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.
Want to see some industrial grade denial at work? Follow these four easy steps:
- Start a thread asking for suggestions of classic horror movies.
- Encourage someone else to post Carrie, The Exorcist and Halloween
- Wait for someone to complain that those aren’t classics, they’re “new” horror movies.
- Point out they were released between 30 and 40 years ago.
Then just sit back and watch the fun.
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”?
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.
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.
"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.
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?”. 
He doesn’t let them go and they fly away on the wind?
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)
This made me imagine Atticus Finch arguing an insanity defense on behalf of Lecter.
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.