Action-Adventure The 'Back To The Future' Appreciation Thread - Part 2

[Shinobi Shaw]

Hear me out.

Part 2 is still the best film in the trilogy.

 

[Sawyer]

Zemeckis has bigger problems. Like 3 decades of filmmaking futility.

Hey, Cast Away is only 25!

I also feel like The Polar Express would’ve been much more beloved if he didn’t choose to animate it so terrifyingly.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Hey, Cast Away is only 25!

I also feel like The Polar Express would’ve been much more beloved if he didn’t choose to animate it so terrifyingly.

I'm partial to Beowulf. But like Express, the animation did not hold up at all.

 

[Drizzle]

Hey, Cast Away is only 25!

I also feel like The Polar Express would’ve been much more beloved if he didn’t choose to animate it so terrifyingly.

I can forgive the dead eyed characters. I can't forgive the Steven Tyler elf performing at the North Pole.

 

[Ninjablade]

Happy 40th to my all time favorite movie. Never ceases to make me smile and feel good. Pitch perfect top to bottom, and I love every second of it.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Happy 40th to my all time favorite movie. Never ceases to make me smile and feel good. Pitch perfect top to bottom, and I love every second of it.

NB and I:

 

[DarkKnight88]

Hey, Cast Away is only 25!

I also feel like The Polar Express would’ve been much more beloved if he didn’t choose to animate it so terrifyingly.

Flight is underrated.

I’d say The Walk as well but the doc exists and people should just watch that.

 

[STARMAN]

Saw the movie in the theater when it originally came out. Most of the movie went over my head as a kid but I remember both my parents reacting to the kiss during "Earth Angel" and Marty's hand coming back. A wonderful, magical moment that strikes a chord every time.

 

[Dave McFly]

still the best way to end a movie, EVER

 

[Lily Adler]

I'm partial to Beowulf. But like Express, the animation did not hold up at all.

Neither did the child singing.

 

[Immortalfire]

Saw the movie in the theater when it originally came out. Most of the movie went over my head as a kid but I remember both my parents reacting to the kiss during "Earth Angel" and Marty's hand coming back. A wonderful, magical moment that strikes a chord every time.

Even today, that scene has a lot of emotion to it. Marty is literally seconds away from ceasing to exist, pleading to his would be father to make the right move…. then he does make the right move, and the future is restored.

All these years later, it still makes an impact.

 

[Dave McFly]

I still love when the BTTF theme swells when George and Lorraine kiss

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I still love when the BTTF theme swells when George and Lorraine kiss

I personally love when your old man tells Biff this:



And then knocks his ass out and then Lorraine gazes at him with new eyes and they walk back into the dance.

That was so romantic lol.

 

[Dave McFly]

yeah that was so great George did a complete 180 from his old self after seeing Biff in the car with Lorraine

 

[Dave McFly]

the whole final act during the clock tower bit is still intense and dramatic and action packed as it was 40 years ago

 

[Lily Adler]

yeah that was so great George did a complete 180 from his old self after seeing Biff in the car with Lorraine

the whole final act during the clock tower bit is still intense and dramatic and action packed as it was 40 years ago

Hollywood: let's use AI to improve it.

 

[DarkKnight88]

It’s such lightning in a bottle, even the time period of 30 years 1985 and 1955 are perfectly contrasted that if some idiot executive thought of a reboot, 2025 and 1995 doesn’t have that same impact at all. Lesser streaming movies keep trying and fail.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

I think that is one of the reasons why the Quantum Leap reboot failed. A character who can only leap back into the past "during his own life time" works when the main character was born in the 1950s. That gives you the 50s, 60s, and the 70s to work with in terms of interesting time periods you can set a story in. But if your lead is a millennial who was born in the 80s, there isn't much there to work with.

 

[Lily Adler]

I think that is one of the reasons why the Quantum Leap reboot failed. A character who can only leap back into the past "during his own life time" works when the main character was born in the 1950s. That gives you the 50s, 60s, and the 70s to work with in terms of interesting time periods you can set a story in. But if your lead is a millennial who was born in the 80s, there isn't much there to work with.

There was a what now?

 

[Drizzle]

Hear me out.

Part 2 is still the best film in the trilogy.

I think the first is the best but Part II was my favorite when I was a kid. It might be the most fun to watch of the three.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

There was a what now?

Quantum Leap (TV Series 2022–2024) ⭐ 6.3 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

42m | TV-PG

www.imdb.com

 

[Sawyer]

It’s such lightning in a bottle, even the time period of 30 years 1985 and 1955 are perfectly contrasted that if some idiot executive thought of a reboot, 2025 and 1995 doesn’t have that same impact at all. Lesser streaming movies keep trying and fail.

I think that is one of the reasons why the Quantum Leap reboot failed. A character who can only leap back into the past "during his own life time" works when the main character was born in the 1950s. That gives you the 50s, 60s, and the 70s to work with in terms of interesting time periods you can set a story in. But if your lead is a millennial who was born in the 80s, there isn't much there to work with.

It does seem like everything has kind of stagnated in the 21st century. 1985 and 2005 were like two different worlds. 2005 and 2025? Stripping away how unhinged our politics have become, the only thing that’s really changed is that our iPods have merged with our cell phones.

 

[Immortalfire]

I was watching Part II and keeping a look at things in the future that actually happened

• Video phone calls/conferencing
• High gas prices
• Cubs win a World Series
• Collectible items from our era in an antique store
• Being able to watch multiple TV channels at once
• Numerous movie sequels

 

[Immortalfire]

Biff’s gang member Match, is played by Billy Zane





The brunette in the hot tub is Tracy Dali, she was in Playboy in the 90’s

 

[Spider-Fan83]

I think I heard somewhere Billy Zane originally did audition for Biff

but, since they went with Thomas F. Wilson instead for that role, they still gave him a small part