Back to the Future

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

Heading along tonight to see the 25th Anniversary re-release at the cinema and I am soooooooo excited you wouldn't believe! I genuinely feel sick with anticipation. I was too young to catch the first one in the cinema, but have loved it forever, so to finally get the chance is immense. Hurrah!!

I haven't been so happy for a long time, that was utterly glorious!

:) it's hands down the best thing about the 80's

totally flawless movie imho

metalstream

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/thr-eric-stoltz-as-the-original-marty-mcfly.html

I don't have a blu-ray player, and I just bought BTTF on dvd about six months ago anyway, but I'm glad we all finally get to see something more than just stills with Stoltz in the role.

I'm seeing this in theaters on the 25th. AMC theaters are running it the 23rd and 25th. The 25th, at 7PM (the movie's showtime), will be mark 25 years since Marty went back fwiw.

If I had a cinema I'd do a special showing on November 5th.

this movie is absolutely perfect. i can't think of another movie that rewards on so many repeat viewings. i've taught this film several times, and i learn more and more from it.

i like some of bob zemeckis's other movies, but it still astounds me that he made this one.

i have met probably two people in my life who claim (CLAIM) not to like this movie.

i love it of course but it seemed pretty far from perfect the last few times i saw it and their's a real creepy ugly reagan air to it right beneath the surface. mind you christopher lloyd and michael j. fox but esp christopher lloyd more than make up for any flaws or bad vibes that might be there.

What is the ugly Reagan air, aside from the new pick-up?

Agreed. The triumphalism at the end of the movie creeps me out; it's the nerd's version of Rambo.

Still like the movie overall. One of my best childhood experiences is watching this with my parents on a late Sunday afternoon in summer '85, with no expectations, and everyone had a ball.

reagan is on record as claiming back to the future as his favorite movie. He was fairly close to making a cameo in part iii as a sheriff or something, which i admit would have been pretty cool.

My little brother is such a diehard fan that when he was 11 or so he asked my mom to take him to the various filming locations for this.

We have a picture of him in front of Marty's house. It's hilarious because it made him tremendously happy to go there but in the photo his face just expresses that stoic sense of triumph little boys have in a lot of pictures. "I have conquered" is the feel.

I guess I get that.

I did always think it was weird that a little town like Hill Valley would have its own porn theater sitting in the city square.

What is the ugly Reagan air, aside from the new pick-up?

The city is a crappy cesspool with a bunch of closed-up stores and garbage in the streets and homeless dudes asleep on park benches (oh and BTW a black mayor who used to be a janitor) unlike in the 50s when everything was perfect?

Wasn't a small Californian town in the 50s less likely to have glaringly visible social problems than one in the 80s? That's my hunch, correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe I got that idea from the movies!

The black mayor is the present-day mayor even before Marty ruins the past though.

the 50s had racism underage drinking drugs violence peeping tomism incestful lust albeit innocent incestful lust and manure

reagan is on record as claiming back to the future as his favorite movie. He was fairly close to making a cameo in part iii as a sheriff or something, which i admit would have been pretty cool.

Wow -- do you have a link??

yes reagan was in cowboy movies and part iii was a cowboy movie

lol

He also mentioned wanting to use Barbara Stanwyck's corpse to play Elizabeth Shue -- he thought it was a remake of Cattle Queen of Montana.

from IMDB (which probably got it from the DVD commentary):
"Actor and former President Ronald Reagan was originally approached to play the part of Mayor Hubert because of his fondness for the first film in the trilogy. He reluctantly turned down the role, and the part went to Hugh Gillin instead."

would have been neat, the same way if The Man in the High Castle ever gets made, it'd be cool if Schwarzenegger was Governor of alt-California.

The black mayor is the present-day mayor even before Marty ruins the past though.

Well, yeah. That's what I'm saying. Marty's own experience of 1985 changes based on his activities in the past, but 1985 Hill Valley is a shithole regardless, not like those picture-perfect 50s.

Don't get me wrong, I like the BTTF movies, but there was always that underlying strain of conservativism that rubs me the wrong way.

i dunno if it's so much conservatism as unrepentant nostalgia (used cars, forrest gump, who framed roger rabbit),
which ends up being the same thing a lot of the time, but they seem pretty self-aware about it (cafe 80s in pt II)

In Reagan's America, your mother's attempted rapist is in your driveway, hired by your father to wash your truck.