"Back to the Future" Turns 20

BTTF.com ^ | 7-3-05 | Stephen Clark

[Flux Capacitor]

[qam1]

Xer Ping

Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.  

[RandallFlagg]

"Reagan?? The ACTOR?!"
((President Reagan laughing very loudly in the audience))

[LdSentinal]

Dare to find anybody that did not like this movie.

[Larry Lucido]

I saw the first one and liked it, but not enough to see it again or to see any of the sequels.

It's not that the premise was too weird or anything. I saw Terminator 1 and 2 several times (though T-3 "jumped the shark" for that series for me). Maybe Fox just didn't blow away enough people to suit me. :-)

[Xenalyte]

One of the best movies ever!

"You built a time machine . . . out of a DeLorean?"

[Flux Capacitor]

----Maybe Fox just didn't blow away enough people to suit me. :-)----

But you've gotta admit he could do some serious damage with a skateboard.... :)

-Dan

[Flux Capacitor]

BTTF was one of those rare movies that joked about Reagan without really mocking Reagan (for Hollywood, that's something). Marty McFly would have had a similar reaction were he told that Arnold Schwarzenegger would end up as governor of California. :)

"I suppose that Jane Wyman is the First Lady! And Jack Benny's the Secretary of the Treasury...."

-Dan

[RandallFlagg]

I remember someone saying that when Speilberg showed, "ET: The Extraterrestrial" to President Reagan in 1982, Reagan whispered into his ear, "You don't know how close this really is."

[Larry Lucido]

The DeLorean was a nice touch, but I still like the H.G. Wells model (last seen in the 1979 Time After Time).

"My God, I've unleashed Jack the Ripper on Utopia!"

[RandallFlagg]

I love that movie. Warner and McDowell should have worked together more.

[Xenalyte]

Oh, dear God, I despise Andie MacDowell. The only damn thing she has going for her is her hair. The less she opens that hick-concreted mouth, the better.

Oh, wait, you were talking about Roddy McDowall.

Cornelius ROCKS.

And for those of you who were unaware, if you recall the abysmal Saul Zaentz animated version of part of "The Lord of the Rings," Roddy did Sam's voice. Only good point about a thoroughly suckwad piece of celluloid.

[RandallFlagg]

Oh, you......

"I'm siiiiingin' in the raiiiin *KICK*"

[Xenalyte]

You do that one more time, Mr. Man, and I'm gonna kick you in the nuts!

[RandallFlagg]

Didn't you ever see, "A Clockwork Orange?" That's what I was referencing.

[HungarianGypsy]

You know the sad part? I was thinking of this when I heard 1985 the other week.

[Xenalyte]

Oh, I thought you were talkin' about "Green Card." That is an abomination the likes of which we haven't seen since the golden calf.

(BTW, "A Clockwork Orange" was Malcolm, not Roddy. Malcolm's birth surname is Taylor.)

[RandallFlagg]

Oh, I never said it was Roddy. I've always loved Malcolm's work.

[Clemenza]

Good movie. Its a shame Malcolm McDowall also did the abysmal Caligula the same year.

[Drew68]

Its a shame Malcolm McDowall also did the abysmal Caligula the same year.

Actually Caligula wasn't a bad movie until Robert Guccione added the hardcore sex scenes which the principal actors knew nothing about nor were involved with. Then the film became laughable.