Back to the Future

still, that part made me laugh.

"yeah, bigger must be louder, right? so let's build a REAAAAAALY big speaker cone!"

and

the after

i never noticed the nixon vs reagan thing before

-- mummy wrapped in bacon (nickaliciou...), June 19th, 2006.

i do remember that! even begged my parents for a pair IIRC

I think they re-recorded it in II and it doesn't sound the same.

and more here

part one is one of my favorite movies.

The third one is actually fantastic if you watch them all back to back.

This should clear things up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BTTFTimelines.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BTTFTimelines.png

i love this movie, probably because i grew up with it more than anything else. it always konda disturbed me though that at the end of the trilogy marty basically returns to a 1985 that is still rather different than the one he left.

-- latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, June 19, 2006 10:43 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

this still disturbs me

the third movie is totally zzzzzzzzzzzzzz after the first act. i can NEVER finish it past that point, no matter how many times i've tried. my interest just drifts off.

the second one is underrated. it's a really oddball movie, and kinda (ok not really but bear with me) "subversive" in how it messes with the audience's experience of the first flick.

kinda how the matrix sequels wanted to be but failed at.

ive thought about making a thread where we list things/inventions/technologies present in the 2015 of part II that we already have here in 2008.

i cant think of any!

new laser instrument unleashes the musical creativity that's harbored in every soul.

http://sicarius.typepad.com/home_security_information/2006/01/fingerprint_gar.html

It leaves me cold that II and III were made concurrently - the advert at the end of II for III is really upsetting. Also why the vast drop in quality for the last one?

HEY LOOK FRISBEE...FAR OUT

-- ESTEBAN BUTTEZ is a GE Money Genie (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 19 June 2006 12:21

lol

so when marty returns to 1985 at the end and sees the new 85 version of himself going back to 1955, what happens to that marty? remember he was raised by successful non-nerdy parents, has his own truck, etc etc

btw yes i am home sick thinking baout this :-/

homesick for 1985?

what happens to that marty? remember he was raised by successful non-nerdy parents, has his own truck, etc etc

The whole movie is flawed since you can't change the past. It's already been changed if it has. You can't be self-aware of a present that never happened.

But, going along with BTTF's rules, the Marty (1) that Marty (2) sees goes back to the past, eventually experiences everything again and arrives at Lone Pine Mall to complete the circle.

way to cut the gordian knot of time travel paradoxes there.

You can't be self-aware of a present that never happened.

Pleasant Plains IS Mr. Miyagi. Sorta.

so when marty returns to 1985 at the end and sees the new 85 version of himself going back to 1955, what happens to that marty? remember he was raised by successful non-nerdy parents, has his own truck, etc etc

This has bugged me my whole life.

You could probably do a whole alternate version of BTTF1 where Doc Brown reveals to George McFly in 1975 who the real Calvin Klein is, and how they have to set Marty up to still go back in time when he's older to make sure that the past is corrected.

I'm not sure what you're getting at but plz spell it out.

oh hahah, i thought you were suggesting that the real Calvin Klein was actually created by the time travel paradoxes

if Marty goes back in time and makes his parents cool, would the "new" Marty necessarily hang out with Doc Brown and go back in time to create "cool" parents?

He would if his "cool" parents and Doc Brown steered him that direction. Gave him a big fancy amplifier to play with when he goes over there.

oh right, Doc is conscious of the necessity of getting Marty in the Time Machine. That's why he fakes his own death.

Mary's motivation to get his parents together is survival. Their "coolness" is just a by-product of "pop culture" elements from the future slipping into the past (darth vader visit, guitar solos, etc)

Oh man, I don't even remember Mary.

er, Marty

Obama should just run on a promise to make the 2015 of BTTF2 happen for real.

FAKE TITS FOR YO MAMA SAY OBAMA

Or the old guy, whatevs.