagonist, with the Tannens just providing an extra element of danger. The second was straight-up Marty vs. Biff across time.

edited 7th May '15 2:46:38 PM by TobiasDrake

I saw Biff more as a consequence of Marty's screwups than the outright antagonist of the film. Part II was more Marty vs Hubris. And "hey look, we're doing stuff concurrently to the first one! Time travel shenanigans!"

edited 7th May '15 8:24:36 PM by KnownUnknown

I did like the concurrent time shenanigans. It's interesting to think about how Doc Brown has been haunted by Marty Mc Fly nonlinearly popping up throughout his life. Also, for one very brief period of time, there were four time-displaced copies of the same goddamn car existing concurrently.

• Sitting in Doc's garage in preparation to take Marty back to the future.
• With Biff
• With Doc and Marty to thwart Biff
• Sitting in the mine, waiting for Marty to receive the letter telling him where to find it.

Clearly, the next movie should involve someone finding all the cars and ripping causality a new one by using their parts to create one whole car that temporally should not exist.

It was said originally they intended the sequel to be one story and Old!Biff would have given the Almanac to himself in the 60's, and Marty would have to reintegrate into his hippie parents lives and ensure his own conception. Or something along those lines.

It evolved into revisiting the events of the first movie because they realized "Why Not?" It really was an expert game the filmmakers played going that direction, as it fits almost perfectly with the first movie without causing a paradox or explicit time change (although even as a kid I could tell Lorraine's line reading of "That was very interesting... music" was different, and that annoyed me a little).

I can only imagine the reason they made part 3 back to back with 2 is because they only came back to the sequels because they didn't want someone else to do them and wanted a definitive conclusion the studio would be happy with. Probably the first time a Two-Part Trilogy was used to deliberately curtail further sequels.

DUN-DUN DUN-DUN DUN-DUN DUN-DUN

I bet the shark still looks fake.

You know what's puzzling? On October 21st, there are *no* channels (at least that I could find) that are airing any Back to the Future movies.

I actually like the movies in the order they appear - so 1 is my favourite and 3 my least one (probably because I never cared much for westerns). I still love this trilogy tremendously though.

There is one channel where I live that aired the first movie last week and airs the second this week. And there are theatres playing all three movies back to back (I will miss that sadly).

Today is ALMOST the day Marty Mc Fly goes into the future!

edited 20th Oct '15 10:11:39 AM by konkarne

edited 20th Oct '15 10:14:08 AM by HextarVigar

Kinda hoping for a reboot of the series, just so they can make predictions into the 2030s and we can see how accurate they are. :P

Heh, someone just shared this cartoon with me.

and so today is back to the future day. remember, after today, it will be considered the past somehow.

I welcome our visitors from the past and choose to take this moment to reflect on the parallels between their predictions and our reality.

• We sort of have hoverboards◊.
• The fax machine has taken over international communications, it's just evolved more than the writers could ever have predicted.
• 3-D movies are all the rage.
• Prosthetics aren't quite cyborg level but they're getting there.
• Videophones are totes a thing.

edited 21st Oct '15 10:48:05 AM by TobiasDrake

As many have pointed out, Part II predicted HD television.