Back to the Future

Maybe Claudia Wells turning into Elisabeth Shue was a delayed reaction change caused by the time-travel hijinks in the 50s.

Now you're just fucking with all our heads.

Just like "cool" Dad Crispin devolves in the future into hack actor in rubber face.

Oh my gosh I wanted to rewatch the second one for months and I finally did on Saturday and why don't they make every movie in this world so mind-blowing and awesome and exciting and suspenseful and and and and and and and and and and and and banana

See it is SO GOOD my personal sun got knocked out of orbit there.

Hey I know you're from one of those flyovers states with shitty education but the earth orbits the sun!

Marty Jr.'s clothes wld actually fit in as bitching mod-ren hiphop fashion except for his completely dippy baseball cap (I used to have a belt of that same rainbowy-reflecty plastic).

those were the days

Watching it made me realize I am turning into my dad. Example:

MY DAD WHILE WATCHING AN EPISODE OF STAR TREK: TNG:
"Oh man, Lore is so evil...it's so scary...he's just like an evil Data. (pause) Lore is so. Evil."

ME AND BTTF2:
"Oh man, Biff is so evil...can you imagine if the world was really like that? It would be hell...I can't believe Biff took over the world...it's so scary....Biff is so evil..."

The third one is quite underrated, I like how it quite deliberately has a different tone to the other two.

otm

A good theme of all three is Marty's inability to dress in an era's clothes.

great movies, the third one is okay too but the scene with the doc's love interest really does go on far too long.

i watch them exactly in chronological order of action portrayed: viz
BttF3
bits of Godfather 2
Godfather 1
more bits of Godfather 2
BttF1 and Godfather 3 properly intercut
BttF2
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 24 January 2003

and you have to say that's magnificent

Apparently someone is working on/has finished a chronological edit of Back to the Future:

http://fanedits.com/fan-project-details.cfm/Fan-Edits/title/Back-to-the-Future-The-Chronological-Edit/project/68/category/4/

Let's hope they simply remove the Wild West parts...

I just found this on google video. A fan cut of the Enchantment Under the Sea sequence with the shots from films I and II:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4589540173717485087

I suppose this would make the chronological edit that much more difficult to pull off! Maybe if you used the "multiple angles" function....

There more I think about this the more I really want to see it, but I can't seem to find any such edit on the usual channels. Iratepay Aybay has the only thing close I can find and it's simply the three movies back-to-back without the intros/credits. Boring! I want to see what kind of weirdness these time travel stunts appear as if time was one long linear stretch of points that they hopped around on. I want to see how confused things get, how dramatic musical cues get taken out of context, how characters will suddenly appear and spout what should be utter nonsense unless you've seen the films in their original incarnation before!

I don't think the overall narrative structure of these movies is why people love them moreso than the overly dramatic scifi-comedic silliness that fills each shot and every scene. I actually think this would be funny as hell, and very surreal, and it probably wouldn't take too long to do...

Has anyone found one of these or do I have to go ahead and do one myself?

Sounds more complex but probably not as good as the Evil Dead extended cut a friend did.

Marty McFly goes back in time, helps his parents get together, invents rock and roll, and everyone promptly forgets he was ever there the minute he leaves.

Nobody notices that a famous clothing brand is later named after him, nobody notices that Chuck Berry releases a song that sounds pretty similar to the one he played at the big dance, and most importantly, nobody bats an eyelid when his Mom has a kid who looks exactly like him.

Now we don't claim to know exactly what first enters the mind of a married man when his wife births a child who looks identical to their old high school boyfriend, but we're guessing it's not "time travel conspiracy."

It's like it's some kind of movie or something.

IT's a movie with a lot of loose ends.

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/80000/80308MRUQ_w.jpg

My pinky stayed on the shift key too long.

I get excited sometimes, especially when it comes to disproving BttF bullshit.

so it changes back to pizza hut sometime in the next six years

seven years I am not from the future yet

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/01/16/the-science-of-back-to-the-future/

i'm guessing the new DVD edition doesn't cover Eric Stoltz being fired from the Marty role after shooting started cuz he was too "intense." which I can believe, it's hard to imagine anyone but Fox doing it.

(k, i will watch again sometime this year -- liked it fine in '85)

they talked about stoltz being fired on the commentary track and special features on the dvd i watched like 6 months ago, don't remember if they said why

obv that footage wd be interesting and we'll never see it.

So weird:

http://hurtyelbow.typepad.com/images/back-to-the-future1.jpg

http://hurtyelbow.typepad.com/hurtyelbow/2007/12/back-to-future.html

http://www.voicesfromkrypton.com/2007/07/back-to-the-f-1.html

http://www.halfchannel.com/2010/08/27/justin-bieber-marty-mcfly-back-to-the-future-remake-may-see-bieber

from Tom Wilson's website:

Q) You no longer sign any Back To The Future memorabilia. Is that true?
T) Yes, that's true.

Q)And why is that?
T) I've decided to do what I want to do in life, and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear. I no longer support in any way an insurmountable archetype, and now exclusively pursue the things that interest me.

i will watch a justin bieber "back to the future" if he plays the crispin glover role.

i will watch a justin bieber back to the future if it is slowed down 800%

Instead of getting sent back in time 30 years they just drop him into North Korea.

Also: woah.

http://imgur.com/ioBl1.jpg

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-08/nike-patents-mcfly-self-lacing-shoes-future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKaCt1YN0BE

YOU KNOW WhAT WAS GREAT ABOUT BACK TO THE FUTURE TWO MAN?
what
MEDALSTREAM
what?
MEDALSTREAM
what?
IT MERYLSTREEP
sorry, what?
MERYLSTREET
i really can't hear you.
BACK TO THE FUTURE TWO, MAN, IT MEDDLESTREET
did you say meryl streep? she's not in BTTF2!
NA I DINT SAY MERYLSTREEP I SAID MEDDELSTREEP
ok i don't know what's going on. back to the future two? the movie?
YA IT MAINSTREET
it's mainstreet?
NA MAN

IT
MADE
US
DREAM

oh ok.

^ actual pub conversation i had with a dude sat night.

(truncated, tbh)

your merylstreep drinking buddy is right!

it didn't seem like a conversation i wanted to pursue tbh

The future will be more than self-lacing shoes.

Movies like this make the future about consumer goods and creature comforts. In our New Society, where every unit's raison d'être is acting to the good of the whole, "comfort" will be an obsolete notion (all obsolete notions will be retired and erased from memory forever.)

comfort isn't a good of the whole?

just missed out on a few votes there son

comfort isn't a good of the whole?

no. you are thinking too small. comfort is a perk for organisms wired by natural selection to be hedonically rewarded by resting, eating, reproducing and serving other biological necessities. true collective units will be freed from the burden of self-regard through cognitive re-conditioning at first, followed by pharmacological and cybernetic additions, and finally through genetic engineering.

i'm aware of the drive for efficiency in the irish public sector, thank you