It’s an interesting problem. Marty has come back to the future to a life that is possibly radically different than his memories. In the short term it could be very difficult if he has a lot of responsibilities in the new life that he doesn’t know about. Or what if he has to rely on schooling and education that his new life learned but which is not in his original memory?
That might have produced a good sequel instead of further time travel.
Why were his two older siblings still living at home anyway? And I can understand the sister working at the boutique late on a Saturday, but the brother going to the office Saturday morning?
I find it deeply offensive that the writers would try to derive humor from a group of poor people stranded on an island. And sea chanty? The song makes us think that the show will be a lighthearted romp akin to Popeye, if Popeye wasn’t an iron deficient addict.
And the violence??!?! I find it personally offensive that one of the main characters was so violent toward a mentally retarded “friend”. Were these the values that Sherwood Schwartz was trying to encourage in America? Are we all supposed to buy hats and beat on the mentally deficient?
-Joe
Presumably he’d be a bit confused for a bit, but the ripples would catch up and fill in the blanks after a few hours of acting a bit empty-headed.
Well, that might explain the previously unhinted-at “chicken” fixation. New-Marty had confident, accomplished parents who readily accepted challenges and took bullshit from no-one. He incorporated this as recklessness in the face of any challenge.
I tried to watch Back to the Future once but became disgusted and had to shut it off after the main character turned into a werewolf.
This is after he already helped his foul mouthed friend be incredibly wreckless by dancing on top of a moving van, and then intimidated a convenience store clerk into selling him a keg of beer. I don’t even want to know what he does when the time travel plot finally kicks in.
It’s a shame, because in the previews he seemed like a nice young kid, well dressed and always respecting great Americans like Ronald Reagan.
the actor?
There was also all that subversive liberal “global warming” crap. Really, Zemeckis, you need to have your character walking around in a life vest to prove your oh-so-subtle point?
-Joe
Well played, sir. Well played.
Had a crush on for like two days. Can you remember everyone you met for only a week then never saw again?
But.. they were in private. She should have given him her private hair… Also, canoodling is a good word.
I once watched like five episodes of Back to the Future, but nothing much ever seemed to happen. They would go to some drab office and just talk and talk and talk. I gave up before they ever went back in time.
Lets see - this particular boy:
1.) dressed strangely
2.) got hit by dad (maybe not that unusual for her dad, but…)
3.) said strange things bout the TV show
4.) played at the high school dance a new kind of music.
5.) embarrased biff, repeatedly
6.) was instrumental in getting her and George together
Everyone else? gonna forget him - She’s gonna remember him - and if she doesn’t George will.
I was not singling out Huey Lewis. It could have been ANY rock group. That’s the point. I was 36 at the time I saw this movie; I think it’s safe to suppose that most of the kids who went to see it were about 20 years younger than I was; besides, even when I was that age, I was no fan of rock–it was the Sixties, the Beatle era. I cared little or nothing for amplified guitars, fancy drumsets, high volume and a mind-numbing beat. If that is what the overwhelming majority prefers, well, that’s too bad. It was because of that that I didn’t attend social events as a teenager and went out into the lobby when Huey Lewis and his combo came on in the movie. (The parents of the family who recommended the movie to me, were in their early to mid-60s when they saw the movie; their lovely daughter, whom I had a crush on, turned 36 on January 1.) But I had no interest in hearing ANY rock band.
Huey Lewis and the News didn’t appear in the movie. They had a couple of songs that were played in the movie’s soundtrack: “The Power of Love” and “Back In Time.” But the band itself did not play in the movie.
Huey Lewis did appear in a cameo as a teacher who was auditioning groups for the Battle of the Bands competition. Marty and his group appeared on stage and started playing the opining riff to “The Power of Love,” and Lewis cut them off, telling them, “Sorry, guys. You’re just too loud.”
It doesn’t matter. Rock is rock. It just repelled me. Whether Huey Lewis and his combo appeared or not–OK, I stand corrected. But I didn’t look back to see what was on the screen as I went out into the lobby.
So many things have just passed me by.
The only song that actually gets played is Johnny B Goode, so maybe you would’ve liked it if you’d stayed. Oh well.
Maybe so, but it’s not as if they suddenly met their son at age 17. He didn’t look like the kid they remembered when he was born, after all, and growing up, he generally looked like himself. Maybe when he turned 14 or so and started developing grown-up feratures, one of them might have said, “Hey, have you ever noticed that Marty looks a lot like that guy Kalvin we knew in 1955?”, to which the other would have replied, “Huh.”
I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone with such an inability to tolerate things they dislike before, it’s fascinating. I suppose there’s nothing wrong with that, but making judgments on things about which you have little to no knowledge is not a positive attribute.
Experiencing art is not just about being presented with things that please you or that you already like. You’re really missing the point of a huge proportion of artistic endeavours, and you’re also missing a huge aspect of living life as a human being among other human beings.
For example, the best art is about conflict, and conflict usually means that there is something unpleasant going on. If you run out of the theater every time there’s something unpleasant going on, you’re really missing a huge part of human existence.
Am I the only one who finds these random asides about the family who recommended the movie to be really odd? Are we going to find out that dougie secretly stalked them a la One Hour Photo?