Back to the Future marathon on AMC.

[PSXer]

something seems off. like the movie is being shown just slightly sped up to show it in less time. it just doesn't seem right. I have seen these movies 100 times and notice how it should be

[Boyo Jim]

I dunno, but it kind of pissed me off that they been promoting it with the line, "Michael J Fox as the best movie character of all time". Not HIS best character, but THE best character.

Really?? Marty McFly is the best movie character EVER? I thought AMC was supposed to have some perspective on, say, classic films. Talk about over the top hype!

[PSXer]

how many other movie characters have a hoverboard?

[The Other Waldo Pepper]

I dunno, but it kind of pissed me off that they been promoting it with the line, "Michael J Fox as the best movie character of all time". Not HIS best character, but THE best character.

The line is "of all times" -- subtle but substantial difference.

[Scarlett67]

I thought AMC was supposed to have some perspective on, say, classic films.

Bwahahahahaaaa! AMC? The Cuisinart of cinema?

[longhair75]

something seems off. like the movie is being shown just slightly sped up to show it in less time. it just doesn't seem right. I have seen these movies 100 times and notice how it should be

I noticed that they cut twenty minutes of so out of White Christmas too.

[Mahaloth]

Is it true they speed things up slightly? I've seen this on minor networks before, but does AMC ever do this? I remember years ago(pre 1993), CNBC re-aired Late Nigiht with David Letterman around 7 PM the next day and sped him up slightly so they could squeeze more commercials in. It didn't last.

[enalzi]

I dunno, but it kind of pissed me off that they been promoting it with the line, "Michael J Fox as the best movie character of all time". Not HIS best character, but THE best character.

Really?? Marty McFly is the best movie character EVER? I thought AMC was supposed to have some perspective on, say, classic films. Talk about over the top hype!

I saw that commercial a couple days ago. I don't remember the exact phrasing, but aren't they saying that he's playing HIS best character of all time?

[Boyo Jim]

No, I've heard it several times, and I wouldn't have any problem with it if they said HIS best character. But they don't -- they say THE best character.

Though I hadn't considered The Other Waldo Pepper's take on it, that they were literally saying it was the best character of all times, i.e., the best time-hopping character. I'm sot sure if that's true either, or if they meant it that way, but if so it's not nearly as outrageous a claim.

[Mahaloth]

So they mean the best character of all time, like the best character who goes through time using time travel, right?

[cochrane]

Is it true they speed things up slightly? I've seen this on minor networks before, but does AMC ever do this? I remember years ago(pre 1993), CNBC re-aired Late Nigiht with David Letterman around 7 PM the next day and sped him up slightly so they could squeeze more commercials in. It didn't last.I wouldn't put it past AMC. They are a commercial network, you know. They interrupt their movies and chop them all to pieces. They don't treat movies with the respect that, say, Turner Classic Movies does.

[joebuck20]

I wouldn't put it past AMC. They are a commercial network, you know. They interrupt their movies and chop them all to pieces. They don't treat movies with the respect that, say, Turner Classic Movies does.

Yeah. AMC is quickly becoming to "classic" movies, what History Channel has become to actual history.

[whitetho]

how many other movie characters have a hoverboard?When the movie first came out, I remember an interview with the producers where they claimed with a straight face that hoverboards were real, but the government wouldn't let them be sold to kids because of safety issues.

[enalzi]

Here's the commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkdlp6QybWA

They're definitely say the greatest role of all times.

So it's a play on the time-travel thing.

[BMalion]

how many other movie characters have a hoverboard?


He's a butthead.

[Push You Down]

Yeah. AMC is quickly becoming to "classic" movies, what History Channel has become to actual history.

...There's a whole gang of people out there watching that were babies or not even born yet when Back to the Future came out. To them, it's a classic movie.

[carnivorousplant]

...There's a whole gang of people out there watching that were babies or not even born yet when Back to the Future came out. To them, it's a classic movie.

G-d, I'm old. :rolleyes:


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[cochrane]

Yeah. AMC is quickly becoming to "classic" movies, what History Channel has become to actual history.

I won't watch a movie at all on AMC, even when I can use my DVR to skip through the commercials. I get free Encore with my digital cable package which consists of several channels' worth of uncut movies.

[BMalion]

G-d, I'm old. :rolleyes:


...

Tell me about it.

I just turned 50 yesterday.

but i had a great time!

[Ichbin Dubist]

...There's a whole gang of people out there watching that were babies or not even born yet when Back to the Future came out. To them, it's a classic movie.

My daughter (who's 11) was amused that the distant "future" in the first movie is now essentially the present. I'm delighted that garbage-powered nuclear flying cars are but 5 years away...

[joebuck20]

...There's a whole gang of people out there watching that were babies or not even born yet when Back to the Future came out. To them, it's a classic movie.

I'm not knocking BTTF or saying that it's not a classic movie. I'm just saying that a lot of of the movies AMC shows are decidedly not classic (Swordfish, anyone), and even those that are tend to get chopped up.

[Justin_Bailey]

...There's a whole gang of people out there watching that were babies or not even born yet when Back to the Future came out. To them, it's a classic movie.

Want to see some industrial grade denial at work? Follow these four easy steps:

1. Start a thread asking for suggestions of classic horror movies.
2. Encourage someone else to post Carrie, The Exorcist and Halloween
3. Wait for someone to complain that those aren't classics, they're "new" horror movies.
4. Point out they were released between 30 and 40 years ago.

Then just sit back and watch the fun.

[PSXer]

Back to the Future is so good that I am willing to call it classic based on quality, not age. I still say that in general, 1985 is not "classic".


On a related note, is Marty justified in calling the 30-year-old Honeymooners episode a "classic"?

[bouv]

On a related note, is Marty justified in calling the 30-year-old Honeymooners episode a "classic"?

I think so...I'd say in that case, it qualifies for both age and quality/importance.

As you said, classic doesn't have to be just age...I think the better something is, the more years you can take off it's age before it's considered a classic.

Hell, muscle cars from the 70's were being referred to as classics not ten years after they all stopped getting made.

[MyFootsZZZ]

I just watched all three. How did Doc Brown know the Libyans were going to shoot him, if Marty interrupted his taping the letter pieces back together, right after the old Marty was sent back?

[CanvasShoes]

I just watched all three. How did Doc Brown know the Libyans were going to shoot him, if Marty interrupted his taping the letter pieces back together, right after the old Marty was sent back?
Ow! Paradox...make it stop.

:D

[carnivorousplant]

I just watched all three. How did Doc Brown know the Libyans were going to shoot him, if Marty interrupted his taping the letter pieces back together, right after the old Marty was sent back?

"I figured, 'what the hell' " and he taped it together.
I don't recall Marty interrupting him.

[joebuck20]

"I figured, 'what the hell' " and he taped it together.
I don't recall Marty interrupting him.

As I seem to recall, as he was ripping up the letter a tree branch fell on the cable leading down from the clock tower and he got distracted by that. I assume at some point he must have slyly stuffed the pieces into his pocket.

[alphaboi867]

Ow! Paradox...make it stop.

:D

If you're going to get hung up on stuff like that you might as well ask questions like; "Why are the McFlys still living in the same house if George is a succesful author and the family's so much wealthier?" or "How long until Marty's parents notice that all of his childhood memories are "wrong" and have him commited?". :p

[Mahaloth]

As I seem to recall, as he was ripping up the letter a tree branch fell on the cable leading down from the clock tower and he got distracted by that. I assume at some point he must have slyly stuffed the pieces into his pocket.

He doesn't let them go and they fly away on the wind?

[Guinastasia]

Wasn't Atticus Finch recently voted the Best Movie Hero of All Time? (Hannibal Lecter was voted Best Villain)

I mean, Marty McFly is cool and all, but he's no Atticus Finch.


(Still, I have fond memories of this movie -- I had the biggest crush on Michael J. Fox when I was a kid)

[drastic_quench]

Wasn't Atticus Finch recently voted the Best Movie Hero of All Time? (Hannibal Lecter was voted Best Villain)

I mean, Marty McFly is cool and all, but he's no Atticus Finch.

This made me imagine Atticus Finch arguing an insanity defense on behalf of Lecter.

[LorieSmurf]

You can see where Doc puts the letter pieces in his pocket. I watched this trilogy three nights in a row. The same commercials every commercial break for six hours three nights in a row is annoying.