This week we fly back in time with Back to the Future (1985).
Here is the film's pretty useless trailer:
DAVE: So. Back to the Future. The very film that inspired Back to the Future II, with those sweet hover boards! I had a good time rewatching this old bastard and especially enjoyed Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown and all the hot mom-son tension. I really only drifted from the film during the long action scenes in which one stupid thing went wrong after another.
I could also sense some major plot holes at every turn but was able to turn off my brain and just enjoy the ride. Also, I want to invent something that sends my cat back in time somehow.
As for the crowd at the Riverview this week, they were pretty spirited and cheery at the begininng of the movie. But this isn't a pep rally, folks-it's a fucking movie. Shut your cheerholes.
As for the crowd at the Riverview this week, they were pretty spirited and cheery at the begininng of the movie. But this isn't a pep rally, folks-it's a fucking movie. Shut your cheerholes.
NOAH: Marty
travels 30 years into the past, and it has been almost 30 years since I
saw this film. As I take to my knees, just consider your mind blown.
-Never
really noticed Marty's siblings until now. I only remembered them as
people who disappear in pieces in a photograph. Tom Stoppard needs to
write a
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead play centered around Dave and Linda McFly.
-The
score of this film is oddly appealing - the theme is so distinct and
spirited, that it takes you along for a ride, all the while exclaiming
"never mind the plot-holes!" and "relax, isn't this ridiiiiiiculous?"
The score fulfills its duties without getting too much in the way.
-Crispin Glover's performance seems to age like a fine wine, while Lea Thompson's performance has...well...
-With
all the technical wizardry Bobby Zemeckis had at his helm, you'd think
the old age makeup would look better than a highschool production of You Can't Take It With You.
-A lot of people's futures seem terribly tied up with whether or not someone else gets their bell rung.
-When
all is said and done, all Michael J. Fox wanted to do was head to the
lake with Jennifer and throw some sleeping bags in the back of his new
Toyota 4X4
pickup. Alas, time had other plans.
Dave Interviews Noah!
1)
So Noah, Back to the Future is one of your all-time favorite films.
What did you think about seeing it on the big screen finally?
I was worried it wouldn't hold up, or that I would be bored because of my familiarity with this movie, but I was pleased with this movie's ability to still "grab" me, after all these years. The big screen helped reacquaint me with the town of Hill Valley. I was able to catch all the little details that they were able to extrapolate from in the sequels. I'm surprised they never attempted a television show...I mean if they can make a show out of Uncle Buck, they could surely pull a few seasons worth out of BTTF. Having said all that, I'm still bummed about them taking the franchise to horsey times in the third installment.
Well, Louis CK has maintained that time travel really only works for white men, so I don't know if it would work for me. Sadly, I think history is a little overrated. I'm sure if you went back to see Abraham Lincoln speak, it would be terrible. You wouldn't be able to hear him. And the assassination of JFK would be a hot mess of a boring bummer.
If I did travel,
it would
probably be in my own lifetime. I would follow all the adults that I
hated and gain perspective on their position. Then I would step on a
bunch of butterflies.
My theory: When Marty went back to 1955 and Doc tried to do that Mind-Meld-Cage-Cap thing with him, he threw it down in despair, declaring that the device was a failure. Only it WASN'T! During their initial interaction, they formed a bond stronger than the bond the Werewolves from Twilight form when they imprint themselves on their future lovers. Had Marty not removed the suction cup from his forehead prematurely, Doc would've unintentionally completely possessed him, turning Marty into the ultimate future surrogate clone / potential love slave. Who knows what earthly delights we may have bore witness to in the 1985 scenes (save the cock tower!)? At any rate, we'll take what we can get, a platonic blah-blah-blah.
As long
as Marty remembers to pull out...otherwise its BACK...to the DRAWING BOARD!
5) If they made a 4th Back to the Future and you were named writer/director/producer, what would it look like? For
the sake of this thought experiment, both main actors are about the same real life age as when they made the third one....
It
would have to be about saving the town of Hill Valley. That's all
that's left unexplored in this franchise, and yet it's everything - a
real "save the cheerleader, save the world" sentiment. Doc and Marty's
time travel has weakened the fabric of Hill Valley's space continuum and
things from the alternate universes are bleeding through into the past
present and future. It would be a cross between Being John Malkovich and
Needful Things.
FINAL THOUGHT: You can go back in time and kiss your mom and everything will turn out fine. Really. Don't worry about it!
