Back to the Future..again!!!

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I didn't like Fox playing the daughter, but even worse was Lea trying to sound like an old woman in those scenes delivering pages and pages of exposition in an annoying high pitched voice. I love the ambition of BTTF2 but I can't listen to her speak!

 

[davejames]

I didn't like Fox playing the daughter, but even worse was Lea trying to sound like an old woman in those scenes delivering pages and pages of exposition in an annoying high pitched voice. I love the ambition of BTTF2 but I can't listen to her speak!

Yeah her middle-aged mother in the first movie was VERY convincing, but in the second movie she was just plain annoying.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

For me, 1... way down, 3, 2.

To clarify, both sequels were utter crap. Even the much lauded number 3 does little more than rehashing the plot of the first film in a different setting.

Not to mention that both sequels are packed with lame slapstick humor and jokes. The first film at least tried containing some witty humor (with the exception of the manure gag). The most the sequels could accomplish was rehash jokes from the first.

I won't even get into how silly it was to cast the same actors over and over again as their own ancestors and/or children. So Michael J. Fox plays Marty, both of Marty's kids, and Marty's great grandfather. Using that logic, he should have portrayed George McFly as well!

 

[RandyS]

She's good looking but no Lea Thompson.

True, but then, Lea Thompson is no Lea Thompson anymore.

It's called aging. It happens.

But, THIS photo was taken a year ago. I dunno, I'd still hit it.

Oh, I wasn't slamming her, just making an observation.

Ironically she's now old enough to play the Lorraine of 1985.

 

[Mitty]

Agreed, 1,3,2. Although you couldn't have 1 and 3 with out 2, 1 & 3 were the best. Personally I would have been happy with 1 having a slightly different ending where the Doc destroyed the time machine but hey can't complain to much.

 

[davejames]

One other thing I wish they had done with the sequels is expand the scope a little bit more. The small town setting felt perfectly appropriate in the first movie, but in the sequels it just felt way too limited and confined, at least to me.

I would have loved to have seen Doc and Marty take their flying Delorean into the New York of 2015, or some other bustling metropolis (it also would have gotten away from having to replay the same family stuff again, which would be a plus).

 

[NCC1701]

<snip>and on the cafe 80's? who here has ever been to a '50's or '60's themed cafe or diner?

Well, every Burger King outlet in this country is done in a shitty faux-1955 style, does that count?

 

[Mitty]

meanwhile, do we think that TV Networks worldwide will screen BTTF II on October 21 2015 (just over 6.5 years away) at 4:29 PM? Will we have flying cars and hoverboards by then? I'm thinking unless there's some amazing scientific discovery in the interim, probably not.

 

[davejames]

I'll be sure to walk around with my pockets inside out in tribute.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

meanwhile, do we think that TV Networks worldwide will screen BTTF II on October 21 2015 (just over 6.5 years away) at 4:29 PM? Will we have flying cars and hoverboards by then? I'm thinking unless there's some amazing scientific discovery in the interim, probably not.

I *hope* we never get those things. Flying cars, especially.

Hell, I was scared enough when I saw Futurecar on Discovery HD last night. I don't want cars that drive themselves and even serve as fracking *babysitters*.

 

[Admiral_Young]

1,3,2 for me as well. The problem with the second movie for me is the second half after the leave the future and travel back to the present and discover that it's been altered. I'm not sure what else they could have thought of to continue the plot in the future but I think they should have stayed longer, and actually use Jennifer rather than have her get trapped in her future house and have a shock from seeing her future self. I could understand seeing your younger self, but would you really have that big of a reaction seeing an older version of you? Even twenty or so years in the future? She looked pretty much the same with some grey hair and maybe a bit of a weight gain.

I'm still waiting for my hoverboard from mattel btw...

 

[davejames]

I think it was just shock from seeing that horrible old age makeup. I still cringe every time I see that scene.

 

[Kryton]

Yeah...and Doc Brown's old-age makeup was creepy until he took off that shiny film from his face.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Yeah...and Doc Brown's old-age makeup was creepy until he took off that shiny film from his face.

I honestly couldn't tell the difference. I thought that was meant to be a joke to the audience - Doc spent all that time (and presumably money) on improving his face, but it looked exactly the same.

 

[Kryton]

Yay! You got the joke!

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

He did get it, kinda. but, according to the commentary, he was the 80's version of Doc, which is old than chris Lloyd, so the movie people did age him a bit, but they didn't age him for film 2, so they added the scene as a joke. Just listen to the commentary as he peels it off.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

Agreed, 1,3,2. Although you couldn't have 1 and 3 with out 2, 1 & 3 were the best. Personally I would have been happy with 1 having a slightly different ending where the Doc destroyed the time machine but hey can't complain to much.

I wish they had left out Doc's obsession with destroying the time machine, or at the very least made it make sense. I remember him taking about destroying it as early as the beginning of the second film, and as a kid I was like, "whaaaaat?"

I mean, sure it is dangerous to travel through time. But doesn't that indicate the need for increased security (i.e., not allowing anybody who wants to drive off in the time machine). Didn't he wrestle through these pesky ethical questions during the 30 years between thinking up the time machine and actually building it???

To me, it was nothing more than an excuse to end the film series that smacked of lazy writing. To make matters worse, they then have Doc Brown turn around and invent another time machine! Character consistency be damned!

 

[RandyS]

^yeah, but the flying train could have just been put in for it's "cool factor".

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

To make matters worse, they then have Doc Brown turn around and invent another time machine! Character consistency be damned!

But that does strike me as character consistency. Remember how in the first movie he adamantly opposed receiving information from the future because he knew it could have catastrophic repercussions, only to turn around and tape the letter back together because "What the Hell"? It seems to me that messing with spacetime is Doc's personal drug. He knows its dangerous and that he really shouldn't do it, but he just can't stop himself for long.

 

[Trekker4747]

Agreed, 1,3,2. Although you couldn't have 1 and 3 with out 2, 1 & 3 were the best. Personally I would have been happy with 1 having a slightly different ending where the Doc destroyed the time machine but hey can't complain to much.

I wish they had left out Doc's obsession with destroying the time machine, or at the very least made it make sense. I remember him taking about destroying it as early as the beginning of the second film, and as a kid I was like, "whaaaaat?"

I mean, sure it is dangerous to travel through time. But doesn't that indicate the need for increased security (i.e., not allowing anybody who wants to drive off in the time machine). Didn't he wrestle through these pesky ethical questions during the 30 years between thinking up the time machine and actually building it???

To me, it was nothing more than an excuse to end the film series that smacked of lazy writing. To make matters worse, they then have Doc Brown turn around and invent another time machine! Character consistency be damned!

What about this? Doc goes to the futre, finds out that destruction of Marty's family, investigates the matter futher then rushes back to 1985 with all of the urgency in the world to get Marty back to 2015 to pose as his own son to prevent the tragedy that would ruin Marty's entire family.

Nevermind that the future wasn't going anywhere and Doc had 30 years to sit down with Marty, discuss the problem, formulate a plan, arrive in 2015 with enough time to ensure Marty, Jr. was out of the picture and do things right.

All of that aside, Doc elects NOT to tell Marty about the problems that would plague HIM as a person -namely the accident with the Rolls Royce!

I mean, it's OK to alter the future to save Marty's kid's futures but not MARTY'S future?!

Telling Marty about the accident could've chaged everything, including the future problems with Marty, Jr. and Marlene!