The original BTTF is such a classic now with such a strong nostalgia attached to it, that doing a remake would probably not do it justice. But if they made a remake, I vote for Bill Nye as Doc Brown. He fits the bill perfectly!
Back to the Future: Made today.
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Speaking of Michael Jackson, he could be the Chuck Berry of this one, just as his career is starting to rise. Then Marty comes along and teaches him to twerk it, shocking the audience. But the problem with that is that he already had his signature crotch grab.
Biff would be a punk with a mohawk.
There is a Corolla commercial I've seen a lot recently where the car drives "through the decades" accompanied by the music of each time period.
What always bugs me about the ad is I keep expecting the music to change again at the end, but it doesn't. There's no way that nonsense sound they're playing is actually popular *now*, is it?
EDIT: here it is.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwSNRlNUNEI[/yt]
What always bugs me about the ad is I keep expecting the music to change again at the end, but it doesn't. There's no way that nonsense sound they're playing is actually popular *now*, is it?
EDIT: here it is.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwSNRlNUNEI[/yt]
Well that might be more down to the fact that the people in charge of green lighting those things, grew up in the 80's. SO have a certain nostalgia for it, give it a few more years and the 90's will be back in vogue.
I wonder how many of us on this board grew up in the 80's?
Depends on what you mean by "grew up." I was in my 20s, so I was certainly having seminal experiences, but I consider myself of the 60s and 70s.
Well, much of what we see in pop culture, in terms of tone and attitude, come from a superficial exploitation of 80s-era Punk, Right Wing, tough-guy posturing. It's become more extreme and stylized, but I still consider that stagnation.
That's a good point. There was more change squeezed into the 20th century than any other century in history-- maybe we're just expecting too much.
Michael Jackson was already huge in 1985. Thriller was the biggest album of 1983, and he'd been a pop star since the late 60s. Not a good parallel to Chuck Berry in a 1955 that hadn't heard Rock 'n' Roll yet.
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It's kind of hard to find a good equivalent.
It's kind of hard to find a good equivalent.
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No, Kurt Cobain is the perfect reference. Chuck Berry started rock n roll and Kurt Cobain killed it. Nirvana changed the face of music completely and forever.
Maybe Marty could somehow crashes into Michael Jackson and Michael helps him up and loses his glove in the process.
"It's Karl! Your cousin Karl Cobain! Listen to this..."
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No, Kurt Cobain is the perfect reference. Chuck Berry started rock n roll and Kurt Cobain killed it. Nirvana changed the face of music completely and forever.
"It's Karl! Your cousin Karl Cobain! Listen to this..."
^ Ahhhh, so he goes back thirty-TWO years, then when Prince sees Marty emerge from flames through the ether he could swear it was judgment Day! EDIT: shit, looked that up and that one doesn't work either.
He should run into Huey Lewis (who was huge in 1985, in great deal because of the movie) and not know who he is.
How about Guns and Roses they should fit the timeline if I'm not once again mistaken. They're familiar enough to most people to maybe work.
He could hand it to Dre while the kids recover from "Fuck tha Police"(
), Straight Outta Compton came out in 88, and the kids would still know who it is.Similar threads
