Back to the Future: Made today.

[Trekker4747]

I would hardly call Heart a girl-band. For one thing, they can actually SING and PLAY. Plus, there are three guys in the band the last time I checked...

Eh, true enough.

Can you name them without using Google though?

Kind of why I considered Heart a "girl band" considering the primary performers were, well, girls. They were a "Girls and then a bunch of guys on instruments" band.

 

[sojourner]

I would hardly call Heart a girl-band. For one thing, they can actually SING and PLAY. Plus, there are three guys in the band the last time I checked...

Agreed. They are a real rock band that just happens to have two female singers; they are not in the same genre as The Go-Gos or the Spice Girls.

The Go-Gos played their own instruments, wrote their own music and weren't some corporate assembled product. They were a real band, just like the Bangles.

 

[JarodRussell]

^One here.

Two here.

I was 15 when the first film came out, and 20 when III came out.

A mere pup in both cases. Although at the time, I didn't appreciate that.

Now, to the question, can the movie be made today? I doubt it. All the fun of the original trilogy would be absent from any remake.

Hot Tub Time Machine is pretty much the style and tone I'd expect from such a film. All about tits and profanity and humor served with Thor's hammer.

 

[Trekker4747]

^One here.

Two here.

I was 15 when the first film came out, and 20 when III came out.

A mere pup in both cases. Although at the time, I didn't appreciate that.

Now, to the question, can the movie be made today? I doubt it. All the fun of the original trilogy would be absent from any remake.

Hot Tub Time Machine is pretty much the style and tone I'd expect from such a film. All about tits and profanity and humor served with Thor's hammer.

Yeah, HTTM was... okay. But a little "too on the nose" for dealing with time-travel to the 1980s. It fell into the trap many movies/shows taking place in the 80s do by making it TOO 1980s and not trying to realistically portray the 1980s. The stereotypical guy saying "I'm talking into a cellular phone!" gag.

 

[SiddFinch1]

Times square is much diffferent now than in the 80s.

In 85 we imagined Japan and west germany as economic powers not China and india

 

[The Old Mixer]

"No flying cars? This isn't right...this isn't my future!"

At least he'd have someone to commiserate with.

 

[theenglish]

Two here.

I was 15 when the first film came out, and 20 when III came out.

A mere pup in both cases. Although at the time, I didn't appreciate that.

Now, to the question, can the movie be made today? I doubt it. All the fun of the original trilogy would be absent from any remake.

Hot Tub Time Machine is pretty much the style and tone I'd expect from such a film. All about tits and profanity and humor served with Thor's hammer.

Yeah, HTTM was... okay. But a little "too on the nose" for dealing with time-travel to the 1980s. It fell into the trap many movies/shows taking place in the 80s do by making it TOO 1980s and not trying to realistically portray the 1980s. The stereotypical guy saying "I'm talking into a cellular phone!" gag.

But this is what BTTF did. The fifties was the fifties as seen in Happy Days, not a realistic portrayal of the period.

 

[Trekker4747]

But this is what BTTF did. The fifties was the fifties as seen in Happy Days, not a realistic portrayal of the period.

It may have been exaggerated to a degree or two but I think it tried to do it an as "realistic" a way as possible. They didn't make the 1950s a complete farce of the time, like HTTM did with the 1980s.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It was the portrayal of 2015 that was the farce.

 

[Trekker4747]

It was the portrayal of 2015 that was the farce.

Well, what else could they do? They had no idea what 2015 would be like and they had already locked themselves into at the very least flying cars.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ True, but still...no excuse. BTTF's 2015 was so ridiculously cartoonish it's unbelievable. Like I said, I firmly believe that one of Marty's main missions was to change that.

I don't know what made the writers think that anyone would invent flying cars by 2115 let alone 2015...

 

[sojourner]

Screw that, who thought we'd have Mr. Fusion by 2015?

 

[The Old Mixer]

It was a comedy.

(Ducks for cover.)

 

[Trekker4747]

^ True, but still...no excuse. BTTF's 2015 was so ridiculously cartoonish it's unbelievable. Like I said, I firmly believe that one of Marty's main missions was to change that.

I don't know what made the writers think that anyone would invent flying cars by 2115 let alone 2015...

I'm sure by 2115 we'll have figured out some sort of personal flying machine that's as easy to use and convenient as a car.

Anyway, the ending of BTTF was supposed to be a joke and not a stinger to lead to a sequel. The idea to do a sequel didn't come until almost a year later, when the movie was released on home video, where the "To Be Continued..." tag was added.

Regardless, flying cars has been a "symbol of the future" trope for eons. And, really, other than flying cars, personal fusion devices and few other things the depiction of 2015 wasn't too far off, really. Because it at least tried to depict a positive or "normal" view of the future rather than going with a dystopian or negative one.

 

[Gaith]

^ True, but still...no excuse. BTTF's 2015 was so ridiculously cartoonish it's unbelievable. Like I said, I firmly believe that one of Marty's main missions was to change that.

I don't know what made the writers think that anyone would invent flying cars by 2115 let alone 2015...

Rule of Cool
Rule of Funny

 

[Nerys Myk]

Arguably began with the Monkees, perhaps before. But at the very least in 1985 they had the New Kids on the Block.

Dammit!

What about Girl Bands then? Would it be shocking enough if Marty sings Spice Girls songs?

"Girl-bands" also were around before 1985. The Go-Gos, Heart, The Bangles.

The Go-Gos and the Bangles weren't "girl bands" in the same vein as the Spice Girls. They were bands who members were females but also bands in the sense they played instruments and sang. They weren't four or five singers with a backing band.

 

[DarthPipes]

Today is a red letter date in the history of science. November 5th...

 

[Owain Taggart]

Dammit!

What about Girl Bands then? Would it be shocking enough if Marty sings Spice Girls songs?

"Girl-bands" also were around before 1985. The Go-Gos, Heart, The Bangles.

The Go-Gos and the Bangles weren't "girl bands" in the same vein as the Spice Girls. They were bands who members were females but also bands in the sense they played instruments and sang. They weren't four or five singers with a backing band.

Does it really matter in the end? There were women fronted acts as early as the 1950's or even earlier. The Supremes is a good example.

 

[CmdrAJD]

I'm not sure where you'd go with the story, but the idea of someone from 1985 coming to our 2015 and being really disappointed by the lack of advancement is more interesting to me than sending someone from now to the 1980s.

I was an 80s kid. We expected flying cars, common place space travel, and robot maids. If a 1983 teen came to 2013, the advancements in computers and the emergence of the Internet would be amazing...for a few minutes. But then the kid would realize that almost everything we've accomplished is about entertainment, and that the world is just facing a different series of threats (terrorism, global warming, etc) than the threat of nuclear annihilation he lived with in the 80s. Unless he got sucked into playing GTAV too fast to give a damn.

I'm making this sound like the prequel to Idiocracy. Lovely.

 

[The Old Mixer]

I was an 80s kid. We expected flying cars, common place space travel, and robot maids.

When I was a teenager in 1985, I didn't expect any of those things in 30 years so much as this:

the threat of nuclear annihilation