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On ITV2. Couple of problems:
1) In 1955 it's meant to be November but the trees look way too green green.
2) In the beginning the Libyans give chase in their VW camper van but they'd have absolutely no chance of keeping up with the DeLorean and yet in the film it's close.
3) the flux capacitor isn't real
4) it's a story, not real real life
5) I bloody love the film 🙂
3) The premise of a time machine activated by current technologies is obviously false.
November but the trees look way too green green.
November in California. Do they get a proper november?
Never ever managed to watch it right through. Just don't get all the fuss about it.
Sorry
According to the internet California's leaves are turning right now in higher locations.
Anyway there's another one. After he gets back to the future his family are all cool and better off, but in the family photo they still look like dorks even when they reappear.
Actually, the whole photo thing is wrong because when the family is all set not to exist why on earth would the photo of some bushes have been taken at all?
they'd have absolutely no chance of keeping up with the DeLorean
The DeLorean is an exceptionally heavy car, with a woefully underpowered engine. Add in the weight of a flux capacitor and Michael J Fox's puffer jacket, and I think you'll find it would have been extremely close.
Evidence:
The DeLorean has already started accelerating towards the magical 88mph when this clip starts (I estimate the speed at clip time=0s to be roughly 30mph) and it still takes 1m 20s to get there. The car is a total dog.
EDIT - 75mph @ 0m 47s, 88mph @ 1m 20s. That's 33 seconds to add on 13mph. The defense rests.
11) hoverboards STILL haven't been invented 🙁
It's not 2015 yet. Still time.
scaredypants - Member
11) hoverboards STILL haven't been invented
Waddya mean?
The trainers are out next year?
Same town as Gremlins doncha know
Thread hijack: a similarly amazing classic Ghostbusters has always thrown me, when you see two guys in ski gear, with ski boots and even skis their shoulders wandering through the streets of 'New York' in one of the earlier scenes.
I haven't seen it for years but really loved it
I'm not sure that the tree colour is the major weakness with this film
I'm just a sucker for "twin tree mall" becoming "lone tree mall" after Marty goes back in time and knocks over a one of the trees
15) The only good bit in the film is where Michael Fox plays Johnny B Goode and the singer from the band phones Chuck Berry to let him hear it. It's obviously flawed as all time travel films tend to be but it's the only decent bit in that film.
I always liked that in the 3rd film when they got back to 1985 Clayton ravine had been re-named after Doc stopped Clara Clayton from being killed there.
BTTF geek!
end of no 1 is different to beginning of no 2
different actress!
molgrips - Member2) In the beginning the Libyans give chase in their VW camper van but they'd have absolutely no chance of keeping up with the DeLorean and yet in the film it's close.
Like the Ox said, the US-spec delorean has a 2.8 V6 that makes a staggering 130bhp at the crank, and it weighs 1230kg. It's 0-60 time was over 10 seconds (if you used a stopwatch, rather than just a gigantic lie like delorean did). So it's got all the mighty performance of a diesel Mondeo estate. As long as it's one of the slower mondeos.
And then you add a time machine- tbh it's a miracle it could make it to 88mph.
TBF that specific Delorean was supposed to be nuclear-electric wasn't it? Fueled by plutonium (hence the Libyans), not exactly factory spec' but I'm guessing that lugging about a reactor and a milk float motors, instead of that 2.8l V6 probably didn't improve it's acceleration...
All the best films are heavily flawed...
end of no 1 is different to beginning of no 2different actress!
Indeed, there was never meant to be a sequel. The end of one was just a gag really. When the studio insisted that there needed to be a sequel they had to make the end of one fit into number 2 but the actress who originally played jennifer was pregnant at the time and had quit acting. Likewise the actor who played George Mcfly made crazy demands for the sequel so he was told to forget it which in turn meant they wrote him out of number 2 by killing him off in Biffs alternative 1985. The sequels really are films of circumstance.
cookeaa - MemberTBF that specific Delorean was supposed to be nuclear-electric wasn't it? Fueled by plutonium (hence the Libyans),
"Mr. Fusion only powers the time circuits and the flux capacitor, but the internal combustion engine runs on ordinary gasoline"- he blows the fuel injection up trying to run it on alcohol in the 3rd film.
Now see, if he'd gone for the performance option of a diesel mondeo, he could have run it on vegetable oil or paraffin, and got 50mpg while outrunning that VW bus.
According to the internet California's leaves are turning right now in higher locations.
Nope, definitely green – I've just got back from riding Mount Tamalpais 🙂
I think I wore out my VHS version of Back to the Future!
Roads? Where we're going you won't need roads!
I think it's a lovely film. My 5 year old son loves it. He is a bit young for other films like Indiana Jones and Ghostbusters, but BTTF works on different levels.
I love the bit where Marty wakes up to be faced with his very attractive, flirtatious younger mother.
"You're my m, you're my m,"
"I am Lorraine Baine"
"But you're so ho, you're so ho, you're so......thin!"
Also love Docs social backwardness. I think he descibed the Enchantment Under the Sea dance as a "ritualistic social gathering."
If we are doing quotes
"Hey kids whats with the life preserver"
Likewise the actor who played George Mcfly made crazy demands for the sequel so he was told to forget it
That's not true, actually - it was an ugly myth spread by the studio. The guy took an interest in the script, bonded with the original Marty...and they tied to kill his career by calling him unreasonable.
Original Marty? Marty never changed...? Or was original cast as someone else?
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I love the bit where Marty wakes up to be faced with his very attractive, flirtatious younger mother.
The slightly creepy thing is that actually happens (without the time travel bit). If people who are blood relatives but have never met - separated siblings or a child separated from their parents at birth - happen to bump into each other in adulthood they often fall madly in love, even when theres a big age gap.
Original Marty? Marty never changed
they shot quite a lot of it with a different guy, then swapped him late on.
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Wow, never knew that!
Really enjoyed all three of the films - great fun. Eric Stoltz was the original Marty and a good actor IMHO, however Michael J Fox is brilliant in the role.
I love the little in jokes through the film like the trailer/advertisement for Jaws etc...
It's 0-60 time was over 10 seconds
Yes but compare that with a VW camper with four terrorists and quite a bit of weaponry in it - you'd struggle to make 60 at all.
But the terrorist might have dropped in a flat 6 from a Porche
Its ok and very watchable but i dont see why so many folk love it/rate it so highly.
Hey Butthead say hi to your mom for me
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That's not true, actually - it was an ugly myth spread by the studio. The guy took an interest in the script, bonded with the original Marty...and they tied to kill his career by calling him unreasonable.
Depends who you believe. There are two stories. Robert Zemeckis has always maintained that he made unreasonable requests for an actor at that stage in his career.
Back to the future 2 is on itv2
The guitar he played johnnybe good on hadn't been released for another few years.
Still a good film.
I believe its studied in film school as an almost perfect representation of a three act film.
it's also well good.
Hoverboard!
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/21/marty-mcfly-hoverboard-available-on-kickstarter?
They are saying the hoverboard's not as good because it can only hover over special surfaces. I really don't see a problem with this - just build a copper clad skatepark - sorted.
I suspect it would be quite hard to steer though.
It's a year today until the date in Part 2 innit.
I know. Expect lots of funky clothing lines to be released.
There's been Facebook memes going on for years about "today is the day in BTTF2", I'll bet it actually gets ignored next year!
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