Back To The Future Day
If you are attuned to pop culture you will know that today, 21st October 2015, is Back To The Future Day, the day that Doc Brown and Marty McFly travelled to in Back To The Future 2.
I'm a relatively late convert to the Back To The Future trilogy but it's not difficult to see how the series captured the world's imagination, with great charismatic performances from Michael J Fox and equally terrific ones from Christopher Lloyd*. I saw a tweet earlier suggesting there was something inappropriate about Doc Brown's relationship with Marty McFly that genuinely made me a bit cross. There's nothing in any of the films to suggest that is the case. But I have become very intolerant of other people's differing opinions of late.
I maintain that Back To The Future 2 is the weakest film in the trilogy. Although the bit set in the future itself is fun, it's difficult to escape the fact that most of the second half of the film is concerned with Marty ensuring that the events of the first film happen again. Which from a dramatic point of view is not particularly interesting. Back To The Future 3 is tonally different with its wild west setting but a more enjoyable film on the whole and Tom Wilson produces his best performance in the series as "Mad Dog" Tannen.
As BTTF's future innovations go, I'm fairly indifferent towards hovercars but could have used a pair of those self-lacing Nikes, having always struggled with shoe tying as a child. Make it happen guys. Unfortunately here in Great Scott!land I am unable to watch any of the movies today, but I'm catching a train to Falkirk. Which I assume is pretty much the same thing. Where we're going, we don't need roads...
I'm a relatively late convert to the Back To The Future trilogy but it's not difficult to see how the series captured the world's imagination, with great charismatic performances from Michael J Fox and equally terrific ones from Christopher Lloyd*. I saw a tweet earlier suggesting there was something inappropriate about Doc Brown's relationship with Marty McFly that genuinely made me a bit cross. There's nothing in any of the films to suggest that is the case. But I have become very intolerant of other people's differing opinions of late.
I maintain that Back To The Future 2 is the weakest film in the trilogy. Although the bit set in the future itself is fun, it's difficult to escape the fact that most of the second half of the film is concerned with Marty ensuring that the events of the first film happen again. Which from a dramatic point of view is not particularly interesting. Back To The Future 3 is tonally different with its wild west setting but a more enjoyable film on the whole and Tom Wilson produces his best performance in the series as "Mad Dog" Tannen.
As BTTF's future innovations go, I'm fairly indifferent towards hovercars but could have used a pair of those self-lacing Nikes, having always struggled with shoe tying as a child. Make it happen guys. Unfortunately here in Great Scott!land I am unable to watch any of the movies today, but I'm catching a train to Falkirk. Which I assume is pretty much the same thing. Where we're going, we don't need roads...
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