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 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!
how many other movie characters have a hoverboard?
The line is “of all times” – subtle but substantial difference.
Bwahahahahaaaa! AMC? The Cuisinart of cinema?
I noticed that they cut twenty minutes of so out of White Christmas too.
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 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?
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.
So they mean the best character of* all time*, like the best character who goes through time using time travel, right?
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.
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.
Here’s the commercial:
They’re definitely say the greatest role of all times.
So it’s a play on the time-travel thing.
He’s a butthead.
…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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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.
Tell me about it.
I just turned 50 yesterday.
but i had a great time!
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…