Great Scott

[nolweanna]

I saw Back to the Future II for the first time the other day. I know, how can I, a child of the 80s, manage to have lived this long without seeing that? I've seen the first one and the third one a lot- the third one I may have seen in the theatre, but possibly just on an ABC rerun

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[doubtful_salmon]

Actually, all that is one of the reasons I really like Back to the Future. I understand what you're saying about how you feel movies from the 80s are cruddy, but, I dunno. I think in 20 years I'll look back and think that movies from the 2000s are cruddy. It's just the way that movies evolve, and I never got the sensation that these movies were being all half-assed. That is not to say I haven't seen plenty of 80s movies that do feel that way, but every decade has them

[nolweanna]

I transitioned badly. I used crap for two different things but only in my head. Crap 80s movie, in the same way that Knight's Tale is a crap 90s movie- popcorn movie (and I like Knight's Tale for a lot of the same reasons I like BTTF; namely, you don't feel dumber when you're done watching

[doubtful_salmon]

Realistically, the death of Grandpa Biff in the past would not affect the future in a way that we could notice within the movie universe. I mean it probably would as everything does in the ripple sort of sense, but since we don't see past that point in the movie, it's impossible to know how it would change the future. I think parts 2 and 3 are essentially lessons for Marty not only to try to mess with time and omniscience but to reign himself in a bit. And there are some issues with the transition from the first to the second and third movies, but you have to consider that the latter two were not slotted for production until after the first had already been successfully released. I don't think the thought they might do more had even occurred to them (although it would nowadays before it even got released), because they had to re-shoot the scene where future Marty falls back into the '50s and is like, "I'm back...FROM the future!" If they thought there was going to be more and that it would be kind of like that, I think they would

[nolweanna]

Damn. I even saw Knight's Tale in the theater, so I should've known too. My friends made it a ritual viewing, like Rocky Horror. The only part of the elaborate thing I remember is that when Will's father's in the boat you say, "It's Jesus! Hello Jesus!" and every time Heath Ledger says "Kate," you cheer, which you also do in Ten Things I Hate About You (once, he uses Kate instead of Kat)... which is '99 and the movie I should've said instead. Er, anyway